General Notes

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He was the 2nd Monarch of Ireland, after he slain his brother, Heber in The Battle of Ardcath in 1697 BC.

The second King of Ireland, his name is given as Heremon (Eremon), who was Milesius eldest son. He led Gaedil to Ireland.

Heber and Eremon were the leaders of the Milesian settlement who landed in Ireland in the year 504 B.C. From Heber, from whom Ireland derives its name Hibernia, are descended the great southern clans of Ireland, the McCarthy's and O'Brien's, and so on, while from Eremon are descended the northern clans of O'Connor, O'Donnell and O'Neill. (Internet: www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation01.htm)

Heber and Heremon reigned jointly one year only, when, upon a difference between their ambitious wives, they quarreled and fought a battle at Ardcath or Geshill (Geashill, near Tullamore in the King's County), where Heber was slain by Heremon; and, soon after, Amergin, who claimed an equal share in the government, was, in another battle fought between them, likewise slain by Heremon. Thus, Heremon became sole Monarch, and made a new division of the land amongst his comrades and friends, viz.: the south part, now called Munster, he gave to his brother Heber's four sons, Er, Orba, Feron, and Fergna; the north part, now Ulster, he gave to Ir's only son Heber Donn; the east part or Coigeadh Galian, now called Leinster, he gave to Criomthann-sciath-bheil, one of his commanders; and the west part, now called Connaught, Heremon gave to Un-Mac-Oigge, another of his commanders; allotting a part of Munster to Lughaidh (the son of Ithe), amongst his brother Heber's sons.
From Heremon, the youngest son of Milesius, were descended one hundred and fourteen sole Monarchs of Ireland; the provincial Kings and Hermonian nobility and gentry of Leinster, Connaught, Meath, Orgiall, Tirowen, Tirconnell, and Clan-na-boy; the Kings of Dalriada; all the Kings of Scotland from Fergus Mor MacEarca down to the Stuarts; and the Kings and Queens of England from Henry the Second down to the present time.
After slaying his brother Heber, he reigned singly for fourteen years; during which time a certain colony called by the Irish Cruithneaigh, in English "Cruthnean" or Picts, arrived in Ireland and requested Heremon to assign them a part of the country to settle in, which he refused; but, giving them as wives the widows of the Tuatha-De-Danaans, slain in battle, he sent them with a strong party of his own forces to conquer the country then called "Alba," but now Scotland; conditionally, that they and their posterity should be tributary to the Monarchs of Ireland.
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He and his eldest brother Heber were, jointly, the first.Milesian Monarchs of Ireland; they began to reign, A.M. 3,500, or, Before Christ, 1699. After Heber was slain, B.C. 1698, Heremon reigned singly for fourteen years; during which time a certain colony called by the Irish Cruithneaigh, in English "Cruthneans" or Picts, arrived in Ireland and requested Heremon to assign them a part of the country to
settle in, which he refused; but, giving them as wives the widows of the Tuatha De-Danans, slain in battle, he sent them with a strong party of his own forces to conquer the country then called "Alba," but
now Scotland; conditionally, that they and their posterity should be tributary, to the Monarchs of Ireland. Heremon died, B.C. 1683, and was succeeded by three of his four sons, named Muimne,"The House of
Hereman," Luigne, and Laighean, who reigned jointly for three years, and were slain by their Heberian successors