Newfoundland folklore tells that Sheilagh Ne Geira is Gaelic for "Sheilagh the beautiful" and that her real name was Sheilagh O'Connor.

Sheilagh Ne Geira and her husband Lieutenant Gilbert Pike were the founders of the community of Carbonear. 

Folklore tells that Sheilagh Ne Geira was the daughter of an Irish Chieftan. At  around the turn of the sixteenth century, Sheilagh was sailing from France where she was schooled at a convent. However, her ship was captured by Dutch Buccaneers. Holland was then a vassal of Spain. 

In turn, the Dutch were intercepted and defeated by the Pirate Admiral Peter Easton. 

Peter Easton and his fleet were in route to Newfoundland and the young woman's life was fatefully changed.

Sheilagh arrived in Newfoundland  circa 1602. Folklore tells that she was the first married woman on the coast. Presumably she was married fat sea by Peter Easton.

The couple settled at Bristol's Hope. However, circa 1612, they were supposed to have moved to Carbonear to escape the oppression of their former ally turned pirate Peter Easton.

Sheilagh Ne Geira is reputed to have had the first British child born in North America (circa 1602). She is reputed to have been a midwife, lived to an old age  and on friendly terms with the Beothuk. Much of her life and the stories surrounding it have been obscured by time and fading memories.