According to legend, one of the first colonists of Ireland
was Neimheidh, who landed in Cork Harbour over 1000 years BCHe and his
followers were said to have been wiped out in a plague, but the Great Island
was known in Irish as OileanArdNeimheadh because of its association with him.
Later it became known as CrichLiathain because of the powerfulUíLiatháinkingdom who ruled in the area from
