The Fitz-Patrick Mythology

2000BC – 1200AD

A Very Brief Celtic History

No one knows just for sure exactly where the Celts came from. It is

believed, though, by most scholars that the Celts migrated from a region in

the east, and are possibly from the same ancestral roots as modern day

inhabitants of India. Hence the designation of white people being

Indo-European, or because they must have migrated through the Caucus

mountains, Caucasians.

What is known is that there was a culture over much of Europe called the

Urnfield culture by historians. The Urnfield culture consisted of what was

probably the native population of Europe at the time. The Urnfield way of

life was flourishing at about 8000 BCE and ended at approximately 10000

BCE to be replaced by the Celtic Halstatt culture. Here we see a stone age

people giving way one way or another to bronze age technology. The

Halstatt culture was basically the bronze age in Europe. This is obviously

where the Celts made their entrance into Europe. Whether they were let in

and gradually absorbed the native population or whether or not they

conquered Europe is up for grabs. But knowing the nature of the Celts and

Celtic mythology I think that there is definite evidence that the Celts may

have forcibly entered Europe.

33. Brath of Spain 1980BC

34. Breoghan Brigus (Breogan) of Spain 1910BC

35. Bile (Billius) of Spain 1840BC

34. Gallamh Milesius (Míl Espáine) of Spain, Soldier of Hispania that is Iberia

1770BC

36. Eireamhon (Hermon, Eermon) First of the Milesian Kings of Ireland

(circa 1698 BC)

37. Irial Faidh the Prophet, King of Ireland ABT 1717 BC - 1670 BC

38. Eithrail (Ardrigh or Eitreol) 1700BC

39. Follach (Foll-Aich), Prince of Ireland

40. Tighearnmhas (Tigernmas), King of Ireland 1650BC

41. Eanbhoath (Eiobiothad), Prince of Ireland 1600BC

42. Smiormghall (Smirnghal), Prince of Ireland 1500BC

43. Fiachaidh Labhrainne (Fiacha), King of Ireland 1497BC

44. Aongus Olmucach (Aonaghus Olmucaidh), King of Ireland 1506BC

45. Main (Maen, Moan) Prince of Ireland 1480BC

46. Rogheacharch (Rothachtaigh), King of Ireland 1410BC

47. Dein (Dian), Prince of Ireland 1390BC

48. Dian, son of Dein, Prince of Ireland 1300BC

49. Siorna Saoghlach (Sirna – the Long Lived), son of Dian, King of Ireland

1250BC

50. Olliol Aolcheoin (Oilill Olchaoin), Prince of Ireland 1100BC

51. Gialchadh (Giallchadh), King of Ireland 1050BC

52. Nuadhas Fionnfail (Nuadha Fionn Fail or Nuadhat Finn Fail) 1000BC

53. Aedan Glas (Aodhan Glas or Aedah Glas) Prince of Ireland 950BC

54. Simeon Breac (Simon Breach), King of Ireland 930BC

55. Muredach Bolgach (Muireadhach Bolgrach or Murchad Bolgrach), King of Ireland 900BC

56. Riacha Feachus Tolgrach (Reacho Tograch or Fiachaidh Tolgrach), King of Ireland. 830BC

57. Duach Ladhrach (Duach Ladhghrach), King of Ireland 800BC

58. Eachaidh Buadhach (Eochaidh or Eochy Buadach) Prince of Ireland

730BC

59. Ughaine Mor (Ugaine Magnus “the Great”) 660BC

Much is written about this great ancestor of ours. He was the 66^th Monarch of Ireland ascending to the throne in 633 BC and ruling for 40 years.

From the History Of Ireland:

He was called Ughaine Mor, as his reign was great, since he held sway over the islands of western Europe; and this Ughaine had twenty-five children, namely twenty-two sons and three daughters. When these children grew up, each of them had a special retinue; and when they went on free circuit round Ireland, where one of the sons stayed at night, another son stayed on the morrow. Thus they went on in succession, so that wherever they directed their steps they exhausted all the food and provisions in the district. And when the men of Ireland observed this, they went to complain of this injury to Ughaine, the king. And it was mutually agreed on to divide Ireland into twenty-five parts, and to give each of these children his own part, and not to permit any one of them to be a burden to another's portion. Hence some poet composed this stanza:

Ughaine the proud, the noble,

Whose victorious dwelling was Banbha

His children divided rightly

Erin into twenty-five portions.

And it was according to these divisions that rents and duties used to be paid to every king who reigned in Ireland for three hundred years, that is, from the time of Ughaine to the time of the provincials who lived when Eochaidh Feidlioch was king of Ireland, as the poet says in this quatrain:

Three hundred years lasting the reproach,

Until the provincials arose,

Five without faith in their hearts,

Shared between them Ughaine's Erin.

60. Laoghaire Lorc, King of Ireland 620BC

61. Oilill Bracan Aine, Prince of Ireland 570BC

NOTE: More of the Celts

By 550 BCE Celts had a loose empire stretching from Ireland to Turkey.

A new culture developed from the new manufacturing technologies and

cultural ideas that followed and spawned a new era called La Tene. This

was The Iron Age for Celtic Europe. This was the greatest cultural

development of the Celts and, sadly, it was their last. This is the time where

most of our myths come from and our perception of Celtic art and customs in practice at the time..

62. Labhraidh Loingseach (Maon), King of Ireland 550BC

63. Olioll Bracan (Oilill Bracain), Prince of Ireland

64. Aeneas Oilamh (Aonghus Ollamhdha), King of Ireland 500BC

65. Breasal Breoghamhain, Prince of Ireland 450BC

NOTE: More about the Celts

In about 400 BCE the Celts of Northern Italy invaded their Roman

neighbors to the south. At this time the Romans were nothing but a growing

civilization of farmers and fishermen. In 390 BCE the Celts capture and

sacked Rome. They held it until the Romans gave them a large sum of gold

as bounty to make them go away. This was the very peak of the Celtic

"empire" (for lack of a better word). The Romans were just beginning in

their civilization at this time and were little more than a organized group of

fishermen and farmers but they remembered what the Celts had done to

them. And a proud Rome would one day take revenge.

66. Fergus Fortamhail, King of Ireland 400BC

67. Felim Fortuin (Feidhlimidh Foirtriun), Prince of Ireland 350BC

68. Fearadhach Fionn, Prince of Ireland 300BC

69. Crimthan Cosgrach (Criomhthann Coscrach), King of Ireland 250BC

NOTE: Some more on the Celts

In 225 BCE the Celts were defeated by the Romans at the Battle of

Telamon in Italy. About 25,000 Celts were killed and about 8,000 captured.

This is where the Roman invention and refinement of extreme military

discipline and strategic battle formations prove superior over the Celtic

warrior's mad and berserk behavior with each man for himself in the field of

battle. Basically it is all down hill from here.

In 218 BCE the Celts allied with the Carthaginians in the Second Punic

War. Bad mistake, but going the other way wouldn't have helped them

much either. Celtic warriors marched with Hannibal's army and invaded

Roman Italy. In case you're not too keen on world history, they were

defeated and Carthage was sacked, burned, and salt was poured on the

ground to prevent anything from ever growing there again.

70. Mogh-Art (Mogh Airt), Prince of Ireland 200BC

71. Art, Prince of Ireland 150BC

72. Allod, Prince of Ireland 100BC

NOTE: Back to the Celts again...

But the Romans had something else in store for the Celts who once again

ventured into their land. In 125 BCE Rome conquered southern Gaul. In

105 BCE the Tuetones and Cimbrii tribes defeated Arausio and his Roman

legions in Orange. In 101 BCE the Romans retaliated by decimating the

Cimbrii and Tuetones at Capi Raurii. 120,000 Celts were killed and 60,000

were captured.

73. Nuada Falaid (Nuadha Follon), Prince of Ireland

74. Fearadhach Foghlas, Prince of Ireland 60BC

NOTE: Near the end for the European Celts

In 58 BCE Julius Caesar began his ruthless, savage, and effective

campaign in Gaul. At this time he attacked the migrating Helvetti tribe.

These were Swiss Celts, about 368,000 of them, that were leaving their

homelands after being forced out by the Germanic tribes. They were cold,

weary, and starving when Caesar took them by surprise and massacred all

but 1/3 of their population including women, children, and the elderly at

Toulon-sur-Arroux. After that there were many failed attempts to defend the

Celtic lands from the invaders.

NOTE: The Romans Battle for Britain

In 59 CE The king of the Icenii tribe dies. The sexist Romans refused to let

his wife, Queen Boadicea, claim the throne. When she insisted the Romans

let her know what some Mediterranean cultures of the time (and some

now) thought of women by beating half to death and raping her and her

daughters. This obviously upset the Celts, who believed that their leaders

were karmically linked to the land and whatever happened to them

happened to their home, not to mention the outrageous act with in itself.

There was a tremendous rebellion that ensued. The Britons completely

decimated the entire Roman populations of any cities they found and

defeated legion after Roman legion. It got so bad that Paulinus was forced

to abandon his seek-and-murder campaign against the Druids and battled

with Boadicea's forces and utterly defeats them. Paulinus then punishes

Britain by totally savage acts by the army for a while and the spirit of Celtic

freedom in southern Britain dies.

75. Olioll Glas (Oilill), Prince of Ireland 20BC

76. Fiachaidh Foirbhreac (Fiacha Fobrug), Prince of Ireland

77. Breassal Breac, Prince of Ireland and sub-King

78. Connla 1AD

Known as the Ossoriorum Sator, he was the younger brother of Lughaidh King Of Ireland. He is the 27^th descendant from Princess Tea Tephi, daughter of Zedekiah, the last King of Judah and it is said, a direct descendant of King David of Israel. In Keatings History of Ireland, Connla is noted as the ancestor of all the Fitz-Patricks and lists their pedigree as the Lineal Genealogie of the Ancient and Princely Family of the Fitz-Patricks

79. Nuadha

80. Carthach (Carrthann)the Elder

81. Labhraidh (Labraid 50AD

82. Lughaidh

83. Oilill

84. Iarr (Erc, Iar)

85. Sedna

86. Criomhthann Mor (Crimthann Mor) 100AD

87. Aengus Osrithe (Osraidhe), Founder and King of the Kingdom of Ossory

150AD

88. Laoghaire Birnbhuadhach (Laeghaire Birn Buadach), The Victorious

200AD

89. Aingeadh (Eochaidh Lamdoit, Amalgaidh, Aingidh, Leithren Buan, Nia Buan) King Of Ossory

90. Eachaidh Lamhdhoid (Eochaidh Lamdoit), King Of Ossory 250AD

91. Gebhuan, King Of Ossory

92. Cairpre Nia (Niacorb), King of Ossory. 300AD

93. Cairpre dam Aircaidh (Cairpre Caem), King of Ossory

94. Conall, King Of Ossory

95. Rumann Duach, King of Ossory, once King of Ireland 350AD

NOTE: OUT OF HIBERNIA CAME THE SCOTIC RACE

Many authors testify that Scota was the name of Ireland, and that it was the Irish who were called the Scotic race. Thus does Jonas the abbot, in the second chapter, treating of Columcille, speak: "Colman," he says, "who is called Colum, was born in Hibernia, which is inhabited by the Scotic race." Beda also, in the first chapter of the first book of the History of Sacsa, says that Ireland was the native land of the Scots. He speaks thus: "Hibernia is the true fatherland of the Scots." The same author, writing about the saints, makes a remark which agrees with this. He speaks thus: "It was from Hibernia, the island of the Scots, that St. Kilian and his two companions came." From this it is to be inferred that the Irish were called the Scotic race in the time of Beda, who lived 700 years after Christ. Orosius also, who lived within 400 years after Christ, agrees with the same statement. He thus speaks in the second chapter of the first book: "It is the Scotic races that inhabit Ireland." And it is plain that the country which is called Ireland used to be called by authors Scotia. Serarius, writing of St. Kilian, speaks thus: "Holy Kilian of the Scotic race, etc."; and immediately after he uses these words, "Scotia, which is also called Hibernia." From this it may be inferred that Scotia was a name for Ireland in constant use like Hibernia. The truth of this matter will be seen from the words of Capgrave, writing of St. Colum; he speaks thus: "Scotia was an ancient name of Ireland, whence came the Scotic race, who inhabit that part of Alba which lies nearest to greater Britain; and that Alba is now for this reason called Scotia from Ireland, from which they derive their origin, and whence they immediately came." Marianus Scotus, a Scotic author, writing of St. Kilian, agrees with this. He speaks thus: "Although that part of Britain which adjoins Sacsa on the north is now properly called Scotia, nevertheless Beda shows that Ireland was formerly known by that name; for when he states that the Pictish race came from Scythia to Ireland, he adds that it was the Scotic race they found there before them." And since it was from the Scotic race the country was named, Scotia was its name at that time.

It is to be inferred also from the words of Caesarius, who lived within 500 years after Christ, that Scotia was the name of Ireland. He thus speaks in the twelfth book of the Dialogues, chap 38: "Whoever doubts the existence of Purgatory, let him go to Scotia, and go into the Purgatory of St. Patrick, and he will no longer doubt of the pains of Purgatory." From the words of this author it is to be inferred that Scotia was a common name for Ireland at that time, as there is no place in Alba called Patrick's Purgatory; and it is plain that the place so called is in Ireland; and hence that it was Ireland Caesarius called Scotia. Serarius, writing on St. Bonifacius, is in accord with this: "Scotia was also a name for Ireland. However, since there came from the same land of Ireland a certain race to the east of Britain, where the Picti were dwelling, and there they settled down along with them, and at first were called Dalrheudini (that is, Dal Riada), from their own leader Rheuda (that is, Cairbre Rioghfhada), as Beda affirms. But after this they routed the Picti themselves; and they occupied the entire northern portion of that country; and they gave it the old name of their race, so that there is but one Scotic race. There are, however, two Scotias: one of them, the elder and proper Scotia, is Ireland, and the other, which is recent, is the northern part of Britain."

I note three things from the words of the author. The first of these is that the Irish are truly the Scots; the second is that it was the Dal Riada that were first called Scots in Alba, since it was they who first conquered the Picti in Alba. The third is that he says that Ireland was the older Scotia, and Alba the new Scotia, and that it was the Scotic race who first called it Scotia. Buchanan, a Scotch author, in the second book of the "History of Scotland," makes a statement which bears out the author quoted above. He speaks thus: "The inhabitants of Ireland were called Scots, as Orosius points out, and as our own annals record; it was not once only the Scots migrated from Ireland to Alba." From this it is to be inferred that it was not the Dal Riada alone who went from Ireland to settle in Alba, but numerous other tribes as well from time to time.

It may similarly be stated of every other tribe of Gaels in Alba that it was from the Gaels of Ireland their nobles sprang. The inhabitants from the south of Scotland were not Gaels, but Saxons driven into the lowlands by William the Conqueror. The tribes of the Highlands were known as the Irish Scots and the ones from the lowlands were known as the Albanian Scots.

NOTE: THE IRISH SCOTS TEAM WITH THE PICTI AGAINST THE

BRITONS

In the year of the Lord 395, Pelagius, a Briton, first began to sow heresy; and at this time the Scotic race and the Picti were wasting and destroying Great Britain; and the Britons sent envoys to the emperor Honorius asking assistance of him; and he only wrote to them requesting them to do all they could for themselves; and hence it came to pass that the Britons were a long time afterwards under the oppression of the Scots and the Picti. And again the Britons sent envoys to Rome; and they made a pitiful complaint of the cruelty towards them of the Scots and the Picts. The Romans sent an armed legion to relieve them; and when these reached Britain, they had several engagements with the Scots and the Picti; and the Roman host, growing weary, told the Britons to build a wall or fence between themselves and their bad neighbours, and that they themselves could not avoid returning to Rome.

96. Faelan, Prince of Ossory 400AD

NOTE: Here Comes Patrick 431AD

97. Laighniadh Failidh, the Hospitable, Prince of Ossory

98. Bione Caoic, Prince of Ossory

99. Coman Mor, King of Ossory Ceannfaolaidh

100. Scanlan Mor, Kin of Ossory 600AD

101. Ronan Rightfaith, King of Ossory

102. Cruindmael Erbuilg (Crunnmhael), King of Ossory 650AD

103. Faelan I (Phelan), King of Ossory

104. Cucerca King of Ossory 700AD

105. Amalgaidh (Faolan) Prince of Ossory

106. Anmcadh, King of Ossory 750AD

107. Ferghall, King of Ossory 800AD

108. Dungaile (Donnghal, Dunnal), King of Ossory 850AD

109. Diarmaid, King of Ossory, King of Ireland

110.Cearbhal, King of Ossory, King of Ireland, and King of the Danes in Dublin.

111. Ceallach III, King of Ossory 900AD

NOTE: THE GAELS OF IRELAND, DOMHNALL THEIR KING

REPRISE THE PRACTICE OF EMBLEMS INTO THE

BATTLE OF MAGH RATH

It is a long time since the Gaels began the practice of having emblems, in imitation of the children of Israel, who employed them in Egypt, in the life-time of Gaedheal, when the children of Israel passed through the Red Sea, with Moses as their chief leader. Now there were twelve tribes of them, and each tribe had a separate division of an army and a separate emblem.

Here follows the seancha's account of the emblems of the children of Israel, as we read in the old Book of Leacaoin, in Urmhumha, and in many other old books, in the poem below:

I know each great ensign
That the proud children of Jacob had,
Few are the people thereafter
Who know their names.

The tribe of Ruben, prosperity helped them,
Their ensign was a mandrake;
The spirited tribe lasted a long time,
A good host followed its ensign.

The tribe of Simeon asked no ensign
But a stern avenging javelin;
Simeon, the guileful wise one,
Who was vindictive in the affair of Dionna.

The tribe of Levi, the people of the Ark,
Numerous their flocks and great herds;
It was a guarantee of their welfare
To see the Ark with them.

The ensign of the noble tribe of Juda,
The figure of a powerful lion;
The tribe of Juda, in the hour of wrath
Proud hosts following a good ensign

The tribe of Isacar, of the pure gold,
Had an ensign like an ass;
Often a host with ruddy face,
Followed the great beautiful ensign.

The tribe of Zabulon, of the bright girdles,
The figure of their ensign was a laden ship;
It was usual on the shallow waves
For all to be in their laden ships.

The figure of a wild ox, short-flanked, swift,
Had the tribe of Neptalem, the venemous;
Of the tribe that practised the fury of wrath
The warriors round their ready ensign were not few.

The ensign of the tribe of Gad, in conflict,
Was as the figure of a lioness;
Nor have we deemed timorous in the time of wrathful fury
Each warrior following the great ensign.

An ensign like a bull with constant strength,
In the east had the tribe of renowned Joseph;
It is well known that vultures sought
The bold, glorious race.

The tribe of Benjamin, of swift vigour,
Its ensign was above ensigns;
An ensign like the ravening wolf,
Ruddiness in the glorious feast.

The tribe of Dan, stubborn the race,
A venemous family of a sinister house,
Powerful to strike back, as it implies,
Like a great serpent, its ensign.

The tribe of Aser, not stinted in herds,
An ensign they clung to like a garment; 
Its choice was identical with
A beautiful fair olive branch.

I have enumerated their tribes above,
I have enumerated their ensigns;
The enumeration of the abodes of the spirited tribes,
How many men are ignorant of? I know.

112. Doncadh( Donnchadh, Donough), King of Ossory 950AD

113. Gilla Patraic (Gillaphadraig) I, King of Ossory 1000AD

114. Duncadh Mac Giolla Patraic II, King of Ossory and the greater part of Leinster

115. Gilla Patraic II, King of Ossory 1050AD

116. Domhnal Mac Gilla Patraic II, King of Ossory 1100AD

117. Gilla Patraic mac Gilla Patraic, King of Ossory 1150AD

118. Scanlan Mac Gilla Patraic

119. Domhnall Clannach Mac Gilla Patraic of Magh Lacca 1200AD

Updated January 28, 2010