Somewhere, Ith atop the tower of his father Bregon saw Hibernia, and set sail with 90 warriors. They arrived to find Hibernia being divided up by three Danaan kings MacCuill, MacCecht and MacGrene and their wives Banba, Fohla and Eriu; their father King Neit having been just slain by Fomorians. The Danaans asked Ith to settle the inheritance, but they suspected he coveted their land and killed him. His companions returned his body to where he hailed from (unknown), and his grandson Miled Mac Bile set sail with his own son Amergin the poet and 36 chiefs including Eber Donn, Eber Finn and Eremon, all bent on revenge.
They arrived at Tara, where Amergin sang a song, and the Danaans asked for 3 days to think it over, during which time the Milesians waited 9 waves out at sea, and the Danaans hit them with a magic storm, made especially effective by the anger of Eber Donn. Many ships sank including Donn's and the survivors landed up the Boyne. The Danaans and Milesians fought at Telltown, and the three Danaan kings and queens were (somehow) slain. The Danaans retreated from human sight below the hollow hills and became The Sidhe in Tir Na Nog, The Land of the Young.
The Milesian Settlement of Hibernia
Of the two surviving brothers Eber Finn and Eremon, Amergin elected the latter and elder as chief, but Eber Finn demanded partition and got the South. They went to war, Eremon won and ruled all Hibernia from Tara.
Tiernmas and Crom Cruach
Five kings after Eremon was Tiernmas who introduced Crom Cruach worship on Moyslaught Plain. He was worshipping there on Samain when he and three quarters of his people were killed (after opening a gold mine and introducing the cavern which led to Darkness Falls).
Ollav Fola
13 kings later (about 1,000 BC again) Ollav (doctor) Fola introduced legislature, provincial chiefs and the great triennial festival of Tara, before being buried under the tumulus at Loughcrew, Westmeath,
Kimbay and the Founding of Emain Macha
In 300 BC an Ulster prince Red Hugh had two brothers Dithorba and Kimbay and a daughter Macha, and the three brothers agreed to rule Ireland in turn. But on Hugh's death Macha kept sovereignty by killing Dithorba and marrying Kimbay. Dithorba's five sons fled West pursued by Macha who captured them all single handed in a forest, then carried them North. There she drew the plans of a fortress with her brooch and forced them to build Emain Macha.
Laery and Covac
Ugainy the Great, king over Hibernia and the frontiers, had a Gaulish queen Kesair and two sons, Laery and Covac. Laery inherited and Covac consulted a druid who told him to feign death; when Laery came to the funeral he stabbed him and his son Ailill to death and ascended the throne.
Maon
Ailill's son was Maon, whom Covac forced to eat a portion of his father's and grandfather's hearts, and a mouse family, thus striking him dumb, before letting him go. Maon visited Scoriath king of Feramorc in Munster and enamoured his daughter Moriath, then stayed with relatives in Gaul. Moriath sent her dad's harper Craftiny after him, and played such a passionate song that Maon got his speech back.
Maon returned to Hibernia with an elven army and killed Covac and all his nobles at Dinrigh, Maon was re-named Labra the Mariner and married Moriath, and the elves settled in Leinster (The Province of the Spearmen) which is named after them.
Labra's Barber
Labra had horse's ears, and therefore to keep the secret had his hair cut only once a year and the barber then executed. One year the lot fell on the son of a poor widow, who he spared, but the secret made the lad ill, so a druid told the lad to tell a tree. Craftiny carved a harp out of it, the harp revealled the truth in court, and Labra was forced to come clean with his stigma.
There are two mythological tales ending later than the Historical Cycle in the Albion era...
The Children of Lir
Lir was the father of the sea god Mananan, and also fathered three boys, Conn, Fiachra and Hugh, and a girl, Fionuala, by a woman who died and whose sister, Aoife, he then married. Barren and jealous the stepmother took the four children to nearby Danaan king Bov the Red by Lake Derryvaragh, and when her attendants refused to kill them she cursed them to spend 900 years as talking, singing swans; 300 years each at lovely Lake Derryvaragh, then the cold and horrid Straits of Moyle between Ireland and Scotland and then the Atlantic shore at Co Mayo between Erris and Inishglory until such time as "a woman of the South is mated with a man of the North". Bov found out and turned Aoife into a demon of the air who flew off shrieking, but the four swans were doomed. By the time of the last stretch at Mayo the Milesians had come, and they were befriended by a mortal called Evric who wrote it all down.
At the end they could not find their dad who had vanished below the hollow hills. Then they heard a church bell, and befriended an old Christian hermit. A Connacht chief from the North called Lairgnen nicked the singing swans for his betrothed princess Deoca of Munster in the South, and before her they turned into four 1000 year old humans, were baptised and died.
The Tale of Ethne
In the reign of Eremon, first Milesian king of all Hibernia (1000 BC), Mananan mac Lir fostered yet another daughter to the Danaan prince Angus in his New Grange palace at Brugh na Boyna, and Angus' steward's daughter Ethne was allotted to be her handmaiden. Unfortunately she was ravished by a passing Chieftain, became the first Christian and stopped eating.
Centuries later when her mistress was bathing in the Boyne, Ethne lost her magic hanky and could not return to Tir Na Nog, finally dying on the breast of St Patrick.
Conary Mor
One great Milesian king was Conary Mor. These are his stories:
Etain's Curse
Under the hollow hills at Slieve Callary Midir, son of the Dagda, married Fuamnach and then the much fairer Etain. Out of jealousy Fuamnach turned Etain into a butterfly and raised a tempest to blow her all over Erin for seven years, until rescued by Angus. He made her a bower and magically transformed her back to her own form at night for shagging purposes for many years until discovered and blown off again by Fuamnach. This time she fell in the cup of the wife of Etar, an Ulster chief, was swallowed and reborn a mortal with the same name and amnesia.