Firbolg Could it be that the Firbolg were simply "perople of the bog" ?? Fir is gaelic for man. And could Bolg perhaps be a precursor, derivitive, or corruption of the original word for bog ?? Was this a name they claimed themselves, or was it given to them at a later time? Were these peoples so ancient they have been assigned to the mists of time as lost in the foggy bog? Or was their prefered residency in the fertile marshland wetlands like the early Summerian Chaldean of Mesopotamia, or the flood crops of the ancient Nile, or the Rice Paddys of modern Thailand, Southeast China, or Vietnam ?? The bogs of Ireland have been a vital source for carbon fuels, in the cutting and burning of peat bog turf, both in the romanticised cottage hearth and in modern electric plant. Might these have been the first settlers to come into the area after the tropical age of the greenhouse "ferns" or dense wooded thickets of pre bonfire conifer firs ?? According to Keating, the now lost "Book of Druim-Sneachta" says they came from Greece. According to the references in O'Curry, they arrived in Ireland about 3266 years (to the reconing of Adam), and there were still Firbolg in Ireland who were slaves during the Kingships at Tara, and others (in Clare?) who were "more numerous" than the Milesian. (#) Are you a descendant of these Ireland Ancestors ?? =welcome>about>help> back(to"start")>(back(to"Greece")>Firbolg>continued

More on the Firbolg Historian Mac Firbis 1650, summerizes the following stereotype from "an old book" of poetry: "Everyone who is black-haired, who is a tattler, guileful, tale-telling, noisy, contemptable; every wretched, mean, stolling, unsteady, harsh, and inhospitable person; every slave, every mean theif, every churl, everyone who loves not to listen to music and entertainment, the disturbers of every council and every assembly, and the promoters of discord amoung people, these are the descendants of the Firbolgs, of the Gailiuns of Liogairne, and of the Fir Domhnanns, in Erinn. But, however, the descendnats of the Firbolgs are the most numerous of all these." Who were these (related?) people catagories? Add your opinion or research to the topic and contact us. [ Join Us Here ] to learn more about these Ireland Ancestors.