#3. O'SULLIVAN Philip O'Soullevane, author to Spain regards the Milesians "sons of Miletus (Milesius) arrived in Ireland on the 17th of May, 1029 years before the birth of Christ. As authority for this he re- fers to a work on Irish history, by " Calogh O'More, who was a very worthy gentleman, and a great searcher of antiquity ;" but he adds, that " Philip O'Soullevane, in his printed work, de- dicated to Philip the Fourth, King of Spain, sayeth that they came in the year before the birth of our Saviour, 1 342, which is from this time present (1627), the number of 2969 years, Laesthenes being then the thirty-third Monarch of the Assyrians." See O'Sullivan's Hist. Ca- thol. Her. Compendium, torn. i. lib. iii. c. i. p. 32 " -- from Annala Rioghachta Eireann Annals of the kingdom of Ireland (a published version of The Annals of the Four Masters by barister John O'Donovan, second edition 1856) >=welcome>about>help> back(to"start")>back(to"FamilyLines")>OSullivan>Philip

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