The Scribes of Ireland Douglas Hyde reiterates that modern Ireland chronology is justified from about 300A.D, but internal evidence points to circa 300B.C. as a point of acceptable history. However the material itself describes archaic foundations and connecting linear generations to the Milesian immigrants and earlier. The Book of Ballymote (Sligo 1391), whose compilers included Solomon O'Droma and Manus O'Duigenann, is described by Eugene O'Curry, in "Lectures on the Manuscripts of Ancient Ireland" (1858): "The Book of Invasions of Erinn...followed by a series of ancient chronological, historical, and genealogical pieces in prose and verse. Then follow the pedegrees of Irish saints; the history and pedegrees of all the great families of the Milesian race, with the various minor tribes and families which have branched off from them in the sucession of ages; so that there scarcely exists an O' or a Mac at the present day who may not find in this book the name of the particular remote ancestor whose name he bears as a surname, as well as the time at which he lived, what he was, and from what more ancient line he again was descended. These genealogies may appear unimportant to ordinary readers; but those who have essayed to illustrate any branch of the ancient history of this country, and who could have availed themselves of them, have found in them the most authentic, accurate, and important auxiliaries: in fact, a history which has remained so long unwritten as that of ancient Erinn, could never be satisfactorily compiled at all without them." =welcome>about>help> back(to"start")>Natl.Proposals>continue

Sources Describing Early Lists A Literary History of Ireland Lectures on the Manuscripts of Ireland The Book of the Dun Cow The Book of Leinster The Book of Ballymote The Yellow Book of Lecain The Book of Lecain The Milesian Lines Ith = through his son Leary Eremon Eber Ir