NAME Iarbonel

EPITHET The Soothsayer / The Giant / Bitter Iardan / Joyful Iardan

ALTERNATIVE Artoat / Artur / Iarbanel / Iardaines / Iardan / Iardanel / Iardanis / Iardanaines

SEX M

FESTIVAL Beltainn (Brilliant Fires)

CATEGORY warrior / chieftain / filidh

TYPE soothsayer

CULTURE Magogian - Nemedian tribe

COUNTRY Ireland

REGION Cork / Wexford

TERRITORY Phrygia / Munster / Connacht / Ulster / Leinster

LANDMARKS Plateau of Phrygia / Black Sea / Cork Harbour / Wexford Harbour / Bannow Bay

SITES Camross

AGE Bronze

DATES BC 19th-18th c

BATTLES Ros Fraechain / Murbolg / Cnamros (died)

RELATIVES Nemhedh (father); Meda (wife); Beothach and Semul (sons); Starn, Anind and Fergus (brothers); Magog (ancestor)

ENEMIES Fomorii / Conann

SEE ALSO Anind / Beothach / Conann mac Faeboir / Fergus Lethderg / Magog / Nemhedh / Semul / Starn

REMARKS Iarbonel son of Nemhedh was one of the 5 chieftains who led his followers from the Plateau of Phrygia in Turkey to Cork Harbour, Ireland.

After leading his warriors to victory against the Fomorii in the battles of Ros Fraechain in Connacht and Murbolg in Ulster, he fell by the hand of the Fomorian chieftain, Conann, during the battle of Cnamros in Leinster. The battle took place at Camross near Taghmon in Co. Wexford between Wexford Harbour and Bannow Bay.