Folio 53 from the     Book of Leinster Lebor Gabála
Érenn is recorded     in more than a dozen medieval
          manuscripts and                                          the Book of Leinster
        Lebor Gabála Érenn            [The Book of the Taking of Ireland]
        is a collection of poems and prose narratives
       that purports to be a history of Ireland
                  and the Irish people                 from the creation
                         of the world up              to the Middle Ages;
                         There are a number of different      versions,
                         the earliest of which was compiled
                         by an anonymous  (                     ) poet in the 11th century;
                         It synthesized several                    narratives
                                   that had been developing
                                  over the foregoing untold
                                  centuries.
                        The Lebor Gabála tells of Ireland
                                          being settled (or 'taken')            [six times]
    by six groups of people: the people of Cessair,
the people of Partholón, the people of Nemed, the Fir Bolg,
       the Tuatha Dé Danann,                          and the Milesians;
The first four groups  are wiped  |            out or forced
to abandon the  island,                               the fifth group represent
       Ireland's pagan gods,                                while the final group
       represent the Irish people     (themselves)...            [the Gaels]