Tigernmas King of Ireland [60855]

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Tigernmas (or Tiernmas) : This Tiernmas was the Monarch who set up tbe famous idol called "Crom Cruach" (literally, the crooked heap) on the plain of Magh Sleaght, now Fenagh, in the barony of Mohill, county of Leitrim. This idol was, worshipped up to the time of St. Patrick, by whom it was destroyed. Among the idol-worship of the ancient Irish at that time was that of the sun: the sun-woiship which was that of the Magi or wise men of the East, who, we are told in Scripture, were led to Bethlehem by divine inspiration to see the Infant Jesus.
This Monarch introduced certain distinctions in rank among the Irish, which were indicated by the wearing of certain colours, which, by some persons, is believed to have been the origin of the Scotch plaid. According to Keatinge, one colour was used in the dress of a slave ; two colours in that of a plebeian; three, in that of a soldier or young lord; four, in that of a brughaidh or public victualler; five, in that of a lord of a tuath or cantred ; and six colours in that of an ollamh or chief professor of any of the liberal arts, and in that of the king and queen. \emdash BOOK OF RIGHTS.

He was the 13th Monarch, and reigned 77 years; according to Keating, he reigned but 50 years; he fought twenty-seven battles with the followers of the family of Heber Fionn, all which he gained. In his reign gold was mined near the Liffey, and skilfully worked by Inchadhan. This King also made a law that each grade of society should be known by the number of colours in its wearing apparel: \emdash the clothes of a slave should be of one colour; those of a soldier of two; the dress of a commanding officer to be of three colours; a gentleman's dress, who kept a table for the free entertainment of strangers, to be of four colours ; five colours to be allowed to the nobility (the chiefs); and the King, Queen, and Royal Family, as well as the Druids, historians, and other learned men to wear six colours.
This King died, B.C. 1513, on the Eve of 1st of November, with two-thirds of the people of Ireland, at Magh Sleaght (or Field of Adoration), in the county of Leitrim, as he was adoring the Sun-God, Crom Cruach (a quo Macrom).
Historians say this Monarch was the first who introduced image worship in Ireland.

Part III, Chapter IV of Irish Pedigrees, by John O'Hart, published 1892, pages 351-9, 664-8 and 708-9.


Events in the life of Tigernmas mac Follach

† death 1 .
1544 B.C. , in the meeting of Magh Slecht, Breifne, Ireland.
·At the end of this year he died, with the three fourths of the men of Ireland about him, at the worshipping of Crom Cruach, which was the chief idol of adoration in Ireland. This happened on the night of Samhain precisely.
event 1 .
·fought the Hibernian sept and his followers in 27 battles
event 1 .
·the first that found out and made use of gold mines in Ireland
event 1 .
·Tighernmus, son of Follach
event 1 .
1620 B.C. .
·killed his 1st cousin, 3x removed, Conmael mac Eber, to rule his first year over Ireland


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Tigernmas,[1] son of Follach, son of Ethriel , a descendant of Érimón , was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical traditions, an early High King of Ireland . His name means "lordly" in Old Irish .[2]
According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn he became king when he overthrew his predecessor Conmáel in the Battle of Óenach Macha, and within a year of his accession had won twenty-seven battles against the descendants of Eber Finn , almost completely destroying Eber's line. It is said that during his reign gold was first smelted in Ireland, by the wright Iuchadán. Tigernmas was the first king to give drinking-horns to his followers, and the first to have clothes dyed purple, blue and green and decorated with brooches, fringes and ornaments. Seven lakes and three rivers burst from the ground during his reign. After reigning for seventy-seven years, he and three-quarters of the men of Ireland died on Magh Slécht while worshipping Crom Cruach , a cruel deity propitiated with human sacrifice.[3][4] According to the Annals of the Four Masters , Ireland was without a High King for seven years after his death, before Eochaid Étgudach took the kingship.[5]
The Lebor Gabála synchronises his reign with the deaths of Thineas and Decylas, kings of Assyria , and the reigns of David and Solomon in Israel ;[3] the Laud Synchronisms with the Judean kings Asa and Jehoshaphat and the Assyrian king Pertiades.[6] The Annals of the Four Masters dates his reign to 1621-1544 BC;[5] Geoffrey Keating to 1209-1159 BC.[7]

References
1. ^ Also spelled Tigernmais, Tigernmus, Tighearnmhas etc.
2. ^ Dictionary of the Irish Language , Compact Edition, Royal Irish Academy, 1990, p. 590
3. ^ ^{a b} R. A. Stewart Macalister (ed. & trans.), Lebor Gabála Érenn: The Book of the Taking of Ireland Part V, Irish Texts Society, 1956, pp. 198-209
4. ^ E. Gwynn (ed & trans), The Metrical Dindshenchas Vol. 3 poem 50 <http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T106500C/text050.html>, Vol. 4 poem 7 <http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T106500D/text007.html>
5, ^ ^{a b} John O'Donovan (ed. & trans.), Annala Rioghachta Éireann: Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, Dublin, 1848-1851, Vol. 1 p. 39 <http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005A/text006.html>-44 <http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005A/text007.html>
6, ^ <http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G105018/index.html>
7, ^ D. Comyn & P. S. Dinneen (ed .& trans.), The History of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, Irish Texts Society, 1902-1914, Book 1 Chapter 25 <http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text035.html>

Tigernmas married.