A Sheehan Myth

It's better than a lie.

With the coming of the Milesians we moved to the hills. We knew them and knew about mining them.

Sometimes our homes were so built that they looked like green mounds of living earth. We had become the old magic people of the hills. Our house, to some, seemed courtly halls. We became leprechauns, fairies, and parents to Lugh.

Shee is what they called us and '...han' was the plural. She perhaps once meant wise or knowing, but came to mean fay, or magic.

"Ban" meant woman to them, so that banshe meant woman of the Shee.

We cured with water, herbs, and minerals.
We worked copper, gold, silver, tin.
We died frabrics and had a rare red.
We were few.
Much is forgotten, but there a still things to be told.
Much of what we know has been filtered through the minds, cultures, and languages of those who came after us.
Sheehan may be related to Tuath De Dannan and to Cian, but I don't know. I can't even name our ancient language.
I do know that we came to the isle beyond the western isle before the Celts, before the working of iron.