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- Breassal, son of AEneas Ollamh.
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Breasal. The High King of the World. He is said to have built Barc Bresail in Leinster, a formidable fortress which was eventually destroyed by the High King Tuathal Teachtmhaire during his war on Eochaidh of Leinster. Breasal lived in the West and his country was known as Hy-Brasil and sometimes as O'Brasil. In later folklore Hy-Brasil became a legendary Atlantic island which was only visible every seven years. Anyone who looked on it when it was visible would die. It was suggested that it was a sunken land of which the Aran Islands were a remnant. Ruairi O'Flaithearta, writing his 'A Choregraphical Description of West of H-Iarr Connaught (London, 1684), told of a man named O'Ley who claimed to have been kidnapped and taken to the island. The name of Hi-Brasil appeared on maps as a real place. A. Dalorto (circa AD 1325), the Genoese cartographer, placed it in the latitudes south of Ireland. So fixed in peoples minds was Hy-Brasil as a reality that when explorers came to South America they thought they had found the legendary country and thus gave the name Brazil to the land they discovered. ("A Dictionary of Irish Mythology" - Peter Berresford Ellis. Oxford University Press (1991)) [1]
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