OTHERWISE,

fo --. aGunata senaic, = ANNALS OF SENAT;

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A CHRONICLE OF IRISH AFFAIRS

= FROM A.D. 431, TO A.D, 1540. a0 P PL f Fp

DITED, WITH A TRANSLATION AND NOTES,

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Tue Editor was desirous that the important publication of which this forms the first volume should be published in a complete form, and not in separate volumes, for the reason that, considering the great value of the Chronicle, the questions so often discussed regarding the compilers

and the sources trom which the work was compiled, and

the relation to each other of the MSS. from which the text has been formed, it seemed necessary that these

subjects should be dealt with in an Introductory Essay.

But it would be obviously impossible to write an Intro- duction of the nature required before the whole work was in print. The Council of the Royal Academy, under

whose direction the publication of the work has been

placed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, having ordered the immediate publication of this volume, the Editor submitted respectfully to their directions. The Introduction must therefore appear in the last volume of the work—in that, namely, containing the Appendices and Index.

W. M. H. June, 1887.

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ocnnocloc ulecdh.

ANNALS OF ULSTER;

OTHERWISE, anole ~SseNcit.

ANNALS OF SENAT.

Fol. 16aa.

cennotec ubecdh.

ne, mei E8T INCIPERE, TU1 E8T LINIRE.

tilenap. CCnno abincapnatione somin1 ccce.°

ore AG

Pallaoiup ao Scotop a Celeruino

upbir Romae epipcopo opoinactuyp epipcopuy, Qetio et Ualepio conpulibup ppimup micacup in MMi1- bepniam, uct Chpiptum cpedene potuippent, anno

Teonoys 111°.

1 Palladius.— Prosper Aquitanus, in his Chronicon, Basso et Antiocho coss. (i.e. A.D. 431), after mention of the Council of Ephesus adds: “ Ad Scotos in Christum credentes, ordinatus a papa Ceelestio Palladius, et primus episcopusmittitur” (Opp.p.432). This cardinal record in Irish church history has been repeated by Beda, Chron., p. 26, and Hist. Eccl. twice, i., 18, v., 24; where he assigns 430 as the year, i.e. of his mission, whereas 431 was the date of his arrival. See Pagi, Critica, t. ii., pp. 2146, 2385. Subsequent chroniclers, enumerated by Ussher, Whks. vi., 353, have adopted the same form of words, among them Marianus Scotus, who notices both Palladius and Patricius, under the 8th of Theodosius, junior. Palladius is styled by Muir- chu, writing circ. 690, “ Archidiaco- nus pape Caelestini” (Bk. Arm., fol. 2aa). So theVit. Sec. in Colgan, Trias Thaum., p. 186; the Vit. Quarta, 7d. p. 885; Probus, 7b. 48); the Vit. Tripart.

huapat oechon, which Colgan not very closely renders, ‘‘eximium Dia- conum,” ib. p. 123d.

2 Celestinus.—The writers in the Book of Armagh note him as “ qua- dragensimus quintus a sancto Petro apostolo,” fol. 2aa, 16aa. But Prosper, Idatius, and Marcellinus, whom these ann. profess to follow, have x11. Sixtus, his successor, is set down next year as XLII.

3 Etius and Valerius.--Their con- sulship belongs to 432. Bassus and Antiochus were the consuls of this year.

4 Might believe._-Prosper’s in Chris- tum credentes has, from Ussher down, been generally understood as implying that there existed at the time in Ire- land a number of acephalous Chris- tians. Muirchu, who, writing about 690, says of Palladius that he had been ordained and sent “ ad hanc in- solam sub brumali rigore possitam conyertendam ” (Bk. Arm., fo. 2aa), or “ad doctrinam Scottorum” (id.

ANNALS OF ULSTER.

—

JESUS,

Mine it is to Begin, Thine it is to Finish.

ALENDS of January. In the year 431 from the Incarnation of the Lord, Palladius,’ ordained by Celestinus,’ bishop of the City of Rome, is sent, in the consulship of Etius and Valerius,’ into Ireland, first bishop to the Scots, that they might believe’ in Christ; in the

8th year of Theodosius.’

l6aa). Nennius comes next, about half a century after the Book of Ar- magh was written, and he, drawing as he says, ‘de historiis Scottorum licet inimicorum,” expressly states “ ad Sccttos in Christum convertendos” (p. 41). Probus uses language simi- lar to that of Muirchu (Tr. Th. 480). The Tripart. Life, the substance of which can be proved to be older than 800, says, DO ppaicept v0 Forve- Laibh, ‘ to instruct the Gaeidhil’. So Vit. Sec. in Colgan, Tr. Th., 130; Vit. Tert. (ib. 23a); Vit. Quart. (id. 886); Jocelin (ib. 70a). Ussher’s Irish Life had what his interpreter renders ‘ad predicandum Hibernis”; while his Latin Tripart. Life had ‘ad Sco- tos convertendos ad Christum” (Wks., vi. 368). Even for the wording of the present text, which is so rude, there is a counterpart in the Annals of Inis- fallen at 431, ‘‘ Palladius ad Scotos a Caelestino, urbis Romae episcopo, or- dinatus, primus mittitur in Hiberniam, ut Christum credere potuissent.” This

and the text would seem to imply that the Irish had the offer of conversion, but refused it. Prosper closed his chronicle in 455, but ina work which is peculiarly important as having been written in 433, z.e. 2 years after Pal- ladius’ arrival, he says of Caelestine, “Ordinato Scotis episcopo, dum Ro- manam insulam (ie. Britanniam) studet servare Catholicam, fecit etiam barbaram Christianam” Contra Cas- sianum, c. 20 (Opp. 209a). Innes re- conciles the two state.nents of Prosper to his own satisfaction (Hist., p. 55); but Sir James Ware, more in accord- ance with Irish writers, says ‘‘ Et ad Prosperi ipsa verba, Scotos in Chris- tum credentes, quod attinet, ea fortasse referenda sunt ad tempus quo Pros- per Chronicon suum scripsit, quando nempe longe maxima pars Hibernie ad Christi fidem, 8. Patricii preedica- tione et opera sua fuit conversa” (S. Patr. Opuse. p. 107).

5 Theodosius.—See note on Theodo- sius the younger, in the sige following.

BS

[431.]

4 cennocloc ulocoh.

kct. lenaip (ur. p. Lun). Onno vomini ccce.° xan? 11.° (1111. DC. Kavu. Pecunoum Driomyprum). Pacpiciup pepu- emt ao Nibepniam nono anno pesn Teodor minopiy, primo anno epipcopacup Lips, xl. 11. epipcop: Romane ecleyie. Sic enumepnant beou ez Mapelliup et 1ppr0- popup in cpomeip pup. [In xu (uel ax1111) anno pegm aesaipe mic Neill. Cbinitio mundi 1uxta Lew. intep- ppetep u. vece. Laxxu; 1uxta uepo Ebpeor 1111. Dcxxxtil. Cb incapnactione uepo 1uxta Ebneop oclaxxu, pecunoum autem “Orompium ccce. xxx. 11.° anni punt; pecunoum uepo Devam cece. xxx anni punt.] ice lenaip. Onno vomimi cece. sow. 111° (1111. DC. wacatii.) Hct. tenarp. (11. pe Lu. uw.) Onno vomini ccce.° xan.” 11.2) (aint. Dcxavi1.) Cetna bpat Saxan v1 Epe [no

mo Erpinn }.

1 Friday.—This was leap-year, and the Sunday letter CB, as the Ist of January fell on the sixth day of the week. It may be observed here, once for all, that the chronological nota- tions, except the year of the Lord, whether at the beginning or close of the entries of each year, are not in prima manu, but added subsequently in paler ink.

2 Dionysius.-—See his system referred to at A.D. 531 infra.

3 Patrick arrived—See Ussher, Wks., vi., 870, 3871, 396-407, 443; Todd, St. Patrick, pp. 392-399.

4 Theodosius the younger.—There are three dates for the commencement of the reign of Theodosius junior— 1st, a.D. 402, when he was declared Augustus by his father, Arcadius; 2nd, A.D. 408, when Arcadius died, and he succeeded to the empire of the East; 3rd, A.D. 423, when, on August 15, his uncle Honorius, Emperor of the West, died, and thus left him supreme in the regions of Latin. The third era

is that which these Annals adopt, as did Beda, in Chron., and H.E., i., 18. So also the Chron. Scot. ; Ann. Inisf. ; Leab. Brec.; Vit. Tripart., and Mari- anus Scotus. ‘Tirechan states, ‘ xiii. anno Teothosii,” but 80+24 would be according to the earlier computa- tions, so that his xiii. is evidently a clerical error for uiii. Baronius takes exception to the present date, and observes at A.c. 429, vii., ‘‘ex Prospero corrigendum esse Bedam”; upon which Smith well observes, ‘‘non ex Prospero Beda, sed ex Beda Baro- nius corrigendus est” (Baeda, i., 18, p- 51). See Pagi, Critica, ii., 2140, Ds ks 5 Xistus.—Over thisnameiswritten, in another hand Celestine, which is an error. Celestine died 13 July, 482, and Sixtus iii. was consecrated eleven days afterwards. In the chronicles of Prosper, Idatius, and Marcellinus, Sixtus is set down as 42nd Bishop of Rome. Chronicles.--This is a very slov-

ANNALS OF ULSTER. 5

Kal. Jan. (Friday, m....) A.D. 432 (4636, according to Dionysius).? Patrick arrived*® at Ireland, in the 9th year of the reign of Theodosius the younger,' in the first year of the episcopate of Xistus,’ the 42nd bishop of the Church of Rome. So Beda, and Marcellinus, and Isidorus compute in their chronicles.’ [In the 15th (or 14th) year of the reign of Laegaire, son of Niall? From the beginning of the world,’ according to the Lxx. Interpre- ters, 5885 years; but according to the Hebrews, 4636. Also, from the Incarnation, according to the Hebrews, 685; but, according to Beda, there are 431 years. ]

Kal, Jan. A.D. 433 (4637).

Kal. Jan. (Monday. m. 5.) A.D. 434 (4638.) The first prey? by the Saxons” from Ireland [or, in Ireland].

enly entry; the chronological order of the writers is inverted, and Beda says nothing on the subject. Marcel- linus has—“ Valerio et Aetio coss. (i.e. 432), Romane ecclesie Xystus xlii. episcopus ordinatus, vixit annis viii.”

7 Laegaire, son of Niail.—O’Fla- herty makes the 4th of Laeghaire to synchronize with 432; therefore 428 +35, the length of his reign, makes 463, the correct date of his death. Ann. Inisfall., and the ancient autho- rities cited by Petrie from Leabhar Brec, place Patrick’s arrival in the 4th of Laeghaire (Tara, 77,79); so also the F. Mast. Nennius says, ‘‘ In quinto anno Loygare regis exorsus est praedicare fidem Christi” (p. 44). But though Ann. Inisf. here assign the 4th, further on they have a stray sentence, which contradicts this— “Patricius vero xiii, vel ut alii di- cunt xiiii®, anno ejusdem venit ad Scotos Patricius.” And in the present entry xiiii. is written a/. man. over xu. The addition therefore of 10 to the regnal year of Laeghaire brings us down to 443, the date at which

Todd has arrived from independent considerations, S. Patr. 392-399 Beginning of the world.—The whole of this chronological paragraph is added by another hand, which sub- sequently appears in similar additions. ® Prey.—The Irish bpac or bpao seems to be cognate to the Latin praeda. From bpao comes the ad- ject. bpaoach “ thievish,” the noun bpaoag, a “thief,” and the name mac braoaig, now Brady. At 820 infra, we find brad in the form praeo.

10 Saxons.—The Saxons first ap- pear in history at A.D. 287, and then as marauders. At 364, according to Ammianus Marcellinus, “ Picti Saxo- nesque, et Scotti et Attacotti Britan- nos erumnis vexavere continuis” (xxvi. 5). They were associated with the Picts when defeated by the Bri- tons in the Alleluiatic victory, which Ussher, on just grounds, places at the year 430, and which was certainly prior to the year 435, as St. Germa- nus the leader died that year. See his excellent obss., Wks. v. 385,

(432.

[433.] [434.]

Fol. 16a.

6 oct nN ocLoc ulocoh.

}ct. tencap. CCnno vomin1 cece.° awe.” u.° (int. DE. aeavarre.) Mopr Dpeppaat resir Lasgen. [Opopiup et Pnoppep ec Cipillup in voctpina Chpipo: flopuepunt fpecunoum quopoam |.

fet. tenap. (4 p. L. 27.) Onno vomini cece.? wae. uw. (in. ve. el.) Uel hic mopp Dpeparl. Opopup ec Pprorpen et Cipillup in Chpipco plopuepunt, [uel 1 voccpina Chpiypti, pecunoum aliop. Uel hoc anno Dpe-

ral moptuup ert pecunoum alroy]. t.lenap. (6p, L 9, alias 8%) CCnno vomini ccce.° ova. 11.° Gi. De. alr.) Linnbapp mac hur Dapvene.

Ict. tencap.

(7 p., 20 Lunae.) Onno vomini cccc.°

arava.” 11111.° (4111. 0c. wLi1.°) Senéup mop vo pepubunn ; [uel quod hic vebet inpepr Secunour cum pociup pecunoum

alium Libpum].

Also Thorpe’s Lappenberg, vol. i., 62, 63. The Irish invasion here re- corded may have been a sequel to their defeat in Britain. These annals assign their permanent arrival in England to 464; and they add asecond descent on Ireland at 471 infra. The authorities, followed by the Books of Lecan and Ballymote, represent the wife of Eochaidh Muighmedhoin, Cairenn Casdubh (‘‘curly black’’), mother of Niallix. Host., as daughter of a king of the Saxons. Which is adopted by O’Flaherty, Ogyg. 376, 893. Indorb Find, also, wife of Eoghan, son of Niall, is said to have been daughter of a Saxon prince. Mac Firbis, however, Geneal. M&., p. 108, contends that the first named woman was more likely to have been Pictish or North British. It is curi- ous that the B. of Armagh, referring to the death of Munissa, a disciple of St. Patrick, whom some of his Lives style Britonissa, speaks “de morte Moneisen Sazonisse” (fol. 20 ab).

1 Bressal.—More fully in the F. Mast. (435), ‘‘ Breasal Bealach, son of Fiacha Aiceadh, son of Cathair Mor (king of Leinster), died.” The death of Cathair Mor is set down at A.D. 174, so that there must be a de- ficiency of several generations in the descent. See Keating, 308; Ogyg. 311; B. of Rights, 201-203.

2 According to some.—This, from Orosius, added al. manu. See under next year.

3 Orosius—Cyril.—Ororius, in A. by a clerical error. Paulus Orosius, a priest of Tarragona, flor. 416. In 413 he was sent by two Spanish bishops to St. Augustin; during his stay with whom, and at whose in- stance, he composed his Historia. St. Augustin characterizes him as “Vigil ingenio, promtus eloquio, flagrans studio,” Zpist. 166. Prosper, of Aquitaine, appeared before pope Celestine, in 481 (the year of Pal- ladius’ mission), to vindicate the memory of St. Augustin. {n 433 he

) | ) )

”:

Kal. Jan.

AD. 485 (4639).

ANNALS OF ULSTER. 7

Death of Bressal,’ King

of Leinster. [Orosius, and Prosper, and Cyril flourished in the doctrine of Christ, according to some.]* Kal. Jan. (Wedn., m. 27). A.D, 436 (4640). Or, here

the death of Bresal.

Orosius, Prosper, and Cyril,’ flour-

ished in Christ [or, in the doctrine of Christ, according to others. Or, in this year Bresal died, according to others. ]

Kal. Jan. (Frid., m. 9, or 8).

barr‘ son of Ua Bardene.

A.D. 437 (4641), Finn-

Kal. Jan. (Saturd., m. 20). A.D. 438 (4642). The Sen-

chus Mor’ was written.

(Or, here should be inserted®

Secundus with his companions, according to another

book.)

published his Collator, and in 455 he completed his Chronicon, which is a very important record. Cyril, patri- arch of Alexandria, presided at the third General Council, in 431, and died in 444. The mention of his name here was probably suggested by Isidore, who says, in his Chronicon, “ Hoc tempore Cyrillus Alexandriz episcopus, insignis est habitus.” Opp. vii. 101. The best edition of his works is that by Jo. Aubertus, 6 tom. (in 7 voll.), fol. Paris, 1638. Gibbon accuses him of tyranuy, murder, and a long list of crimes and infirmities. Decline, ch. 47. With such a wide margin as the claruere of these three writers it was absurd to repeat the entry the year following.

4 Finnbarr.—The F. Mast. borrow this entry, changing the descent to mac Ua Daipoene, and adding vecc, ‘died’; but they give no clue to his lineage or history. O’Donovan sup- posed that Ua Baird, which appears in St. Patrick’s kindred, might be intended. It is more likely, however, that the reference is to some one

maccu Daipoene, ‘of the sons of Bairdene,’ such as the Dal Bairdine of Uladh, whom Tighern. notices at 628, these Annals at 627, and the F. Mast. at 623. Colgan’s conjecture of Firtnanus, 77. Thaum. 268a, is in- admissible.

5 Senchus Mor.—‘ Chronicon Mag- num scriptum est.” O’Connor, R. H. SS. iv. 1. It was a body of laws, the first materials of which were com- piled by St. Patrick and some of his disciples; and which grew by sub- sequent accretions till it attained its present voluminous dimensions. The Senchup Mop, occupying 4 vols. of the intended series of the Ancient Laws of Treland, was published in the years 1865, 1869, 1873-79, edited by Professors Hancock, O'Mahony, and Richey, from the texts and trans- lations of the late Dr. O’Donovan and Professor O’Curry. In the learned Prefaces to these important volumes full information is given of the code.

6 Inserted.—Inserti, for inseri, A. See under next year.

[436.]

[437.]

[438.) OS.

b.

8 ocntocLer ulocoh.

Ict. tenap. (1. p, L-1.) Onno vomini cece.° wae. 12.”

(1111. 0c. ali.) Secunoup, Cumliur, es Sepninup mitun-.

cupet epipcopt ipy1 in Nibepmiam in cuatlium Pacpren.

ket. tenaip. (2p, 4.) CCnno vomini ccce.? xexw.° (a1. De. alii.) Exicup Lipts epipcop: Romane aecle- ye, qu ties U1. AnMIP In eEpipcopacu Romane eclerre ev xe. DIebuL, UT Deva nappac in cpomico puo. OLn Libps vicunt Maine piluum Neill in 1pco anno pemipre. [CCusupoin naeh ap na saborl on beaters po anpa perped bliavain vhec ap 3 xx.1? a ape, epipcopatur uepo Pur

™ oS aa

anno 40. cece.©F, |

Llopuit Cusupoin cipea annop vomin1

1 Secundus. — Recte Secundinus. Called Sechnall by the Irish, and from him domnach Sechnavt, now Dunshaughlin, in the S.E. of Meath, derives its name. Born in 374, which is the alleged year of St. Patrick’s birth, who was his uncle, and in honour of whom he composed the hymn Awdite omnes. See Ussher, Wks. vi. 383, 384, 401,518; Colgan, Tr. Thaum., 226b; Todd, Lib. Hymnor. 7-42. His death is entered below at 447,

Auzilius.x—Brother of Secun- dinus, sixth son of Restitut Ua mBaird, and, with Isserninus, or- dained as a coadjutor of St. Patrick. In Irish his name assumes the form of Ausaille or Usaille. Cill-Ausaille, now Killashee, in co. Kildare is called from him, and he is also patron of Cill Ua mBaird, now Killymard, near Donegal, in the county of the same name. His death is entered at 459 infra.

3 Serninus.—Generally written Is- serninus; but sometimes Eserninus, B. Arm. fol. 156); Serenus, 7’. Thaum. p. 14a; Iserinus, Nennius, 43. In the B, of Armagh he is in three

instances called eppcop ith, one of which is as a gloss upon his name, in the following passage ‘“ Patricius et Iserninus (1. eppeop Fitch) cum Germano fuerunt in Olsiodra civitate. Germanus vero Isernino dixit ut prae- dicare in Hiberniam veniret, atque prumptus fuit oboedire, etiam in quamcumque partem mitteretur nisi in Hiberniam. Germanus dixit Pat- ricio, et tu, an oboediens eris? Pat- ricius dixit, Fiat sicut vis. Ger- manus dixit, Hoc inter uos erit; et non potuerit Iserninus in Hiberniam non transire. Patricius venit in Hiberniam. Iserninus vero missus est in aliam regionem: sed ventus contrarius detulit illum in dexteram [i.e. australem] partem Hibernia,” (fol. 18 aa); probably Magh Itha, or the barony of Forth, on the south coast of the county of Wexford. Ann. Inisfall. at 440, say, “ Secun- dinus et Auxiliarius, et Iserninus mittuntur in auxilium Patricii, nec tamen tenuerunt apostolatum, nisi Patricius solus.” So also Chron. Scot. 438. This joint action appears in the titles of some collections of Irish Canons, and strikes the eye in the

ANNALS OF ULSTER. 9

Kal, Jan. (Sund., m. 1). A.D. 439 (4643), Secundus,! Auxilius,’ and Serninus,’ themselves also bishops, are sent to Ireland, in aid of Patrick.‘

Kal. Jan. (Mond.,m. 5). A.D. 440 (4644), The decease of Xistus,’ bishop of the church of Rome, who lived 8 years and 27 days in the episcopate of the church of

Rome, as Beda, in his chronicle, relates. that Maine son of Niall’ perished in this year.

Some books say [Saint Au-

gustin’ taken away from this life in the 76th year of his

age, and the 40th year of his episcopate.

Augustin

flourished about the year of Our Lord 400.]

earliest synodicals which appear in Sir Henry Spelman’s, and Wilkins’ great collections of British Councils. For the entry of the death of Iserninus, see at 468 infra.

4 Patrick.—In the margin of A. is an entry partly obliterated: no comad aap. . semearnoin Dpifso1], ‘or, perhaps, on this [year] should be the birth of Brigid.’ See under 456, infra.

5 Xistus.—Sixtus iii. In the chron- icles of Prosper, Idatius, and Marcel- linus, he is reckoned 42nd Bishop of the church of Rome; as also in these annals, at 432. His tenure of 8 years and 19 days, as calculated by Anas- tasius, is the correct period. These annals add 8 days, and also err in citing Beda as the authority, for he makes no mention, in either his Chronicle or History, of the ponti- ficate of this Sixtus.

6 Maine, son of Niall.—Fourth son of Niall ix. Host. and one of the four brothers, whose posterity constituted the Southern Hy Neill. His descend- ants, who occupied Teathbha or Teffia, were represented by O’Caharny or Fox, Magawley, O’Breen, O’Daly, &ec. in the present counties of Longford and

Westmeath, see Keating, p. 372; Ogyg. p. 401. The Tripart. Life (ii. 26) states that Patrick, when he visited south Teffia, converted and baptized this Maine; after which he founded the church of Ardachadh (Ardagh); but that Maine, on account of a deception which he practised, incurred the saint’s severe displeasure. Colgan, Trias Thaum., 1326.

7 St. Augustin.—Bishop of Hippo. Possidius, in his Life, says (cap. 31), ‘‘vixit annis LXXxvtI. in clericatu au- tem vel episcopatu annis ferme xl.” Beda has the same words, Chron. p. 26; and Marianus Scotus, Chron. 431. He was ordained priest in 391, and bishop in December, 395. He died v. Kl. Sept. (Aug. 28), a.p 430. The insertion in the text is, therefore, ten years too late. See Tillemont, Memoires, tom. xiii. p. 943; and the Latin version of the substance of his admirable memoir, which was made by Dom Hugues Vaillant and Dom Jacques du Frische, members of the congregation of St. Maur, in the exhaustive Vita which forms the first portion of the last volume of the Benedictine St. Augustin, cols, 102, 141, 491,

[439.]

[440.]

Fol. 16ba. Ob.

10 centocloc uLocoh.

Ict. lenaip. Onno vomini ccce.® xl.° 4.° Leo Opodina- cur al. 11. Romane ecleye epipcopup; et ppobacuy ert in pide cacolica Puacpiciuy epipcopur.

Ict. lenaip. Onno vomini ccce.° xl. 11.°

}ct. lencap. Cnno vomini ccce.° xl.° 111.° Pacprerup epipcopur apoope fide1 es DocTpina Chpiycs ~lopneny mM NofPTPA pprouincia. . é

Ict. lenaip. CCnno vomini cece.’ al.’ 1111.2 Apo Maca gunoaca ert. Cb unbe condita upque ao hanc citi- TaTEM PUNDaATAM M. CXC. 1111.

en lenaap. Onno vomini cece.’ al. u.2 Nati mac f- acpaé mage Tal, mic Eachach Mursmevoin ag plerb Ealpa [no 1ap na beim] vo porsnen Teimntise oF DOL

Tap Topainn obit, es xx. TIbUP aNnmMP peZnauiTs 1

Nibepnia.

1 Leo.—Consecrated Sept. 22, 440. These annals, at 432, correctly reckon- ed Sixtus III, 42nd Bishop of Rome, so that 42 here is a mistake for 48, which is the number in Prosper, Tdatius, and Marcellinus.

Catholic faith.—Ann. Inisfal. at 442, have “ Probatio sancti Patricii in fide Catholica.” Ann. Clonmac- nois, at 427, say ‘‘Pope Leo was ordained the 46th or 47th to succeede; by whom St. Patrick was approved in the Catholique Religion, and by the rest of the Popes of Rome that succeeded in his time, and then after flourished in the heate of Christian Religion in this Land.”

8 In our province. —Todd under- stands this of Ulster, and couples it with the founding of Armagh men- tioned under the next year. Sé. Patrick, 470. O’Conor’s copy, how- ever, reads nostra Hibernia, which gives the term provincia a wider application. At the council of Arles in 314 Britain was regarded as a

provincia. In 592 Pope Gregory designates Italy a provincia; and haif a century later John, pope-elect, writing to the Irish prelates speaks of Treland as ‘ provincia vestra” (Beda, H. E., ii. 19). The use of the term provincia at that date forbids the limitation of it to the Irish coigead or province, as long subsequently adopted in ecclesiastical language. See Reeves, Adamnan, p. 451. Sicily was the first recipient of the designa- tion provincia.

4 Ard-Macha was founded.—In the Book of Armagh is the following curious notice concerning Trim : “eedificavit eclessiam cum illis xxv. anno antequam fundata esset eclessia Altimache (fol. 16ba); which Ussher reads “vigesimo secundo” (Wks.,

-vi. 414). His Tripart. Vit. had xxv. ;

so also the Bodleian Tripart. Life, Colgan’s copy (Jr. Th., p. 129a) ; but the Brit. Mus. copy has xxii. See Colgan’s note, p. 100 (vecte 110) 8, n.57. The F. Mast. place the found-

ANNALS OF ULSTER. 1]

Kal. Jan. A.D. 441. Leo’ ordained 42nd bishop of the church of Rome: and Patrick, the bishop, was approved in the Catholic faith.’

Kal. Jan. A.D, 442.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 443, Patrick, the bishop, flourishing in the zeal of faith and the doctrine of Christ, in our Province.’

Kal. Jan. A.D. 444. Ard-Macha was founded!’ From the building of Rome’ to the founding of this city is 1194 years.

Kal. Jan. AD. 445. Nathi,’ son of Fiachra of Magh Tail,’ son of Eochaidh Mughmedhoin,® was struck by lightning at the Alps mountain as he was passing the limits of the same, and died. He reigned 23 years in

Treland.

ing of Trim at 432, and of Armagh at 457. See Colgan, Jr. Thaum., 290b; Ussher, Wks., vi., 414, 570 (an. 445); Lanigan, i., 312,315,317; Todd, St. Patrick, 260, 268-480.

5 Building of Rome.—Foundation of Rome (according to Polybius), 751, B.c., which +444=1195. See Ussher, Whs., vi.,414; Colgan, Tr. Th., 1100, n. 57. Todd errs in saying, ‘The Dublin MS. of these Annals seems to read 1197” (p. 469); it is plainly 1194. Ussher, who owned the MS, so read it, and there can be no uncer- tainty about the reading, for a later hand has entered in the margin opposite, in Arabic numerals, 1194.

6 Nathi.—The death of Nathi, or Dathi, occurred before the year at which these Annals commence, namely in 428; as he succeeded in 405, and reigned 23 years. Accordingly it is at 428 that his death is recorded by the F. Mast., and O'Flaherty (Ogyq., 159,413). His name, however, occurs in the Ann. Jnisfal. at 446, and it would

seem that that chronicle, as well asthis, borrowed from some authority which used a different computation. Suppos- ing it to be correct, and that the arrival of Patrick occurred in the 15th of Laeghaire, it would almost coincide with the death of Sen Patrick, and would upset the chronology of these Annals. We must,therefore,conclude that the present entry is 18 years too late. Regarding Dathi’s death, see Keating, 394; Ogyg., 413; and above all O'Donovy. in Hy Fiachrach, 17-27, 345, 346. The F. Mast. at 449, enter, instead, the death of his brother Amhalgaidh.

7 Magh Tail.—Seems to be a poetical name for Fiachra’s inheritance, O’Huidhrin applies the term mop mag Tart to the Dalcassian dominion of Brian Boru (Topogr. Poems, 98). OCurry, MS. Mater., p. 479.

8 Mughmeadhoin. —‘‘ In English Moist-middle, because he was much troubled with y® flux of y® bellye.’’-- Ann. Clonmac.

[441]

[442.] [443]

[444.]

[445.]

Fol. 160.

12 ocnNocLoc uLocoh.

Ict. lenaap. (11.7. 1.18.) Onno vomini cece. xl.° a1. (m7. vc. L.) DelLum fern in quo cecrois pliup Coep- chin pilts CoeLbot. CCl dicuns 01 Epmstmb pure.

Ict. lenaip. (4.7. L. 29.) Onno vomini cece.’ xl? un1.? (1190. oc. li.) Curep Secundini pancts Lee. u.° anno etacip pue.

Ict. lenaip. CCnno vomini cece.’ wl. ui? Ingenta Tenpaemoctu pen Loca uapia imminence plupims upbip ausupte mupr pecenti avhuc pe aeodipicatione con-

ropucts cum L. un. Tupprbup conpuepunc.

}ct. lenaip. Onno vomini ccce.° xl.° 12%.° Teovopup IMpepaton wiuendi Finem fecit prcus aopipmac Map- cillinup. Locum Teovorn Mapcianup impepacon avep- tur ert, us Maperllinup d1c1T.

fet. tencrp. Onno vomini ccee.° L.°

1 Femhin.—Or Magh Feimhin, as in Ann. Inisfal., 448, Keating gives the origin of the name at p. 142. It was a plain in the S.E. part of the present co. of Tipperary, comprising the barony of Iffa and Offa, and represented by the old rural deanery of Kilshillan, in the diocese of Lismore. It was taken about this time from Ossory, in Leinster, by Aengus, son of Nadfraech, king of Munster, and transferred to the northern Deise in his province, for which he suffered at Cenn-Losnadh in 489. Another battle of Femhin is recorded at 472 infra.

? Son of Coerthenn.—Ann. Inisfal., at 448, have Cat muige Pemin etip Munechu 7 Loasniu in quo cecro17 Capzinn meic Coelbath qui 1ecit senup Laing. Coelbadh, son of Crunn Badhrai, king of Uladh, was slain in 858. He was great-grandson of Fiacha Araidhe, from whom the Dal-Araidhe, or Irish Picts, derived their descent and name. The grand- son of Coelbadh, who fell in this battle, was probably the leader of

Dalaradian auxiliaries in the service of the king of Munster, and mainly instrumental in the acquisition of Femhin. See note on Cruithne at an, 573 infra. Reeves, Eccl. Antigg. 837, 349, 353, and Adamnan, 93, 94. The Chron. Scot. an. 445, makes Colboth son of Niall.

8 Secundinus.—Or Sechnall, of whom an. 439 supra. His festival is Nov. 27, at which day, Aengus wrote in his Felire, circ. 800—

Spucim ecnai conan Sechnavtl mino ap placha Rogab ceot poep pooawo Motao Pacpore Macha.

A stream of wisdom with splendour, Sechnall diadem of our realm, Chanted a song, a noble solace,

A praise of Patrick of Macha.

The Life of Declan says: “de quo fertur quod ipse primus episcopus sub humo Hibernie exivit.” See Ussher, Whks., vi., 384; Vit. Tripart., iii., 81; (Trias Thaum., 1653.) The deaths of St. Patrick’s three coadjutor

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Kal. Jan. of Femhin,' wherein fell the son of Coerthenn,’? son of Coelboth. Some say that he was of the Cruithne.

(Tuesd., m. 18.) A.D. 446 (4650). Battle

Kal. Jan. (Wednesd., m. 29.) A.D. 447 (4651). Re- pose of Secundinus’ the holy, in the 75th year of his age.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 448. By a violent earthquake,‘ which prevailed in various places, very many walls of the Im- perial city’ rebuilt of masonry still fresh, together with 57 towers, were thrown down.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 449. The Emperor Theodosius® closed his life, as Marcellinus affirms.’ Marcianus succeeded as

Emperor in room of Theodosius, as Marcellinus states,

Kal. Jan. A.D. 450.

bishops are entered in these annals at the years 447, 459, 468.

* Earthquake. —This account is borrowed word for word from the Chronicle of Marcellinus, where it is recorded under Indict. xv. Ardabure et Callepio Coss. (i.e., A.D. 447), Beda also notices the event, Chron. p- 31, and H.£.,i.,13. The fullest account of it is in Evagrius, who ex- plains the word imminente by 6 62 mabog wai éxi yxpdvoy rig yi¢ émexparnoev (Eccl. Hist., i. 17).

5 Imperial city.—‘‘ Urbs Augusta” is ten times used by Marcellinus, and is borrowed by other writers, to denote Constantinople. The expression in Evagrius—avad rv Baoida was rendered in palatio, till Valesius gave the proper interpretation, in urbe Regia. We find Regia urbs of Mar- cellinus copied in these annals, at 526 infra.

§ Theodosius.—Junior. In the top margin of A. there is this note on the name, in a different, but nearly coeval, hand, “ Ab isto Theodossio Bononia habuit privilegia studii po: et regnare cepié anno Domini eccce. 25 . Et

regnavit annis xxvii. De hoc vide gl. in Cle., z.e., de Magistris in verbo Bononiensi.” The reference is to the Corpus Juris Canonici, in the Cle- mentine, lib. v., tit. i. c. 5, where it is stated, “ Hoc constat quod Bononia habuit privilegia studii a Theodosio : de minore tamen intelligo, qui regnare cepit (prout ex chronicis quas veriores puto, percipio) anno Domini ceccxxxv., et regnavit annis XXvii. (xxvi. in some copies). Quo tamen anno sui imperii hec conces- serit, non percipio: currentibus autem cccclii. successit Martianus.” iii., col. 286.

7 Marcellinus affirms.—His words are: ‘‘Indict. iii, Valentiniano, vii. et Abieno Coss. (#.¢., A.D. 450). Theo- dosius Imperator vivendi finem fecit : regnavit post mortem Archadii patris sui annos xlii. Loco ejus Marcianus imperium adeptus est.” Galland. Bibl. x., 348. He died, 28 July, 450. Pagi, ii., 317. Beda agrees with these annals in antedating Marcianus’ accession one year. H.E. i, 16.

Tom.

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mini ui.” HCalenoap Man celebpacum eps. [Uel ueprup hic qtnemc Teodociup minop.] fet. tencap. Onno vomin1 cece.” L? 11° Tic ali

dIicunT ~NaTINITATEM LancctEe Dprsice.

Inteppectio

magna Lagenapum. [Uel uepiup hoc anno Mapcianup mMpepnacop puccept Teodoro Minop. ]

Ict. lenaip. (u. p., L 5.) (11. 0c. Lut.) ron Lagmb.

Ict. lenaip. (6% p¢.,1.16.) CCnno vomini ccce.° L.? 1911.

Cnno vomini ccce.° L.° 111.°

Catpoinead pia Loegaipe mac Nerlt

°

(ni. 0c. Luin.) Cena (aliap perp) Tethpa apud (alia

La) Loe$aupe pilium Neill.

1 The Lords Passover.—The Sun- day letter of this year was G, and the 24th of April fell upon Tuesday ; from which some might suppose that the Irish at this period were Quarto- decimans, 7.e., observing Easter not on the Sunday which followed the 14th after the vernal equinox, but on the 14th itself, irrespectively of the day on which it fell. Both A and B mark this year in the margin as bis- sextile; but it is 452 that was really so; and its Sunday letter is FE, the 24th of April falling upon Sunday. But there can be little doubt that the present entry is misplaced, and properly belongs to 455, in which year Easter was kept on the 24th of April by the Church of Alexandria, but on the 17th by some of the Latins, who followed the computation of Victorius. Prosper, in the closing paragraph of his Chronicle, Valen- tiniano, viii. et Anthemio Coss, (i.e., an. 455), writes: ‘‘ Eodem anno Pascha Dominicum die viii. Kalen- das Maii celebratum est, pertinaci intentione Alexandrini Episcopi, cui omnes Orientales consentiendum putaverunt: quamyis sanctus Papa

Leo XV. Kalendas Maii observandum protestaretur.” Opp p. 488. In this year Leo the Great wrote to the Emperor Marcian to state that “eundem diem venerabilis Festi omnibus Occidentalium partium sacerdotibus intimasse, quem Alex- andrini Episcopi declaravit instructio, id est, ut anno presenti viii. Kalendas Maii Pascha celebretur, omissis omni-- bus scrupulis propter studium unitatis et pacis.” Leo referred the question in 451 to the best informed authorities, especially Paschasinus of Lilybeum, and further commissioned Julianus, when proceeding to the Council of Chalcedon, to consult the most eminent fathers present on the subject, in order to avoid all future uncertainty. Pagi, ii., an. 453. The Ann. Clonmac. give a curious turn: “‘The Resurrec- tion of Our Lord was celebrated the Eight of Kalends of May by the Pelagian heresie”! See Labbé, Con- cordia Chronol., Pt. i., pp. 105, 108. The Ann. Inisfal. are very exact in assigning to the year 455 ‘‘ Pascha in viii. Kal. Maii.” These annals, how- ever, are four years behind. Marianus Scotus says ‘‘Hoc anno, i.e., 455

potius

Kal. Jan. A.D. 451.

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15

The Lord’s Passover! was cele-

brated on the 8th of the Kalends of May. ([Or, in this year, Theodosius Minor’ rested.]

Kal. Jan. A.D. 452. Here some place the nativity of Saint Brigid.’ A great slaughter of the Leinstermen.‘ [Or, truly, in this year the Emperor Marcianus® succeeded

Theodosius Minor. } Kal. Jan.

(Thursd., m. 5.) AD. 453 (4657).

/

[Defeat

in battle’ of the Leinstermen by Loeghaire, son of

Niall] Kal. Jan.

(Friday, m. 16.) A.p, 454 (4658). The

Cena (or Feast) of Temhair,’ kept with (or by) Loeghaire,

son of Niall.

incarnationis (iuxta Dionysium) Pascha Dominicum 8 die Calendis Maii recte celebratum est, ordinatione sancti Theophili: quod sanctus Leo Papa 15 Calend. Maii potius obser- yandum protestatur.”

2 Theodosius Minor.-- A and B have this entry in al. man. After minor A adds: “ut patet ex glossa predicta in 1° anno in Clementinis, i.e., de Magistris, in verbo Bononiensi, juncto eo quod habetur in 2° anno pagine precedentis.”

3 §t. Brigid.—These annals record her ‘death in her 70th year, at 523 and 525, which refers her birth to 458 or 455, the former being the date generally received. Ussher proposed 453 (Wks. vi., 445-447, 573), which Colgan, 7r. Th., 620a, and Lanigan (i., p. 378) have accepted. A mar- ginal note in A, at 438 supra suggests that year. Ann. Inisf. have 456, and An. Clonmac. 425.

4 Leinstermen.— This seems to be taken from a Latin version of what is recorded in Irish under the year following.

5 Marcianus.—_In A and B, from verius to minori is in al. man. A

adds, “ut patet in Clementinis, t.e., de Magistris, in verbo Bononienst predict. L° anno.”

§ Defeat in batile.—Literally ‘battle- breach.’ See Hennessy, Chron. Scot., p. 352a. IJnterfectio is the equivalent in the preceding year. The old English translation makes the word a proper name, “the battle called Cathroine,” but the place is not re- corded. The F. JMast., at 453, add mop and it is properly rendered by O’Don. ‘a great defeat.’ Ann Inisfal., at 456, curtly say paipobe lagen, ‘cutting off of Leinstermen.’ paipobe =foipcbe the older form. The battle was probably fought in Leinster, aud concerning the Borumha or ‘Cow- tribute,’ see at 458 infra.

7 Feast of Temhair.--In A and B reir is given as the Irish word for cena, and is the only word employed in the entry at 461 infra. O'Flaherty calls it “'T’emorensis comitia” (Ogyq., 213). Similar celebrations used to be held at Tailte (Teltown), and Uisnech (Ushnagh); but concerning this, which was the imperial one, see Keating, p. 414, and especially Petrie, Tara, 31, 32, 82-85, who asserts that

[451.]

[452.]

(458.]

[454.]

Fol. 17aa.

16

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onwoclec ulecoh.

fect. lenaip. Onno vomin cece.” L° ue Uretopiur

aptpoLlosurp [Lop Juiz.

tL. lenayi. (1. ¢. L 12.) Onno vomini cece.’ L.° uw.

(1111. 0c. La.)

Mopr Enna mic Catbota, et nawmecap

rancce Dpigive, uct ali dicunt. Mapcianup impepacopn

wite Ppipitum amipypit.

Impepaus anny rex (aliay

quatuop) es menpbup uw, vel ut Mapcillinup voces. Leo ervem pucceprt [oeruncco]. ct. lenap. Onno vomini cece.’ L° u.° Calcedo-

nenpip penoovurp conspesacuy eye.

ut aln Libpi dicunc.

(fmer remp Pacpien

this was the only convention of Tara held by Laeghaire during his reign (p. 82).

1 Victorius.—Or Victorinus, a native of Limoges in Aquitaine, whom Gen- nadius, Vir. Iilustr., ec. 88, styles “ Calculator scripturarum,” flourished in 457. In that year he composed a new Paschal Canon, at the instance of Pope Leo, who, to prevent a recur- rence of the controversy which arose in 455, between the Eastern and Western Churches, about the proper Sunday for the celebration of Easter, commissioned Hilary, his Archdeacon, to employ a competent person for the purpose. He framed a cycle of 532 years, i.e, 28x19, the product of the solar and lunar cycles, com- mencing from A.p. 28, the computed year of the Passion, or a.m. 5229. Cummian, in his Paschal epistle (A.p. 634) mentions this cycle. Ussher, Wks., iv., 440. And the anonymous Irish writer of the tract De Mirabilibus Sacr. Scripture reckons by it. See Pagi, Critica, ii., 370b, 582a, 626a; O’Conor, Rer. Hib. SS.,ii.,112; Tille- mont’s Memoires, xv., 770. Ann. TInigfal.. in the parallel entry (an. 458) have “ Victorius scripsit ciclum Pascha, ”

2 Enna, son of Cathboth. —O’Conor conjectures that this was Enna of Aran (ii., pt. 1, p. 109), but unhappily, for that saint was son of Conall derg, and was alive in 5380. The present entry is fuund in An. Jnisfal. (an. 459); An. Buell. (an. 462); Chron. Scot. (an. 455); F. Mast. (an. 456); but none of them help to identify the subject of it. In the B. of Armagh mention is made of the seven sons of Cathbadh, a Leinster clan, who with Bishop Isserninus were expelled by Enna Cennsalach (fol. 18aa).

3 §t. Brigid.—-See note at 452 supra.

4 Marcian.—-Accession, Aug. 20, 450; death, Jan. 31,457. B. reads quievit, which is technically incorrect, and not the expression of Marcellinus, from whom this entry is borrowed. His words are: ‘Indict. x. Constan- tino et Rufo Coss. (i.e, A.D. 457), Marcianus Imp. bonis principibus comparandus vite spiritum amisit: imperavit annos vi. menses vi. Leo eidem defuncto successit, cujus volun~ tate Majorianus apud Ravennam Cesar est ordinatus.” Galland, x., 3485. Beda, less correct, says: “ Septem annis tenuit,” and with this entry, antedates by a year the acces-

a

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Kal. Jan. A.D. 455. Victorius' the astronomer flour- ished.

Kal Jan. (Sund.,m.9.) A.D. 456 (4660). Death of Enna, son of Cathboth,® and birth of Saint Brigid,’ as some say. The Emperor Marcian‘ resigned the vital breath. He reigned six (or four) years and six months,

as Marcellinus states. decease ]. Kal. Jan. assembled. state.

Leo succeeded him [on his

A.D. 457. The synod of Chalcedon’ was Repose of Old Patrick,’ as some books

sion of Marcian. An. Jnisfal. have 454; Marian. Scot.,452. But 457 is the truedate. See L’ Art de Vérif. les Dates, p. 180. Instead of annis sex the al. man. in A. and B. have iiii.or which is a manifest error,

5 Synod of Chalcedon.—Six years too late. The fourth General Council, held at Chalcedon, to condemn the Eutychian heresy, sat from October 8th till November, 451. Concilia, t. iv., cols. 761-2074; Baronius, t. viii., p- 87; L’Art de Vérifier les Dates, p. 180; Ann. Inisfal., 452.

Old Patrick.—Distinguished by the epithet Sen or ‘Old,’ from Patrick the Apostle of Ireland, who was somewhat his junior. The acts of the two are so interwoven that it is very difficult to resolve them. The present entry, however, affords some help. Nennius says: ‘A nativitate Domini usque ad adventum Patricii ad Scotos eeccy. anni sunt. A morte Patricii usque ad obitum § sancte Brigide ix. anni,’ which numbers are utterly inapplicable to the Patrick of 432 and 493. Gir. Cambr. dates Patrick’s death, “ab incarnatione Domini cccclviii.’; this he learned

in Ireland; but it cannot be strained to suit the Apostle. Allowing, how- ever, for the slow year of these Annals, it is identical with the date in the text. Again, three of the Armagh lists (published by Todd, St. Patrick, 174, 181) make Sen Patraic third abbot, while these annals reckon Iarlath his successor once removed, the third; therefore they ignore the first two, namely Patrick and Sechnall, and leave to Sen Patraic, the first place. Ussher saw that two names should be expunged (Wks. vi., 437), but he erred in making Sen Patraic one of them. In two of these lists Sen Patraic is allowed an incumbency of ten years, which deducted from 457, gives 447 as his inception, within three years of the founding of Armagh, which event is most pro- bably to be referred to him, not to the Apostle; and further it is equally probable that the encomiums bestowed upon Patrick the Bishop, at the years 441 and 443, belong to the earlier ecclesiastic.' His successor, Bishop Benignus, died in 467, which allows the exact ten years assigned to Sen Patraic in the lists. So far the

Cc

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18 ocNNocLoc uLlocoh.

fet. tenoap. (111. pL.) Onno vomin cece.” LY um.” (int. ve. Let.) Coé Ocho vapa pop Lagaipe pe Largnib [in quo et 1pre captup eft, fed TUNC DIMIPPUP eT 1upanp pep polem et uentum pe bouer eip DIMIppupum |.

ct. fenaip. (u. pf, lL. x.) Onno vomini cece. L.° 10.° (a. oc. Lan.) Cualiup epipcopup quieut. No sumed cap an fct. po caé Cléa vapa pecunoum aliop.

fect. 1enap. (6 pL. 23.) Onno vomim ccce.? Lx. (iim. ve. Lani.) Leo papa mopcurp ert. Romane eclepre obtinins pevem Petr xa. (aliap quacuop) anmp ec menye uno et Diebup wi., picuc: enumepac Deva in cponico puo.

fet. lenaip. (4. p, L 4) Onno vomini cece.® Le.’ 1.° (mm. oc. Leu.) Nilapiup Romane aeclepre pontipexr Ul. 1111.57 pactup, es WAIT ANMP .u1. Nic alu quiecem Pactpici DICUNT. Loegaipe piliup Neill pops cenam Tehpo anmp .un. es menprbup .u1. es DIeP un. UAT. Caé ta vapa pra Larsmb pop Laesaipe, quibur

Cpemthann tune preepac.

Apostle does not appear at all in official connexion with Armagh. Sen Patrick’s death is commemorated in the Felire of Angus, at the 24th of August, thus :—

Sen Pacpcaic cing cacha, Coem-aite ap procha.

‘Old Patrick, champion of battle, Loveable tutor of our Sage.’

Upon which the Irish annotator writes ‘“‘Old Patrick, of Ros Dela in Magh Locha: sed verius est that he may be in Glastonbury of the Gael, in the south of Saxonland (for Scoti formerly used to dwell there in pilgrimage). But his relics are in the tomb of Sen Patrick in Ard Macha.” Felire, pp. cxxv., exxxiii. At 461, infra, his death is again recorded, but simply as Patricius.

1 Ath-dara.—‘ Ford of the oak,’ on the river Barrow, in Magh Ailbhe (a plain in the co. Kildare), Shear- man conjectures, and indeed states, that it was at Mageney Bridge (Loc. Putric., 67, 101), which is in the parish of Dunmanoge in the extreme south of the county of Kil- dare, on W. side, O.S., 8.39. This battle is entered under next year, and again at 461. See next note.

2 Cow-tribute. —Dopama; which O’Flaherty renders Boaria.—Ogyqg., 805. Said to have been first imposed on the Leinstermen by Tuathal Teachtmar, circ. A.D. 180. After proving a source of violent contention for a long series of years between the chiefs of Ulster and of Leinster, it was abandoned by Finnachta Fledach, about the year 680. There is a full

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Kal. Jan. (Wednesd.,m.1.) AD. 458 (4662). Battle of Ath-dara,' by the Leinstermen against Laeghaire, [in which he was made prisoner, but was presently liberated on his swearing by the Sun and Wind that he would remit to them the cow tribute].

Kal. Jan. (Thursd.,m.12.) A.D. 459 (4663). Auxi- lius,’ the bishop, rested. Or, in this year, according to some, the battle of Ath-dara was fought.

Kal. Jan. (Frid., m. 23.) A.D. 460 (4664). Pope Leo died. He occupied the chair of Peter in the Church of Rome 21 (or 24) years, 1 month, and 13 days, as Beda reckons in his chronicle,

Kal. Jan. (Sund., m. 4.) A.D. 461 (4665). Hilary* was made 44th bishop® of the church of Rome, and lived 6 years. Here some record the repose of Patrick. Laeghaire, son of Niall, lived after the Feast of Tara 7

years, and 7 months, and 7 days.

The battle of Ath-

dara was gained over Laeghaire, by the Leinstermen, of whom Crimthann’ was then commander.

and most curious tract, in prose and verse, on the subject in the Books of Leinster and Lecan. See O’Curry’s Lect. on MS. Mat., 230-232; Keating, 303-306; O'Donovan, Hy-Fiachr., 82, 33.

Auxzilius. —See under an. 439. His festival is August 27th, at which day his nate occurs, in the Mart. Taml., Mar. Gorman, and Mart. Doneg., as Usaille son of Ua mBaird, bishop of Cill-Usaille in Leinster, now Killashee. He is not noticed by the Felire. Colgan has collected the little that is known of him at 19th March in Actt. SS., pp. 657-659.

4 Hilary.—Over the name Nita- quur, there is written in a very old Trish hand in MS. A., Wet hoc anno Leo obic, (“or in this year Leo died”). The death of Pope Leo

(who died on Noy. 4, a.p. 461), is entered under the previous year.

*Bishop.—Pontipex, B.; om. in A.

Sannorp, A.

” Crimthann.—This entry is added in A., in a very old hand. In B. it appears in the hand of the transcriber of that MS. See under 458. The Crimthann here referred to was the son of Enna Ceinnselach, whom he succeeded as king of S.E. Leinster, about the year 444. His residence was at Rathvilly, in the N.E. of the present county of Carlow, which gives name toa parish and barony. In the Irish notes in the Book of Armagh (fol. 18aa), St. Patrick is stated to have visited Crimthann at Rathvilly: Luro 1appuroiu cu Cprimthan mac n-Eno1 ceinnpeuuch, et ipre cpe- orvit ucc pith bilich. “He (St.

[458.]

[459.]

[460.]

[461.1

Fol. 17a.

ocnNocloc uLocon.

fet. tenaip. (2 p, %. 15.) Onno vomini ccce.? Le.” 1° (im. dc. Leu.) Mopp Lackarpe pil Neill oc Sreomams Oaphit (aliap oc Fpeallers Sarpil, fop cach Eapre, in campo Lips) exip in va énoe 1. Erpit 7 CClbu a n-anmanoa. Sumad a paca pe Laémb spran

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7 Baes popmhapbypa.

Ict. tencip. 111.° (1111. DC. Loti). Necés.

fet. tenap. (4 p, L 7)

(3° p., L. 26.5) Onno vomini cece.? La.° Imecium pesni ilella mule mic

Onno vomini ccce.® Lx.

1111.° (1101. Dc. Leu.) Ppimum bellum Cppoa copann pia Laism&. CCngli uenepuns in CCngliam. fet. tenap. (6 p, UL. 18.) Cnno vomim ccce.? Le’

ths

Nitlapiup epipcopuy Romane aecleye mopcuur ers,

qui popedit catheopam Pet .u1. annp es menpbup

11. eG DIebUL .x.

annip .x1. menpe 1. Diebuyp . .

TUUL ee.

Sempliciur opoinacup, qui pedit

E€osan mac Neill mop-

Patrick) went after that to Crimthan son of Enda Ceinnselach, and he believed at Rath-bilich.” Crimthan was a strenuous assertor of Lagenian independence, and won many battles in defence thereof, which are enumer- ated by Dubtach Ua Lugair, in his eulogistic poems on the triumphs of Crimthan, some of which have been published, from the Book of Leinster, by O’Curry (Lectures, §c., pp. 484- 494).

1 Alias.—The alias reading in A., put here in parenthesis, and which is in an old hand, agrees substan- tially with the text of B. The name of the place where Laeghaire met his death is variously written in different authorities. But the oldest form of the name seems to be Gredlach Daphil, as appears from the reference to

Laeghaire’s death in Leb. na hUidre, 118. The Four Masters (458) say that the place of Laeghaire’s death was in Ui-Faelain, i.e. the northern part of the co. Kildare. In the Borama Tract (Book of Leinster, 299d), it is stated that Laeghaire was killed by the elements (earth, sun, and wind), by which he had pledged himself two and a half years before (supra, 458), not again to exact the tribute called bérama (or “cow tribute”). But he came, and seized cows at Sidh-Nechtain (Carbury Hill, co. Kildare, at the foot of which is the source of the River Boyne), and met his fate on the side of Caiss, between the two hills called Eriu and Alba (supposed to be the present Hill of Dunmurry, and Hill of Allen).

2 Ailill Molt. — The cognomen

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Kal. Jan. (Mond., m. 15). A.D. 462 (4666). Death of Laeghaire, son of Niall, at Greomach-daphil (alias' at Greallach-gaifil, on the side of Caiss, in Magh-Lifé), between the two hills, viz., Eiriu and Alba their names. May be it was his guarantees to the Leinstermen, the Sun and Wind, that killed him.

Kal. Jan. (Tuesd., m. 26.) A.D. 463 (4667). Com- mencement of the reign of Ailill Molt,’ son of Nathi.

Kal. Jan. (Wedn.,m.7.) A.D. 464 (4668). First battle of Ard-Corann’ by Leinstermen. The Angles’ came into England.

Kal. Jan. (Frid.,m.18.) A.D. 465. Hilary, bishop of the Church of Rome, died, who occupied the chair of Peter 6 years,‘ and 3 months, and 10 days. Simplicius was ordained, who sat 12 years,,1 month and. . days.

Kogan’ son of Niall died.

molt, a “ wether,” is Latinized verve- cinus by O'Flaherty. Ogygia, p. 429. He was son of Nathi (an. 445 supra), whom he succeeded as provincial king of Connaught. From his brother Fiachra descended the Ui-Fiachrach of Connaught. O’Flaherty gives 463 as the date of his accession, and 20 years as the length of his reign. See for Ailill’s death ann. 482, 483 infra. Dr. O’Conor absurdly renders molt by “laudabilis” ; Tigh. 463.

3 Ard-Corann.—This place is again mentioned as battle-ground at 506, 507, 510 and 626. In the Ann, Inisfallen the battle here recorded is mentioned under 467; but the Four Mast. omit all the foregoing entries except the last, having probably thought that Ard-Corann was a place in Scotland, and, as such, foreign to their scope. From the mention of Leinstermen in the foregoing entry,

however, it must be presumed that the place of the battle was in Ireland.

3 (a) Angles. — Marianus Scotus places their arrival at 450. In the Saxon chronicle the date is 449.

, Ussher assigns 450.

4 6 Years.—B. reads, erroneously, “7.” See an. 461 supra. Hilary’s death is placed here three years too soon. He died Feb. 21, 468.

5 Years. — The length of the pontificate of Simplicius is given in B. as “ ten years, two months, and one day,” which is also wrong, as the real duration was 15 years and 6 days, Simplicius having been ordained 25th Feb., 468. The beginning of the Pontificate of his successor, Felix, is entered infra, under the year 481.

® Kogan, i.e, Eogan son of Niall Nine- hostager, from whom the power- ful sept of the Cinel-Eogain (or Cinel- Owen) derived their name and lineage.

c462.] C So. 460 We yaks

[463.]

[464.]

[465.]

Fol. 17ba

22 ccnnoclec ulecoh.

fet. lenaap. (7 p, L 29.) Onno vomin cece.° Lx. m.° Rauennam cititacem ceppemotup DeTEppUt. Domanganst mac Nips ques.

Ict. lenaip. (1. p, L. 10.) Onno vomini ccce-° Le.° un° fuer Oenignr epipcopr (pucceppoprp Pacprctt). Cena Tempa La hOiuill mots (mac Oakes mic Liaépaé mic Eataé murdemhoin). Sic in Libpo Cuanaé inuen.

Dap Uncen penopasen pexip Clnglie, cur puccepy1t

mliup puup «a. Cingh Cipcup 1. do oppoas an bopo cpfuin |.

}ct. tenap. (2 p, L 21.) Onno vomini ccce.® tx wn. Ippepninup epipcopur mopitup. bellum Oumar achip 4. pop Oiill mols, peut inuens 1n Uibpo Cuanac.

fet. tenorp. (4 4, L. 2.) Onno vomin1 cece.’ Lx. 12° No feip Teampa La hOCilill mole hoc anno pecunoum alior.

fet. tenaap. (5 p, t. 13.) CCnno vomini cece.’ Lex.’ Leip Tempra La CiUitl mole, ut alu dicunt.

Ict. lenaip. (6% p., L. 24.) Onno vomini ccce.° Lax.° 1° =Ppeva pecunoa Saxonum ve Nibepnia, uc ali DICUNT, 1N 1fTO anno DEDdUCTa eft, tT Maucceup (4. Motcae) dic1t. Sic 1n Libpo Cuanaé inuent.

kct. lenaip. Onno vomimi cece.’ Lax.’ 11.°

Ict. lenaip. Onno vomini ccce.® Law? 111.° Leo renion impepnacop, Leone 1uniope a pe 14am ceppape conptiTuTo mopbo pepiiz, Tam pt impepn anmp quam hurup Leomp

co)

1Jn A. the day of the week on which the IJst of January fell is omitted; and the age of the moon is given as 20, in place of 29, as in B., in which the Ist of January is stated to have fallen on a Saturday.

2? Domangart.— This entry (from B.), not found in either the older and better copy (A.), nor in the so-called ‘translation’ in the MS. Clar. 49, (Brit. Museum), is probably the re- sult of a great prolepsis, as there

appears to have been no ecclesiastic of the name of Domangart Mac Nisi at such an early period. The term cuieurcs used by the Annalist, in recording the death of Domangart, indicates that he regarded the deceased as an ecclesiastic. The demise of a Domangart Mac Nisi is given by the Four M. under A.p. 462; in the Chron. Scotorum under A.p, 464 (=462), and in the Ann. Inisfall. at 495 in O'Conor’s ed. (=464). The

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Kal. Jan. (Saturd., m. 29.)' A.D. 466. An earthquake frightened the city of Ravenna, Domangart’ Mac Nisi rested.

Kal. Jan. (Sund.,m.10.) a.D. 467. Rest of Benignus, the bishop, successor® of Patrick. The Feast of Tara held by Ailill Molt (son‘ of Dathi, son of Fiachra, son of Eochaid Muidhemhoin). So I find in the Book of Cuana. Death’ of Uter Pendragon, King of England, to whom succeeded his son, %.e. King Arthur, 7.e. who ordained the Round Table.

Kal. Jan. (Mond.,m. 21.) A.D. 468. Iserninus, bishop, dies. The battle of Duma-achir, 4.e. over Ailill Molt, as I find in the Book of Cuana.

Kal. Jan. (Wedn., m. 2.) A.D. 469. Or, the Feast of Tara by Ailill Molt this year, according to others.

Kal. Jan. (Thursd., m. 13.) a.v. 470. The Feast® of Tara was held by Ailill Molt, as others state.

Kal. Jan. (Frid., m. 24.) A.D.471. The second prey’ of the Saxons from Ireland, as some say, was carried off in this year, as Maucteus’ (i.e. Mochtae) states. So I find in the Book of Cuana.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 472.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 473. The Emperor Leo the Elder was carried off by disease, Leo the Younger having been pre- viously created Ceesar by him. Leo the Younger, who was

ANNALS OF ULSTER.

entry is in B. only, and in a more recent hand.

person intended may have been Dom- angart, 8rd king of Dalriada in Scot-

land, son of Fergus Mér. See Reeves’s Adamnan, pp. 484, and the Genea- logical Table accompanying. See also note at A.p. 506.

8 Successor of Patrick.—This clause is only in B. A marg. note in A., in an old hand, adds that Benignus was bishop of Armagh.

4 Son of Dathi, &c.—The geneal. particulars here given from A. are not in B.

5 Death, &c.--The original of this

6 Feast.--The author of the so- called ‘translation’ of the Ann. Ult. in Clar. 49, renders perp by ‘‘ another feast”!

7 Second prey. — The first prey taken by the Saxons from (or in) Ireland, is recorded above under A.D. 434, where see note.

8 Maucteus. —- Mocteus, B. See note under A.D. 511, referring to the so-called ‘* Book of the Monks.”

[466.]

[467.]

[468]

[469.]

[470.]

[471.]

[472.] [473.]

24 ocnnocloc ulocoh.

pesni menpbup computacip anno x.° u.°, menpe u1.° zenonem Leo ‘union 1DEMmquUE impepacopn Piluup ppin- cipem conpuitiit. Curep Docc epipcop1 pancti Dpi- tonum abbazp- Oopnsal Bri Eile fon Lorgnia pra

nOCiuill mote.

Ict. lenaip. CCnno vomim cece.” Lax? 1111.° Uel hic cat Ouman achip pop Oilill mols pra Lorgnib.

Ict. lenap. (4 p,l. 9.) Onno vomini cccc.? Law. ue (im. oc. Lew.) bellum (aliap vopnogal) bpes h-EGile pe n-Qilill mole ror Lagmu. Sic in Libpo

Cuanaé inuent.

}et. Genaap. 5 pL. 20.) Onno vomini ccce.° Lex.’ t1.° (1111. 0c. Lexa.) Cat Outhan Leip pop Cilill mole pra

Lars.

fet. tenaip. CCnno vomin1 cece.° Lax.’ us.” Mopp Tocco

mic Leda pesip Cucalann.

ich lenaip. Onno vomini ccce.® Lax.’ 0111.°

bpes h-Erle. fet. tanap. (3 p., L)

bellum

Cnno vomini ccce.° Lax.® 12%.°

Ict. tancip. Onno vomini cece.’ Lexx.” Mop Conall

Cpemtainne mic Neill.

fet. tanaip. (5p, L. 15.) Onno vomini cece.’ Loewe.’ 1.°

117th year and 6th month.—B. has anno x.° 0111.9, menre 1.°, although O’Conor prints anno x.° u111.°, menre u.° (18th year and 5th month). But the date is not accurate in either MS. Leo I. was crowned February 7, 457. He died in January, 474 ; so that his reign wanted but a month of 17 years. His daughter, Ariadne, was married to Zeno, and their son Leo was born in 458. His grandfather, the year before his death, appointed him his successor. He died in Novem- ber, 474, at 17, in the eleventh month of his sole reign. At the instance of his mother, and of his grand- mother Verina, Leo II. associated

with him in the throne his father, Zeno, whom his own father-in-law had passed over on account of his vices and deformity. This entry seems to have been borrowed from the Chronicle of Marcellinus, where the computation above given is *‘ tam sui imperii annis quam Leonis Junioris regni mensibus computatis, anno xvii., mense v.”

? Doccus.—The only individual of this name whom we meet with in British Ecclesiastical History is the Docus who is set down in an ancient authority, cited by Ussher, as the contemporary of David and Gildas, and a preceptor of the Second Order

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also Emperor, and son to Zeno, creates him Prince in the 17th year dnd 6th month,' reckoning as well the years of the former, as the months of the latter, Leo’s, reign. Rest of the holy bishop Doccus,? Abbot of the Britons. The ‘fist-fight’* of Bri-Eile over the Leinstermen, by

Ailill Molt. P Kal. Jan. A.D. 474. Or, in this year‘ the battle of [474.] ; Duma-Achir was gained over Ailill Molt by Leinstermen. Kal. Jan. (Wedn., m.9.) A.D. 475 (4679). The battle [475.] (otherwise ‘fist-fight’) of Bri-Eile gained by Ailill Molt over Leinstermen. So I find in the Book of Cuana. Kal. (Jan. Thursd., m. 20), A.D. 476 (4680). Thebattle [476] of Duma-Achir gained over Ailill Molt by Leinstermen. Kal. Jan. ap. 477. Death of Tocca, son of Aedh, [477.] King of Cualand., Kal. Jan. A.D. 478. Battle of Bri-Eile. [478.] Kal. Jan. (Tuesd., m.) A.D. 479. . £479.] Kal. Jan. A.D, 480. Death of Conall Cremthainn’ son [480.] of Niall. Kal. Jan. (Thursd., m. 15). A.p. 481 (4685). Rest of [481.]

of Irish Saints (Brit. Eccl. Ant., c. 17; Works vi., p. 478), and who is men- tioned in the Life of St. Cainnech as the abbot under whom he studied in Britain (¢., p. 520). This Docus is commonly called Cadocus, and is known in Welsh hagiology as Cuttwg Ddoeth, “ Cadoc the Wise.” He was abbot of-Llancarvan, and flourished about a.p. 500. The entry of his death, above given, would therefore be too late, and may be regarded as out of its place. But see Shearman’s Loca Patriciana (Dublin, 1879), pp. 223-5, where the learned author states that Cadoc, the preceptor of St. Cainnech (or Canice) was the nephew of Doceus whose obit is given above.

* Fist~fight.~"Dopngat. O'Donovan

translates this “ boxing-battle,” and regards it as “ nothing more than a boxing match between the pugilistic champions of Leinster and Meath.” (Four Mast., A.p. 468, note”). In the so-called Translation in Clar. 49, it is described as “the handie skir- mish.” It seems to be the same as the conflict designated by the term bellum in these Annals, under the years 475 and 478.

4 Or, in this year.—Uet hic, B. Not in A.

5 Cremthainn. — Cramthainne (in the genit. form), A. More usually written Crimthainne, in the genit. case; nom. Crimthainn; although it is Cremthainne in the Book of Leinster (p. 246.)

26 ccnnccloc ulecoh.

(111, 0c. Loexeu.) Omer laplat: mic Tpena cept epipcop: Cpomacar. Romane eclepre Pela axal.wrr epipcopup opoinacup, mais anmp an. uel an. Ob mici1o Mund! 1uaTa .Lew. intTepppetep U. DECC. Lawxie. Secunoum Nebpeor ausem 1111. oc. Lexxu. Ob incapna- cione pecunoum Nebpeop occ. axa. Secunoum Oyomypium uepo cece. Lexa.

}ct. tancap. Onno vomini ccce.° Laxe.’? 11.° bellum Oche 1n quo cecidic Oilill mols .1. la Lugar mac Laesaipe 7 la Mmpcheptach mac Epca. CC Concobpo filio Nepae upque ao Copmac prlium Cpt anni ccc. win. OC Copmac upque hoc bellum c. xu1., ut Cuana Popipye.

Ict. lanaip. Onno vomini cece.® Laan? 11.° 1ugula- aio Chpaumthain mic Enna Ceinnpeloars mic Dpeapoat belaé mic Liata barcceada mic Cataip mhoip, pesip Lasen. (UeLin hoc anno cat Ocha pecunoum alior, La Lugaro 7 La Muipcheptaé mac Eapca 7 La Lepsur Cepball mac Conall cnemtainn, 7 La Liacpa Lon mac

ms Sal Oparde).

1 Third.—-Jarlathi, son of Trian, is set down in the Book of Leinster List of St. Patrick’s successors at Armagh (p. £2, col. 3), as the fourth in order ; and is said to have been from Cluain- fiacla (Clonfeakle, co. Tyrone); but under the reigns of the “ Kings after the Faith” in the same MS. (p. 246), Iarlathi is described as “ third Bishop.”

2 Felix. — Felix III., consecrated on Sunday, March 6, 483; died 24 February, 492. His Pontificate there- fore lasted only 8 years, 11 months, and 18 days; and not 12 years, or 13, as in the text.

3 From the beginning, &c.—The re- maining entries for this year, which ap- pear in an old hand in A, are not in B.

+ Ocha.—The date above given for this battle (which was fought in Meath, as stated in the Life of St. Kieran, and near Tara, as Animosas asserts in his Life of Si. Brigid (Colgan’s Trias Thaum., p. 5516, and notes 9 and 10, p. 565), seems to be a year too soon, the correct date being 483, under which it is also entered. The battle of Ocha forms an important era in Irish history, many events recorded in the Irish Chronicles being dated from it. See the Annals of the Four Masters, at A.D. 478, where the particulars of the battle are more fully detailed, and O’Donovan’s notes on the subject.

5116. This calculation must surely be wrong. The death of Cormac

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Tarlathi, son of Trian, third’ bishop of Armagh. Felix,’ ordained 46th bishop of the church of Rome, lived twelve years, or thirteen. From’® the beginning of the world, according to the Seventy Interpreters, 5879 years ; but according to the Hebrews, 4685. From the Incarnation, according to the Hebrews, 734 years; but according to Dionysius, 481.

Kal. Jan. ap. 482. The battle of Ocha,‘ in which Ailill Molt fell, was gained by Lugaid, son of Laegaire, and by Muirchertach Mac Erca. From Concobhar Mac Nesa to Cormac Mac Airt, 308 years. From Cormac to this battle, 116,° as Cuana bas written.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 483. The killing of Grntienne” son of Enna Cennselach, (son of Breasal ppblect son of Fiacha Baicceadha, son of Cathair-médr), King of Leinster. (Or in this year, according to others, the battle of Ocha was gaimed by Lugaid, and by Muirchertach Mac Erca, and by Fergus Cerbhall, son of Conall Crimthainn, and by

Fiachra Lon,’ son of the king of Dal-Araidhe.*)

Mac Airt is entered in the Annals of the Four Masters under A.p. 266. O'Flaherty, however (Ogygia, p. 341), places the accession of his son and successor, Cairbre Lifechair, in A.p. 279, the year, it is to be assumed, of King Cormac’s death. The addition of 116 years to this number would, according to this calculation, give A.D. 395 as the date of the battle of Ocha, which is unquestionably wrong.

The Chronicon Scotorum, which gives the battle of Ocha under A.p. 482,

states that 207 years intervened be- tween the time of Cormac Mac Airt and the said battle. The MS. Clar.

49, has ‘A Cormac usque ad hoc bellum 206, ut Cuana scripsit.” This would be more near the mark.

® Crimthann. — Corruptly written Chraumthain in A., and Chraeumthain in B.

7 Fiachra Lon, or ‘‘Fiachra the Fierce.”—In O’Conor’s ed. of these Annals the name is printed ‘‘ Fiachra Aon.” The Four Mast. (A.v. 478 erroneously call him son of Laeghaire, as he was really son of Caelbad. See Reeves’s Eccl. Antig., pp. 830, 339.

8 Dal-Araidhe.—A large district, in- cluding the southern half of the county of Antrim, and the northern half of Down. In O’Conor’s ed. of these Annals, the name is inaccurately printed Dalriada. For a full account of Dal-Araidhe, see Reeves’s Eccl, Antig., pp. 834-348,

[482.]

[483.]

Fol. 18a.

28 cctitsocLec uLocoh.

Ict. lanaip. (p, tL) Onno vomini cece. Lara? 1111.° Inicrum pesmi Lugoech mic Laegarpe hoc anno.

Hct. tancaip. (p, L.) Onno vomini ccce.? Law. u° bellum primum Spanaepaod; Coipppr mac Neill .r2. Srallars uictop epac, in quo cecroit Lincac. Uel pliur Epce wictop ut alin vicunt. Uel hic sun Cremtaind

mic Enna Cheinnpealars.

}Ct. lanaap. (5 ¢.,l.21.) Onno vomini ccce.° Laxe.°

te)

ul.

Uel hoc anno ppimum bellum Spaine in quo

Muipcheantaé mac Eapca wicton epac.

ick lanaip. (6 p., L 2.) 111.° OCpoo aéut.

Qnno vomini ccce.° Laewe.°

(4111. Dc. xe.) Cfuer panct: Merl eprpcops in

Ict. tanaip. 4. p, L138.) CCnno vomini cece.’ Laww.”

ui11.2 (4911. DC. C111).

(mer panct: Crannains ct

ranctup Pacpiciup evuansgelium Lapgituyr ert.

Hct. tonaip.

i (it<.0e:. Leni.)

(2 p., L. 24°) Onno vomini cccc.° Lae. Quer Mic Caitle epipcopr.

bellum Cinn Lopnado (no Ceall Lopnas 1 mars fea), ub cecidit Oensup prliup Naoppaé pr Mugsan, us

Cuana pepupye. Ict. lanaip.

(3 p, L. 5.) Onno vomini cece.’ xe.

(1111. Dc. wcu.) Zeno Clusguycup wica Deceppiet tam put

" Commencement. — This entry is written in pale ink in A., in the hand of the person who has made most of the additional entries in that MS.

2 Granaerad.—The name of this place is differently written in some Chronicles. The Four Masters give the name (in the genit. form) Granaird, which in the nom. would be ‘Granard,’ and would be some- what like the form above given. But under the very next year (486) the name is written ‘ Graine,’ as in the Chron. Scotorum (484), Annals of Clonmacnoise (at 497), and in Keating. The version of these Annals in Clar.

49 has ‘Granard.’ At 494 (infra) these Annals further vary the ortho- graphy by giving ‘Granairet.” The place is now called Graney, and is situated in the south of the county of Kildare.

3 Or, in this year.—Uet hic, B. Not in A.

4 Graine.—The entry of this event is not fully given in B., which does not refer to the victory of Muircher- tach Mac Erca.

5 Mel.—First bishop of Ardagh, in the county of Longford; said to have been Patrick’s nephew. Some call hima Briton. His foreign extraction

+o Oe eee aay ay =.

fa ee a Re

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Kal. Jan. A.D. 484. The commencement' of the reign of Lugaidh son of Laeghaire, in this year.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 485.

Coirpre, son of Niall-Noighiallach, was victor.

The first battle of Granaerad.*

In it fell

Fincath. Or Mae Frea was victor, as others say. Or, in this year, the killing of Crimthann son of Enna

Ceinnselach.

Kal. Jan. (Thursd., m. 21.) A.D. 486,

Or, in this

year, the first battle of Graine,’ wherein Muirchertach

Mac Ereca was victor. Kal. Jan. (Frid., m. 2.)

A.D. 487 (4692). Rest of

_ Saint Mel,’ the bishop, in Ardagh. Kal. Jan. (Sund., m. 13.) A.D. 488 (4693).

Rest of

Saint Cianan,’ to whom Saint Patrick presented the

Gospel.

Kal. Jan. (Mond., m. 24.) A.D. 489 (4694).

Rest of

Mac Caille,’ the bishop. Battle of Cenn-losnado (or Cell- losnaigh,? in Magh-Fea), in which fell Aengus son of Nadfraech, King of Munster, as Cuana has written.

Kal. Jan. (Tuesd., m. 5.) A.D. 490 (4695).

Zeno?

Augustus departed this life, in the 17th year and 6th

might account for the absence of his pedigree from the ancient lists. ®Cianan.— The founder of the church in East Meath which was called, par ewcellence, ‘ Daim-liag,’ or the ‘Stone-church.’ Saint Cianan was tenth in descent from Cian, son of Oilill Oluim, King of Munster (ob. 234, Four Mast.), who gave name to the various tribes of Cianachta. 7Mac Caille.— After the name Mac Caille in B., and Clar. 49, the word ‘“ Mannensis” has been added. But this is an idle gloss, as it con- founds two persons who were quite distinct. St. Patrick is stated to have converted an unbeliever in Magh-inis (or Lecalé, co. Down), called Macal

dus, Mac Cuil, or Mac Fail, who after- wards became bishop of Man. (See Trias Thaum., p. 16; and Book of Armagh, fol. 6.) The Mac Caille whose obit. is above given was a totally different individual, being the saint commemorated in the Calendar, at April 25th, as the bishop who placed the veil on the head of St. Brigid, and whose church was at Cruachan-Brig- Eile, in Ui-Failge (i.e. near the well-known Hill of Croghan).

8 Or Cell-Losnaigh, &c.—The alias reading is not in B. See note under A.D, 491.

9 Zeno.—This entry is taken from Marcellinus; but a clause necessary to the sense is omitted here. The

[484.]

[485.]

[486. }

[487. |

[488.]

[489.]

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Impepni anmp computacip anno xui1.° menpe pexso. ni ex menper et rex menrer Mapciani aoouns annum quem non numepans cponica. Cnarpcapmup impepacop cpeacur ert. (Uel hic cat cell opnaio, pecunoum aliop. Mac Eapca wictopn, pee Corpil wiccup).

fet. lancip. (4° p, L. 16.) CCnno vomim ecce.® ae.” 1° (nn. ‘dc. xc). “Orcunt peoit: he pacpicrum apchiepipcopum vepunctum (pope).

fet. tanaip. (6" p., L. 27.") CCnno vomini cece.’ we. 112 Gite DE: Wet.) bellum ~rota. Romane eclepiae alun4p Salapup epipcopuy opoinacup annip was 111. Dellum pecunoum Spanaipes. pacprciup apchipor- colur (uel apchiepopcopupr et aporctoLlup) pcotopum quiet c.mo xx.° anno ecacip pue, 16 }ct. Cppilip, Lo.° cuitem quo uent ao Nibepmam anno ad baptipoandop Scotoy. Mb inicio mundi pecunoum .lee. intepppe- cep u. dcecce. elur. 1uaca autem Nebpeor m1. de. weut. (Cb incapnacione 1uxTa Nebpeor occ. alu. Ob incap- nacione recunoum “Oroniyprum cece [ac].

fet. tancap. (7* p., L. 9") Onno vomin ccce.° we.° 11. Cach Taillcen por Laréniu pia Coipppr mac Neilt.

fet. Jancip. G. p, UL. 20.4) CCnno vomim cece.’ we.” wn° Dellum pectindum Srancapes in quo cecro1t

original is “tam sui imperii annis quam Basilisci tyrannidis computatis, anno XVII., mense vi.” He reigned from Feb., 474, to 9th April, 491. This includes the period of Basiliscus’ usurpation, who, in the third year of Zeno, by Verina’s instrumentality, drove the Emperor into Isauria, and took possession of the throne, creating his son Marcus Cesar. But he was dethroned by Zeno in August, 477, after a 20 months’ usurpation.

1 Anastasius.--Crowned April 11, 491, These Annals are, therefore, only a year behind the common reckoning at this period.

* Cell-osnaid. — This is also the form of the name in ‘Tigernach and Keating. The Annal. Inisfall., at 484, have Cend-losnai. In the entry above for last year (489) the place is called ‘ Cenn-losnada,’ or ‘Cell-losnaigh,’ and is stated to have been in Magh-Fea, Keating says that Cell-osnaid was situated in the county of Carlow, four miles to the east of Leighlin. It is now called Kellistown, and gives name to a parish chiefly comprised in the barony of Carlow. Dr. O’Donovan states that 50 years ago the remains of an ancient church and Round Tower were

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‘month, the years as well of his reign [as of the tyrant

Basiliseus] being computed These 6 months, and 6 months of Marcian, add a year which the chronicles do not count. Anastasius’ is created Emperor. (Or, in this year, the battle of Cell-osnaidh,’ according to* others ; Mac Erca was victor ; the King of Cashel vanquished.) Kal. Jan. (Wedn., m. 16.) A.D. 491 (4696). The Scoti say that Patrick, the Archbishop, died this year.* Kal, Jan. (Frid., m. 27.) A.D. 492 (4697). Battle of Sruth.t Gelasius having been ordained 47th bishop of the Church of Rome, lived 3 years. Second battle of Granairet.5 Patrick, the arch-apostle® (or archbishop and apostle) of the Scoti, rested on the 16th of the Kalends of April, in the 120th year of his age, and also the 60th year after he had come to Ireland to baptize the Scoti. From’ the beginning of the World, according to the Lxx. Interpreters, 5946, but according to the Hebrews, 4697. From the Incarnation, according to the Hebrews, 746. From the Incarnation, according to Dionysius, cece [xcii]. Kal. Jan. (Saturd.,m. 9.) A.D. 493. The battle of Tailltiu was gained over the Leinstermen, by Cairpri, son of Niall. Kal. Jan. (Sund., m. 20.) A.D. 494. The second battle of Granairet, in which fell® Fraech, the son of

still existing, which are now all 5 Granairet.—-See note under A.D. effaced. (Fowr Mast.,a.p. 489, note). | 485, respecting this place. The site of the Round Tower, how- *Arch-apostle.—OCpchipopcouur.

ever, is marked on Sheet 8, Ordnance | The altered reading uet apchiepiy- Survey Maps, co. Carlow. The entry | copup et aporcotur is interlined is added in a very coarse hand in A. | jn the old hand in A. Opchepiy-

* This year.---This entry seems to | copur in B., without the aportotuy- be antedated by two years.

4 Sruth—Spota, in the gen. case. Tigernach calls it ‘“ Srath ;” but the Annal. Inisfall. (485) have the entry ® Granairet.— See above, under more fully, thus:—‘The battle of 485, note?, B. commences the entry Srath-Conaill, in which fell Fiacha, | With a “Vel hic.”

7 From.—The remaining entries for this year are not in B.

son of Finchad, King of Leinster, and ® Fell,--Cecvoit, B. Cecroro, A. ©

Eochu, son of Cairpre, was victor.”

[491.]

[492.]

[493.]

[494.]

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32 oct tt ocLoc ulocoh.

Lpacé mac Linchaoa (mic Fappchon mic fotms mic Eachach Lathdo10 mic theippeancopd) pa Langen. Eotu mliup Coipppr (4. Gochu mac Caipbpi mic Orlella mic Sunluins mic Enna niad) uictop pure.

Ict. tancip. (2,01) OCnno vomini cece.’ xe® u°. Solip verectur appapwic. Cuep Mic Cuilinn Cpip- cop: Lupcan. Cxpugnacio Ouin Lecélapp. Uel hic cat Talzen.

fet. Jancip. (4° p, L. 12%) Onno vomini cece’. ac°®. m°. Romane eclepre al.uinr Cnapcapup pontipen opoinatup mas anny otobup. Mocoer n-Oenopoma quieuic.. Copmacci epipcop: WCpomacha hepeoip Pac- pice quer. Uel hic bellum rpecunoum Spane, in quo cecidit Lpaech mac Linnchava ps Largean vepsabaip Eachu mac Caipbpr tictop pure.

fet. tancip. (5 p., L. 23). Onno vomini cece” ae’. une. Uel hic expugnacio Ouin Letslapre. bellum Innt moen 1.cmé oa n-Sabla pop Largniu. Mupceptac a.piluup Epce wiccop epac. Noc anno ingenp ceppe- motuyp ponticam concurs prouinciam. Cfurep Chuin- neda me Catrhoga, 4. Mac Curlinn eppcop Lursa.

Ict. lanaip. (6° p, L 4) Onno vomim cccc® xc° wn. Romane eclepre al. 12°F Simacup epipcopur factup, maxes anmp .xu. bellum in quo mac Eipce uictop epac. Dellum Slethna Mide pra Campbpe mac Neill pop Largniu. el hic Mogoe ndaenopoma recunoum Libpum calium.

1 Son.—-This parenthetic addn. is in an old handin A. Om. in B.

2Eochu.-—The orig. of the paren- thesis here is om. in B.

3 Cormac.——In the margin in A. he is called Eppcop Copmac Cyué inno

Epnarde (“ Bishop Cormac of Crich-.

in-Ernaidhe.”) See O’Donoy. Four Mast., A.D., 496, note k.

4 Grane.--Granairet, in B. See above, under 485, note®. The text

from this to the end of the entries for this year is wanting in B.

5 Or, in this year.—Uedt tue, in B. only.

6 Dun-lethglaissi. -- Downpatrick. See under 495.

7 Crich-ua-nGabla.—O’Conor’s ed. has Crich Congabhia. But the ver- sion in Clar. 49 has ‘O’Gawla’s Country.” It was the name of a territory in the south of the present

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Finchad (son! of Garrchu, son of Fothadh, son of Eochu Lamhdoid, son of Messincorb), King of Leinster. Eochu, son of Cairpri (%.¢., Eochu,? son of Cairpri, son of Ailill, son of Dunlang, son of Enna Niadh) was victor.

Kal. Jan. (Mond. m. 1.) A.D. 495. An eclipse of the sun appeared. Rest of Mac Cuilinn, bishop of Lusk. The storming of Dun-lethglaissi. Or, in this year, the battle of Tailltiu.

Kal. Jan. (Wedn., m. 12.) AD. 496. Anastasius having been ordained 48th bishop of the Church of Rome, lived two years. Mochoe of Oendruim rested. The rest of Cormac,’ bishop of Armagh, successor of Patrick. Or, in this year, the second battle of Grane,‘ in which fell Fraech, son of Finnchad, King of Laighen- desgabhair. Eochu, son of Cairpri, was victor.

Kal. Jan. Thursd., m. 23.) A.D. 497. Or, in this year,’ the storming of Dun-lethglaissi.® The battle of Inne-mor in Crich-ua-nGabla’ was gained over the Leinstermen. Muirchertach, 7.e., Mac Erca, was victor. In this year a great earthquake shook® the province of Pontus. The rest of Cuinnidh (son of Cathmugh, 2.e., Mac Cuilinn,)® bishop of Lusk.

Kal. Jan. (Frid., m. 4.) A.D. 498. Simacus,” ordained 49th bishop of the Church of Rome, lived 15 years. A battle" in which the son of Erc was victor. The battle of Slemhain” of Meath was gained by Cairbre, son of Niall], over the Leinstermen. Or, in this year,* Mochoe of Aendruim [rested], according to another book.

county of Kildare, See O’Donovan’s Four Mast., A.D. 497, note 1.

* Shook.—Concluyyic (for con- curyit), A. B.

*Mac Cuilinn.— The origl. of this parenthesis is not in B.

10 Simacus.--Symmachus,a Sardian, was ordained Pope on Sunday, Nov. 22,498. He sat till July 19, 514, that is, for 15 years, 7 months, and

27 days. The length of his Pontifi- cate is given as 12 years in B.

1 Battle.—This entry is not in B. Neither is there any indication in A as to where the battle was fought.

2 Slemhain. — Now divided into Slanebeg and Slanemore, two town- lands in the parish of Dysart, co. Westmeath.

138 This year.—This entry is not in

D

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fet. tanaip. (7 fp, L 15.) CCnno vomin1 cece.’ xc. 10° Dellum. Quer 1buip epipcopr .r2. Ict. Maa.

fet. tanaip. (2 p, L. 26%) Onno vomin1 cecce.me, Mupcepcaé wcctop fut, es mop epipcopr 1baip 10. fet. man. On Soipgel noé 5 00 pormb Mata puroipgel oa Larnaid pein, 7 cape Bapnabay, o pasbarl hoc anno. Caé &ind calbe pop Laéniu pra Campbpr mac Neill.

}ct. tancap. (3° p, UL 7*) Onno vomim1 eccce.me 4.° bellum resaipre in quo cecidit “Oaut (no Ouaé) tinga uthar 4. pr Connacht. Muipceptac mac Capca wiccop . pLuit.

|ct. lanaip. (4° 7. L. 18.) Onno vomini ccccc.? 11.° Coté bpoma Lochthurse pra Lagmu pop hub Nett

kct.tanap. (5 pl. 29%) Onno vomim cccce.mo 411.° Ceppan moptuur ert, epipcopup o rept: Cheppain oc

Temup. Oellum thanann La hCedan. epipcop: 1baip.

fect. Jancap. Onno vomin Dpuro1 mic Marléon.

Uel hic mopr

ecece.mo 1111.2 [Mopr

Ict. lanaip. Onno vomini ccecce.™ u.? Cer Eppurc

Mic Carpcthinn cloéaip.

B. ‘The death of Mochoe of Aen- druim (or Nendrum: Mahee Island, in Strangford Lough, co. Down), is entered before under the year 496, at which date his obit is also given by the Four Masters. See Reeves’s Antig. of Down and Connor, 187, sq.

1 Battle. —This entry is left un- finished in A. and B.

2 Victor.—It is to be feared that there is some confusion here, and that the battle mentioned in the last entry, the site of which is not there specified, was the one in which the victory was obtained, here credited to Muircher- tach. But Clar. 49 says M. was victor “ toto anno.”

3 Found this yea.—Bede’s Chroni-

con says :—‘ Corpus Barnabe apos- toli, et Evangelium Matthei ejus stylo scriptum ipse revelante, reperi- tur.” The entries for this year in B., though substantially the same as in A., differ slightly in arrangement.

* Cend-Ailbhe.—O’Conor’s ed. of Ann. Ult. incorrectly has Cnoc-Ailbhe. O’Donovan (Four Mast., 494, note g) conjectures that Cenn-Ailbhe was probably the name of a hill in Magh- Ailbhe, in the south of the co. Kildare,

° Segais.—Pronounced like shayish. It was the old name of the Curlieu Hills, near Boyle, county Roscommon.

®° Or Duach.—Daui (or Dui seems to be the nomin. form of the name, gen., Duach. The epithet tenga-umha

fed

= nS Tle

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35

Kal. Jan. (Saturd., m. 15.) a.p. 499. Battle. Rest

of Bishop [bar on the 9th of the Kalends of May.

Kal. Jan. (Mond, m.26.) A.D.500. Muirchertach was victor,? and death of Bishop Ibar on the 9th of the Kalends of May. The Gospel which St. Matthew Evan-

_ gelist wrote with his own hands, and the relics of

Barnabas, were found this year.’ The battle of Cend- Ailbhe* was gained over the Leinstermen by Cairbre, son of Niall.

Kal. Jan.

(Tuesd., m. 7.) AD. 501. The battle of

- Segais,’ in which fell Daui (or Duach)*® tenga-umha, #.<.,

King of Connaught. Muirchertach Mac Erca was victor.

<a <

Kal. Jan.

(Wed. m. 18.) A.D. 502. The battle of

Druim-Lochmuidhe was gained by the Leinstermen’

over the Ui-Neill. Kal. Jan.

Manann by Aedhan.° Bishop Ibar.

(Thursd. m. 29.) A.D. 503. Cerpan died— a bishop from Fert-Cherpain® at Tara. Or, in this year the death of

The battle of

Kal. Jan. AD, 504, Death of Bruide, son of Maelchon,”

Kal. Jan. A.D. 505. Clochar.

Rest of Bishop Mac Cairthinn, of

signifies “of the brazen tongue.” O'Donovan (Four Mast., a.v. 494, note p) says that he was otherwise called Duach Galach, ie., the Valorous, and was the son of Brian, who was brother of Niall Nine- hostager. But this is an error. Duach Galach succeeded Ailill Molt as King of Connaught about A.p. 463; and two Kings (Eogan Bél and his son Ailill Inbanda) intervened between Duach Galach and Duach Tenga-umai. See Book of Leinster, p- 41, col. 1.

7 By the Leinstermen.—The transl. in Clar. 49 wrongly says, ‘‘ against Leinstermen by O’Neales.”

8 Fert-Cherpain. — Or ‘‘ Grave of Cerpan.” In the Book of Armagh, Tirechan writes (fol. 10, d.a.), “* Fun- davit [Patricius] aecclesiam i Carric Dagri, et alteram aecclesiam immruig Thuaithe, et scripsit elimenta Cer- pano.” The site of Fert-Cherpain is marked on Petrie’s plan of Tara (Essay, plan facing p. 129).

® Aedhan,—-He was not yet born. This entry belongs to 581 or 582, as does the next to 583. This is a re- markable prolepsis, and the error must have existed in very ancient autho- rities, for it occurs in Tigernach at 504, 505, in anticipation of 582, 583.

1° Maelchon.—See under 583.

D2

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OCNNOCLOC ulecoh.

Ict. tancap. CCnno vomini cccce.’ u1.° DelLum CCpoa copann, ec mopp Lugoaé pilin Loesaipe, ec us ali vicunt, “Oomhansapc mac Nipre peti pecept anno

Aint ot 11 Pg

Quer Mic Nippe Conompe epipcopr.

kct. tanaip. Onno vomini cccce.? un Uel hie mopp Lugoaé pila Lackaipe, 7 cat CCpoa coppans. }ct. tanaip. Onno vomin cccce.? u111.°

Ict. tanap.

(6 p, L. 5.)

°

Qnno vomini cccce.® 12.

bellum Lpethonn pop Piaéar$ mac Neill. Pails bep-

PLCUDE WUICTOP LUIT.

fet. tancip. (7* p, L. 16.)

Qnno vomini cecce.°® «x.°

bellum recunoum Cpoa coppann, ut ala d1cuneT. Hct. Janaap. (. p, L. 27%) OCnno vomins cecce.? x.° 1.°

Quer Opnonn

epipcopt.

Oepectup polip contisit.

Nacmcap pances Crapan pil apcipicip. Uel hic bar

Lugoaé mic Laegaipe pecunoum Libpum monachopum. Ict. lanaip. (3p, L.9%) Onno vomini cecce.° x.° 11.°

Cuner Epcr epipcop: Slane. Oubtaé (a Opuim deapd),

eppuc apo Maca, obnc. nesnane inciprt.

Mupceapcach mac Eapca

1 Ard-Corann.—See under the year 464, supra.

2 Reti secessit.—This expression is very obscure, and may be a blunder for‘ vita secessit, or for ‘requiescit,’ according as the transcriber took Domangart for a king or an ecclesias- tic. This entry and the one which follows are fused into one in B., which has Dorhangapnc mac Nippe epiy- copur Connepe hic quiewrt. There was no Domangart bishop of Connor. But Mac Nisse, 7.¢., Oengus, whose death is recorded under the year 513, infra, was the first bishop, and founder of Connor. The subject is further complicated by the marginal entry, Domanganc epipcopuy, which

occurs in A., in a very old hand. In the entry of his death in Tigernach (A.D. 505), Domangart is called “ King of Alba.” At a.p. 559 infra, the death of Gabran, son of Domangart, is given. This Domangart was the son of Fergus Mor Mac Nisse, and 3rd King of the Dalriadic Scots. Five years was the length of his reign, according to the best authorities, It was in the year 502, according to Tigernach, that the colony went over to Scotland ; and, allowing three years for the joint reign of Lorn and Fergus, the date of Domangart’s accession would be 505, and his obit (after a reign of five years) A.D. 510. It is

worthy of observation that 35 years is

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Kal. Jan. A.D. 506. The battle of Ard-Corann, and the death of Lugaid son of Laegaire, and as others state, Domhangart Mac Nisse reti secessit? in the 35th year. Rest of Mac Nisse,* bishop of Connor.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 507. Or, in this year,‘ the death of Lugaid son of Laegaire, and the battle of Ard-Corann.*

Kal, Jan. A.D. 508.

Kal. Jan. (Frid, m. 5.) A.D. 509. The battle of Fremhonn was gained over Fiacha son of Niall. Failghi Berraide was victor.

Kal. Jan, (Sat.,m.16.) A.D. 510. The second battle of Ard-Corann, as others say.

“ Kal. Jan. (Sund., m. 27.) Ap. 511. The rest of Bishop Bron.’ An eclipse of the sun happened. Birth of Saint Ciaran’ son of the Carpenter. Or, in this year, the death of Lugaid son of Laegaire, according to the

Book of the Monks.’ Kal. Jan. bishop of Slane.

(Tuesd,,m. 9.) A.D. 512. The rest of Ere, Dubthach from Druim-dearbh,’ bishop

of Armagh, died. Muirchertach Mac Erca begins to

reign.

the length assigned to his son Comgall’s reign bythese Annals (infra, 537), from which date, if 35 years be deducted, we get the year of the migration. See Reeves’s Adamnan, pp. 433-436.

8 Mac Nisse.—See under A.p. 513.

4 Or, in this year.—Uet hic, B. 7 (for et), A.

5 Ard-Corann. — See under the year 464, supra.

6 Bishop Bron.—Bishop of Cashel- Irra, now called Killaspugbrone (‘church of Bishop Bron’), a little to the west of Sligo.

7 Ciaran.—Founder of Clonmac- noise. His obit, in the 34th year of his age, is given infra, at 548, which would refer his birth to the year 514,

the true year, and the year at which Tigernach has it.

8 Book of the Monks.—Secunoum tibpum monachonum, A. Not in B., nor in Clar. 49. The word monachopum is written in an ab- brev. form in A.; but there can be no doubt as to the way in which it should be represented in full. There is no other reference to a “ liber mon- achorum”; and the name here may possibly be a mistake for ‘liber Mochod,” or ‘Book of Mochod,” referred to infra, at 527.

® From Druim-dearbh.—Not in B., though Clar. 49 has ‘de Druimderb.” The addition also occurs in the Ann. Four Mast. at this year.

[506.}

[507.]

[508.] [509.]

[510.]

[511.]

[512.]

Fol. 1800.

38 ocntocLec ulocoh.

Ict. tanaip. (4° f,, L. 20.) Onno vomin1 cecce.? x.° n° Coipppr vamapsic (mac Eataé mic Cpmtoimno mic pers mic “Oeasa Suipnn mic Reocada mic Colla va cpich) pr Oipsiall. Mac Nip: a. Hensup epreop Coindepe quieuit.

fet. tanaap. (5 p) CCnno vomini cece. 2x.° 1111.° Romane ecleye L*T opmipta epipcopur opoinacuy, was anmyp 10.

}ct. tanaip. (6 f, L) Onno vomini cecce.® x.° u.° bellum opoma vepse pop Lails. Praca wuretop epac. Oeinde campup Mise a Lasemp publacup ere. Naawucap Compaitl Deannéarp.

fet. Jancip. (1. p, L 23.) Onno vomint cccce.? x.° m.° Cmep Oapepcae Cille plerbe Curlinn .111. nonap 1ulit. Uel pecunoum alium Libpum nacimtap Crapain hocarno. Cat Opoma vepsarde pra Piacard mac Neill fon Lailge m-beppaise. Inve mag Mige cc Lagenip pubLacup ert, uc Cennpaelad cecinit.

Oigat dia peacht m-buaoan, a f1 DIZSE a Cpide ;

Cat inn opomaib vepsarst,

ba ve oocheap mag M1de.

CCn pi atte aprhbep1d, as mac Net n1 Gelato, a FoIp Tap. cpremLa cil Cat Lpemon [M1de] metnard.

fet. tanaip. (2 p, L 4°) OCnno vomim cccce.? x. un’ Cnapcapup impepacop pubsita mopte pepuentur eft, MMP ocTOFZenapio pepuit. RegFZnauis annop .xa. u1., menpibup ‘ouobuy, DIebuLP .xa. 14.

1 Eocha.—The original of the par- { whose victory over Fiacha son of Niall, enthesis is not in B., nor in Clar. 49. | in the battle of Fremonn (Frewin, co. 2 Mac Nisi.—See under the year | Westmeath), is recorded at 509, supra. 506, supra. This battle is entered in the Ann. 3 Failghi, i.e, Failghi Berraide, | Four Mast. under 507. See O’Dono-

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' Kal. Jan. (Wed.,m. 20.) A.D. 513. Cairpri Daim- argit (son of Eocha,’ son of Crimthand, son of Fiag, son of Deaga-duirn, son of Reochaid, son of Colla Dacrich), king of Airghialla, [died]. Mac Nisi,? i.e. Aengus, bishop of Connor, rested.

Kal. Jan. (Thurs...) A.D. 514. Hormisda, having been ordained 50th bishop of the Church of Rome, lived nine years,

Kal. Jan. (rid, m...) AD. 515. The battle of Druim-derge was gained over Failghi® Fiacha was victor. Thereupon the plain of Meath was taken from the Leinstermen. Birth of Comgall of Bangor.

Kal. Jan. (Sund., m. 23.) A.D. 516. The rest of Darerca of Cill-Sleibhe-Cuilinn, on the 5th of July. Or, according to another book, the birth of Ciaran in this year. The battle of Druim-dergaidhe was gained by Fiacha son of Niall, over Failghi Berraide; after which the plain of Meath was taken from the Leinstermen, as Cennfaelad sang :—

His seven years’ vengeance

Was the wish of his heart.

The battle in Druim-dergaidhe— By it the plain of Meath was lost.

The‘ other king they mention— te - Fiacha son of Niall—hide it not— Over him, contrary to a false promise, The battle of Fremhon [of Meath] was won.

Kal Jan. (Mond., m. 4.) AD. 517. The Emperor Anastasius was overtaken by a sudden death. He died

over eighty years old. He reigned 27 years, 2 months, and 29 days.°

-van’s notes under that year, respect- | is added in the lower margin of fol. ing the extent of the lands lost to the | 18d in A. Leinstermen, as the result of their 5 Days. — The numbers of the

defeat. months and days are added in an old

4 This stanza, which is not in B., | hand in A.

[513.]

[514.]

[515.]

[516.]

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40 ocnttocloc uLocoh:

kct. tanaip. (8 p, L 15.) Onno vomin1 cccce.° x.° u1.° Naciucap Colum Cille eovem die quo buze mac Dponagy sopminis. fuer Dapepcac que Moninne nominaca eft.

}ct. Jancap. (4 pu, Luna 26.) Onno vomint cecce.° x.° 12° Conlaed eprcop Cille vapo mopcuur ers. bellum ecnae 1 n-opumbart Dpes, mM quo cEecidDIT Cpoogal prlsup Conall pilsr Neill. Colssu moo Cluaech: pex Oprentalium, ocup Muipcepcace mac Epca wictoper epanc. Comsall Denncump nacur eft recunoum [alior].

}ct. tanaip. (6 p, L 7.) Onno vomin1 cccce.° aex.° Cainneach Ocha b6 na&cur ert pecunodum quoroam.

kct. tanaip. (7* p., L. 18.") Onno vomini cccce.° aw.°.°

kct. tanaap. (0. p, L. 29.2) Onno vomim cecce.” xx. 1.° Cath Oetna 1 n-opommarb Opes in quo cecirdic posal mac Conwll cpetrhainne mic Neill pecunoum alior. burt: mac Dponaré obuc. Colum cille nacur eye.

}ct. tanap. (2 p, L aw) Onno vomini cccce.° xx. 111.° (aliap 1111.) Dellum Cainpr pil Neill, 7 beorg (Eprceop) Cpoa canna Cumer pancce Opugicae anno lex. aetauip pue.

fet. tancip. (4 ¢.) Onno vomini cccce.? xa.? 1111.° lohanmp Romane eclepre papa La.tr ouobupr anny in reve Pet wiaic, Conpcantinopolim tent, qui coum

1 Colum Cille.—The birth of Colum Cille is also entered infra, at 522, which is the date adopted by Ussher. (Index Chron. ad an). Tigernach gives it at 520.

2 Darerca.—The “ rest” of Darerca is entered before, at 516.

3 Son of Cluaeth.—In A. and B. the words ‘“‘son of Cluaeth” are repre- sented by moo cluaethi, which seems corrupt. The name in the corres- ponding entry in the Ann. Four Mast.

is mac Lo1t1, ‘son of Loit.” But the Chron. Scot. (518), has Moctorte, altered by Rod. O’Flaherty to Mac Cloithe, or son of Cloth. See Chron. Scot., p. 39, note 1,

4 Others.—The corresponding Latin is not in A. or B. In fact, even the word pecunoum is neither in B., nor in Clar. 49. See 601 infra.

5 According to some,—Secunoum quopoam. Notin B. St. Cainnech’s birth is again entered under 526.

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Kal. Jan. (Tuesd., m. 15.) A.D. 518. The birth of Colum Cille, on the same day in which Buite, son of Bronach, slept. The rest of Darerca,? who was called Moninne.

Kal. Jan. (Wed.,m. 26). A.D. 519. Conlaedh, bishop of Cill-dara, died. The battle of Detna,in Droma-Bregh, in which fell Ardgal, son of Conall, son of Niall. Colgu, son of Cluaeth,? King of Airthera, and Muirchertach Mac Erca, were victors. Comgall of Bangor was born, according to [others ‘].

Kal. Jan. (Frid, m. 7.) AD. 520. Achadh-bé was born, according to some.’ Kal. Jan. (Sat.,m.18.) Ap. 521.

Kal. Jan. (Sund.,m. 29.) AD. 522. The battle of Detna,? in Droma-Bregh, in which fell Ardgal, son of Conall Cremthainne, son of Niall, according to others.’ Buiti, son of Bronach, died. Colum Cille was born.®

Kal. Jan. (Mond.,m. 10.) A.D. 523 (alias® 524). The battle of Cainri,” son of Niall, and [the rest] of Beoid, bishop of Ard-carna. Rest of Saint Brigit, in the 70th" year of her age.

Kal. Jan. (Wedn. .) AD. 524, John,” the 51st Pope of the Church of Rome, having lived two years in the See of Peter, came to Constantinople; and when, on

Cainnech of

6 Of Detna.—Not in B. Niall had no son named Cainri. The

7 Others.—The orig. of this clause, which is not in B., is added in the marg. in A.

8 Born.—The entry in B. is ued hic nacincar Cotuim Cite, “or here, the birth of Colum Cille.” See under 518.

® Alias.—The suggested correction is in a very old hand in A. Notin B.

” Battle of Cainri.—There is some error in this entry, which it is very hard, if not impossible, to rectify.

name might have been so written, by mistake, for Cairbri.

In the 70th—The death of St. Brigit is recorded in these Annals, from different authorities, at 523, 525, and 527. Tigernach has it at 526. Early authorities state that she sur- vived St. Patrick 30 years, in which case the year of her death would be 523. See Chronicon Scotorum, A.D. 523.

= John.—Mohanmy, A.

[518.]

[519.]

[520.]

[521.] [522.]

[523.]

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pedienp Rauennam uenipper, Teotopucup pex OCppranup eum cum comimbur capcepip aoplictione pepemit, cup coppup ve Ravenna cpanplacum in bapilica beat: Pet pepulcum ert, port DUoP annor 7 10. menrep 7 Diep Ltt.

t. lanap. (© f£.) Onno vomin1 cecce.? xx? u.° Dopmitacio pancte Dpisice anno law. ecacip fue. CUilill eppcop Cro Maca quieurc.

}ct. tanap. (6 p.) Cnno vomini ecece.? xx. m1.° Naumcap Camns Cchaio bo. Mopyp 1tlaind mic Ounlainge mic Enna niad mic Dpeayart bela. OCnno pesiae upbip 1. Conpcantinopolim condicae, c.xc.t11., lupoinup impenacon luptinianum ex popope pua nepo- Tem, 1mmououm a pe nobilippimum vepsnacum quoque pesmi pur puccerpopemaue cpeatic, }ct. CCppitip. 1ppe ueno quapto ab hoc menre wita DeceppT, anno impept 1.° menre 11.2 Patpacio pancss OCiLbe.

fet. tanaip. (7p, L. 24) Onno vomini eccce.’ xx.’ ui.° Lelie Romane eclepe epipcopur pedis annip «1111. menpibup 12. diebup .xii1. lohannip ec DIeP. LUIt. eT menyibuy 11. es Diebup .xin. Lelia eprciunts quantum annum, et pepulcur ert in baplica Petr beac aporcolt. Dellum Cinneré es bellum Cléa prshe pop Lagniu. Mupcepcaé mac Epcae tiecop puis. Uel hic DOPLMITAC1O Dprsi06e recunoum Libpum Mochor.

fet. tanaip. (2p,0.5.) Onno vomin cccce.° we. w111.° Nacimcap Coemain bpice. Deneoiccup monachuy claptit.

1 St. Brigit.—See under 523.

2 Ailill.—A mutilated note in the marg. in A. suggests that he was of the Ui-Bresail. In the List of the Suc- cessors of St. Patrick, contained in the Book of Leinster (p. 42, col. 3), this Ailill, who is there called ‘ pri- mus,” as well as his successor, Ailill “‘secundus,” is stated to have been from Druimchdd, in Ui-Bressail. The

death of Ailill ‘‘ the second ” is entered under 535 infra.

3 Cainnech.—St. Canice, Patron St. of Ossory. His birth is also entered supra, at 520. Tigernach places his birth at 517, which seems the true date, as his obit is given at 599 infra (=600), in his 84th year, according to Tigern.

4 Saint Ailbhe.—Founder and Patron

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his return, he had arrived at Ravenna, Theodoric, the

Arian king, put him and his companions to death under the rigour of imprisonment. His body, removed from Ravenna, was buried in the church of St. Peter, after two years, and nine months, and seventeen days.

Kal. Jan. (Thursday.) AD. 525. The repose of St. Brigit, in the 70th year of her age. Ailill,® bishop of Armagh, rested.

Kal. Jan. (Friday.) A.D. 526. The birth of Cainnech,’ of Achadh-bo. Death of Illand, son of Dunlaing, son of Enna Niadh, son of Bresal Belach. In the 197th year after the foundation of the regal city (i.e., Constantinople), on the Kalends of April, the Emperor Justin appointed as his successor on the throne Justinian, his nephew by his sister, who had, long before, been designated “ Nobilis- simus” by him. He died in the fourth month following, in the 9th year and 2nd month of his reign. Rest of Saint Ailbhe.‘

Kal. Jan. (Sat., m. 24.) A.D. 527. Felix, bishop of the Church of Rome, sat 4 years, and 9 months,’ and 14 days (and the 17 days*® of John, and the two months and 13 days of Felix, make the fourth year) ; and he was buried in the church of Saint Peter the Apostle. The battle of Cenn-eich, and the battle of Ath-sighe, gained over the Leinstermen. Muirchertach Mac Erca was victor. Or, in this year, the repose of Brigid,’ according to the Book of Mochod.®

Kal. Jan. (Mond., m. 5.) A.D. 528. Birth of Coeman Brece. Benedict, the monk, attained celebrity.

of Imlech-Ibhair (Emly, county Tip- perary). His death is also entered under 533 and 541, infra.

5 Months, — menyibuy, 8B. ; menre, A.

® Days.—The original of the parenthe- sis here, which in A, seems very cor- rupt, isnot represented in the text of B.

7 Repose of Brigid. —See note under 523, supra.

8 Book of Mochod.—See note on the “Book of the Monks,” under511 supra, The clause fecunoum tibpum Mochov is only found in A. (al. man.) and Clar. 49.

[525.]

[526]

[527.]

[528.]

oeclaran-

Fol. 19ab.

Ah cctttsocLoc ulocoh.

Ict. lanaip. (3 7.) Onno vomim cccce. «xx.° 12.°

]ct. tanaip. (4p) Onno vominicccce.’ xxx.” Coppup ranct: Cncon1 monachi vitina peueLactione pepeptum Claxanopiam pepoucitup, etin eclepa pancti lohanmyp bapziptae humacup.

Ict. lanaip. (5 p, L. 9.) CCnno vomin1 cccce.° xew. 1.° 1n hoc anno Oiomppiup papcaler pepip1t cicLlor, 1nc1- pienp ab anno dominicae incapnaciomp 0.° xv.’ qtr EPs Oroclitian cce."7 al. uP.

fet. Jancap. (7p, L. 20.) Onno vomin1 cccce.° xa. 11.° 111. bellum in hoc anno septa tino, et popyto epsenre

ecc Leccam Liar, (Lelrx repultur ert in baplica beats

Pecm: aporcols.) bellum Eblinne pia Mupeceptaé mac Epce, 7 cat mm$ OCilbe pon Largmiu, 7 cat OCrdne ror Conachta, 7 cat Clmuine, 7 cat Cinneré pop Laigniu, 7 opgain na Cliaé in uno anno. Caé Ota pige. Muipceptach mac Eapca uictopn ena.

Kct. tanap (4. p, Ll 1.) Onno vomin cecee.? xxx.’ 111.° Demenpio Muipceptas pilt1 Epce, 1. Muipcep- Tus mic Muipeadard mic Eofain mic Neill ax. Eal- Laig, 1n Dolio pleno uino, in apce Cleaig puppa Donn. Quer Clilbe imleca burp. ompatiur pomanup epipcopup fed1s annip .11. Diebup xe-u1., pepulcupque eps in bapilica beat: Petr aporcoli.

the number mentioned in the latter part of the entry.) But the Editor cannot attempt to explain the mean- ing of possito ergense ecc leccam lias. The introduction also of the name of Pope Felix (ob. 530), whose death and burial are referred to at the year 527,

1 Year 520.—This should be the year 532.

2 The 246th.—Should be 248th,” Dioclesian having been proclaimed Emperor in a.p. 284. The old hand adds “ Dion. Exiguus,” in the mar- gin in A.

3 Three battles.—In orig. (A.) .111. bellum. The entry seems quite un- intelligible, being,as it stands “ tria bel- lum (sic) in hoe anno gesta uno et possito (corrected from possite, by old hand) ergense ecc leccam lias.” For 111. bellum, we might perhaps read wu. bella (“six battles ”"—this being

seems to indicate that some great confusion has occurred in the trans- cription of the text. The entry, un- fortunately, is not found in B., and is

only represented in Clar. 49, by “38 -

Bellahocanno.” Theso-called “trans- lator ” who composed that version of

these Annals must have had the full .

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- Kal. Jan. (Tuesd.) A.D. 529.

Kal. Jan. (Wedn.) A.D. 530. The body of St. Anthony, the monk, having been recovered by Divine revelation, is conveyed to Alexandria, and buried in the church of St. John the Baptist.

Kal. Jan. (Thursd., m. 9.) AD. 531. In this year Dionysius wrote his Paschal Cycle, commencing from the | year 520' of the Incarnation of our Lord, which is the 246th? of Dioclesian. | Kal. Jan. (Sat., m. 20.) AD. 532. Three’ battles were fought in this one year, et possito ergense ecc | lecam lias, Felix was buried in the church of St. Peter | the Apostle. The battle of Eblinne, gained by Muir- chertach Mac Erca, and the battle of Magh-Ailbhe, gained over the Leinstermen, and the battle of Aidhne over the Connaughtmen, and the battle of Almhu, and the battle of Cenn-eich, over the Leinstermen, and the plunder of the Clius,in one years The battle of Ath- sighe. Muirchertach Mac Erca was victor.

Kal. Jan. (Sund., m.1.) A.D. 533. The drowning of Muirchertach Mac Erca, 7.e., Muirchertach, son of Muire- dach, son of Eoghan, son of Niall Nine-hostager, in a vat 4 full of wine, in the fort’ of Cletech, over the Boyne. The : rest of Ailbhe® of Imlech-Ibhair. Boniface, bishop of Rome, having sat 2 years and 26 days, was buried in the church of St. Peter the Apostle.

* entry before him, in some ancient copy, but was probably unable to under-

ee a oe a

carded his queen. But his relative St. Cairnech of Dulane (in Meath), having

: stand it, and therefore passed it by. Fe ‘ In one year.—\n uno anno. Not ie in B. 5In the fort.—in axe, A. and B. But, of course, by mistake for apce. In an ancient account of the death of Muirchertach Mac Erca, contained in the Yellow Book of Lecan, it is stated that his destruction was contrived by a fairy woman named Sin (pron. Sheen), for whose society he had dis-

persuaded him to take back h's queen, and dismiss his fairy favourite, the latter, through her fairy machina- tions, successfully plotted the destruc- tion of King Muirchertach. The tale is wild and imaginative, but contains much historical information. See the Ann. Four Mast., under a.p. 527, and Chron. Scot., at 531.

° Rest of Ailbhe.—His “rest” is

_also entered under 526 and 641,

[529.] [580.]

[581.]

582.) Allen 529 179

[533.]

Fol, 19ba.

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fet. tancap. (2p, L. 12.) Cnno vomim cccce.° xxe.® 111° Dopmitactio Muce dipcipuls Pacprci x11. }ct. feptembpip ; pic ipre fepipmct im epiptola ua, Mauccteup peccatopn preppiten, panes: Pactpici dip- cipulup, 1n “Oomino palucem. Oellum Lééapa mope eitip da inbep pra Tuatal maelsapb mac Copmaic caeié mic Caipbpe mic Neill ax. Srallars pop Cian- nacht. Cat Ciblinne pia Muipceapcach mac Capea pop Largmiu uc alu uolunc.

kct.tanap. (3 p, Lu. 23.) CCnno vomin cccee.° xaw.° u° Nuc upque Mapcellinup pepouxis cponicon puum. Mepcupup qui es lohanniyp nacione pomanup pomane ecclepiae epipcopur edit anmp 141. menprbup .1111. oiebup .u1., pepulcup ert in bapilica beat: Pecpr apoptoli. Pepoitio pany. CHilill eppeop CHipo mata obut. Uel hic badad Mupcheapcms mic Eanca, pecunoum alior.

Ict. tanaip. (5p, 4). Onno vomim ceece.? awe. ur. Dellum E1blinne monup. Tuatal maelganb peg- naws anmp 1. Uel hic vopmitactio prance: Mocca oipeipuli Pacpici.

Ict. lancap. Onno vomini cccce.? xxx? u11.° CZapi- sup nacione pomanup, Romane ecclepie epipcopur revit menpibup .x1. D1ebup .u111., ec in bayilica beac Pet: apopcoli pepulcup ert: xxi diep bompaci, ev .1111. Menpep eT .u1. Die Mepcuyus, et .xt. menrer et Diep ui. Ceapiti, eppiciunc annum ev .1111. menrer

1 Mochta.-—(Mauchteus) A. The clause here quoted is not in B., but is

of Upper Duleek, co. Meath. entered again, under 538.

It is

in Clar. 49.

2 Luachair-mér.—-The Four Mast., who have the entry of this battle under A.D. 528, state that it was called the “ battle of Ailbhe in Brega,” and was gained over the “ Cianachta of Meath.” The place is now supposed to be represented by Clonalvy, bar.

3 As some say.—ut ali uolunc. Not in B.

4 Ailill--A marg. note in-A. has m0 1b Dpeupand beop (“of the Ui-Bresail still.”) See note under 525 supra, regarding another bishop of Armagh of the name.

5 Sliabh-Eibhlinne.—~Aibhlinne, at

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Kal. Jam. (Mond.,m. 12.) A.D. 534, The repose of Mochta, disciple of Patrick, on the 13th of the Kalends of September. Thus he wrote in his epistle: “Mochta,! a sinner, presbyter, disciple of Saint Patrick, sends greet- ing in the Lord.” The battle of Luachair-mér* between two ‘invers, was gained by Tuathal Maelgarbh, son of Cormac Caech, son of Cairbre, son of Niall Nine-hostager, over Cianachta. The battle of Aibhlinne was gained by Muirchertach Mac Erca over the Leinstermen, as some say.°

Kal. Jan. (Tues., m. 23.) A.D, 535. Thus far Marcel- linus brought down his Chronicle. Mercurius, who was also called John, a Roman by birth, bishop of the Church of Rome, sat 2 years, 4 months, and 6 days; and was buried in the church of St. Peter the Apostle. Failure of bread, Ailill,* bishop of Armagh, died. Or, in this year, the drowning of Muirchertach Mac Erca, according to others.

Kal. Jan. (Thursd., m. 4.) Shabh-Eibhlinne.*’ Tuathal Maelgarbh reigned eleven® years. Or, in this year, the repose of Saint Mochta,’ disciple of Patrick.

Kal, Jan. A.D. 537. Agapitus, a Roman by birth, bishop of the Church of Rome, sat 11 months and 8 days. He was buried in the church of St. Peter the Apostle. Twenty-six days of Boniface, and 4 months and 6 days of Mercurius, and 11 months and 8 days of Agapitus, make up a year, and 4 months, and 10 days. The battle

A.D. 536, Battle of

A.D. 534. Now known as the Sliabh- Phelim Mountains, on the confines of Tipperary and Limerick.

® Eleven years.--A. and B. have “annis x1”. But Clar. 49 has ii. (for ‘two’ years), which is probably a mis- take for 11. The murder of Tuathal Maelgarbh is recorded infra, at 543, and as the length of his reign was

eleven years, the date of his accession must have been 532. Tuathal Mael- garbh was grandson of Cairbre, son of Niall, and the only sovereign of Ireland in this line. His surname is interpreted calvo-asper by O'Flaherty. 7 Mochta.—His “ dormitatio ” is en- tered above, under the year 534,

[584.]

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Aw £35

[535.]

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[587.]

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€T .X. DIEP. DelLum Cloenloga ubi cecroit Mane mac Cepbaill. Mopr Comsatl mic Oomangaips, xax.° u.° anno pesni.

Ict. lanaip. Onno Domini cccce.® xxx? 1111.° Pep oitio pany. Dellum Logap. Tuatal maelsapb (mac Copmaic cat mic Caipbpi mic Neill wx. Falla) uictopn enac, uc ali dicunt. Siluepiup nacione Roma- nur edit anno a. menpibur 11. Diep .x1., confepopn obit.

Ict. lanaip. Onno vomin1 cccce.° xxx. 12.° Naciti- tar Spigonn Rome. Ursiliup nacione pomanuy epip- copur pomane ecclese penis anmp .xuin. menpbur 1. Ddiebup .xan. Sapacuppp Depunctup epo; Una ralapia pepulcup ere.

Ct. lanaip. Onno vomini cccce.° xl.

Ict. lanaip. Onno vomini cccce.® xl.° 1.° Comsaill mic Oomangainc. OLbeur paurac.

fet. tanaip. CCnno comin ccce[c].? al? 1.2 OelLum Topcen 1. pra Largnib, ubi cecrois mac Epce piliup CCilella molz. bellum Slicige ubi cecidic Eugen bel nex Connacht. Pfepssur 7 Oomnall, ouo pili mic Epce, tictoper enant, 7 Cinmipe mac Setna 7 Ninmd mac 8etn1.

Ict. tanaip. CCnno vomini cecce.? al.? 11.2 Tuatal maelganb 1ugulacur ert 1. a n-Speallars allca, la Maelmopda, cur pucceppit Diapmais mac Cepbaill.

Ict. lanaip. (0. p, L 2) Cnno vomini cccce.’? xl” 111.° Mopcalitap prima que dicitup blepeo, in qua

Morr

1 Cloenloch.—The Four Mast., at 581, place it in Cinel-Aodha (or Kinalea), a district well known as O’Shaughnessy’s country, and lying round the town of Gort, in the co. Galway.

2 Mane son of CerbhalliHe was of the “ Ui-Maine” of Connaught, who derived their tribe-name from

Maine, fifth in descent from Colla- da-crich.

8 Comgall.—See note under A.p. 506, supra.

4 Luachair.—See thisbattle entered above, at 534.

5 Son.—The parenthetic matter is not in B,

° Confessor.—opepoy, A. of, B.

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of Cloenloch,' in which fell Mane’ son of Cerbhall. Death of Comgall® son of Domangart, in the 35th year of his reign.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 538, Failure of bread. The battle of Luachair* Tuathal Maelgarbh, (son’ of Cormac Caech, son of Cairbre, son of Niall Nine-hostager), was victor, as some say. Silverius, a Roman by birth, sat 1 year, 5 months, 11 days, and died a confessor.°

Kal. Jan. A.D. 539. Birth of Gregory’ at Rome. Vigilius, a Roman by birth, bishop of the Church of Rome, sat 17 years, 6 months, and 22 days. He died at Syracuse, and was buried in the Via Salaria.

Kal, Jan. A.D. 540.

Kal. Jan. A.D.541, Death of Comgall,’ son of Doman- gart. Ailbhe’ rested.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 542. The battle of Torten” was gained by the Leinstermen, in which fell Mac Erca," son of Ailill Molt. The battle of Sligech, in which fell Eogan Bel, King of Connaught. Fergus and Domnall, two sons of Mac Erca, were victors, and Ainmire son of Setna, and Ninnidh son of Setna.”

Kal. Jan. A.D. 543. Tuathal Maelgarbh was slain by Maelmordha, 7.e. at Greallach-allta, to whom Diarmait Mac Cerbhaill succeeded.

Kal. Jan. (Sund, m. 2.) a.p. 544. The first mor- tality, which is called ‘blefed,”® in which Mobi Clarainech

7 Gregory.—See under A.p. 544.

8 Comgall.—His death is entered before under 537, which seems the proper date. See a note on the sub- ject at 506, supra.

® Ailbhe.—The “‘quies” of Ailbhe is recorded above under the year 533.

1% Torten.—So called from the Ui- Tortain, a small branch of the Airghi- alla, who settled near Ardbraccan in Meath. They derived their name from Tortan, fifth in descent from Colla-da-crich.

"Mac Erca, — Tigernach states

that the ‘‘men of Cera” (or tribes inhabiting the barony of Carra, co. Mayo), descended from him. This battle is entered again under 547.

2 Setna.—This should be “* Duach,” as in Tigernach and the Ann. Four Mast.

13 Blefed.—See several references to this plague in the Census of Ireland for 1851, part V., vol. I, p. 46, where some curious information on the subject of this and other plagues is collected.

(588. ohm». 5243

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Mobi clapamecé obnc. Mopr Comgall mic Oom- ansaipo uc ali dicunt. Oiapmait mac PLepsura CeppbeoiL mic Conall cperhtainne mic Neill «tx. Siallars pesnape incipit, pecunoum Libpum Cuanach. Uel hic Nacimctap Spesonn pecunoum alior.

Ict. lanaip. (2 p, L. 13.) Onno vomini cecce.® al.’ u. Oaipe Coluim cille pundaca ere.

Ict. lanaip. (87, 1.24.) Onno vomin cccce.’ xl.’ u1.° (aliay 47.) DeLLum Sligide in quo cecepyit Eugen bel (.1. nex Connacht), 7 Domnall 7 Lepsup ouo plu Muipcep- sag mic Canca, 7 Cinmipe mac Setna mic Lepsupa mic Conall sulban mic Neill ax. sialloais, uictoper epant.

fet. tancaip. (4 ¢.,L. 5.) Onno vomini cccce.° xL.° 111.° Oubsaé (no “Ouaé, v0 pil Cholla ump) ab Apo maca ques. Cluain mic Nop punoaca ert. Cat Toptan pia Lagmu, in quo cecioic mac Eapca mic CCilella muilc. Uel hic cat Slide.

}ct. tanaap. (6° pL. 16.) Onno vomim cecce.? xl’ ui1.° “Oopmitacio pila apaupicip 2. Crapoaini, anno xer. 1111. aetamp pue (uel anno 7° porcquam CLuain mic Noip conrtpuepe cepit). Tiszepnaé Cluana eorr. Mopcalitap magna in qua spc: paupant, Linnio macc u Telouib, Colaam nepop Cpauthtanan, Mac carl Cille cuilinod, Sinceall mac Cenannoain abbar Cille achaid opumml[a] poco, 7 Columbae innpae Celctpae. Uel hoc anno Tuatal maelsapb pr Teampach 1n-

1 Gregory.—Afterwards styled the ‘¢ Great.” See also under 539.

2 Alias 47.—Added in old hand in A.

3 Sligech. —The river which gives name to the town of Sligo. This battle is entered above at the year 542.

4 Domnall.—The remainder of this entry is not in B.

5 Duach.—-This is the name in B., and also in the list of the Comarbs (or successors) of St. Patrick, in the Book of Leinster, p. 42, col. 8. The

original of the parenthesis appears as a gloss in the original hand in A., and also in B.

° Tortan.—This battle is entered above at the year 542, where see note. The text of this and the entry which follows in A. is represented in B. by uel hic bellum topncan 7 bellum Supide.

7 Clonmacnoise.—This clause is not in B., nor in Clar, 49.

§ Cluain-eois—Clones,co. Monaghan.

ANNALS OF ULSTER. 51

died. The death of Comgall, son of Domangart, as some

say. Diarmait, son of Fergus Cerrbeoil, son of Conall

Crimthainne, son of Niall Nine-hostager, begins to reign,

according to the Book of Cuanu. Or, in this year, the birth of Gregory,’ according to some.

Kal. Jan. (Mond., m.13.) A.D. 545. Daire-Coluim- Cille was founded. Kal. Jan. (Tues. m. 24. A.D, 546 (alias 47) The

battle of Sligech,® in which fell Eugen Bel (i.e, King of Connaught), and Domnall* and Fergus, the two sons of Muirchertach Mac Erca, and Ainmire son of Setna (son of Fergus, son of Conall Gulban, son cf Niall Nine- hostager), were victors.

Kal. Jan. (Wedn., m. 5.) AD. 547. Dubtach (or ~ Duach,’ of the race of Colla Uais), abbot of Armagh, rested. Cluain-mic-Nois was founded. The battle of Tortan® was gained by the Leinstermen, in which fell Mac Erca, son of Ailill Molt. Or, in this year, the battle of Sligech.

Kal. Jan. (Frid.,m.16.) a.p.548. The falling asleep of the son of the Carpenter, 7.e., Ciaran, in the 34th year of his age, (or in the 7th year after he had commenced to build Clonmacnoise.’) Tigernach of Cluain-eois* [died.] Great mortality, in which these persons rested: Finnio Macc-U-Telduibh ;° Colam descendant of Craumthanan ;° Mac-Tail of Cill-Cuilind; Sinchell son of Cenandan, abbot of Cill-achaidh of Druim-fota, and Colum of Inis- Celtra. Or, in this year,” Tuathal Maelgarbh, King of

® Macc U Telduibh. — Corruptly written maccué ou1b in A. Not in B. The name is Mac Creduib in Clar. 49. But this is more corrapt still. Tigernach, at the parallel place, gives the name as printed above.

10 Descendant of Craumthanan.— The Four Masters (A.p. 548) call him Colum son of Crimthann. But he was really the son of Ninnidh, who

was the fifth in descent from Crim- thann.

" This year.—This entry is added at foot of fol. 190d. in A., in an old hand. It is represented in B., in the text, after the name of Columba of Inis-Celtra, merely by uel hoc anno Tuatal =maelgayb ingulacup guic. The entry in Clar. 49 is nearly the game as in A.

Es

[547.]

[548.]

52 onNNolee ulocOh.

cept 1 n-speallarsg eilce, 1ugulacup o Maelihop hu

mic hi, qui ec ippe poacim occippuyp eps.

cup echt thaeilmhoip.

Une dic1-

Ose lanaip. (7 p, L. 27.) Onno vomini cccce.’ xl? bellum cule Conampe 1 Cepu, ubi cecidepunt

onictl inbanna (4.

pi Connacht), 7 Ged fopcobol -

1a bpataip. Lepsup 7 Domnall (1. va mac Muip-

ceptors mic Epce) wictopep epanc.

quer Gisepnact. Ict. tancip.

Uel hoc anno

(ly, 9.) Onno vomini cccce.? L.°

Quer Oamoip Lapannains (pili Gucipe 1 Papanain),

epipcop: Cpo macha ec Lesaci coTiup kct. tancap. (2 ¢.) CCnno vomini cece. 1.24."

ibepnie. bellum

Cuilne in quo cecidepunt copcu Oche Muman opa-

siombuy 1tae Cluano.

Mopp Lotars pila ConaLt. Ict. Janap. (4 £.) Onno vomin cccce.° L° 11.°

Mopp

Euéaé mic Conleid 1. pr ULlao, a quo hu Eéaé ULlao

navi punt, 7 mopr mic Dpauin.

Die mic “Oeics. Sic in Ubpo Cuanaé inuem a.

Mopr Crauhzon Reiter

Pacpaic vo cabaips 1 Pepin 1 cinn spr xa'e bliaodan

1a. n-ecpechs Pacpaic La Colum cille.

cp minna

uaple vo fasbaal spin a@onucal 1. a Coaé 7 porpcela

ino cangili, 7 cloce 1n a1deéTa.

18 amLlaid ro po posal

1 Feat.—echt.—Translated ‘great act,” in Clar. 49.

2Aedh Fortobol.— More correctly called Aedh Fortamhail (“Aedh the Strong’’) by the Four Mast., at the year 544.

8 Tigernach.-—Uis death is among the entries for the previous year.

4,Son of.—The parenthetic clause is added as a gloss in A., in a very old hand. There is no entry for this year in B., but Clar. 49 has the notice of David in exactly the same words as A. The name of David does not occur in any of the Lists of the Bishops of Armagh ac-

cessible to the Editor. See Ware’s Works (Harris's ed.), vol. 1, p. 38, where reasons are adduced in disproof of the statement above given regard- ing David, and Colgan’s 7'rias Thaum., p. 293, col. 2, where it is stated that this David was the same person who was called Fiacher [or Fiachra] in he “ Psalter of Cashel.” The name ‘“Fiachra,” occurs in the Book of Leinster (p. 42, col. 3), and in other ancient lists, as the successor of Duach, bishop of Armagh, whose obit is given above under the year 547, The entry is written in a coarse hand in A.

ANNALS OF ULSTER. 58 Tara, perished in Grellach-eilte, being slain by Maelmor -Ua-Mie-Hi, who himself was slain immediately’ after. Hence is said the ‘ feat? of Maelmor.’ |

Kal. Jan. (Sat.,m. 27.) A.p. 549. The battle of Cul- Conaire in Cera, in which fell AiliJl Inbanna (i.¢., King of Connaught), and Aedh Fortobol, #.¢., his brother. Fergus and’ Domnall (i.e. the two sons of Muirchertach Mac Erca)were victors, Or, in this year, the rest of Tigernach.’

Kal. Jan. (Sund.,m.9.) A.p.550. The rest of David, descendant of Farannan, (son‘ of Guaire, descendant of Farannan), Bishop of Armagh, and Legate of all Ireland.

Kal. Jan. (Mond.) a.p. 551. The battle of Cuilen,’ in which the Corco-Oche of Munster were slain, through the prayers. of Ita of Cluain.® Death of Fothad, son of Conall. -

Kal. Jan. (Wed.) A.D. 552. Death of Eacha, son of Conled, 7.c., King of Ulad, from whom the Ui-Echach of Ulad are descended ; and death of Bec Mac Deiche.” Death of Craumthan, son of Brian. Thus I find in the Book of Cuanu,-viz.:—The relics of Patrick were placed in a shrine, at the end of three score years after Patrick’s death, by Colum-cille. Three splendid minna* were found in the tomb, to wit, his goblet, and the Angel’s

5 Cuilen.—Written Cuitne in Irish text. But Cuitne is the genit. form,

The site of St. Ita’s church, anciently called Cluain-CredaiJ, is now known

the nom. of which may be Cuilen. (Compare colinn, “caro;” gen., colno, Ebel’s Zuess, p. 41.) As the Corco-Oche of Munster were certainly located in what is the present county of Limerick, if this suggestion is correct, the site of the battle was pro- bably the present village of Cullen, near the Limerick Junction, but situated within the limits of the county Tipperary. Keating (at reign of Diarmait mac Cerbhaill) calls the event the battle of Cill-Cuile.

6 Ita of Cluain.—St. Ita of Cluain.

as Killeedy, in the parish of the same name, barony of Upper Connello, and county of Limerick.

7 Bec Mac Deiche.—His death is entered at 557 infra, where the name is written Bec Mac De, the more usual form.

8 Minna, plur. of mian, or mind, which signifies a crown, diadem, or precious thing. ‘The term was also generally applied to reliquaries, on which oaths were sworn; and thus came to signify, in a secondary sense, an oath.

Fol. 20ab.

ab;

54 ocnNocLoe uLocoh.

int caingel 00 Colum cille inna minna 1. 1n coaé D0 DUN 7 cloc in avechta 00 po mata 7 poircela inn aingil oo Colum cille fein. 18 ape vo Zapap porpcela in aingil de, ap ip a Laam in ainsil appoés Colum cille he. Uel hic quep Damir epipcop: Cpo macha ec Lesazi.

Ict. tancap. CCnno vomini cecce.’ Lin. Nacintap Lusoag mic u Ochae. Percy (4. Leppa) que uocaca eps in pamchpore.

fet. tanaip. CCnno vomini eccee.” L? 1111.2 Cachub mac fLepsupa eprcop Cero cinn obs. Colman map mac Oiapmata veips mic Lepsupa ceppbeoil mic Conall Cpethtainne mic Neill ax. siallars, quem ‘Oubploit 1usulamc. Ccclepia Dennemp pundaca eye.

Ict. lanaip. (7 pl. 4) Onno vomini cccce.? L° u.° Pelasiup nactione pomanup penis anny .x1. diebur cunt. pepultup epcin bapilica beac: Petpi aporcols. Mopcalisap magna hoc anno 2. in Epon Eonaaltl 4. in burde Conall.

Ict. Janaip. (2,1. 15.) Onno vomin1 eccee.? L.° u1.° Mopr Lepsna (uel Piacaé) nepoup 1boarg, pesip ULoch.

et, lanap. (3 p, L. 26.) Onno vomin cccee.° L. u11.° 1usulacio Colmain moip mic Dianmaca quem Oubslois ausulauic. Ceana Tempa La Oiapmais mac Cepbartt, et fuga ance pilium Maelcon, et mopr Sabpain mic Domangaipe. Dpenoinup ecclepram 1 cluain repta pun- pant. Mop Eatac mic Conlort prs ULad. Mopr bis

mic Se propetae.

1 Therest of David. —Acded in coarse hand inA. See the note under the year 550 in reference to the person called David, Bishop of Armagh and Legate of all Ireland. The foregoing entry is not in B., nor in Clar. 49.

2 Samthrosc.—In the Cambridge Cod. Canon. Hibern. (p. 134) truscz is glossed by “scabiem ;” which would prove, without the gloss Jepra in the

entry, that the ‘‘samthrosce ” was a cutaneous disease.

* Colman.—This entry is faultily constructed. The death of Colman is again entered under 557, in more accurate terms. See under a.p. 599.

* Founded.—The foundation of the church of Bangor is again entered at the year 558.

5 Cron-Conaill,—This is further ex-

ANNALS OF ULSTER. 55

Gospel, and the Bell of the Testament. This is how the Angel distributed the treasures for Colum-cille, viz.:—the goblet to Down, and the Bell of the Testament to Armagh, and the Angel’s Gospel to Colum-cille himself. The reason it is called the Angel’s Gospel is, because it is from the Angel’s hand Colum-cille received it. Or, in this year, the rest of David,’ Bishop of Armagh, and Legate.

Kal. Jan. AD. 553. The birth of Lugaid Mac Ui Ochae. The distemper (i.e. leprosy), which is called the Samthrosc.’

Kal. Jan. A.D. 554. Cathub, son of Fergus, bishop of Achad-cinn, died. Colman* the Great, son of Diarmait Derg, son of Fergus Cerrbeoil, son of Conall Cremthainne, son of Niall Nine-hostager, whom Dubsloit killed. The church of Bangor was founded.‘

Kal. Jan. (Sat.,m. 4.) A.D, 555. Pelagius, by birth a Roman, sat 11 years and 18 days. He was buried in the church of St. Peter the Apostle. A great mortality in this year, 7.¢., the cron-conaill,’ 1.¢., the buidhe-conaill.

Kal. Jan. (Mond.,m.15.) a.p. 556. Death of Fergna (or Fiacha), descendant of Ibdach, King of Ulad.

Kal. Jan. (Tuesd.,m. 26.) A.D. 557. The slaying of Colman’ the Great, son of Diarmait, whom Dubsloit slew. The Feast of Tara by Diarmait Mac Cerbhaill; and the flight before the son of Maelchon, and the death of Gabran, son of Domangart. Brendan founded a church in Cluain-

ferta. The death of Eacha,’ son of Conlaedh, King of

Uladh. The death of Bec Mac De, the prophet.’

*

plained by buidhe-conaill. Crén means ‘saffron-colour,’ and buidhe ‘yellow.’ The term is usually written crom-conaill. (See Census of Ireland, 1851, part 5, vol. 1, pp. 46-7.) But the form cron-conaill seems the more correct. The second member of the name, ‘conall,’ is evidently the same as the word connall (gl. stipulam: Relig. Celt. 38). The disease was of

¥ Bam Sabra mo

pty mBewdhy we

the nature of jaundice. It seems to have been the same kind of disease as that which proved so fatal in 548. It was variously Latinized flava pestis, flava icterrtia, and icteritia,

® Colman.—See under the year 554.

? Eacha.—The death of this person is also entered under the year 552 supra.

5 Prophet.—The epithet prophetz

(or ‘propetae,’ as in A.), is not in B,

byw Vg hd F ay Kew.

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Ty: [xvil. 143)

56 ocnNocLoc ulocoh.

Ict. tanap. Onno vomini cccce.’ L.° u11.° Ecclepa enncaip PUNDATEA eT. Hct. tancp. OCnnovomini cecce.’ L102 Leip Tethpra la Orapmaio mac Cepball 7 mop FSabpain mic Oomansgapcs pecunoum aliop. Immipse pe mac yD) | Maeléon (1. Dpurde pex). Cat Curle opermne. *

Pope es fet. 1anaip. Onno vomini cccce.’ tx? DellLum Cute opéeimne fop Or1apmais mac Cepbarll, ub .11. milia cecidenunt. Lepssur 7 Domnall va mac mic Epce (.1. 0a mac Muipchepcas mic Muipeaoars mic Eokain mic Neill), 7 Cinmipe mac Setn1, 7 Nainnio mac “Ouaé (pr Connacht) uictopep epanc, 7 Wed mac Echach tipm- chapna pi Connacht. pep opacionep Colum cille ticepunt. Lpaechan mac Temnan 1pe do pisne in n-epbe n-opuacod 00 “Oriapmaic. Tuaatan mac Oimain mic Sapcin mic Copmaic mic E€Eogain ipe pola in epbe n-opuco cap cenn. Maglaine po cing capre qu polup occipur eps. bellum Curle unpen.

fet. Janaip. Onno vomini cecce.? Lx? 1.2 Uel hie bellum cule uinpen 1 Tebtar for Diapmars mac Cepbarll pe n-Wed mac Dpenain. Driapmais fuyic.

b. x |

Fol. 20ba.

bellum Mona vaipe.

The death of Bec Mac De is entered above at the year 552, where the name 1s differently written.

1 Founded.—See under 554, where the foundation of the Church of Ban- gor is also recorded. In Clar. 49, in the passage parallel to the present, the word ‘finita’ is used instead of ‘fundata. But Clar. 49 is a very poor authority.

2 According to others. —Secunoum atiop. In B. only.

3 Expedition.—This entry is not in B., nor\in Clar. 49. The Irish word immipse means a hosting, expedi- tion, or assembly. Skene (Chron. of the Picts und Scots, p. 844) under-

stands 1mmipse (or as he writes it Inmirge) to mean “expuision.” But this is wrong.

* Battle of Cul-dreimne—The os- tensible cause of this battle was the execution, by King Diarmait Mac Cerbhaill, of Curnan, son to the King of Connaught, who was forced from St. Columba’s pretection, to which he had fled, and the desire on the part of the Northern Hy-Neill.to revenge the insult offered to their kinsman. The real cause would seem to have been the rivalry of the two great families. In the account of the battle in the Ann. Four Mast., at 555,however, an additional cause is assigned, namely

ANNALS OF ULSTER,

%.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 558, The church of Bangor was founded. | [558.]

Kal. Jan. A.D. 559, The Feast of Tara by Diarmait [559.]

Mac Cerbhaill; and the death of Gabran, son of Domangart,

(according to others’), An~—expedition*-by—the son of Maelchon (i.¢., King Bruide). The battle of Cul-dreimne.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 560. The battle of Cul-dreimne,‘ gained [560.]

over Diarmait Mac Cerbhaill, in which 3,000 fell. Fergus and Domnall, two sons of Mac Ereca (i.e., two sons® of Muirchertach, son of Muiredach, son of Eogan, son of Niall), and Ainmire, son of Setna, and Nainnid, son of Duach, King of Connaught,’ were victors, and Aedh, son of Echa Tirmcharna,’ King of Connaught. Through the prayers of Colum-Cille they conquered. ' Fraechan, son of Temnan, it was that made the Druids’ erbe® for Diarmait. Tuatan, son of Diman, son of Saran, son of Cormac, son of Eogan, it was that threw-over_head the Druids’ erbe.? Maglaine that passed over it, who alone was slain. | The battle of Cul-Uinsen.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 561. Or, in this year, the battle of Cul-Uinsen, in Tebhtha, was gained over Diarmait Mac Cerbhaill, by Aedh son of Brenan, Diarmait fled. The battle of Moin-Daire.

a decision given by King Diarmait 5 Two sons.—The clause within

in a dispute between Colum Cille and St. Finnen. See O’Donovan’s notes on the subject, Four Mast., A.D. 555. That it was considered an era in the life of St. Colum Cille appears from Adamnan’s words, who dates the arrival of St. Colum Cille in Britain as occurring in the ‘second year after the battle of Cule-Drebene.’ The name Cooledrevny is now obso- lete, but Colgan states that the place was in the territory of Carbury, near Sligo, on the north. (Trias Thaum., p. 452.) It must therefore have been in the neighbourhood of Drumcliff.

brackets is interlined in original hand in A. Itis notin B. The notice of this battle is more briefly given, under the year 559, in Clar. 49.

° King of Connaught.—Not repre- sented in B.

7 Tirmcharna.—Not in B.

8 Temnan.—‘ Tenusan,’ in the Four Mast., Chron. Scot., and other autho- rities. These particulars are not in B.

® Druids’ erbe.—epbe nopuawo— The meaning of this ‘ Druids’ erbe,” some kind of charmed invention, or obstacle, has not been yet explained.

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58 centocloc uLocoh.

Ict. lanaip. (2p.,1.21.) Onno vomini cecce.° Lw.? 11.° ellum Mona vaipe Lotaip for Cpmtmu pe n-wb Neill in cuaipeeips. Oaectan mac Cinn co n-o1b Crmc- m6 noomée pri Cpwmtnu. Senup Eugain 7 Conall Mepcede conduct nna Lee 7 aapve Eolapss. Sint paebpa PINT Pip dure | 1 moin morn Dane Lotaip, Cobap compoma v0 cepz, Secht mg Crurene 11 im eo m-bpec.

venue r , Litres va mac bag Sree: Cummaa in chetnat ; ad Gri 4 Pup in pr OCinmene ju Ue relbaib Setnat.

Liccin cat Cputtne n-uite, [Ocuy] poptoipcpet Ertne ; Eitan cat n-Sabpa lipe Ocur cat Cuile opeimne.

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> Babar Daecain fp for in pluag. es ta Daezan guile burde ; TOA vs epad a enen fuip. a

1 The account of this battle in Clar. 49 is as follows:—‘‘The battle of Moindoire Lothair upon the Cruhens, by the Nells of the North. Baedan mac Cin with two of Cruhens fought it against the rest of the Cruhens. The cattle and booty of the Eolargs were given to them of Tirconnell, and Tirowen, conductors, for their leading as wages.”

2 Sharp. weapons.—T hese four stan- zas are written in the lower margin, fol. 20ab, in A. They are not in B. A note in the top marg., fol. 206 in A., states that the stanzas above printed should be inserted where they are here introduced.

3 Seven.—VIL., A.

4 They bear. is (lit. “are borne”). Depyarc, Four Mast., at

ANNALS OF ULSTER. 59

Kal. Jan. (Mond., m. 21.) A.D. 562. The battle of Moin-daire-lothair was gained over the Cruithni, by the Ui-Neill of the North. Baetan, son of Cenn, with two of the Cruithni, fought against the Cruithni. The Lee and Arda-Eolairg were given to the Cinel-Eogain and Cinel-Conaill, as a reward."

Sharp weapons? stretch, men stretch,

In the great bog of Daire-lothair—

The cause of a contention for right—

Seven® Cruithnian Kings, including Aedh Brec.

The two sons [of Mac] Erca return

In the same manner. = The King Ainmire returns

With the possessions of Setna.

The battle of all the Cruithni is fought, [And] they burn Eilne.

The battle of Gabhair-Lifé is fought, And the battle of Cul-dreimne.

They bear* pledges after valour,

[Thence westwards] abont........ ’ Ferggus, Domnall, Ainmire,

And Nandidh, son of Duach.

Splendidly* he bears his course— Baetan’s steed—upon the host. Pleasing to Baetan of the yellow hair. ’T will bear his burden upon it.

A.D. 557. Depparc, Chron. Scot.,at { battle of Cul-dreimne, Four Mast., A.D. 563. at 555, it seems to belong to the poem

5 Splendidly.—This stanza is writ- | of which the foregoing is a fragment, ten on the top margin of fol. 204, in | relating to the battle of Moin-daire- A. Itisnotin B. Although printed | lothair, in which the name of Baetan by O’Donovan in connexion with the | occurs.

[562.]

60 ocnNocloc ulocoh.

Cevan mac Liaépaé moprtup. Natrgacio Coltim Crlle ad inpolam 1ae, anno etvacip pie xl. 1.2 Tusgulacio Colman mom mic Oriapmova.

fet. tanap. (8p, 1.2.) CCnno vomimi cccce.? La? 111.° Uencur magnur paccur ert. Mopyp Lappe o Oaiminiy. Uel hoc anno Dpenaind funoauis ecclepram ¢Cluana penta.

Ict. lanaip. (5 p, L 13.) Onno vomini eccce.° Lx.° nn. Occippo “Oriapmaco mic Cepbmll 1. La hed n-oub mac Sinbne, cur pucceppepunc duo pili mic Epce, Lepsup 7 Oomnall. Curer Dpnenoain Dipop uc clin oicunc. Dellum Fabpace Liphi 7 mopp Ocamin vaim- CIPZIT.

fet. tanaip. (6 p, UL. 24) Onno vomin1 cecce.° La’. u’ Dellum Sabpae Lift. Lepssup7 Domnall urctopep epant. Mopp quoque Oomnarll pil Muipchepcars mic Eapca, cur puccepit Cinmipe mac Setni. lupc- muUp Minop anmyp .xL. UT Deva dicis pesnate.

fet. tancrp. (7 f.) CCnno vomini cecce.? Le? u1.° lohannep nacione pomanup predic anmp .x1. menprbur x. diebup .xxur., et 1n baplica beat Pet apoytolr repulcup eps. Lecht in lapooman.

fet. tancrp. (1. p, UL. 16.) Onno vominti cccec.° Lw.° wn.° Lets 1n lapooman La Colman m-bec mac n-Oiap-

maco 7 Conall mac Comsgailt.

1Jsland of Ja.—Iona. B. has merely ve hibepnia, and does not refer to the age of Colum Cille at the time of leaving Ireland. 2 Laisre.—There were three famous saints of this name, who generally appear in Irish hagiology, with the devotional prefix Mo (‘‘ my ’’), in the form Molatsi, namely, Molaisi, son of Cairill, abbot of Leithglinn ; Molaisi, son of Declan, abbot of Inishmurray, and Molaisi, son of Nadfraech, abbot of Daimhinis, the one in question. He founded the church of Daimh-inis,

Pe - -

‘Bovis insula,’ in Loch-Erne, now called Devenish, near Enniskillen. The death of Molasse (above called Laisre) is entered again at the year 570.

3 Cluain-ferta.—Omitted from the entry in B. The foundation of the church of Cluain-ferta (or Clonfert,co. Galway), by St. Brendan, is entered before under the year 557.

* Diarmait MacCerbhaill. — Pro- perly, Diarmait son of Fergus Cerb- haill (or Cerbheoil), In the Ann, Four Masters, the Chron. Scotorum and other Chronicles, it is stated that

a at

a

ANNALS OF ULSTER. 61

Aedan, son of Fiachra, dies. Voyage of Colum-Cille to the Island of Ia’, in the 42nd year of his age. The slaying of Colman the Great, son of Diarmait. Kal. Jan. (Tues, m. 2.) AD. 563. A great storm occurred, The death of Laisre* of Daimhinis. Or, in this year, Brenaind founded the church of Cluain-ferta.* Kal. Jan. (Thurs.,m. 13.) A.D. 564. The murder of Diarmait MacCerbhaill,* 2, by Aedh Dubh’ son of Suibhne, to whom succeeded the two sons of Mac Erca,

Fergus and Domnall. The repose of Brendan of Birr, as

others say. of Daimin Daimairgit.

Kal. Jan. (Frid.) A.D. 565, Liphe. Fergus and Domnall were victors.

The battle of Gabair-Liphe ; and the death

The battle of Gabair- Also the

death of Domnall, son Muirchertach Mac Erca, to

whom succeeded Ainmire son of Setna.

Justin the

younger reigned, as Bede says, eleven years.

Kal, Jan.

(Saturd.) A.D. 566. John, a Roman by

birth, sat twelve years, eleven months, and twenty-six days, and was buried in the church of St. Peter® the

apostle. Kal. Jan.

An expedition into Iardoman.’ (Sund.,m. 16.) A.D. 567. An expedition

into Iardoman,® by Colman Bec, son of Diarmait, and

Conall son of Comgall.

King Diarmait’s head was buried in Clonmacnois, and his body in Connor.

5 Aedh Dubh.—-‘* Black Hugh.” He was King of Dalaradia, whose father Suibhne Araidhe had been put to death by King Diarmait, and he had in early life been taken in fosterage by Diarmait. But Diarmait having been warned against Aedh, the latter was banished into Alba (Scotland), whence he returned to perpetrate the deed recorded in the above entry. Aedh afterwards fled back to Scotland, and took the clerical habit in one of the Columban Monasteries. But he

returned to Ireland, and became King of Ulad in 581; and was himself slain in 587. Adamnan gives a very bad account of him. See Reeves’s Eccl. Antiqq., p. 279.

° Peter.—peityu, A.

7An expedition into Iardoman.-- This entry is not in B. See the next

entry. 8 Tardoman.—‘' The Western re- gion.” In the Ann. Four Mast., at

A.D. 565, it is stated that Colman Beg, son of Fergus, son of Diarmait, and Conall son of Comgall, King of Dal-Riada, brought a sea fleet

(563.]

[564.]

[565.]

[566.]

[567.]

Fol. 2000.

62 onnoclec uvlocoh.

kct. tancap. (3 p, L. 27.) CCnno vomini ccecce.® lx.” un. Occippio Cinmipeé mic Setna ta Pepsup mac Neillens.

}ct. lanaip. (4 p, L- 9.) Onno vomini ccccc.° tx.” 10° lusulacio Lepsupa mic Nellenr. Oena, abb cluana mic Noip, 7 1cae cluana cpeoarl, vopmepnunct. Sillap obs. Cedan -h. Praépaé obie.

fet. tancip. (5 p, L. 20.) Onno vomini cecce.° Law.” CC mopte Pacpicn c. anni. Uel hoc anno quer Molarre darminnye.

Ict. tanaip. (6p, 1.) Onno vomini cccce.? Lew.’ 1.° Occipio Da aeu Mupevays.1. Doecan mac Murpcepoarg, 7 Echaid mac Domnall 1. mic Muipceptargs mic Enca, cepuvio anno pesmi pur. Cponan mac Tigepnargs pi Ciannachtae sleanna séimin occipop eopum = epac. Moenu eprcop cluana penta Dpenaaind quieuct. TWlopr Demain mic Caiprll. el hoc anno occipp10 Oiapmoova

mic Ceapbuitt.

1n hoc anno capta ept in muipgerle.

Cfuier Dhpenuinn Dipna us ali dicune.

(mupéoblach) to Sol and Ile, and carried away spoils therefrom. Here we have the Sol and J/le of the Four Mast. corresponding to the Iardoman of these Annals. In the Book of Leinster (p. 240) the expedition to Tardomon is stated to have been 1port 7 in its (“to Sol and Ie”), agreeing with the Four Masters. The latter is Islay; and the former is either Seil or Colonsay—not Coll, which is too far off, although O’Denovan thought so (note ad an. 565, F. M.). Islay was at this time in the possession of the Scots, as appears from Adamnan’s life of St. Columba (ii. 23), having been occupied by Muiredach, son of Aengus, who was first cousin of Conall’s grand- father Domangart. Conall’s territory lay in Cowall, and this expedition was probably against the rival house

of Gabhran. But it is strange that Colman Beg, whose territory lay very near the centre of Ireland, was ad- venturous enough to engage in mari- time warfare.

1 Ainmire. — Called ‘' Ainmorius filius Setni” by Adamnan. Vit. Columb. i., 7. See again under A.p, 575.

? Fergus.—Slain in the following year by Aedh son of Ainmire, in revenge of his father.

3 Fergus. -— The Four Mast. say (568) that Fergus was slain by Aedh, sonof Ainmire, in revenge of his father. The entry is repeated under 576.

4 Tta of Cluain-credail.— See note on Cuilen, under 551, supra. The death of St. Ita is repeated under the year 576, where the repose of Oena of Cluain-mic-Nois, and of Gildas, is also repeated.

= =

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Kal. Jan. (Tuesd., m. 27.) a.p. 568. Murder of Ain- mire,’ son of Setna, by Fergus® son of Nellen.

Kal. Jan. (Wed. m. 9.) A.D. 569. The slaying of Fergus’ son of Nellen. Oena, abbot of Cluain-mic-Nois, and Ita of Cluain-credail,‘ fell asleep. Gildas died. Aedhan Ua Fiachrach’ died.

Ka]. Jan. (Thursd., m. 20.) A.D. 570. From the death of Patrick one hundred years.’ Or, in this year, the repose of Molasse of Daiminis.’

Kal. Janair. (Frid.,m. 1.) A.D. 571. The assassina- tion of two grandsons of Muiredach, viz. :—Baetd4n son

[568.]

[569.]

of Muirchertach, and Eochaid son of Domnall (1.2, son of Mf E wyy gyal fia

Muirchertach Mac Erca) in the third year of their reign. Cronan, son of Tigernach, King of Cianachta of Glenn- geimin, was their slayer. Moenu, bishop of Cluain-ferta- Brenaind, rested. The death of Deman son of Cairill. Or, in this year, the killing of Diarmait Mac Cerbhaill. In this year the ‘ muirgeilt’* was captured. The repose of

Brendan’ of Birr, as others say.

5 Aedhan Ua Fiachrach.—This may be the Aedan ‘son’ of Fiachra, whose obit is given above at the year 562.

® One hundred years.—-The entry at 552 would refer the death of St. Patrick to the year 492, but this to 470. Tigernach indicates 571 as a hundred years after thatevent. Again, in these Annals, the year 663 (and in Tigernach 664) is set down as 203 years from the death of St. Patrick. See at the years 999, 1013, infra. According to these computations 471 is the latest date. The death of Sen Patrick is entered above under the year 461, which partly explains the confusion of dates.

7 Molasse of Daiminis. — Called ‘+ Laisre,” under a.p. 563, where see note.

8 Muirgeilt. — “Sea Wanderer.” ‘Sometimes called Murgein, “ sea-

born,” and idan, ‘* sea-woman.” The entry is fuller in Tigernach. “In this year was caught the Muirgelt on the shore of Ollarba, in the net of Beoan, son of Innli, fisherman of Comgall of Bangor ;” to which the Four Mast. add “ that is, Liban, daughter of Eochaid, son of Mairid.” The legend concerning her (see Lebor na hUidre, p. 39, sq.) is, that she was daughter of Eochaid, King of the tract now covered by Lough Neagh, who was drowned by its eruption about the time of the Christian Era; that she was changed into a salmon, and traversed the sea until she allowed herself to be cap- tured on this occasion. Under the names Muirgen and Liban, she appears mentioned in the Calendar at Jan. 27, and Dee. 18.

® Brendan.—See under A.D. 564. The death of St. Brendan, of Birr, is

4 Wd. J 12+ Ravel me pu

64 OCNNocLoc uLlocoh.

Ict. lanap. (. p, L 12.) Onno vomini ecece. Lax? n° Dellum Leithin 1n quo wuccur ept Colman movicup

mliup “Or1apmaco, et ipre euayit.

Sabpac Lips pop Largniu.

Uel hic bellum Uel hoc anno bar Oom-

naill mic Muipcheapcas mic Eapca, cur pucceppt

CCinmipe mac etna.

Uel yic bellum cola 7 fop-

cola 1. nomen camponum ecip Eile 7 Oppasge, 7

euip Cluain fepta Molua 7 Sargsep.

Daecar nN UICTON ENaw.

Piacpa mac

fet. tancip. (2 p., L. 23%) CCnno vomini cecce.’ Lax.” 11° DellLum cola 7 foptola in pesionibur Cpuirtne. Mopp Conall mic Comsarll anno pesni .xur. pu, qui obculit inpolam 146 Columbe cillLe.

Ict. lanaip. (3 p, L. 4) Onno vomini cccce.’ Lax.°

1911.0

Magna conuentio Opoma ceacva in qua epanc

Colum cille ocur Ced mac Cinmipe. }ct. tancap. (4 pL. 15.) OCnno vomini cecce.’ Law.’ u.°

recorded in Tigernach under the year 573, which is probably the true date, although the Mart. Donegal and the Four Mast. have his obit under A.D. 571.

1 Femhin.—Commonly called Magh- Feimhin, a plain comprised in the barony of Iffa and Offa, East, county Tipperary. The Annals of Inis- fallen, which have the entry of this battle under 565, state that Colman Bec was slain therein by the men of Munster. But Tigernach(at 573) and the Four Masters (at 571) agree with this chronicle in recording the escape of Colman Bec, whose death is men- tioned, infra, at A.D. 586, and again at 592.

2 Gabair-Liphe.—‘ Gabair of the Liffey.’ The situation of this place has not yet been fixed; but Father Shearman, a very good authority,

states that it was the name of a dis- trict comprising ‘‘ the hilly country bounded by the Dublin Mountains on the north; on the east by the River Liffey, from its source in Kippure to Ballymore-Eustace ;” its western boundary including ‘‘ the hills from Tipperkevin, by Rathmore, to Athgoe, towards Tallaght, and the hill of Lyons.” Loca Patriciana, p. 28, note”.

5 Tola and Fortola.—This entry is in the margin in B, and also in A. (in which it is partly obliterated). The Four Masters (at 571) have but the name of Tula, which O’Donovan (Loc. cit., note 7,) identifies with Tulla, in the parish of Kinnitty, barony of Ballybritt, King’s County.

4 Ele and Ossory.—Ele, called from its occupants Ele-O’Carroll, comprised the present baronies of Ballybritt and

ANNALS OF ULSTER. 65

- Kal. Jan. (Sund., m. 12.) A.p. 572. The battle of Femhin,’ in which Colman Bec, sou of Diarmait, was vanquished ; buthe escaped. Or, in this year, the battle of Gabair-Liphe* over the Leinstermen. Or, in this year, the death of Domnall, son of Muirchertach Mac Erca, to whom succeeded Ainmire, son of Setna. Or thus, the battle of Tola and Fortola,’ viz, the names of plains between Ele and Ossory,‘ and between Cluain-ferta-Molua and Saighir.® Fiachra, son of Baetan,® was victor.

Kal. Jan. (Mond., m. 23.) A.D. 573. The battle of Tola and Fortola, in the territory of the Cruithne.’? The death of Conall, son of Comgall,’ in the 16th year of his reign, who granted the island of Ia to Colum-Cille.

Kal. Jan. (Tuesd., m. 4.) A.D. 574, The great Con- vention of Druim-Ceta,’ at which were Colum-Cille, and

Aedh son of Ainmire.

Kal. Jan. (Wed.,m.15.) A.D. 575. A spark of leprosy,”

Clonlisk, in the south of the King’s County; from which the territory of Ossory, now partly represented by the baronies of Upperwoods and Clan- donagh, in the Queen's County, is divided by the Slieve-Bloom Moun- tains.

5 Cluain-ferta-Molua and Saighir. —The former, commonly called Clon- fertmulloe, is now known as Kyle, a parish in the barony of Clandonagh, Queen’s County. Saighir, or Seir- kieran, is a parish in the barony of Ballybritt, King’s County.

6 Fiachra, son of Baetan.—Other- wise called Fiachra Lurgan, after- wards King of Ulidia. His death is recorded under the year 625, infra, where the name is Fiachna.

7 The Cruithne.—The Picts. In the entry of the battle of Tola and For- tola under the preceding year (572) the site of the battle is fixed in the

south of the present King’s County, which was hardly Pictish territory ; though Fiachra, son of Baetan, the victor, was an Ulster chieftain.

8 Conall, son of Comgall.—See under A.D. 567, supra, where Conall is men- tioned as leagued with Colman Bec, son of Diarmait, in a maritime expe- dition.

°Great Convention of Druim-Ceta.— Magna conto, for M. conuentio, A., B., and Clar. 49. The word mopoait, ‘ great assembly,’ is added as a gloss over contio in B., and in the margin in A. On the date and place of this famous Convention, see Reeves’s Adamnan, page 87, note 0.

°Leprosy.——This entry is misplaced in the MSS., being introduced into the middle of the record of the battle of Teloch, which should probably follow it, as in the printed text in the next page (66).

F

[572.]

[573.]

(574.]

[575.]

Fol. 2laa.

66 ocnticcloc uLocoh.

Scintilla Leppae ec habunoantia nucum imau- vita. Dellum Telocho 1 ciunn Tipe, IN GUO CEcCIDIT Ouncaté mac Conall mic Comsaill ec ali mule ve pocup pilionum Fabpain cecrdepunc. Mopr Openovain mic Dpruin. Uel hic occippio Cinmipeé mic fPetna, ve quo DICTUM Eft :—

Femen an tan pobui pu,

Nip bo mennot naé vectat ;

Indiu 1p fopdens a U

a hOinmipe mac Secnat.

}ct. lanaip. (6 pf. L. 26.) Onno vomin1 cccce.? Law. ur.° Dellum Teloto. Imeum pesmi Tibepn Conpcanztint qui pesnams anmy un. Curep Opendvain Clona renova. lugulacio CCeda mic Echaé Tipmeapna (aliap Timpim, mic Lepsupa mic Muipedars thaeil mic Eogan pperb mic Suaé Falers mic Darain mic Eachaé murEmedorn) la hu Dpiuin. Primum pepiculum ULoth in Eupania. Uel hic lugulacio Lepsupa mic Neilline, 7 Oena abb cluana mic Nop, 7 1cae Cluana cpedanl, 7 Sillap.

fet. tanaip. (7 p, L. 7.) Onno vomit cecee.? Lex. un Cuep epremp Ercchen Cluana roca Doecan Reuepyio Ulocth ve Cumanma. Leroilm1d finn abb po mata quiet. a

ket. tanarp. (1 p., 18.) Onno vomins cecce.° Lax.”

1 Of Teloch.--Devoco, A. ; teLoco,

Ainmire, son of Setna. The death of

B. Cenn-tire, in which Teloch was situated, and which signifies ‘ Head of the region,’ was the territory of the Cinel-Gabrain.

2 Brendan, son of Brian.—Chief of Teffia. He wasbrother of Cremthann, mentioned at the year 552, and father of Aedh, whose death is recorded at 588.

3 Femen.—See under the year 572. This rann, which is written in al. man. in A., and in original hand in B., seems taken from a poem in praise of some king of Munster, after whose death Magh-Femhin was wasted by

Ainmire is recorded above under 568. -

4 Teloch.—Devoco (gen. of De- toch), A. See under 575.

5 Brendan.—He died, according to his Acts and the Four Masters, on the 16th of May, in the 94th year of his age, at Enach-duin, in the nunnery of his sister Briga, and was buried at Clonfert. Enach-duin, now Anna- down, county Galway, had been granted to him by the King of Con- naught ; and it is probable that the nunnery there was founded by him, and placed under his sister's super- intendence. See under the year 582

nahh an

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67

and an unheard of abundance of nuts. The battle of Teloch,* in Cenn-tire, in which fell Duncath, son of Conall, son of Comgall, and many others of the allies of the sons of Gabran. The death of Brendan, son of Brian.* Or, in this year, the killing of Ainmire, son of Setna, of whom was said :—

Femen,*® when there was a King,

Was not a place without valour.

To-day, crimson is its aspect

fae By Ainmire, son of Setna.

Kal. Jan. (Frid., m. 26.) A.D. 576. The battle of Teloch.t The beginning of the reign of Tiberius Constantinus, who reigned seven years. The repose of Brendan,’ of Cluain-ferta. Murder of Aedh, son of Eocha Tirmcarna (alias® Timrim, son of Fergus, son of Muiredach Mael, son of Eoghan Srebh, son of Duach Galach, son of Brian, son of Eocha Muighmedhoin), by the Ui-Briuin. The first adventure of the Ulidians in Eufania.” Or, in this year, the murder of Fergus, son of Nellin,® and [the repose of ] Oena, abbot of Cluain-mic-Nois, and of Ita,° of Cluain- credail, and of Gildas.’

Kal. Jan. (Sat.,m. 7.) A.D. 577. The rest of Bishop Etchen,” of Cluain-fota-Baetain." The return of the Ulidians from Eumania.” Feidilmidh Finn, abbot of Armagh, rested.

Kal. Jan. (Sund., m. 18.) A.D. 578. The repose of

infra, where the entry of St. Brendan’s death is repeated.

6 Alias.—The clause within brackets, which is not in B., is interlined in A. in a very old hand.

7 Eufania.—Under next year the name is written ‘Eumania.’ Tiger- nach has ‘ Kamania.’

5 Fergus, son of Nellin.—See under A.D. 569.

® Ita, Gildas.—The obits of these two persons are not in B, under this

year; but they occur therein, as in A., at 569.

1° Bishop Etchen.—He is best known as the bishop at whose hands St. Columba received holy orders. See the curious legend concerning him in Colgan’s AA. SS., p. 306, b., n. 17, and the Introduction to the Obits of Christ Church, p. liv. See under 583.

Cluain-fota-Baetain. —- Clonfad, par. of Killucan, county Westmeath.

12 Eumania.—See note ’.

F2

Tey XV. 148

[576.]

(577.]

[578.]

af

Fol. 21ab,

68 ocnnNocboc uLocoh.

win. Curep Uinnianr epipcop1, mac nepovip Pracac. enedictup nacione pomanur pedis anniyp .1111. menre 1. diebup xe. 12., pepulcup ept in bayilica beat: PeTpr

aporcol. resip nepocum Pails. }ct. tancap.

Oceiy10 (Leda mic Seno, es mopy Opudiés

(2 p., L. 29.) Onno vomini cccce.? Lew.

10° DeLLum opoma mic Epce, ub1 Colssu piliup Domnall pila Muipcepctars mic Muipeadars mic

Eosain cecio1T.

Pictonum mopitup. fel. tan Cp.

ed mac Cinmipeé wictop exptetic. echt Ope la h-Cedan mac Fabpain.

Cennalat pex

4 pf, L. .) Onno vomim cecce.’ Lexe.°

Uel hic bellum Opoma mic Epcaae. Mopp Daecain

mic Caipill. Leechs Ope.

Hct. tancap. Sp.) CCnno vomin1 cccce.° Laww.’1.° BelLum Manonn in quo wicctop enac Cedan mac Fabpain mic

Domangzcap«.

Moprp Lepsna mic Carbleine.

fet. tanaip. (6p, L 2) OCnno vomin ccece.® Lean?

n© Mopp Lepadbars mic Ouaé pesip Oppars.

pela-

sup nacione pomanupr pedis anmp .c. menprbuy .11.

miebuy x.

bellum manand pp CLedan. Mopp Lepsna

mic Caibleine. Uel hoc anno quer Dhpenainn éLuana

fepta pecunoum alioy.

1 Vinnian.—Erroneously printed Umaniain by O’Conor. This was St. Finnian, of Magh-bile, or Movilla, the patron saint of the Ulidians.

? Aedh, son of Geno. —This entry is not found in any of the other Annals. At 587, infra, the entry ‘Mors nepo- tum Geno’ occurs.

3 Brudig.—In the list of kings of Ui-Failgi, or Offaly, contained in the Book of Leinster (p. 40, col. 3,) the name of a ‘ Bruidgin, son of Cathair,’ occurs immediately before that of Aedh Roin, whose death is entered within at the year 603. And in the

Pedigree of the Ui-Failgi, in the same authority (p. 314, col. 2), a Bruidgi is set down as fourth in descent from Ros Failgi, the ancestor of the Ui- Failgi.

* Druim-mic-Erca.—This place has not been identified. Colgu’s futher, Muirchertach, bore the matronymic of Mac-Erca, and from him this place may perhaps have derived its name. See under 580 and 585.

5 Or, in this year.—Uet hic, in B.

’ only.

® Baetan, son of Cairell.-—Entered again at 586, with a ‘vel hic,’

ANNALS OF ULSTER. 69

‘Vinnian,' the bishop, son of Ua Fiatach. Benedict, a

Roman by birth, sat four years, one month, twenty-nine days ; and was buried in the church of Saint Peter the Apostle. The killing of Aedh, son of Geno,’ and the death of Brudig,? King of the Ui-Failgi.

Kal. Jan. (Mond.,m. 29.) A.D. 579. The battle of Druim-mic-Erca,! in which fell Colgu, son of Domnall, son of Muirchertach f Muiredhach, son of Eogan. Aedh, son of Ainmire, remained victor, An expedition to the Orkneys by Aedhan, son of Gabran. Cennalath, King of the Picts, dies.

Kal. Jan. (Wedn.,m. .) A.D. 580. Or, in this year,’ the battle of Druim-mic-Erca. The death of Baetan, son of Cairill.° The expedition to the Orkneys.’

Kal. Jan. (Thursd.) A.D. 581. The battle of Maron: in which Aedhan, son of Gabran, son of Domangart,’ was victor. The death of Fergna, son of Caiblein.

Kal. Jan. (Frid., m. 2.) AD. 582. The death of Feradach, son of Duach, King of Ossory. Pelagius, a Roman by birth, sat ten years, two months, and ten days. The battle of Manand against’ Aedhan. The death of Fergna," son of Caiblein. Or, in this year, the repose of Brenaind, of Cluain-ferta, according to others.”

O'Donovan was

_ where

7 Orkneys.—This is, of course, a repetition of the entry under the year 579. The Orkneys are also noticed at the years 681 and 1013, infra.

8 Battle of Manonn.—Dean Reeves thinks that this was the name of “the debateable ground on the con- fines of the Seots, Picts, Britons, and Saxons, now represented in part by the parish of Slamannan (Sliabh Manann, ‘Moor of Manann’), on the south-east of Stirlingshire, it and the counties of Dumbarton, Lanark, and Linlithgow meet.” Adamnan, p. 371, n. d.

surely wrong in thinking Manann the Isle of Man. (Frag. of Annals, 581.)

® Son of Domangart.—In A. only.

10 Against.—-pyu, A., probably a mistake for pu, “by” (ie, “won by ”); in which case the entry would seem a repetition of that under 581. Not in B. Clar. 49 has ‘ per.’

1 Fergna.—aA repetition of the entry at 581.

2 According to others.—pecunoum alioy, in B. only. The death of St. Brendan is entered above at the year 576.

[580.]

[581.]

[582.]

db,

70 ocnNocloc ulocoh. |

Ict. tancap. (7 p, 13.) Onno vomin cecce.? Law.’ 1° (fuer Lepsuppo epipcop: “Ouna Lletslaire qui funoams Cill bien. Mauprcrup anmp .cxr. pesnauit uc Deva ex lprovopup dicunc. Mopp Opuide mic Maelcon pesip pictonum, et mopr Lepadars mic Duaé pesip Oppise. Uel hoc anno quer Ertchen.

E.lanap. (2 7.,l. 24.) Onno vomini ccccc.° Lowe.?1111.° (aliap 85.) Quer mic Nippe abb cluana mic u Nop, xu anno. Mopyp Ceda [mic] Subne, pes Moenmarési.

Hct. lanaip. (3p, 5.) Onno vomini cccce.° Lawx.° u’ Occipo Daecain mic Ninnedo pil Ouaé (alia mic Pepsupa ceannfaoa) pili Conall sulban pesip Tempo, qui uno anno pegnauit. Cummaene mac Colmain big mic Oiapmaca, 7 Cummaene mac Libpaen fu. ttlcnnon mic Cepbarll occrdepunt eum conylio Colmain 1. oc Lem ind e1é. Uel hoc anno cat Opoma mic Epnce.

Ict. lanaip. (47, t.16.) Onno vomini cccce.® Laaw.?

um. bellum “Oaete in quo cecivic Colman bec mac

1 Of Dun-lethglaise.-The name was originally written (inthe genit. form) oma LetxLaipe (of Druim-lethglaise) in A.,asin B., but a rude attempt has been made in tke former MS. to alter opoma (oma) to Ouna, to make the name “Oun tetglaire (Dun-lethglaise), the usualform. See Reeves’s Eccl. Antig., pp. 41, 144, 224. At the year 589 infra, how- ever, the name of the place is as originally written in the present entry.

2 Bruide, son of Maelcon.—Tiger- nach, too, has the obit of Bruide at 583. But, by a strange prolepsis, the death of Bruide is entered above at 504, and in Tigernach at 505. For the mors of Bruide at 504, in his edition of the Ann. Ult., Dr. O’Conor proposes nativitas, an emendation which, as Dean Reeves observes

(Adamnan, 148, note J), ‘‘ harmonises very well with the true date of his death, as it allows a period of 78 years for the term of his life, but is open to the objection that in both authorities the ‘ Battle of Manann by Aedhan,’ is entered under the preced- ing year (503), although Aedhan was not yet born, and the true date of that battle is 582: which creates a suspicion that these entries were taken from an earlier record whose chronological system was different, or that they were displaced through carelessness in the scribe.”

3 Feradach.—The death of Fera- dach is also recorded under the pre- ceding year. The Four Mast. at 582, and Tigernach at 583, state that he was slain by his own people.

* Bishop Etchen.—-See under 577,

a

a

71 (Sat., m. 13.) A.D. 583. The repose of

ANNALS OF ULSTER.

Kal. Jan. Fergus, bishop of Dun-lethglaise,’ who founded Cill-Bien. Mauricius reigned twenty-one years, as Bede and Isidore state. The death of Bruide, son of Maeleon, King of the Picts; and the death of Feradach,’ son of Duach,

King of the Osraighe. Or, in this year, the repose of Etchen.‘

Kal. Jan. (Mond., m. 24.) A.D. 584 (alias 85). The repose of Mac Nisse, abbot of Cluain-mic-u-Nois, in the 17th year.’ Death of Aedh [son of ] Suibhne, King of Moenmagh,

Kal. Jan. (Tuesd.,m. 5.) A.D. 585. The assassina- tion of Baetan, son of Ninnidh, son of Duach (alias, son of Fergus Cennfada*), son of Conall Gulban, King of Tara, who reigned one year. Cummaene, son of Colman Bec, son of Diarmait, and Cummaene, son of Libraen, son of Illannan, son of Cerbhall, killed him, at the instance of Colman—namely, at Leim-ind-eich. Or, in this year,

the battle of Druim-mic-Erce.’

Kal. Jan.

(Wed., m. 16.) A.D. 586. The battle of

Daethe,* in which fell Colman Bec, son of Diarmait ;

where the death of this prelate is entered also.

5 The 17th year, i.e., of Mac Nisse’s abbacy.—The death of his predecessor, Oenu, is entered above under the year 569, and again at 576. Mac Nisse’s death is entered also under 590 infra.

® Fergus Cennfada.—-The orig. of this clause is interlined in an old hand in A., and in the orig. hand in B. The death of Baetan is given by the Four Masters at the year 567; but Tigernach has it at 586, agreeing with these Annals. Fergus Cennfadda was otherwise called Duach. See Reeves’s Adamnan, Geneal. Table at p. 342.

' Battle of Druim-mic-Erce.-—This

battle is also referred to at the years 579 and 580.

8 Battle of Daethe._-The name of this place is written vaete in A. and B., although O’Conor prints Dro- maethe. O’Donovan, under an extra- ordinary misconception, states (Ann. Four Mast., a.p., 572, note) that Cod. Clar. 49 has ‘Bellum Droma- Ethe,’ whereas it really reads ‘ Bellum Doothe.’ See under 592, infra. The record of this battle under this year, in A., B., and Clar. 49, is somewhat confused, the notice of the death of Daigh, son of Cairill, being intro- duced into the middle of it. The Editor has taken the liberty of putting it in its proper place in the text,

[583.}

[584.]

[585.]

[586.]

Fol. 21ba.

72: —acnnocloc ulocoh.

Diapmaco. Led mac Cinmipeé wictop epac; 7 1n quo cecrnics Libpaen mac 1llanndon mec Ceapbaill. ‘Omg mac Caipill obs. tel hic mopp Daecain mic Carpall ps ULlad.

fet. tanarp. (5 p, L. 27.) Onno vomini cccce.’ Lexx. un.° Cmep Caiplaen epreoip Opo maca Curer Senaic eppeoip Cluana iIpaipo. Mopr nepocum Seno. Conuepyio Conpcantini ad Oominum, 7 mx magna, 7 1usulatio Meda nigpi mic Suibn1,1 Lunes.

Hct. Jonaap. (7* p, L 9.) Onno vomini cccce.° Lore? ui. = =(fmep eppuic Heda pilin Dpice. Qed mac Upenoain pex Tetba mopcuur eps, (4. apé po

edbaip Depmars 00 Colum cille.) Eovemque tempore

aeptay TOPMIDA ET PICCH CONTIFIT.

fet. tanap. (1 p, L 20.) CCnno vomini cccee.° Lere.? 12.° Mopp Lervelmiie mic Tizepnais pesip Muman. Vellum Leréperd La Cedsan mac FSabpain. Vellum Mag ofccap pe mOpannu’ mac Echach rop uu Neill. Uel hoc anno quer Lepsupa eprp- cop: Opoma Leatslape qu punoawnc Cilt m-Dicin.

kct. tancap. (2 p, L 1.) CCnno vomini eccce.® axc.°

1 Baetan.—See under 580.

? Carlaen.—A marg. note in A. gives his name as ‘‘ Ciarlaech,”’ and states that he was from Crich ua Niallain, “the territory of Ui-Niallain,” now Oneilland West, in the county of Armagh. His day in the Calendar is the 24th of March. In the list of the comarbs of St. Patrick in the Book of Leinster (p. 42, col. 3), his name is written ‘Caurlan’; and he is stated to have ruled 4 years, and to have been from Domnach mic U Garba, and of the Ui-Niallain. See Colgan’s Acta SS., p. 744.

3 Grandsons of Geno—nepotum Seno.—Clar. 49 has “ nephewes of Geno.” This Geno is not noticed in

the other Annals. The assassination of his son Aedh is recorded under the year 578, supra.

* Constantine.—He had been King of Cornwall; but abandoned the throne, and became a monk under St. Carthach (otherwise called Mo- chuda), at Rahin, in the present King’s county, whence he passed over to Scotland, and founded the church of Govan on the Clyde. He suffered martyrdom in Cantyre, where there is a church, Kilchoustand, called after his name. His festival, in the Calen- dars of both Scotland and Ireland, is March 11. See Reeves’s Adamnan, p- 371, note e.

5 Aedh Dubh. — “Black Hugh.”

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Aedh, son of Ainmire, being victor. And in which fell Libraen, son of Illannon, son of Cerbhall. Daigh, son of Cairill, died. Or, in this year, the death of Baetan,' son of Cairill, King of Uladh.

Kal. Jan, (Thurs. m. 27.) A.D. 587. The repose of [587 Carlaen,? bishop of Armagh. The repose of Senach, bishop of Cluain-Iraird. The death of the grandsons of Geno.’ The conversion of Constantine‘ to the Lord ; and great snow; and the murder of Aedh Dubh,’ son of Suibhne, in a ship.

Kal, Jan. (Sat, m. 9.) A.D. 588. The repose of [588] Bishop Aedh, son of Brece.’ Aedh, son of Brendan, King of Tethba, died. (It was he that presented Dermhagh’ to Colum-Cille.) And, in the same time, there was a scorching and droughty summer.

Kal, Jan. (Sund.,m. 20.) A.D. 589. The death of [589.3 Fedelmith, son of ‘Tigernach, King of Munster. The battle of Lethreid was gained by Aedhan, son of Gabran.

The battle of Magh-ochtair was gained by Brandubh, son

of Echa, over the Ui-Neill. Or, in this year, the repose

of Fergus, bishop of Druim-lethglaise,*° who founded

Cill-Bian. Kal. Jan.

‘yvil 3

(Mond.,m.1.) A.D. 590. An eclipse of the [590.]

Lord of Dalaradia, and afterwards King of Ulster. The murder by him of Dermot MacCerbhaill, King of Ireland, is recorded above under the year 564. Adamnan gives a bad character of him (Vit. Columbae, i. 36). :

6 Aedh,son of Brec.—Better known as Aedh Mac Bric. Founder of Kil- lare, in Westmeath. Also venerated at Sliabh Liag (Slieveleague), in the Co. Donegal. He was also the founder and patron of Rathhugh, near Kilbeggan, in the Co. of Westmeath. His life has been published by Colgan

4 | a

(AA., SS.), at Feb. 28th. See under 594 infra,

7 Dermhagh. — Durrow, in the barony of Ballycowan, King's County. Added as a gloss in A. Not in B. In the Annals of the Four Masters, at A.p. 585, Brenainn, the father of Aedh, is represented as the person who presented Durrow to St. Columba. But this is an error. The death of Aedh son of Brendan (or Brenann) is entered again under 594 infra.

8 Druim-lethglaise.—See the entry under 583, where the name has been altered, so as to read Dun-lethglaise.

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74 OCH NOCLOC uloconh.

Oipectio poli .1. mane tenebporum. Uel hic quer Mic Nips abbard Cluana mic Nop.

fet-tanap. (8 p,L.12) Cnno vomini cecee.’ xe. 1.° Obicur Lusive lip moen. Nactiuitapy Cumment Long. Macutina cenebpora. Anmcium pesgni Leda mic Oinmipeaé. -

}ct. tanap. (5 p., L. 23.) CCnno vomini cecee.? xe. 1° Mopp MHensura mic Cmalnsgav0. Spesopiup nacione pomanuy, ex patpe Fopoiano, peoic annip xi. menprbuy .u1. DiebuP .x. Luis Tempone s1mpena- comp Maupicn et Pocacip; pecundo anno pegsni eruyp- mem Loccacip peu Poce yepulcur ers in bayilica beat: Petpi aportoli ante pecpacapium. WUel hoc anno cat tealais Saitse 1n quo cecid1t Colman beas mac Orapmova a quo clann Cholmain «. .h. Maer- LeachLainn ec ceteyu. CCed mac CCinmipeach uictop enact.

fet. tancrp. (6p, L. 4) Onno vomit cccce.® .xe.° 11.2 Dellum Seipeide pu Cianachtae; oc euvonn mop po mebaio. Piacna mac Oaetain wictop epacs (4+ fiaéna mac Daecain mic Carprll me Murpeada¥s muinnDdeps.)

fet. tancap. (7 pL. 15.) Onno vomini cccce.’ xc.’ 111.° Quer Colturm cille .u. 10uP 1unN, anno aetaciP

1 Mac Nissi.—See under the year 584. This entry is added in a coarse handin A. In text, in B.

2 Lismore.—This is the Lismore of Scotland, whose founder, Molua (or Moluag, as the Scotch call him), was in after times the patron saint of the diocese of Argyle. See Reeves’s Adamnan, p. 871, note g.

3 Gregory.—St. Gregory the Great. Styled beldir, “ of the golden mouth,” by the Four Mast. (A.p. 590); a name given to him by the Irish so early as 634; for Cummian writes in his Paschal Epistle of that year—- “Ad Gregorii pap, urbis Rome epis-

_ anno ab hoe loco infra.”

copi (a nobis in commune suscepti, et oris auret appellatione donati) verba me converti.” (Ussher, Syllog. xi ; Wks. vol. iv., p. 439). Gregory the Great was consecrated on Sunday, the 8rd of Sept., 590, in the 9th year of the Emperor Mauricius. He was buried on the 12th of March, 604, in the 3rd year of the Emperor Phocas, having governed the See of Rome for 18 years, six months, and ten days. Gregory was son of Gordian,a wealthy senator, and Sylvia, a lady of rank and piety. O’Conor adds “ Sed secun- dum Bedam, Gregorius quievit xiv. (Rer. Hib,

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sun, that is, a dark morning. Or, in this year, the repose of Mac Nissi,’ abbot of Cluain-mic-Nois. Kal. Jan. (Tues, m. 12.) A.D. 591. The death of Lugaid of Lismore. The birth of Cummen the Tall. A dark morning. The beginning of the reign of Aedh, son of Ainmire. | Kal. Jan. (Thurs., m. 23.) A.D, 592. The death of | Aengus, son of Amalgaid. Gregory,’ a Roman by birth, son of Gordian, sat 13 years, 6 months, and 10 days. He was [Pontiff] in the time of the Emperors Mauricius and Focas. In the second year of the reign of the same Foccas, or Foca, he was buried in the church of Saint Peter the Apostle, in front of the sacristy. Or, in this year, the battle of Bealach-Dhaithe,‘ in which fell Colman Bee, son of Diarmait, from whom [are descended]

[591.]

[ 592.]

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the Clann-Colmain,® viz. the Aedh, son of Ainmire, was victor. (Frid. m. 4.) A.D. 593. A battle [against]

others. Kal. Jan.

Gorse, ing of Cianachta.°

Ui-Maelechlainn and

At Eudon-mor it was won.

Fiachna, son of Baetan (i.e. Fiachna,’ son of Baetan, son of Cairill, son of Muiredhach Muinderg), was victor.

Kal. Jan.

(Sat., m. 15.)

A.D. 594, The repose of

Colum-Cille,* on the 5th of the Ides of June, in the 76th

Script., vol. 4, p. 82). But this is not in any of the texts. See under 605 infra, and O’Donovan’s note 2, Ann, Four Mast., a.v. 590.

4 Bealuch-Dhaithe. —- O’Donovan states (Four Mast., 572, note n) that the site of this battle was Ballaghanea, par. of Lurgan, co. Cavan. The name of the place is written (in the genitive case) Daethe (or Doethe) under 586 supra, where see note.

* 5 Clann-Colmain.—This sept were really descended from Colman Mér (brother of Colman Bec), whose death is entered supra, at 554 and 557.

* Cianachta. — The Cianachta of

Brega; a tribe occupying the S.E. portion of the county Meath, probably the barony of Duleek.

” Fiachna.—The parenthetic clause, which is inthe marg. in A, occurs by way of gloss in B. Fiachna was lord of Dalaradia, king of Ulidia. The death of his father, Baetan, is entered at 580 supra, and his own death at 625 infra. See Reeves’s Eccl. Ant., pp. 202, 340, 358.

8 Repose of Colum-Cille.— Regard- ing the date of St. Colum-Cille’s death, see the learned note of Dean Reeves, Adamnan, p. 309, sq.

[594.]

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b. Fol. 2100.

76 ocnnoclee ulocoh.

fue lax. us. Mopp Eusain mic Fabpain. wel hoc anno quer eprcoip CCeda mic Dprce 7 eda mic penainn.

Ict. lanaip. (1 ys, L. 26.) Onno vomin1 cccce.’ xc. u? Dellum Ratoin opuad. Dellum Clipo pendam. lusulacio piliopum Oeoain «1. Dpoin 7 Oomansaine. bellum Copainn.

Hct. tanaip. (3 p, L. 7.) CCnno vomini cecce. xe.” u.° Occipio Cumapears mic Cedo La Dpannub mac n-Géaé 1 n-Oun Duéac. Dellum monzip Cuae in pesiombup Mumen, ubr Praéna mac Daecvan te- Top enact. Mopp Tibparse pil Calssars.

kct. lanaip. (47, 18.) Onno vomini cccce.° xc.° un.° Quer Daertent abbatip tae. Occipro (aliap bel- lum) “Ouin bols ub1 cecidit Hed mac Cinmipeé La Dpanoub mac bak, 7 Deace mac Cuanaé pex nepotum

micc Uap. Eocoabb ipo macaquems. Cusupamp

uence in Ongliam. 7 Heda plane pimul.

Imicium pesn1 Colmain prsmedo

Ict. lanoip. (5 p., L. 29.) Onno vomin cccce.® xe.°

? Eugan.—In the valuable “ Genea- logical Table of the Dalriadic Kings,” compiled by Dean Reeves, facing p. 438, in his splendid edition of Adam- nan’s Life of St. Columba, the name is ‘Koghanan.’ The Dean identifies him with ‘ Iogenanus,’ the brother of Aedan (son of Gabran), whom St. Columba wished to inaugurate as King of the Scotch Dalriada, in the place of his brother Aedan (lib. iii., cap. v.)

2 Bishop Aedh.—His obit is entered above, under 588.

3 Aedh, son of Brenann (or Bren- dan.)—See above, under 588.

4 Rath-in-druadh. — Aed-Sendaim. —The sites of these battles have not been satisfactorily identified. oy

5 Aedan,—-A marginal note in A,

adds that he was the son of Gabran, son of Domangart.

° Dun-Buchat. —- Dunboyke, par. of Hollywood, co. Wicklow. See O’Donov. Four Mast., A.D, 593, note d, and Shearman’s Loca Patriciana,p.29

7 Sliabh-Cua,—-The ancient name of the range of mountains now known by the name of Knockmeldown, in the N.W. of the co. Waterford. This battle is again entered at 602.

® Calggach.—First written “ Galg- gaig” (genit. of “Galggach”) in A. But the copyist has written a C over the first G, by way of suggesting that the name should be “ Calggaig” (nom. ‘‘Calgach.”) This name has been rendered classical by Tacitus’ account of the battle fought between

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ANNALS OF ULSTER. 77

year of his age. The death of Eugan,’ son of Gabran. Or, in this year, the repose of Bishop Aedh, son of Brece, and of Aedh, son of Brenann.’

Kal. Jan. (Mond., m. 26.) A.D. 595. The battle of Rath-in-druadh. The battle of Ard-Sendaim. Murder of the sons of Aedan,’ viz. :—Bran and Domangart. The battle of Corann.

Kal. Jan. (Tues, m. 7.) A.D, 596. The slaying of Cumascach, son of Aedh, by Brandubh, son of Eocha, in

© Dun-Buchat.’ The battle of Sliabh-Cua,’ in the regions of Munster ; in which Fiachna, son of Baetan, was victor.

The death of Tibraitte, son of Calggach.°

Kal. Jan. (Wed. m. 18.) A.D. 597. The repose of Baitheni,’ abbot of Ia. The slaughter (or battle’) of Dun-bolg,” in which fell Aedh, son of Ainmire, by Bran- dubh, son of Echa, and Bec, son of Cuanu, King of Ui- mic-Uais.” Eocho," abbot of Armagh, rested. Augustin

came to England. The beginning of the joint reign of

Colman Righmidh and Aedh Slaine. Kal. Jan. (Thurs, m. 29.) A.D. 598,

Ailither, abbot

Galgacus and Agricola, at the Gram- pian Hills. The ancient name of Derry was Daire Calgaich, which is Latinized by Adamnan Roboretum Calgachi (lib. i., cap. 11.)

® Baitheni. — See, regarding this person, Reeves’s Adamnan, p. 372.

?° Or battle._Added as a gloss in A. For ‘ occisio,’ B. reads ‘ bellum.’

"! Dun-bolg.— Fort of Sacks.’ For the situation of this place, and the causes which led to the battle, see O’Donov. Four Mast., a.p. 594, note h., where a full summary is given from the account of the battle of Dun-bolg contained in the Bérama Tract, Book of Leinster, p. 294, b., sq.

12 0i-mic-Uais.--A name borne by

a powerful sept of the Airghialla, who were settled in or near the pre- sent county of Armagh, a branch of which emigrated southwards, and gave name to the district now cor- ruptly called the barony of Moygoish, county Westmeath. See Reeves’s Eccl. Ant., p. 387.

13 Focho.—In the List of the Comarbs of St. Patrick, Book of Leinster, p. 42, col. 3, he is called Eochaid son of Diarmait, and the length of his abbacy is limited to three years, which differs considerably from the period assigned in other ancient Lists published by Dr. Todd. (St. Patrick, pp. 177, 179).

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Oilitep ab Clono mic Noi paupac.

Cfuier

Cainms in CCéard 66 ut Cuana voces. fet. tancip. (6 p, L. 10.) Onno vomini cecce.° xe.

rig

uictur ert Mevan.

Qfuiep Caanms pancti, 7 bellum Saxonum 1n quo lusulatio Suibne mic Colmaen

moep (mic Oiapmova veips mic Lepsupa ceppbeoil mic Conaill cpethtainne mic Neill ax. siallors), La h(Ced plane, 1 m-Dpr vam pop Suan a. pruulup.

}ct. tanap. (1. pemocuy 1 m-Darpehiu. [mic] fercent.

p., L. 21.) Onno vomini ceccce.? Mopr Dpendain mic Coipppr — Sic inuem in Ubpo Cuanaé.

Tep-

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Ovoaé mic Ceva in 1fto anno peprecta epre.

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hoc anno quiep ChoLuim GiLLe 1n nocte Dominica.

fet. tancap. (2. p., U2.) CCnno vomini ve. 1.°

(fuer

Comgalt Dennéaip. bellum Slennae in quo Colman pimd pex Fenepip Eusain wictopn epac, 7 Conall cuu

mac (edo mic Cinmipec pugimiuup euayrt. fLiacna mac

Cule coil in quo

DelLum

Demain purge.

Liacna mac Daecain tictop epat. Mopr huacaé

mic (edo.

DelLum Céporp.

1 Repose of Cainnech.—See under 526 supra, note 3.

2 Battle of the Saxons.—This seems to be the battle recorded in the Saxon Chronicle at A.D. 603, as fought be- tween Aegthan, King of the Scots, against [recte with] the Dalreods, against Athelferth,King of the North- umbrians, at Degsanstan (Dawston in Cumberland), where all his (Aeg- than’s, or Aedan’s) army is said to have been slain. Bede also refers this battle to the year 603, (Hist. Eccl, i., 34.)

3 Son.—The original of this clause is interlined in A. and B. in very old writing.

4 Suaniu.--Supposed to be the an-

cient name of a river near Geshill, in the King’s County. See O’Donoy. Four Mast., under 596, note o.

° Coirpre [son of | Feichen.—The name is Coirpri Feicheni in A., but ‘Coirpri mic Feicheni’ (‘C. son of Feichen’) in B., and in the Four Mast. Clar. 49 has ‘Cairbre St. Feichin,’ which is a blunder. In the Geneal. Table of the Hy-Maine, given by O'Donovan (facing p. 97, Tribes gc. of Hy-Many) Cairpri Mac Fechine is set down as the son of a Feradach, and 5th in the line of descent from Maine Mor, from whom the Hy-Many sept was named. See also the Work referred t», at p. 15.

° Slemain, Cuil-cotl, Comgall, Odda.

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of Cluain-mic-Nois, rested. The repose of Cainnech’ in Achadh-bé, as Cuana states.

Kal. Jan. (Frid, m. 10.) A.D. 599. The repose of Saint Cainnech ;' and the battle of the Saxons,’ in which Aedan was vanquished. The killing of Suibhne, son of Colman Mor (son® of Diarmaid Derg, son of Fergus Cerr- beoil, son of Conall Cremthainne, son of Niall Nine-hos- tager), by Aedh Slane, in Bri-dam on the Suaniu,‘ i.e. a stream.

Kal. Jan. (Sund.,m. 21.) a.p. 600. An earthquake in Bairche. The death of Brendan, son of Coirpre [son of] Feichen.’ Thus I have found in the Book of Cuanu : the battle of Slemain,°® and the battle of Cuil-coil,® and the rest of Comgall,’ and the death of Odda’, son of Aedh, took place in this year. Or, in this year, the repose of Colum-cille, on Sunday night.

Kal. Jan. (Mond.,m. 2.) A.D. 601. The repose of Comgall’ of Bangor. The battle of Slemain,® in which Colman Rimidh, King of Cinel-Eogain,’ was victor, and Conall Cu, son of Aedh, son of Ainmire, escaped by flight.” The battle of Cul-coel, in which Fiachna, son of Deman, fled. Fiachna, son of Baetan, was victor. The death of Uata," son of Aedh. The battle of Echros.”

—These entries are recorded under the next year, which is the correct date according to the enumeration of these Annals.

7 Comgall.__His_ birth is entered at 515, and again at 519, supra.

5 Of Slemain.--SLenne, for 8Lemne, A. B. Supposed to be now repre- sented by Slanemore and Slanebeg,

in the parish of Dysart, near Mullin-

gar, county Westmeath.

® King of Cinel-Eogain.—But also joint-monarch of Ireland. See above under 597.

* Escaped by flight. — Pugiciuy euapic, A. Pusiciup euaryic, B.

The death of Conall Cu is recorded infra, under 603.

Uata.— Written Ovvaé, gen. of Ovva, under last year. In the Chron. Scot., at A.p. 592, where he is called King of Connaught, the name is written Uadu; but Uata by the Four Mast., 597. From him was derived the name Clann- Uadach, ‘‘ descendants of Uadu,” the tribe-name of the O’Fallons of Ros- common, whose patronymic was also derived from Fallomhan, the great- grandson of Uadu.

12 Echros.—See under next year.

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}ct. tancap. (4 p., L. 24.) Onno vomini ve? 111.° lusulacio Colmain pimedo (mic Daeoain bis) mic Mupcepcas mic Eapea) a uipo ve Fenepe puo qui uocatup eft Locan ‘Oiolmana :-—

Ceou puse ceodu pect,

Ceou nent pop prspada,

Iniod Colmain pamio pu

Romb: Locan o1énaou. lusulatio edo plane (mic Orapmova veips mic Leapsupa Ceppbeoil mic Conall Cpemtaimnne mic Neill noigiallars) o Chonall mac Suibne, qui pes- nauepuns Temopiam aequali potercace yrmul. lusulacio edo pon pex nepocum fails 1 pacts mic Meccnaen pop bru Loca Seimhoide, covem die quo 1ugulacup ero Wed plane. (ed surcan comalea

1 Battle of Echros. —O’Donovan identifies. this place with Aughris, a townland in the parish of Templeboy, bar. of Tireragh, co. Sligo. Hy-Fia- chrach, p. 138.

2 Muirisc, i.e., the “Sea Plain.”— A district in the bar. of Tireragh, co, Sligo. For its exact situation, see O'Donovan’s Hy-Fiachrach, p. 257, note b, and the Map prefixed to the same Work.

3 Magh-Bile—Now Movilla, near Newtownards, in the co. Down. See O’ Donovan's important note on Magh- Bile, Four Mast., 602, note t.

* Sliabh-Cua. — Already entered under 596.

°In Munster. —1mMugain, A. More correctly 1mMurthain, B.

° Son of Baetan, §c.—This clause is interlined in A.- and B. by later hands.

7 Who was called.—The equivalent of this clause, “ qui dictus est Locan Diolmana,” is interlined in al. man. in A.

8 Dithnada.—A variation of the epithet Dilmana. These lines, which are not in B., are written in the lower margin of fol. 214 in A., with a mark

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Kal, Jan. (Tues, m. 13.) Av. 602. The repose of [602]

Finntan son of Ua-Echdach. The battle of Echros' in Muirisc,? between the Cinel-Coirpri and the Ui-Fiachrach of Muirise.* Maeléothaig, King of the Ui-Fiachrach, was put to flight. All things which are written in the fol- lowing year, I find in the Book of Cuanu to have taken place inthis. Sinell, bishop of Magh-Bile,’ [rested]. The battle of Sliabh-Cua‘ in Munster.’ |

Kal. Jan. (Wed.,m. 24.) A.D. 603. Assassination of [603.]

Calman Rimidh (‘son of Baetan Brigi, son of Muircher- tach Mac Erca), by a man of his kindred (who was called’ Locan Dilmana).

Notwithstanding kingship, notwithstanding law,

Notwithstanding power over chieftains ;

Behold! Colman Rimid, a king—

Locan Dithnada® slew him! Assassination of Aedh Slane (son of Diarmaid’ Derg, son of Fergus Cerrbheoil, son of Conall Cremthainne, scn of Niall Niné-hostager), by Conall, son of Suibne. They [i.e. Colman Rimidh and Aedh Slaine] reigned” together at Tara with equal power. The assassination of Aedh Roin, King of the Ui-Failgi, in Faethgi-mic-Meccnaen" (on the brink of Loch-Semdidhe), on the same day in which

of reference to their proper place in the text. —* Son of Diarmaid, §c.— This clause is interlined in A. and B. O’Conor has created some confusion in his edition of these Annals, by making this clause a continuation of that above given (see note 6) in con- nexion with the name of Colman Rimidh ; thus giving both kings the same pedigree, which is wrong.

1° Reigned.—This entry is very loosely constructed in both A. and B. ‘The events are recorded by the Four Mast., under A.p. 600, in a much more simple and iatelligible way.

1 Faethgi-mic-Meccnaen. — “The Fair-greenof Mac Mecenaen.” Faith- che-mic-Meccnain, Chron. Scot. (604 ; F. mic Mencnain, Four M. (600). The so-called Translator of Clar. 49 renders it by “the field of Macnaen.” The parenthesis which follows (inter- lined in A. and B.) fixes the faithche as on the brink of Loch-Semdidhe, or Lough-Sewdy. The name is now obsolete, but there can be little doubt that the “ green ” occupied the site of the present village of Ballymore- Lough-Sewdy, barony of Rathcon- rath, co. Westmeath.

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2 Of which was said.—Unde dictum est, A. Not in B. The verses which follow (and which also are not in B.) are in the top marg. of A., fol. 22a; another, but more corrupt, copy being written in the lower margin, fol. 210.

5 Tuath-Tuirmhe. -—- O'Donovan (Four Mast., 600, note g) says that

this was a Bardic name for Bregia, ‘from Tuirbhe, or Turvey, near Swords, in the county of Dublin.’

* Aedh Buidhe.—He was king, or chieftain, of the Cinel-Maine (or des- cendants of Maine, son of Niall Nine- hostager), whose territory was in later times known as Tethbha, or Teffia, a district comprising the western part of the present county of

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Aedh Slane was assassinated, (Aedh’ Gustan, Conall’s foster-brother, and Baethal Bile, that killed him) ; of which was said °—

Not wise was the counsel

For the heroes of Tuath-Tuirmhe ;*

Conall that slew Aedh Slané ; : Aedh Slané that slew Suibne. _ Aed Buidhe,‘ King of Cinel-Maini, [slain]. Death of Conall Cuu,’ son of Aedh, son of Ainmire. Cu-cen-mathair‘ died.

Kal. Jan. A.D. 604. The battle of Slaebhre, in which

Brandubh, son of Eacha, was vanquished. The Ui- Neill were victors, (i.e. Aedh Uaridnach, who then reigned). The killing of Brandubh, King of Leinster, by his own tribe, through treachery: (son of Eacha, son of Muiredach, son of Aedh, son of Fedhlim, son of Enna Cennselach, son of Labraidh, son of Bresal Belach, son of Fiacha Baicceda, son of Cathair Mor). He reigned thirty years in Leinster, and in the battle of Damcluain he was slain, Or it may have been Saran ‘ Saebhderg, i.e., the ‘ Herenagh’ of Senboth-sine, that killed him, as the

poet said -— CGR, False-eyed Saran, a guide hitherto, ‘ Herenagh’ of Senboth-sine,

Was he, no falsehood, without bright judgment, That killed Brandubh son of Eacha. Foccas’ reigned seven years, Death of Laisren abbot of Ia.

Westmeath, with adjacent parts of Longford and King’s cos. See O’Donov. Four Mast., at a.p. 1207, note z, and Ir. Topog. Poems, note 35. The Four Mast. (a.p. 600) and the Chron. Scot. (604) state that Aedh was slain by Conall son of Suibhne, on the same day on which Aedh Slane was killed.

5 Conall Cuu.—Said to have been defeated in the battle of Slemain, supra, 601. O’Conor thinks the name

signifies ‘Conallus placidus,’ and not ‘ Conallus canis,’ as O’Donovan sug- gests (Four Mast. 600, note k).

6 Cu-cen-mathair, i.e., “ Canis sine matre.” The record of his obit here is decidedly wrong, and for ‘‘ mor- tui sunt”, we should probably read “natus est,” as his death is recorded infra, at 664.

7 Foccas.—-The Emperor Phocas, This and the following entry are not in B., nor in Clar, 49,

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