 See Eber Finn and Eremon in the High Kings page and Amairgin (Amergin) for more detail about the early Milesian kings.
Before we finished this page, there a little history on the ancestors of the Milesians that may be of interested to you. Here you will find that their history was mixed with event in the Bible and the setting of Greek and Roman myths.
According to the Lebor Gabrala (Book of Invasions), the pre-Milesians had originally come from Scythia, and were descendants of Japheth, the son of the Biblical Noah.
Fenius Farisaid, the leader of his people, was present during the time of the Tower of Babel. Fenius was the son of Japheth, therefore he was the grandson of Noah. Fenius became the father of Niúl.
His son Niúl had married an Egyptian princess named Scota. It goes on to say that the son of Niúl and Scota, named Goídel Glas, was living at the time of Moses and the Israelites were still living in slavery in Egypt. Moses had healed the infant Goídel Glas from a snakebite, and foretold that Goídel's descendants would one day live in a land with no serpents. Fenius Farisaid was still alive to instruct his grandson on creating the Gaelic language. (Boy! This is Irish myth at its best. The time frame is really horribly mess up.)
Since Goidel Glas had become a friend to Moses and the Israelites, the Egyptians banished the pre-Milesians from Egypt. They wandered through the Russian Steppes, to their former home in Scythia, before heading west.
These people arrived in Spain, where they settled, before their invasion into Ireland.
I have retold the legend of settlements of Ireland by successive invaders, which were based on the pseudo-historical Lebor Gabala (Book of Invasions) and on Cath Maige Tuired (Second Battle of Turied), but now I will give you a background of what some people believed to be the true invasions of Ireland.
Book of Invasions may contain some elements of truth about the early inhabitants of Ireland, namely that of successive tribes that have tried to colonise Ireland, including the Celtic speaking people known as the Gaels.
As I have mentioned in "Who were the Celts?" I had brought up that the Celtic languages were divided into two main groups - Continental Celtic and Insular Celtic.
The Continental Celtic was that those languages spoken on the continent. From what I have been able to gather, there are two main Continental languages - Gaullish and Celto-Iberian.
The Gaulish language referred to the ancient Celtic people living in Gaul, which include all of France, Belgium, the Lower Countries, part of Switzerland and Austria, the Alps and northern part of Italy. There were many different Gaulish tribes, so it is assumed that the Gauls may have as many different dialects.
Celto-Iberian was spoken on the Iberian Peninsula, ancient people who lived with probably with native Iberian people in mostly north and central Spain; mainly between the Ebero and Tagus rivers. One of their chief cities included Numantia, which was besieged and sacked by the Romans in 133 BC.
There are another group of Celtic people that migrated to the east, and settled in central Asia Minor (mid-2nd century BC). They were known as the Galatians. I don't know if they spoke a different Celtic language to the Gauls. The region where they lived became known as Galatia; it became a Roman protectorate, and the apostle Paul had visited and written letters to the Galatian followers.
All Continental Celtic languages are extinct and very little is known about the languages. The Insular Celtic is better documented.
The Insular Celtic referred to the languages spoken in the British Isles and Brittany. The Insular Celtic was itself, divided into two broad groups, in which the modern Celtic languages were derived from - Brythonic (British) and Goidelic (Irish).
Brythonic is also called P-Celtic languages, which comprised of Welsh, Cornish and Breton.
By the time, Roman left and the Anglo-Saxons settled in Britain, the Celtic Britons have settled in regions that still exist today. Cornish were spoken in Cornwall, south-west England. Welsh were