think/' adds Keating, '^that it was two-and-twenty years before 

 Abraham was born that Paralon came into Ireland, and in the year of 

 the world 1978." .... 



Then we are told that Paralon, who was accompanied by his family 

 and a thousand soldiers, began his journey from Migdonia in the 

 middle of Greece," and established his colony at Inish Samer, near Errie. 



'^Some authors," says Keating, mention another colonization of 

 Ireland (previous to that of Paralon), namely, by Keecol, son of Ml, son 

 of Gary, son of Uamor, whose mother was Lot-Luavna, and they lived 

 two hundred years by fishing and fowling. Upon the arrival of Paralon 

 in Ireland, a great battle was fought between them at Moy Lhha, when 

 Keecol fell, and the pirates were destroyed by Paralon. The place 

 where Keecol landed with his followers was Inver Downan; his fleet 

 consisted of six ships, in each of which were fifty men and fifty 

 women." .... 



The reason," we are told, " why Paralon came to Ireland was be- 

 cause he slew his father and mother in hopes of obtaining the govern- 

 ment from his brother, after which base murder he fled to Ireland ; but 

 the Lord sent a plague, which, in the short space of one week, carried 

 ofl" nine thousand of his posterity at the hill of Howth." 



Paralon, we are informed, " died in the old plains of Moynalta of 

 Howth, and was buried there." . . . The death of Paralon hap- 

 pened about thirty years after his arrival in Ireland. This event took 

 place, as some antiquaries affirm, in the j^ear of the world 2628, 

 although I am induced to believe, from what has been said j^efore, that 

 there were only 1986 years from the creation of the world to the decease 

 of Paralon." — Keating, vol. i. page 171. 



In chapter vii. vol. i. p. 179, we are informed Ireland was with- 

 out inhabitants for thirty years after the extinction of the colony, till 

 ISTevvy, the ISTemedius of other writers, came to Ireland with his people 

 from Scythia, by the Euxine Sea, with a fleet of thirty-four transports, 

 with thirty men in each. Some years after his arrival, we are told, 

 " JSTevvy built two royal mansions in Ireland — the fort of Kinneh, in Hy- 

 JN'ellan, and the fort of Kimbteh, in Shevny. The four sons of Madan 

 Thickneck (Munreamhair), of the Pomorians, reared fort Kinneh in one 

 day. Their names were Bog, Rovog, Huvney, and Rodan : and ]N"evvy 

 (^^emedius), slew them the next morning in Derrylee, lest they should 

 resolve on destroying the fort again, and there he buried them." — lb, 

 vol. i. p. 179. 



The battles fought by J^Tevvy with the Pomorians, we are told, 

 ended in their subjugation. Keating then gives the following account 

 of the latter : — 



" These were navigators of the race of Cham, who, sailing from 

 Africa, fled to the Islands of the "West of Europe toward the descendants 

 of Shem, and to make a settlement for themselves ; fearing these would 

 enslave them, in vengeance for the curse pronounced by I^oah against 

 Cham their ancestor, for they thought by making a settlement remote 

 from them to be secure from their oppression. On this account they 



