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Iv. 


A 
CHRONICLE OF IRISH AFFAIRS, 


WITH 


A SUPPLEMENT, 


CONTAINING THE EVENTS FROM 1141 TO 1150; 


EDITED, WITH A TRANSLATION, 


BY 


WILLIAM M. HENNESSY, M.R.I.A. 





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PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HER MAJESTY’S 
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CONTENTS, 





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RODUCTION, Dee A i gawit N s PE 
1cuM ScoToRUM, OR THE CHRONICLE OF THE ScoTI, — 
PLEMENT TO THE CHRONICUM ScoTORUM, 




















INTRODUCTION, 





THE text of the following chronicle has been taken from 
a manuscript preserved in the Library of Trinity College, 
Dublin, Class H., Tab. 1, No. 18, collated with a good 
copy in the collection of the Royal Irish Academy, classed 
P., 23, 5. The former, which is denoted by the letter A. 
in the Notes appended to the accompanying translation, 
is in the fine, bold, Irish handwriting of the celebrated 
Trish scholar and antiquary, Duald Mac Firbis. The 
latter, indicated in the Notes by the letter B., is in the 
handwriting of the Rev. John Conry, or Connery, and 
was transcribed in France, about the middle of the last 
century, apparently from the autograph of Mac Firbis. 
There are three other copies of the chronicle in the Royal 
Trish Academy, viz:—two in the “Betham™” collection, 
and one amongst the MSS. recently purchased by the 
Academy from the representatives of the late John 
Windele. There is also a copy in the College of St. 
Patrick’s, Maynooth. But these are modern transcripts, 
full of gross inaccuracies, and so utterly valueless that it 
has not been considered necessary to collate them with 
the more correct text supplied by the MS. A. 

Some observations on the historical value of the latter 
MS. will be found further on. 

Of the history of its transcriber, Dubhaltach Mac 
Firbisigh, generally written Duald Mac Firbis (or Dudley 
Firbisse, as he has himself anglicized the name), but few 
particulars can now be ascertained. Enough is known, 
however, to show that he was a man of no ordinary talent 


and character. Although his name is not even once men- 
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x INTRODUCTION. 


tioned by Ware, who was indebted to him for much of 
the information which enabled him to acquire his distin- 

guished reputation as an Irish antiquary, nor included in 

the catalogues of native authors published by. Bishop 

Nicholson and Edward O'Reilly, his contributions to Irish 

history, genealogy, and literature, entitle him to a place. 
in the foremost rank of Celtic scholars. 

Neither in the contemporary writings of his friends 
and associates, nor in the voluminous mass of his own 
works hitherto discovered, is there any evidence to indi- 
cate the date or place of his birth; but he is believed 
to have been born about the year 1585, at a place called 
Lecan-mic-Firbisy, now Lackan, in the parish of Kilglass, 
barony of Tireragh, and county of Sligo, where his family, 
he states, “wrote books of history, annals, poetry, and 
kept a school of history.” 

According to the genealogy’ of his tribe, as traced by 
himself from the ancient records of his ancestors, the 
family of Mac Firbis was descended from Dathi, or Nathi, 
the last pagan Monarch of Ireland, and progenitor of most 
of the principal families of Connaught, from whom the sub- 
ject of the present notice was,as he alleges, the twenty-ninth 
in direct descent. But as the death of King Nathi is re- 
corded under the year 428, infra, it is evident that some 
generations have been omitted in the pedigree, unless it 
be conceded that more than thirty years, the standard 
average laid down by Newton, should be allowed to each 
generation.® 

In the Introduction to his large genealogical work, the 
original of which is in the possession of the Earl of Roden, 





1 History. See Tribes and Customs | ovan was of opinion that it appeared 
of Hy-Fiachrach, ed. O'Donovan, | “from all the authentic Irish pedi- 


(Dublin, 1844), p. 167. grees that more than thirty years, the 
2 Genealogy. See Tribes and Cus- | average standard laid down by New- 
toms of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 101, sq. ton, must be allowed to each genera- 


8 Generation, The late Dr. O’Don- | tion.” Hy-Fiachrach, p. 107. n. 4, 


INTRODUCTION. xi 
Mae Firbis observes that his ancestors were historians, 
genealogists, and poets to the chief septs of Connaught, 
such as the families of Ui-Fiachrach! of the Moy, Ui- 
Amhalghaidh,? Ceara,’ Ui-Fiachrach of Aidhne,* and 
Eachtgha ;> and also to the Mac Donnells® of Scotland. 
Their chief patrons, however, were the O’Dowdas, princes 
of Hy-Fiachrach, or Tireragh, whose patrimony in 1350, 
according to the contemporary Topographical poem of 
John O’Dugan,’ comprised the entire district 


«From the Codhnach of the fairy flood 
To the limit of the Rodhba,” 


an extent of territory extending from the Cownagh to the 
Robe, and corresponding to the present baronies of Carra, 
Erris, and Tirawley, in the county of Mayo, together the 
barony of Tirawley, and a large portion of Carbury, in the 
county of Sligo. 

At what time the Mac Firbis family began to follow the 
profession of historians it would now be useless to enquire. 
They appear to have been one of the many tribes in which 
the profession was hereditary, in accordance with the prac- 
tice that seems to have existed since the introduction of 


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1 Ui-Fiachrach, or Tir-Fiachrach, 
now Tireragh, co. Sligo. 

2 Ui-Amhalghaidh, otherwise Tir- 
Amhalghaidh, or Tirawley, co. Mayo. 

8 Ceara. Now the barony of Carra, 
co. Mayo. 

4 Ui-Fiachrach of Aidhne. The terri- 
tory of this tribe comprised the entire 
of the present diocese of Kilmacduagh, 
in the south of the county of Galway. 

5 Eachigha; a district in the S.E. 
of the co. Galway. 

6 Mac Donnells. The connexion of 
Mac Firbis’s family with this sept 
may afford some countenance to the 
following observation in the abridged 
copy of his large genealogical work: 
“Tt is said that the Clann Firbis of 





Lecan-mic-Firbisigh in Hy-Fiachrach 
and Hy-Amhalghaidh have the sur- 
name with the two aristocratic fami- 
lies of Forbes of Drominoir, in Scot- 
land, or wherever else they are to be 
found as Scotchmen, in the three king- 
doms.” No other evidence to sup- 
port the identity has been discovered, 
The ancestor, Firbis, from whom the 
name of Mac Firbis has been de- 
rived, is set down in the pedigree as 
the twelfth in descent from King Nathi, 
and must, therefore, have lived in the 
eighth century. 

7 O'Dugan. See Topographical 
Poems, Dublin, printed for the Irish 
Archeological and Celtic Society, 
1862, p. 61. 

b2 


xii INTRODUCTION. 


letters into Ireland. But some individuals of the name 
are referred to by the annalists, at a very early period, as 
distinguished for learning and a knowledge of the national 
history; and their compilations, many of which are still in 
existence, have always been regarded as among the most 
authentic of the native Irish records, 

The Annals of the Four Masters, under the year 1279, 
notice the death of Gilla-Isa, or Gelasius, Mac Firbis, 
“chief historian of Tir-Fiachrach,” or Tireragh, 7.e., the 
O’Dowda’s country. Harris, in his edition of the works 
of Sir James Ware,’ alludes to another person of the same 
name, “a learned annalist,” whose death is referred to the 
year 1301. The obits given by the Four Masters, at the 
year 1362, include Auliffe and John Mac Firbis, two “in- 
tended Ollamhs,” or professors of history. Under the 
year 1376, also, the same annalists record the death of 
Donogh Mace Firbis, “a historian,” and three years later, 
that of Firbis Mac Firbis, “a learned historian.” 

Of the numerous compilations made by the older mem- 
bers of the Mac Firbis family, only two are now known 
to be in existence, viz. :—I., the magnificent vellum MS., 
called the “Book of Lecan,” written before 1416, by Gilla- 
Isa Mor Mac Firbis, the ancestor of Duald; and IL, the 
hardly less important volume known as the “ Leabhar 
Buidhe Lecain,” or “Yellow Book of Lecan,” written 
about the same period, and partly by the same hand. 
The former of these originally belonged to Trinity College, 
Dublin, but was carried to France in the reign of James IL, 
and was restored to Ireland in the year 1790; it now 
enriches the extensive collection of Irish MSS. in the 
possession of the Royal Irish Academy. The latter, or— 
to speak more correctly—a large fragment of it, is pre- 
served in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. 

These manuscripts were written, as their names import, 





1 Ware. See Harris's edition of Ware's “ Writers of Ireland,” p. 77. 


INTRODUCTION. xili 


at Lecan-mic-Firbisy, in the county of Sligo, the residence 
of the compilers at the time. The Mac Firbis family seems 
to have previously resided in the county of Mayo; for, in 
the genealogical tract on the tribes of Hy-Fiachrach, con- 
tained in the Book of Lecan,' the Clann Firbisigh, or sept 
of Mac Firbis, are stated to have resided at Ros-sere, a 
place still known by the same name, and situated in the 
barony of Tirawley, in that county. The extent of their 
possessions is not given; but it is certain that they were 
amply endowed, according to the usage of the period, by 
which members of the learned professions in Ireland were 
entitled to privileges and emoluments hardly inferior to 
those enjoyed by the rulers of territories. The following 
extract from the account of the ceremony” observed at 
the inauguration of the O’Dowda, as prince of Hy- 
Fiachrach, affords a curious illustration of the nature of 
some of these privileges :— 

“ And the privilege of first drinking [at the banquet] 
was given to O’Caemhain by O’Dowda, and O’Caemhain 
was not to drink until he first presented it [the drink] 
to the poet, that is, to Mac Firbis. Also the weapons, 
battle-dress, and steed of O’Dowda, after his nomination, 
were given to O’Caemhain, and the weapons and battle- 
dress of O’Caemhain to Mac Firbis. And it is not lawful 
ever to nominate the O’Dowda until O’Caemhain and 


* Mac Firbis pronounce the name, and until Mac Firbis raises 


the body of the wand over the head of O’Dowda. And 
after O’Caemhain and Mac Firbis, every clergyman and 
comarb of a church, and every bishop, and every chief of 
a district, pronounces the name.” 

We have no evidence to show when the family of 
Mac Firbis removed to Lecan, on the eastern bank of the 
river Moy, where they appear to have been settled before 
the year 1397, as some of their compositions are stated to 
have been written there in that year. 





1 Book of Lecan, folio 82, bb. 2 Ceremony. See Tribes and Cus- 
toms of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 440. 


xiv INTRODUCTION. 


Duald, who was the eldest of four brothers, would seem 
to have been of a junior branch of the family, for he ob- 
serves that the Castle of Lecan or Lackan, in which he 
was born, was erected.in the year 1560 by his cousins, 
Ciothruadh and James. Although there can be no doubt 
that the Mac Firbises then held the land attached to the 
castle in right of their profession, their tenure would seem 
to have been altered at a subsequent period, for by an 
inquisition taken at Sligo on the 22nd of August, 1625, 
Donough O’Dowda, their chief and patron, was found to 
have been then “seized of the castle, town, and quarters 
of Lecan-mic-Firbisigh, and other lands, which he had 
settled by deed, dated 28th of August, 1617, to the use 
of his wife Onora Ny-Connor, for their lives, and then to 
the use of his own right heirs”—a state of things incom- 
patible with the possession of any permanent interest 
therein by the Mac Firbises. 

“It is quite clear,” observes Dr. O'Donovan,’ “that 
Donnoghe O’Dowde could not have settled Lacken in 
this manner, in 1617, if it had been then the freehold 
inheritance of the family of Mac Firbis. The most that 
can be believed, therefore, is, that the Mac Firbises may 
have farmed the townland of Lackan, or a part of it, from 
Donnoghe O’Dowde, or his successor, till the year 1641, 
at which period it was forfeited by O’Dowde, and granted 
to the family of Wood.” | 

Respecting his education, Professor O’Curry writes ;?— 
“ Duald Mac Firbis appears to have been intended for the 
hereditary profession of an antiquarian and historian, or 
for that of the Fenechas, or ancient laws of his native 
country (now improperly called the Brehon Laws). To 
qualify him for either of these ancient and honourable 
professions, and to improve and perfect his education, 
young Mac Firbis appears, at an early age, to have passed 
into Munster, and to have taken up his residence in the 





1 O'Donovan. See Hy-Fiachrach,| * Writes. Lectures on the MS, 
Introduction, p. vi. materials of Irish History, p. 121. 


INTRODUCTION. xv 


school of law and history then kept by the Mac Egans! of 
Lecan, in Ormond, in the present county of Tipperary. 
He studied also for some time, either before or after this, 
but I believe after,in Burren, in the present county of 
Clare, at the not less distinguished literary and legal 
school of the O’Davorens, where we find him, with many 
other young Irish gentlemen, about the year 1595, under 
the presidency of Donnell O’Davoren.”? 

Duald Mac Firbis’s studies were not confined to the 
ordinary branches of education attainable through the 
medium of his native language, but included also Greek 
and Latin. From his account of the Anglo-Norman and 
Welsh families settled in Ireland, he seems to have been 
familiar with the writings of Giraldus Cambrensis and 
Holingshed. He appears also to have read Verstegan’s 
“Restitution of Decayed Intelligence,” and the “ Fasci- 
culus Temporum” of Rolewinck. In his copy of Cormac’s 
Glossary, preserved in the Library of Trinity College, 
Dublin, (Class H. 2, 15), he explains many Latin and 
Greek words in the margin, always writing the Greek in 
the original character. Nevertheless, the rude Latinity 
of some of the entries in the following chronicle indicates 
that his knowledge of Latin was very imperfect. 

We have no account of Mac Firbis’s proceedings from 
the period when he had completed his education until the 
year 1645, two years after the death of his father, when 
he seems to have been settled in Galway, where he be- 
came acquainted with the learned Roderick O’Flaherty 
(then only seventeen years of age), and Dr. John Lynch, 
the author of “ Cambrensis Eversus,” to both of whom he 





1 Mac Egans. These were heredi- 
tary Brehons, or judges, and professors 
of the old Irish laws, and descendants 
of the men who compiled the splendid 
vellum MS. called the Leabhar Breac, 
or “Speckled Book,” preserved in the 
library of the Royal Irish Academy. 
This MS., which was compiled in the 
year 1397, is the most valuable re- 





pertory now remaining of ancient Irish 
ecclesiastical affairs. 

2 O’Davoren. The author or trans- 
criber of a curious and important Irish 
Glossary, written in 1569, and pub- 
lished by Mr. Whitley Stokes (Lon- 
don, 1863), from the original in the 
British Museum. 


Xvi INTRODUCTION. 


acted as Irish tutor, affording them, besides, much valu- 
able assistance in the prosecution of their historical studies. 
O'Flaherty, who appears to have been much attached to 
him, and frequently acknowledges, with much feeling, the 
obligations he owed to Mac Firbis, in his chapter on the 
letters of the Irish, says of him, that he was “rei anti- 
quariz Hibernorum unicum, dum vixit, columen, et ex- 
tinctus, detrimentum.”! Again, referring to his enumera- 
tion of the kings of Ulidia, O’Flaherty observes : “Horum 
nomenclaturam, et annorum numerum, quo illorum quis- 
que Ultoniz prefuit, penes me habeo ab intimo nostro 
amico Dualdo Firbisio é vetustis majorum suorum Monu- 
mentis excerptum, qui anno Domini 1670-1 cruenta 
morte sublatus antiquitatum, et Hiberniz linguz cogni- 
tioni altum vulnus inflixerat.”® And in another place he 
calls him “hereditary professor of the antiquities of his 
country.” 

Dr. Lynch, who wrote under the name of “Gratianus 
Lucius,” also acknowledges* having received assistance 
from Mac Firbis. 

During the ensuing five years Mac Firbis was occupied 
in compiling his important work on Irish genealogies, 
which he finished in 1650, as he states,’ in the College of 
St. Nicholas, Galway. In the year 1652, he lost one of 
his steadfast friends, Dr. Lynch, who fled to France on 
the surrender of Galway to the Parliamentary Forces; 
but he still continued, although under adverse circum- 
stances, to apply his honest zeal and active industry 
to the task of transferring to a more permanent shape 
the contents of MSS. falling into decay. A few years 
later, however, his prospects assumed a brighter aspect. 
Sir James Ware, impressed with the importance of 





1 Detrimentum. Ogygia, p. 233. 4 Acknowledges, See Cambrensis 
2 Inflixerat. Jb., Proloquium, p. | versus, cap, xx. 
[13]. 5 States ; viz:—in the Preface to 


8 Country. ‘ Dualdus Firbissius, | the work, 
patriz antiquitatum professor heredi- 
tarius.” Jb., p. 219. 











Pa iat tle SS eee 


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INTRODUCTION. Xvii 


securing the services of one so thoroughly acquainted. 
with the language, history, and antiquities of his country 
as Mac Firbis had the reputation of being, employed him, 
in the year 1655, to collect and translate, from the Irish 
Annals, materials for the composition of his learned works 
on the Antiquities and Ecclesiastical History of Ireland. 
His connection with Ware, who, as already remarked, 
makes no reference to the services rendered him by Mac 
Firbis, has been generally considered to have commenced 
only a short time before the death of that distinguished 
scholar in 1666 ; but there are two tracts compiled by Mac 
Firbis in 1655—one a catalogue of Irish bishops, preserved . 
in the British Museum,' in each of which he states that 


_ it was drawn up for his friend and patron, Ware. Ata 


subsequent period he seems to have been an inmate of 
Ware’s house, in Dublin, as appears from the following re- 
mark of Harris, in his account of the Bishops of Tuam :— 

“Qne John was consecrated about the close of the year 
1441. [Sir James Ware declares he could not discover 
when he died; and adds that some called him John De 
Burgo, but that he could not answer for the truth of that 
name.| But both these particulars are cleared up, and 
his immediate successor named, by Dudley Firbisse, an 
amanuensis, whom Sir James Ware employed in his house 
to translate and collect for him from the Irish manuscripts ; 
one of whose pieces begins thus, viz. :—‘ This translation 
beginned was by Dudley Firbisse, in the house of Sir 
James Ware, in Castle-street, Dublin, 6th of November, 
1666, which was 24 days before the death of the said 
knight.” “I suppose the death of his patron,” adds 
Harris, “put a stop to his further progress.”? 

The small amount of patronage extended to him has 
also been made the subject of complaint by old Charles 





1 British Museum. Cod. Clarend. [De Burgo]. The document here 
tom. 68; Ayscough, 4799; Plut. alluded to by Harrisis a translation of 
exv. E, some annals, which has been printed. 

2 Progress. See Harris's edition of | Irish Archeological Society's Miscel- 

Ware; Bishops of Tuam, under John | Jany, vol. i., p. 200. 


XViil INTRODUCTION. 
O’Conor of Belanagare, the grandfather of Dr. O’Conor, 
editor of Rerwm Hibernicarum Scriptores. “Duald Mac 
Firbis,” observes! this venerable antiquary and scholar, 
“the most eminent antiquarian of the latter times, was 
possessed of a considerable number of the Brethe Nimhe.* 
He alone could explain them, as he alone, without patron- 
age or assistance, entered into the depths of this part of 
Scottish learning, so extremely obscure to us of the present. 
When we mention Mac Firbis, we are equally grieved and 
ashamed ; his neglected abilities ignominious to his un- 
grateful country! his end tragical! his loss irreparable!” 
The death of his enlightened patron, Sir James Ware, 
having puta stop to his labours in Dublin, Mac Firbis 
appears to have returned to his native place in the county 
of Sligo, where he lived in great poverty during the remain- 
ing few years of his life. He had outlived many of the 
friends who had encouraged and assisted him in former 
years; others, like Dr. Lynch, had sought safety in flight 
from the vengeance of their successful opponents in the 
civil war which then distracted the country ; and of those 
who remained behind, the majority, including the learned 
Roderick O'Flaherty, heir to a handsome patrimony, were 
reduced by confiscation to a state of poverty* hardly less 
intense than that in which Mac Firbis was plunged. 





1 Observes. Dissertations on the | he observes:—‘“It is no doubt a 


History of Ireland, Dublin, 2nd edit., 
1766, pp. 124, 125. See also the 
first ed., Dublin, 1733, p. 155. 

2 Brethe Nimhe; pron. Brehe Nivé ; 
a collection of ancient Irish Laws, for 
an account of which see Cambrensis 
Eversus, Dublin, 1848, vol. II., pp. 
867-375. 

3 Poverty. The condition of the 
Irish nobility at this period has been 
briefly described by Mac Firbis, in a 
note added by him in his genealogical 
work (Royal Irish Academy copy, 
folio 299). Referring to the ancient 
celebrity of the Irish, and to the 
alleged continental expedition of 
King Dathi, (vid. tnfra, ad an, 428), 





worldly lesson to consider how the 
Gaeidhel were at this time conquering 
the countries far and near, and that not 
one in a hundred of the Irish nobles, 
at this day, possesses as much of his 
land as he could be buried in, though 
they expect it in this year, 1664,” 
On which Dr. O’Donovan remarks, 
‘* This, and many other strong pass- 
ages to the same effect, show that the 
Irish in our author’s time were in an 
awful state of destitution; and it is 
highly probable that he himself was 
begging from door to door at the 
time that he inserted this passage.” 
Hy-Fiachrach, p. 321, 


INTRODUCTION. xix 


The state of misery to which his friend O’Flaherty was 
brought after the confiscation of his ample inheritance, is 
incidentally told by Dr. Thomas Molyneux, in his account! 
of a journey made to Connaught in the year 1709. 

“T went,” he says, “to visit old Flaherty, who lives, 
very old, in a miserable condition at Park, some three 
hours west of Galway, in Hiar or West Connaught. I 
expected to have seen here some old Irish manuscripts ; 
but his ill fortune has stripped him of these as well as 
other goods, so that he has nothing now left but some few 
of his own writing, and a few old rummish books of 
history printed.” O’Flaherty was then in his 80th year. 

The death of Mac Firbis was sudden and violent. In 
the year 1670, while travelling to Dublin, he was assassin- 
ated at Dunflin, in the county of Sligo. The circum- 
stances attending the event, are thus narrated by Professor 
O’Curry.? . 

“Mac Firbis was at that time under the ban of the 
penal laws, and, consequently, a marked and almost a 
defenceless man, in the eye of the law, whilst the friends 
of his murderer enjoyed the full protection of the consti- 
tution. He must have been then past his 80th year, and 
he was, it is believed, on his way to Dublin, probably to 
visit Robert, the son of Sir James Ware. He took up his 
lodgings for the night at a small house in the little village 
of Dunflin, in his native county. While sitting and rest- 
ing himself in a small room off the shop, a young gentle- 
man, of the Crofton family, came in and began to take 
some liberties with a young woman who had the care of 
the shop. She, to check his freedom, told him that he 
would be seen by the old gentleman in the next room; 
upon which, in a sudden rage, he snatched up a knife 
from the counter, rushed furiously into the room, and 
plunged it into the heart of Mac Firbis.” 





1 Account. Published in the Mis- 


* O’Curry. Lectures, &c., p. 122. 
cellany of the Irish Arch. Soc., vol. i. bu) 


xx INTRODUCTION. 


“Thus it was that, at the hand of a wanton assassin, this 
great scholar closed his long career—the last of the regu- 
larly educated and most accomplished masters of the 
history, antiquities, and laws and language of ancient 
Erinn.” 

The venerable Charles O’Conor, to whom the circum- 
stances attending the murder of MacFirbis were known, 
but who withheld them from publicity out of consider- 
ation fot the descendants of the murderer, thus deplores 
the event’ :— 

“Duald Mac Firbis closed the line of the hereditary 
antiquaries of Lecan, in Tirfiacra, on the Moy; a family 
whose law reports and historical collections, (many of 
which lie now dispersed in England and France), have 
derived great credit to their country. This last of the 
Firbises was unfortunately murdered at Dunflin, in the 
county of Sligo, A.D. 1670; and by his death our anti- 
quities received an irreparable blow. The last years of 
his life were employed in drawing up a glossary for the 


explanation of our old law terms, the great desideratum » 


of the present age. Of the fate of this last performance 
we know nothing, but we may well suppose it lost, as the 
author lived without a single patron, in days unfavourable 
to the arts of which he was master.” 

The compilations of Mac Firbis are numerous, and of 
the most varied nature, including works on Biography, 
Genealogy, Hagiology, History, Law, and Philology. He 
appears also to have transcribed many tracts compiled by 
others, and to have translated some. The following list 
comprises all his works that are at present known to 
exist, either in his own handwriting, or in authentic tran- 
scripts therefrom :— 

1, The transcript from which the following chronicle 

has been printed. 





1 The event. See Ogygia Vindicated, Preface, pp. ix., x. 


Re 


ye en 


PPE LOOT RTE SS RIT ET 


INTRODUCTION. Xxi 


2. His large genealogical work, completed in the year 
1650, and entitled “ The Branches of Relationship, 
and the Genealogical Ramifications of every Colony 
that took possession of Ireland, &c. ; together with 
a Sanctilogium, and a Catalogue of the Monarchs 
of Ireland, &c.; compiled by Dubhaltach Mac 
Firbisigh, of Lecan, 1650.” 

The original of this important work is in the possession 
of the Earl of Roden, and an excellent copy of it, by the 
late Professor O’Curry, transcribed in the year 1836, is in 
the Library of the Royal Irish Academy. This work has 
been described by Dr. O’Conor, in the Stowe Catalogue,' 
from a copy formerly in the Stowe Collection, and now 
the property of Lord Ashburnham. A detailed description 
of its contents, by Dr. Petrie, appears in the 18th vol. 
of the Royal Irish Academy’s Transactions. Professor 
O’Curry has also published an abstract of its contents 
in his Lectures? on the MS. Materials of Irish History. 
Charles O’Conor, of Belanagare, writing of this volume, 
observes’ :—“ As the work stands it is valuable, by pre- 
serving the descents, and pointing out the possessions of 
our Irish families of latter times very accurately; but 


it is particularly valuable as rescuing from oblivion the 


names of districts and tribes in Ireland, antecedently to 
the second century; since which the Scoti have gradually 
imposed new names of their own, as they were enabled, 
from time to time, to expel the Belgic inhabitants. It is 
a most curious chart of ancient topography, and vastly 
preferable to that given by the Alexandrian Geographer, 
Ptolemy, who must know [have known] but little of Ire- 
land, wherein the Romans never made a descent.” 

3. An Abridgment of the foregoing work, with some 





1 Stowe Catalogue. Vol. i., p. 138. | 8 Observes. Ogygia Vindicated, 
2 Lectures. See pe 215, sq. Preface, pp. ix., x. 


INTRODUCTION. 


additional Pedigrees, compiled in the year 1666. 
The original of this abridgment is not now known 
to exist; but there is a very accurate copy of it in 
the library of the Marquess of Drogheda, and 
several in the collection of the Royal Irish 
Academy. 


4, A Treatise on Irish astens drawn up in the year 


1656. The original of this work, which formerly 
belonged to Sir James Ware, had been considered, 
for a long time, as altogether lost, but the Editor 
found it in the year 1864, in the Bodleian Library, 
Oxford, bound up with the next tract (No. 5), in 
the volume Rawlinson, 480, to which his attention 
was directed by the Rev. Dr. Macray, of Oxford. 
Although in the Preface to his Genealogical Work 
Mac Firbis alludes to his having compiled such a 
treatise, it appears from various data furnished by 
the Bodleian copy, which is in his own hand- 
writing, that it had not been completed. An 
accurate copy’ of this fragment, made by the Editor, 
has been placed in the Royal Irish Academy. 


5. A catalogue of extinct Irish Bishoprics, together 


with a list of dignitaries anciently accounted 
bishops, but not so regarded in the author's time. 
This very curious tract, written in 1665, is also 
preserved in the Rawlinson collection, in the same 
volume that contains the last mentioned treatise. 
It is in the autograph of Mac Firbis, and appears 
to have been the property of Sir James Ware, 
although the editor of his Works does not seem to 
have known of its existence. Neither was it known 
to any subsequent investigator, until the Editor 





1 Copy. For an account of its con- | Kelly, esq., in the Proceedings of the 
tents, see a paper by Denis Henry | Royal Irish Academy, vol. ix., p. 182. 





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Sei 


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5 Ret eo = he ee & be "1, ee 7? 
sie Sal Se RS Se eee eet See ee ee me. 


INTRODUCTION. Xxili 


found it under the circumstances referred to in 
connection with the last mentioned treatise (No. 4). 
A transcript! of this catalogue, also made by the 
Editor, has been added to the collection of the R. I. 
Academy. 


6. A List of Bishops arranged by Mac Firbis for Sir 


James Ware, already referred to, which is probably 
a copy, or abstract of the foregoing catalogue. 


7. A Collection of Glossaries, including original compo- 


sitions and transcripts from more ancient ones. Of 
these there are several fragments preserved in the 
MS. volume classed H. 2, 15, in the Library of 
Trinity College, Dublin. The same volume also 
contains transcripts, in Mac Firbis’s handwriting, 
of O’Davoren’s law glossary, and the curious 
glossary believed to have been compiled by Cor- 
mac, King and Bishop of Cashel, whose death is 
recorded infra under the year 907. These two 
important compilations have been published, from 
more ancient texts, by Mr. Whitley Stokes.? 


8. A Martyrology, or Litany of the Saints, in verse, a 


copy of which, in his own autograph, is preserved 
in the British Museum. 


9. A transcript, or collection, from a volume of Annals 


belonging to Nehemias Mac Egan, of Ormond, 
“chief professor of the old Irish or Brehon Laws,” 
made in the year 1643, for the Rev. John Lynch, 
author of “Cambrensis Eversus.” This collection 
has been published by the Irish Arch, and Celt. 
Society? from a copy made directly from Mac 
Firbis’s MS. 








1 Transcript. Described by Denis ® Stokes. See Three Irish Glossaries ; 
H. Kelly, esq., in the Proceedings of | London, Williams and Norgate, 1862. 
the R. I, Academy, vol. ix., p. 182. 3 Society. Three Fragments of An- 


nals. Dublin, 1860. 


XXiV INTRODUCTION. 


Mac Firbis’s translations from the Irish are believed to 
have been numerous, but in consequence of the wide dis- 
persion of the MS. collection of Sir James Ware, for whom 
they were chiefly made, their extent cannot now be ascer- 
tained. His principal effort in this line was the transla- 
tion of the Annals of Ulster, now preserved in the British 
Museum, and of the original Annals of Inisfallen. An 
important fragment, consisting of a translation of Irish 
Annals from the year 1443 to 1468, has been published 
by the Irish Archeological Society ;! and his English ver- 
sion of a curious tract called the “Registry of Clonmac- 
nois””—believed to have been originally compiled before 
the year 1216—has been printed in the Transactions? of 
the Kilkenny Archzeological Society, from the translator's 
autograph in the British Museum. 

It is unnecessary to dwell further on Mac Firbis’s pro- 
found knowledge of the history, language, and literature 
of his native country. The opinion entertained of his 
abilities, honest zeal, and industry, by Irish scholars of 
the present day, agrees with the judgment expressed of 
him by his learned contemporaries. Although educated 
with a special view to the profession which his ancestors 
for centuries had followed, his association with Roderick 
O'Flaherty, Dr. John Lynch, Francis Kirwan, Skerrett, 
and the other members of the learned brotherhood which 
obtained for the Collegiate Institution of Galway, in the 
seventeenth century, a distinguished reputation for literary 
eminence, naturally gave a wider range to his studies; 
and it was probably during his residence among these 
remarkable men that he acquired whatever knowledge 
he possessed of the classic languages. 

In the art—for such it may be called—of correctly in- 
terpreting the very ancient phraseology of the Irish, or 
“Brehon” laws, he was without an equal. It was the 





1 Society. See Miscellany of the Ir. ® Transactions. See Vol. L., New 
Arch. Soc., Vol. I., Dublin, 1846. Series, 1856-7. 














INTRODUCTION. xXV 


opinion of Charles O’Conor that all chance of rightly 
translating them passed away with him. He observes 
nearly as much himself; for in his treatise on Irish 
authors,’ he states that there were only “three or four 
persons” living in his time who understood a word of the 
subject, and they were “the sons of Ollamhs (professors) 
of the territory of Connaught,” in which province the 
ancient Irish customs and system of jurisprudence con- 
tinued longer than in the other divisions of Ireland. In 
proof of this Mac Firbis alleges, in the abridged copy of 
his large genealogical work, that he knew Irish chieftains 
who in his own time governed their septs “ according to the 
‘words of Fithal’ and the ‘ Royal Precepts; ”? the Fithal 
alluded to was Brehon, or judge, to Cormac Mac Airt, 
Monarch of Ireland in the third century, the reputed 
author of the “Royal Precepts,” or teagars piogoa, of 
which various ancient copies are in existence. 


The MS. A. from which the following text has been taken 
is contained, as has been already observed, in a volume 
in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, classed H. 1. 18, 
which comprises fragments of several tracts, all in the 
Irish language. The contents of the volume, which is a 
paper folio, lettered on the back “Miscellanea Hiber- 
nica,” are thus specified in a leaf at the beginning, in a 
handwriting which Dr. O’Donovan believed to be that of 
an amanuensis employed by Charles O’Conor of Belanagare, 
to whom the volume appears to have been lent by Val- 
lancey, in 1774:— 

“Tn hoe vetusto ac valde pretioso codice heee antiqui- 
tatum Hiberniz Monumenta continentur, viz. :— 





1 Jrish Authors. See MS., R. I. | Instructions,” by the late Dr. O’Dono- 
Acad., Class 23, O, 43. van, with extracts therefrom, in the 

2 Royal Precepts. See an account | Dublin Penny Journal, Vol. I., pp. 
of the “Royal Precepts,” or “Cormac’s ! 218, 281. 


c 


XXVi INTRODUCTION. 


“1° Tractatus Genealogicus ex libro authentico qui 
vocatur Leabhar Irse clainn Ui Mael-Conaire desumptus. 

“9° Tractatus Historicus de bellis familize O’Brienorum, 
tum secum invicem, tum contra Anglorum duces, a medio 
Seeculi xiii. usque ad annum Gratis, 1318, a Joanne 
Magrath, familiarum de Dail-Gais historico, et scriptore 
fere cozetaneo, stylo copioso, et juxta illorum temporum 
normam exaratus, atque ex autographo existente anno 
1721, a viro in antiquititabus nostris versatissimo, 
Andrea Mac Crutin nomine, fideliter et ad literam de- 
scriptus. 

«3°, Annales Tigernachi Clonmacnoicensis, qui ab 
Augustino Magrada Canonico de Insula Sanctorum, vulgo 
dicta Oilean na Naomh, et post mortem ejus, a quodam 
anonymo scriptore, continuantur ad annum 1407. — 

“4°, Antiquum Monumentum vulgo dictum Chronicon 
Scotorum. Videtur esse compendium preedictorum Anna- 
lium Tigernachi. 

“ Haec omnia Monumenta zelo ac industria illustrissimi 
ac Reverendissimi Joannis O’Brien, Episcopi Cloynensis_ 
et Rossensis in Hibernia, qui die xiii. mensis Marti, 1769, 
Lugduni in Gallié obiit Sate canes et in unum huneccodicem 
digesta fuerunt.” 

The Bishop O’Brien here referred to was the Roman 
Catholic Bishop of Cloyne, and the learned compiler of an 
Trish-English dictionary published in Paris, 1769, and 
republished, with additions,in Dublin in the year 1832. He 
was also the author of the tract on the Law of Tanistry, 
published by Vallancey under his own name (without the 
smallest allusion to the real author), in his “ Collectanea 
de rebus Hibernicis,” vol. 1. Dr. O’Brien, in conjunction 
with the Rev. John Conry, a good Irish scholar, was like- 
wise the compiler of the Dublin “Annals of Inisfallen.” 
A paper in the Jowrmal des Scavans, on the Macpherson 
poems of Ossian, is also attributed to Bishop O’Brien. 











INTRODUCTION, XXVli 


The contents of the MS. H. 1. 18 have been more fully 
deseribed by Dr. Charles O’Conor,' who carefully examined 
it when he was preparing his edition of Tighernach, and 
also subsequently by Dr. John O’Donovan.? 

The copy of the Chronicum Scotorum in this volume 
oceupies 524 folios, or 105 pages of two columns each. 
The handwriting is large and bold, and in Mac Firbis’s 
best style; but the text is very much abbreviated, and 
some of the contractions are so complicated that it has 
been no easy task to decipher the words in many places. 
There is no evidence to fix the date at which the MS. was 
copied; but from acomparison of the handwriting with that 
in his larger genealogical work, compiled in 1650, it seems 
probable that the Chronicle was transcribed before that year. 

It is evident from the foregoing summary of contents 


_ that the copy of the Chronicum Scotorum in H. 1. 18 had 


belonged to Bishop O’Brien; and it was probably during 
his residence in France, where he lived for several 
years prior to his death in 1769, that the transcript in.the 
Royal Irish Academy (23, P. 3), was made by his friend 
and associate, the Rev. John Conry. The MS. H. 1.18 
had previously been the property of the learned Roderick 
O'Flaherty, who has frequently quoted it as a reliable 
authority in his “Ogygia,” and has enhanced its value by 
many marginal notes and occasional emendations of the 
text. These annotations, which are all in O’Flaherty’s 
autograph, have been included in the footnotes to the 
present edition, as it was considered desirable that every 
memorandum added by so eminent an authority on Irish. 
history and chronology should be carefully preserved. 

It does not appear at what date, or under what circum- 
stances, the MS. passed from O’Flaherty. But it could not 





10'Conor. Dr. O’Conor’s descrip- | Descriptive Catalogue of Irish MSS. in 
tion is contained in a small quarto | theLibrary of Trinity College, Dublin, 
MS, tract accompanying H. 1. 18. p. 100. 
2 O'Donovan, See his (unpublished) 9 
c 


XXViii INTRODUCTION. 


have been in his possession in 1709, when Dr. Molyneux 
found with him only “some few [tracts] of his own 
writing,” his ill fortune having stripped him of his other 
Irish MSS. After the death of Dr. O’Brien, the MS. A. 
passed successively through the hands of Vallancey, and 
of old Charles O’Conor, whose grandson the learned editor 
of “Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores,” has published a 
description of it in the Stowe Catalogue. 

A good deal of uncertainty has hitherto been felt 
respecting the original from which Mac Firbis made his 
copy of the Chronicum Scotorum. The late eminent Celtic 
scholar, Professor O’Curry, was uncertain whether to regard 
MS. A. as the original, or only a transcript. “Nothing 
of its history is known to me,” he observes, “but what can 
be gathered from the book itself, and the hand in which 
the autograph (or Trinity College copy) is written.” In 
his valuable lecture on the life and works of Duald Mae 
Firbis, O’Curry speaks of him as the “compiler”! of the 
Chronicle, which he in another place calls the “compila- — 
tion”? of Mac Firbis, and again a “compendium from some 
ancient book or books of annals belonging to his family,” 
and a “utilitarian abstract.”® At the conclusion of his 
description, nevertheless, he gives expression to his doubt 
on the subject of its origin, in the following words, viz. :— 
“ Such as it is, however, and as far as it goes, there can 
be no doubt of its being one of the most authentic copies 
of, or compilations from, more ancient annals.”* 

Professor O’Curry’s first supposition, that the Chronicum 
Scotorum was a compilation, or abstract, made by Mac 
Firbis, seems to have been founded chiefly on the inter- 
pretation of the opening sentence of the work, in which 
Mac Firbis deprecates the censure of his readers for haying 





1 Compiler. Lectures, &c., pp. 126, 3 Abstract. Ib., p. 128, 
127, 129. 4 Annals. Ib., p. 129. 
2 Compilation. Ib., p. 120. 











INTRODUCTION. XxXix 


given only a summary of the ancient history of the Scotic 
or Milesian colonists, whose proceedings before their arrival 
‘in Ireland, as well as subsequent thereto, are generally 
detailed at much length by Irish writers. In this very 
passage, however, Mac Firbis calls his MS. a “copy,” as 
he does again further on where he speaks of “the vellum 
from which it has been drawn.”? 

_ Regarding the reasons which induced Mac Firbis’s 
unwillingness* to copy the section of the work forming 
pp. 1 to 15 of the present edition, Professor O’Curry 
writes, “It is very probable that it was about this time 
[1650] that Sir James Ware conceived the idea of avail- 
ing himself of Mac Firbis’s extensive and profound 
antiquarian learning; and as that learned and well- 
' intentioned writer, was then concerned only with what 
related to the ecclesiastical history of Ireland, this was 
probably the reason that Mac Firbis offers those warm 
apologies for having been compelled to pass over the 
‘long and tedious’ account of the early colonizations of 
this country, and pass at one step to the Christian era. 
(We.know that Ware quotes many of our old Annals as 
sterling authorities in his work. As these were all in 
the Irish language, and as Ware had no acquaintance 
with that language, it follows clearly enough, that he 
must have had some competent person to assist him to 
read those annals, and whose business it was doubtless 
to select and translate for him such parts of them as 
were deemed by him essential to his design.) Excepting 
for some such purpose as this, I can see no reason what- 
ever why Mac Firbis should apply himself, and with 





1 Copy. The original has “yan | inadvertence, as “co1p” simply signi- 
coipre,” “in this copy.” Vide infra, | fies “copy.” 
p- 2. In Professor O’Curry’s inter- © 2 Drawn. Seeinfra, p. 11. 
pretation of this passage (Lectures, 8 Unwillingness. See the last para- 
&c., p. 127), the word corp, ‘‘copy,”is | graph, p. 9, infra. 
translated “book,” apparentlythrough | 


XXX INTRODUCTION. 


such apparent reluctance, to make this compendium from 
some ancient book or books of Annals belonging to his 
family. It appears, indeed, from his own words,” adds 
-O’Curry, “that it was poverty or distress that caused 
him to pass over the record of what he deemed the 
ancient glory of his country, and to draw up a mere 
utilitarian abstract for some person to whose patronage 
he was compelled to look for support in his declining 
years,”! But Mac Firbis, who asserts that in making 
the preliminary abstract he was actuated by a desire 
“to avoid tediousness,” does not refer to “poverty or 
distress ;’ and it is certain that his copy of the Chroni- 
cum Scotorum was neither made for, nor at any time 
the property of, Sir James Ware. 

It need scarcely be observed that no man was more 
competent than Professor O’Curry to pronounce, authori- 
tatively, on any subject connected with Irish MSS.; and 
had he transcribed or translated the MS. A., or been able 
to devote the time necessary for a minute investigation of 
its contents, observed the occasional peculiarities of idiom 
and archaic phraseology, and the conjectural emendations 
here and there suggested by Mac Firbis, (which will be 
found referred to in the foot-notes to the present volume), 
he would doubtless have been led to the conclusion at 
which the Editor has arrived, viz. :—that it is, in all except 
the preliminary section, a trustworthy copy of an ancient 
chronicle compiled in the monastery of Clonmacnois. 

The Editor would naturally regret very much to find 
himself at issue with any deliberate opinion put forward 
by Professor O’Curry on a question touching the age 
or history of an Irish MS. And had that distinguished 
scholar expressed it as his unqualified conviction, after a 
critical examination of the entire subject, that the 
Chronicum Scotorum was the actual compilation of 





1 Years. Lectures, &c., pp. 127, 128. 














INTRODUCTION. XXxi 


Duald Mac Firbis, the Editor would have bowed sub- 
missively to his superior judgment. But O’Curry had 
spoken in such undecided terms of the authorship of the 
Chronicle, that the Editor considered the question capable 
of further elucidation, and the result of his inquiries 

having been placed before the Right Honorable the 
- Master of the Rolls, His Lordship was pleased to coincide 
in the conclusion arrived at by the Editor, and to sanc- 
tion the publication of the present work. 

The internal evidence furnished by MS. A. would be 
sufficient, even if other evidence were wanting, to prove 
that it is not the original compilation of Mac Firbis. In 
more than one place, for instance, as has been already 
observed, he refers to his production as a “copy.” In 
other places, where a difficulty apparently occurred in 
deciphering the original from which he copied, he ventures 
on conjectural emendations, without, however, affecting 
the integrity of his text. At the year 718 (rected 722), 
where a large deficiency occurs, he speaks of “the old 
book”! out of which he wrote, as wanting a “front” of 
two leaves, as a provision for which he leaves a part of his 
MS. blank. The hiatus? left in his transcript of the 
entry at the year 1013 (recté 1015) illustrates the fidelity 
with which he copied the original Chronicle. Both these 
deficiencies might have been easily supplied by Mac 
Firbis from other Annals, if his desire had been to frame 
a Chronicle ; and his omission to supply them indicates 
conclusively that the text of the MS. A. has been tran- 
scribed from an original by a copyist, not reduced or put 
into form by a compiler, whose business it would have 
been not to eopy, but to supply, as far as possible, all 
defects in his sources. 

_ Dr. O'Donovan, who did not make as much use of the 





1 The old book. See note *, p. 124, ? Hiatus. See note 5, p. 254. 
infra. 


XXXii _ INTRODUCTION. 


Chronicum Scotorum as he might have done, although 
he considered it “very valuable as containing passages 
not to be found in any other Annals,” hesitates, in his 
account! of its contents, to pronounce an opinion on the 
question of its age or history. But elsewhere? he calls it 
“a good abstract of some Annals which belonged to the 
Mac Firbises, made by the celebrated Duald Mac Firbis;” ~ 
and adds that it was “styled Chronicewm Scotorum by 
the transcriber, who states that he shortened or abstracted 
it from a larger work of the Mac Firbises, omitting every- 
thing except what relates to the Scoti or Milesians.” 
The statement here imputed to Mac Firbis does not 
correctly express the sense of the passage* to which 
Dr. O’Donovan alludes. 

The fact is that O'Donovan seems not to have care- 
fully examined the Chronicum Scotorum. 

This will appear evident from some notes* in his edition 
of the Annals of the Four Masters, regarding entries in 
these Annals which are also contained in the present 
Chronicle, the original of which may have been among 
the authorities made use of by the Four Masters. Even 
the valuable entry at the year 964, anfra, where the 
erection of the Round Tower of Tomgraney, in Clare, is 
ascribed to Cormac O’Cillin, escaped O’Donovan’s notice, 
which could hardly have happened had he attentively 
read the Chronicum. His description of the MS. was 
written in 1836: but, three years afterwards, writing of 
this very passage, which Colgan (Actt. SS. p. 360) incor- 
rectly quotes from the Four Masters, O'Donovan observes, 





1 Account. See his Descriptive 4 Notes. See Four Mast., O’'Do- 





Catalogue (unpublished) of the Irish 
MSS. in the Library of Trinity 
College, Dublin, p. 103. 

2 Elsewhere. See Four Mast., vol. 
i., p. Ixy., note &, 

8 Passage. See the opening sen- 
tence, p. 3, infra. 





novan’s ed., A.D. 806 (note "), 842 
(note *), and 964 (note *), and cf. 
the entries there referred to, with the 
corresponding entries infra at the 
years 811, 844, and 964, respectively. 








INTRODUCTION. XXXili 


“Tt is to be lamented that we have not the original 
Trish of this passage, as it would show that a round tower 
(clog teaé) was erected at Tuaim-greine in the third 
quarter of the tenth century.”? 

That Duald Mac Firbis did make an abstract or com- 
pilation from some of the books of Annals belonging to 
his family is very certain. The collection of Irish MSS. 
in Trinity College, Dublin, includes a large fragment 
(classed H. 2, 11) of the Annals of the Four Masters, in 
the autograph of Michael O’Clery. This volume seems 
to have belonged to Roderick O’Flaherty, who has added 
humerous marginal notes down to the year 1422, and 
referred to several authorities, among which is a chronicle 
quoted as that of “D. F.” or Dudley Firbisse. But it is 
hardly necessary to observe that this could not have been 
the Chronicum Scotorum, with which O'Flaherty was 
well acquainted, and which he has so frequently quoted 
in his “ Ogygia,” without, however, mentioning the name 
of Mac Firbis in connexion with it. There can be no 
question that, if the Chronicle had been compiled by Mac 
Firbis, O'Flaherty would not have concealed the fact, or 
spoken of it as “Scotochronicon Tigernachi Cluanense,”? 
and “ Tigernachi Cluanensis Scotorum Chronicon,”* thus 
intimating that it was originally written in the monastery 
of Clonmacnois, where the more ancient and important 
Chronicle of Tighernach was also compiled. 

That the present chronicle was knownto Irish scholars in 
the last century as the “ Chronicum Scotorum Cluanense,” 
or of Clonmacnois, appears from an article published in 
the Journal des Scavans for 1764, seemingly from the 
pen of Bishop O’Brien, in whose possession MS. A. was at 
the time, and who was, of the Irish scholars of his day, 





1 Century. See Ordnance Survey *Scotorum. See Ogygia, p. 436. 
Letters, R. I. Academy; Clare, vol. 8 Chronicon. Ib., p. 466. 
IL., p. 245. : 


XXXiV INTRODUCTION. 


the most competent, perhaps, to offer an opinion on the 
age or history of an Irish MS. 

“Plusieurs scavans etrangeres,” observes the learned 
writer, “reconnoissent que les Irlandois ont des Annales 
d'une antiquité tres respectable, et d’une authenticité 
a toute epreuve. C'est le jugement qu’en porte Mr. Stil- 
lingfleet dans le Preface de ses Antiquites, ou il paroit, au 
contraire, faire tres peu de cas de tous les Monumens de 
la nation Ecossoise. Mr. Innes, qui n’a jamais flatté les 
Irlandois, reconnoit l’antiquité, aussi bien que Yauthen- 
ticité de leurs Annales, particulitrement de celles de 
Tigernach, d’Inisfallen, et de quelques autres. I] remarque 
que la copie des Annales de Tigernach qui appartenoit 
Mr. O'Flaherty, Auteur de l’Ogygia, paroissoit plus parfaite 
que celle qui se trouvoit dans le Bibliotheque du Due de 
Chandois. Je crois devoir declarer ici que je possede 
actuellement cette meme copie des Annales de Tigernach 
que possedait Mr. O’Flaherty, avec un ancienne apographe 
de la Chronique de Clonmacnois, qui est bien connu sous 
le titre de Chronicon Scotorum Cluanense, et qui appar- 
tenoit aussi au meme Monsieur O'Flaherty, qui le cite bien 
souvent dans son Ogygia.”! 

In another place in the same journal Bishop O’Brien 
remarks, criticising Innes’s Critical Essay, “Mr. Innes 
s accorde parfaitement avec lesanciennes Annalesd Irlande, 
particulierement avec eelles de Tigernachus et du Chron- 
icon Scotorum Cluanense, ou on lit la note suivante & 
Yan 503; ‘Fergus Mor Mac Eire cum gente Dalriada partem 
Britannic tenuit, et ibi mortuus est.’”? 

The Rev. Dr. O’Conor, who carefully examined the 
Chronicum, and made a transcript of MS. A., which he 
collated with the Bodleian copy of Tighernach, was also 
of opinion that the Chronicum was originally written at 





1 Ogygia. Vide Journal des Scavans, 2 Mortuus est. Journal des Sca- 
1764, tom. ix., p. 351. vans, tom. iv., p. 64. 








INTRODUCTION. XXXV 


Clonmacnois. “Some have confounded this chronicle 
with Tighernach,” he observes, “because it is frequently 
ealled ‘Chronicon Cluanense,’ and was written in Tigher- 
nach’s Monastery of Clonmacnois.” And among the 
number of persons so offending, O’Conor rightly includes 
Roderick O'Flaherty, who undoubtedly has so confounded! 
it, although the chronicle which the latter refers to 
throughout his “Ogygia” as the “Chron. Cluanense” is not 
the present Chronicle, but Mageoghegan’s translation of 


the so-called Annals of Clonmacnois. 


It is very much to be regretted that O’Flaherty has not 
put his readers in possession of the reasons which induced 
him to identify the present Chronicle with Tighernach. 
He probably regarded the Chronicum in the same light 
as Dr. O’Conor has regarded it, namely, as a reproduction 
of Tighernach, in a form slightly altered. In O’Conor’s 
edition of Tighernach’s Annals, commenting on the entry 
at the year 434, respecting the “ first Saxon depredation 
in Erinn” (which is supplied from the Chronicum Sco- 
torum), he observes?—“ Eadem habent ad eundem annum 
Annales Ultoniz. Silet tamen Chron. Saxon. ; sed vetus- 
tiores sunt Annales Tigernachi, qui obiit anno 1088; et 
Chron. Scotorum nihil aliud est quam compendium 
Tigernachi, paucis adjectis, a quo vetere auctore igno- 
ramus.” Again, at the year 662, in his edition of the 
same Annals, referring to a corruption in the Bodleian 
text, which he has corrected from the Chronicum Seoto- 
rum, he says,’ “Textum in codice Bodleiano hic corrup- 
tum restituimus ex codice MS. Dublinii cui titulus 
Chronicon Scotorum, qui nihil aliud est quam Tigernachi 





1 Confounded. See O’Flaherty’s | Chronicon,” is unquestionably the 


 Ogygia, pp. 484, 436, and 466. The | MS. A. 


authority there referred to under the 2 Observes. See Rerum Hiberni- 


respective titles of “Tigernac. seu | carum Scriptores, vol. ii., p.101, note 


Chronicon Scotorum,” ‘ Scotchron- 
icon Tigernachi Cluanense,” and 
“Tigernachi Cluanensis Scotorum 





(*). 
8 Says. Ib. vol, ii., p. 202, note (t). 


XXXVi INTRODUCTION. 


compendium propriis verbis ubique fere servatis.” And 
in another place he describes' it as the ‘‘ Chronicon Scoto- 
rum, MS. in Biblioth. Dublin. ex codice Tigernachi jam 
deperdito.” 

That this learned and painstaking writer was certainly 
wrong in supposing the Chronicum Scotorum to be no 
more than a compendium of Tigernach, “ propriis verbis,” 
and “ paucis adjectis,” will appear evident on a perusal of 


the present volume, although, as Professor O’Curry has_ 


remarked,? “the order and arrangement of the events 
recorded, and the events themselves, often, though not al- 
ways, agree with the Annals of Tighernach.” Even mak- 
ing due allowance for certain verbal differences attribut- 
able to Mac Firbis’s practice® of altering the orthography 
and grammatical construction of old texts transcribed by 
him to the standard in use in his time, the discrepancies be- 
tween the phraseology of the two chronicles are too marked 
to justify the opinion that one was actually copied from 
the other. These discrepancies are rather of a nature to 
indicate that Tighernach and the original compiler of the 
Chronicum Scotorum had transcribed from a common 
original. It is impossible that Mac Firbis could have 
made his copy from any existing MS. of Tighernach. 

It appears from the “Testimonium” prefixed to the 
Annals of the Four Masters that the laborious compilers 
of that invaluable collection made use ofa chronicle called 
the “ Annals of Clonmacnois,” which came down to the 
year 1227. There is no Irish chronicle at present known 
answering to this description. It could not have been 
the volume of Annals translated by Conell Mageoghegan, 
which seems to have extended to the year 1407, inasmuch 
as several entries quoted from the “ Book of Clonmacnois” 
by the Four Masters are not to be found in Mageoghegan’s 





1 Describes. Rerum Hibernicarum 8 Practice. See Dr. O’Donovan’s 
Scriptores, vol. ii., p. 84, note (74). observations on this subject, in his ed. 
3 Remarked. Lectures, gc., p. 129. | of Hy-Fiachrach, notes to p. 176, sq. 











— a a ee 





INTRODUCTION. XXXVii 


translation, although some of these entries are such as 
Mageoghegan would certainly not have omitted had he 
found them in his original. At the year 1005, for 
instance, the Four Masters give an account of a great 
hosting made by Brian Borumha into the north of Ire- 
land, which is stated to have been extracted from the 
“ Book of Clonmacnois,” and the “Book of the Island! of 
Saints, in Loch Ribh.” There is no reference to this ex- 
pedition in Mageoghegan’s version of the former chronicle ; 
and there is little doubt that, had Mageoghegan found 
such a record in the volume which he professed to trans- 
late, he would not have failed to make it the foundation 
of an encomium on Brian, by his extreme partiality for 
whom the authority of Mageoghegan’s version is in many 
places injuriously affected. 

This entry will be found infra, under the year 1004, 


in nearly the same terms used by the Four Masters. 


Again, the record of the victory gained by Comaltan Ua 
Clerigh, King of Ui-Fiachrach-Aidhne, over Fergal Ua 
Ruaire, which the Four Masters have at the year 964, is 
stated in the MS. of that work, formerly in the Stowe 
Library, to have been taken from the same “ Books of 
Clonmacnois” and of “the Island.” ‘There is no similar 
entry in any other known chronicle except the present, 
in which it appears under the same year. The number of 
the slain is, however, differently given in these authorities, 
owing apparently to some mistake in the transcription of 
either. In a note to his edition of the Four Masters, at 
the year 806 (recté 811), respecting the curious entry there 
given of the arrival of a Céle-Dé in Ireland, Dr. O'Donovan 





1 Book of the Island. ‘“ This wasa 
book of Annals, which were continued 
by Augustin Magraidin to his own 
time, A.D. 1405. Ware had a part 
of these Annals, with some additions, 
made after Magraidin’s death. See 
Harris's edition of Ware’s Writers of 





Ireland, p. 87; Colgan’s Acta Sanc- 
torum, p. 5; and Archdall’s Monast. 
Hib., p. 442. These Annals have not 
been yet identified, if extant.” Note 
by Dr. O’Donovan, Four Mast., A.D. 
1005, note * 


XXXVlii INTRODUCTION. 


observes!'—* This entry is not in the Annals of Ulster or 
Clonmacnois [#.e., Mageoghegan’s version]. It has been also 
copied by the Four Masters into their Leabhar-Gabhala 
(or Book of Invasions), but where they found it the Editor. 
has not been able to determine.” This entry is given in 
the present chronicle, at the year 811, in almost precisely 
the same words as in the Four Masters. Referring to the 
death of Tolorg, chief of Fealla, which the Four Masters 
record under the year 842, O'Donovan also remarks?— 


“This entry is not in the Annals of Ulster, or in those of 


Clonmacnois. The Editor has not been able to find any 
other reference to this territory, and thinks that it is a 
mistake of the Four Masters.” But the same record ap- 
pears word for word, infra, under the year 844, which is 
the correct date. 

Many other entries, also common to the Annals of the 
Four Masters and the present chronicle, are not found in 


any other volume of Irish Annals now known to be in 


existence. 

The curious account in the present chronicle, under the 
year 1107 (recté 1111), respecting the synod of Uisnech, 
and the partition of the ancient diocese of Feara-Midhe 
(Meath and Westmeath), between the Bishops of Clon- 
macnois and Clonard, furnishes some important evidence 
towards discovering the real compiler of the original from 
which Mac Firbis made his transcript. The account in 
question, which is more than usually specific as to matters 
of detail, does not appear in any other work now forth- 
coming, except in the MS. known as the “ Dublin Annals 
of Inisfallen,” compiled by Bishop O’Brien and the Rey. 
John Conry, who of course must have copied it from 
the MS. A. which, as we have seen, belonged to one of them. 
Dr. Lynch states that the same account was contained in 





1 Observes. See Ann. F. M., O’Dono- 2 Remarks. Ib, vol. i, p. 464, 
van’s ed., vol. i., p. 417, note *% note *, ‘ 














INTRODUCTION. XXxX1X 


“a copy of old Irish annals”! in his possession. It is to be 
regretted that Lynch did not more precisely mention his 
authority. It was probably no other than MS. A., which 
may have been lent to him by Mac Firbis, his instructor and 
guide in matters relating to Irish history and antiquities. 

Amongst the persons who took a leading part in the 
synod referred to was an ecclesiastic named Gillachrist 
Ua-Maeileoin, or O’Malone, abbot of Clonmaecnois, to whom 
the compilation of the Chronicum Scotorum is ascribed, 
probably with justice. 

A copy of the work in the collection of the Royal Irish 
Academy, classed 23, O, 8, has an Irish title prefixed, of 
which the following is a translation, viz. :— 

“ The Chronicum Scotorum, i.e. the Annals of the Scotic 
Race, written at first at Clonmacnois, sometime in the 
twelfth century, by Gilla-Christ O’Maeileoin, Abbot of 
Clonmacnois ; in which is contained an account of a great 
many valuable affairs, particularly the affairs of Ireland, 
from Adam to the Age of Christ, 1150.” 

It is aremarkable fact that the proceedings of the synod 
in which he acted a principal part are not described, as 
has been observed, in any other chronicle except this with 
which his name is connected. 

There is no evidence to indicate the source from which 
_ this copy was made; but it could not have been transcribed 
from the MS. A., or any fair copy of it, for although the 
scribe might in many cases have failed to decipher the text 
of Mac Firbis’s transcript correctly, the discrepancies 
between the latter MS. and his copy are too numerous 
to justify the supposition that the one was taken from 
the other. It is to be remarked that there is now no title- 
page to MS. A., although there appears to have once been 
one; and Mac Firbis seems to have always studiously 
observed the practice of prefixing titles to his works, 


1 Qld Irish Annals. “ . - | dicceses institutas fuisse narrent.” 
tum quéd vetusti Annales Hibernici, Cambrensis Eversus, ed, Rey. Matt. 
quorum apographum habeo, duas ab | Kelly, vol. ii., p, 52. 

Usnachensis concilii patribus in Media 





xl INTRODUCTION. 


whether original compilations or transcripts. Be this as 
it may, there is no reason to suppose that the copyist of 
23, O, 8, invented the foregoing title. 

The ecclesiastic to whom the composition of the pre- 
sent chronicle has thus been ascribed, and who is stated 
at the year 1120-1124, infra, to have contributed to 
the completion of the great belfry, or round tower, of 
Clonmacnois, seems to have enjoyed a very high reputa- 
tion for learning. His death is recorded within under the 
year 1123 (=1127), in the following words, viz. :—‘“Gilla- 
christ Ua Maeileoin, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, fountain 
of knowledge and charity, head of the prosperity and 
affluence of Erinn, quievit.” It is also mentioned in 
the Annals of Ulster, and by the Four Masters, under the 
year 1127, in somewhat similar terms. 

In neither of these authorities is there any reference 
to Gillachrist as the author of the present chronicle ; but 
any one acquainted with the subject of medieval litera- 
ture need not be told that no conclusive evidence against 
his authorship can be derived from this omission, or 
from the additional circumstance that the copy in MS... 
A. comes down to the year 1131 (rect2 1135), or 8 years 
after the death of Gillachrist Ua Maeileoin. The Annals 
of Boyle, those of Inisfallen, of Connacht, and of Loch-Cé 
contain no reference to the names of their original com- 
pilers, while the continuations added by Augustin Mag- 
raidin to the Chronicle of Tighernach, and by Roderick 
O’Cassidy to the Annals of Ulster, have been supple- 
mented with additional entries by some persons whose 
names are not kno 

Many other circumstances tend to connect the Chroni- 
cum Scotorum with the monastery of Clonmacnois. The 
affairs of that establishment, for instance, are more 
frequently noticed in it than those of any other place. 
Even the name of Cluain-mue-Nois is occasionally repre- ” 
sented by the first syllable (“Cluain”) only; and as 
there were several other celebrated ecclesiastical estab- 


ban 














INTRODUCTION. xli 


lishments in Ireland the names of which began with 
Cluain (i.e. a sheltered lawn or meadow), as Cluain-Dol- 
-eain, Cluain-eois, Cluain-eidhnech, Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, 
Cluain-Iraird, Cluain-Uamha, and many more collected 
in the index, each of which would be familiarly called 
“Cluain” by its inmates, it might reasonably be inferred 
that the writer who thus indicated Cluain-muc-Nois was 
in some way connected with the establishment. Many 
entries also,not found in any other authority, are of a nature 
to support this conjecture. Of this kind are the entries at 
the year 922, regarding Flann Fobhair (which, indeed, 
Mac Firbis seems to have been no more able to under- 
stand than the present writer); that under the year 
1000, respecting the “deposing of Ua Begulain” from 
"some ‘office ; the purchase of the “Eneclar” of the great 
altar, by King Maelsechlainn, noticed under the year 
1005 ; and the curious entry at the year 1091, referring 
to the persecution directed against the monastery. 

The original of the entries occupying pp. 338 to 349 of 
the present work is contained in what seems to be a 
small fragment. of some other collection of annals, which 
follows Mac Firbis’s autogragh in A., but has not been ; 
copied into B. The fragment, which consists of two 
leaves only, is in a handwriting of the seventeenth century. 
The orthography is corrupt, and the phraseology occa- 
sionally loose and ungrammatical; but, like the Chronicum 
Scotorum, it contains some notices of events that are not 
found in any other accessible authority, and it is con- 
sequently much to be regretted that the remainder should 
have been lost. As it is impossible actually to decide 
whether the fragment may have been a portion of some 
original work, or only of some collection intended as a 
continuation of the Chronicum Scotorum, it has been 
considered advisable to print its contents by way of sup- 
plement to the Chronicum. 


d 
thive 
Foti mi 
: ss, Sabet? ry 
w ele) ig 


‘xlii INTRODUCTION. 


The chronology of the following chronicle is in a state — 
of much confusion, notwithstanding the apparent regard 
for a regular system, indicated by the array of ferial 
numbers with which the Christian period of the work | 
begins. The ferize, however, do not run on in consecutive 
order, owing probably, in large measure, to mistakes 
committed in the course of successive transcriptions of 
the original. Much of the confusion created in this respect 
is traceable to the ease with which the numeral u, as 
written in old MSS., may be confounded with 11. Never- 
theless it is almost incredible that Mac Firbis, who had 
an extensive acquaintance with Books of Annals, could 
have committed such errors as the list of criteria exhibits. 

The chronicler seems to have followed the Hebrew 
computation in that portion of the work preceding the 
Christian era, thus differing from the later annalists who 
have generally adopted the chronology of the Seventy 
Interpreters. But any attempt to fix the dates of events 
that may have taken place from 1000 to 2000 years before 
the present era, must be regarded with suspicion. This 
seems to have been the opinion of the transcriber of A., 
who dismisses the brief summary of the ancient historical 
. accounts with the expression “ I pass to another time,!” as 
if intending to convey the impression that he regarded the 
records of that “other time” as more reliable and authentic. 

The first entry in the Christian period is the record of 
the birth of St. Patrick, which is preceded by the 
criteria “ kct. Enap, wm,” “Kal of January 6,” im- 
plying that the kalends, or first, of January occurred on 
the 6th day of the week, or Friday. The succession of 
years is then regularly indicated by the repetition of the 
characters kct., or kc. for “kalends,” accompanied, with 
some exceptions, as far as the year 641, by the feriw, or 
days of the week on which the first of January fell in 
each year. Subsequently to the date 641, the feriz are no 


1Time. Vid. infra, p. 15. 

















INTRODUCTION. tii 


longer noted, every year being simply marked by the 
sign “|ct.” From the entry of the birth of St. Patrick 
to where the annalist has noted the year of the world 
4481 (recte 4381), corresponding to A.D. 429, according to 
the Irish antiquaries,| there are in all 77 “kals.” or 
years. But as one “kal.” has been manifestly omitted,’ 
whilst the sign has been as plainly doubled* in two 
instances, the actual number of “ kals.” to be taken into 
account is 76. The birth of St. Patrick should conse- 
quently be referred, according to this computation, to the 
year A.D. 353, in which the kalends of January coincided 
with the 6th day of the week, or Friday; although the 
date 357 has been added opposite to the entry in A,, 
apparently by Charles O’Conor of Belanagare. The year 
353 has therefore been added in the margin. 
That the entry of St. Patrick’s birth under the year 353 
is a gross error,‘ appears from the record of his death at 
the year 489, where he is stated to have died in the 122nd 
year of his age, although the number of intervening 
“kals,,” or years, amounts to 135, exclusive of two which 
have been omitted between the years 429 and 431. In 
_ the quatrain appended to his obit, the event is said to 
have taken place in the year 493; but an enumeration of 
the “kals.” from where the annalist has noted the year 432 
of the Incarnation, the era employed by the Irish chro- 
niclers, (equal to 431 of the common era of the nativity), 
gives the year 489, which shows that four “kals,.” ‘have 
been omitted in the intervening period. This subject is 
still further complicated by the entry under the year 660, 
respecting the mortality which appeared in Ireland in that 
year, where it is stated to have happened 203 years after 





1 Jrish Antiquaries. See O’Flaher- 4 Error. Several other errors of 
ty’s Ogygia, Proloquium, p. [8.] the same kind will be found pointed 
2 Omitted. See note, p. 15, infra. | outin the notes. See notes 3, p. 16, 
8 Doubled. See notes and 1, i, | %, p. 17,4, p. 18,4, p. 1% 
and note %, p, 17. 
d 2 


xliv INTRODUCTION. 


the death of St. Patrick, which event should in this case ~ 
be referred to A.D. 457. But the obit recorded under 457 
is that of “Senex Patricius,” who is called “Bishop of the 
Church of Glastonbury,” and is referred to in Irish chro- 
nicles as a distinct individual from “ Patrick, the Arch- 
bishop,” the Apostle of Ireland, although Dr. Lanigan has 
laboured hard to identify the one with the other.’ 

Starting from the year A.D. 433, which coincides with 
the First Indiction, as the annalist has rightly noted, the 
computation of this chronicle, reckoning the number of 
“kals,,” representing as many years, is correct down to the 
year 634, with the exception of a “ kal.” or year, omitted 
between 592 and 594, which has been taken into account.” 
Many entries are, no doubt, out of their proper order, as 
if some “kals.” had been left out in one place and super- 
added in another. In the margin opposite to the entry 
corresponding to the year 538, in A., the original hand 
has added the note, “Initium Indictionis,” to signify, 
doubtless, that the Indiction answering to the year was 
1; which would be correct. Opposite to the 27th “kal.” 
from this date, however, the numerals vxxu (525) are 
written, also in Mac Firbis’s hand; but these are mani- 
festly a mistake for olau (565), which was undoubtedly 
the date intended to be recorded by the person who origin- 
ally added the note, although, strangely enough, the 
mistake of 40 years here committed has been repeated* 
at several dates further on. 

Between the years A.D. 634 and A.D. 718, four “ kals.” 
appear to have been omitted; and the latter year there- 
fore really represents the year 722, as the criteria supplied 
by the annalist sufficiently indicate. One of these “kals,” 
seems to have been left out at the year 634, under which 





1 The other. See Lanigan’s Eccle- 2 Account. See note %, p. 64, and 
siastical History of Ireland. Vol. i., | the references there indicated, 
pp- 824-330. 8 Repeated. See note %, p. 56. 








INTRODUCTION. xlv 


date the events of the two years! are apparently given, as 
in the “Annals of Tighernach.” Another? “kal.” appears to 
have been omitted at the year 639, where the entries for 
two years have been similarly combined under one date. 
The entire events of one year have been omitted after 
the year 645, and alike omission occurs after the year 651. 

The reckoning of this chronicle is therefore correct from 
the year 353 to 634 inclusive. But from 634 to 639, it 
is one year behind the common reckoning; from 640 to 
645 it is two years in arrear ; from 646 to 651, the error 


is three years, and from 652 +0 718, the computation is 





four years in arrear. 

The defect which occurs at the year 718—722, and 
extends to the year 805, is very much to be regretted, 
involving, as it does, the loss of, perhaps, the most histori- 
_ cally interesting part of the chronicle; for there is hardly 
any period in the history of his country to which an 
Irishman can look back with more unmixed satisfaction 
than the eighth century, when Ireland was, in the words 
of Dr. Johnson, “the school of the west, the quiet habita- 
tion of sanctity and literature,’ when Irish missionaries 
zealously laboured to make the savage Teuton a partici- 
pator in the blessings of Christianity, before the civiliza- 
tion of their own country had sustained the rude shock 
administered by the Danish invasion. This deficiency is 
the more to be regretted, inasmuch as the Annals of Tigher- 
nach, with which the Chronicum Scotorum may be regarded 
- as of equal authority, are defective about the same period. 
But the hiatus in Tighernach is much more extensive, all 
that portion embracing the transactions of 210 years— 
viz.: from A.D. 766 to 976—being unfortunately missing. 
This hiatus can be fairly supplied from the present 
chronicle to the extent of 171 years, i.e. from 805 to 976; 
but the entries for the 38 years intervening botmcen 766 
and 805 are altogether lost. 





1 Two Years. See noie }, p. 84, | 2 Another. See note , p. 86, 


xlvi INTRODUCTION. 


The next entry, imperfect at the beginning, appears to — 


belong to the year 805, which date O’Flaherty has prefixed 
in A., as there are 51 “kals.”’ down to where the date 
“Anno Domini, 856,” has been added in the margin by the 
original hand. Thenceforward the “kals.” are correctly 
noted as far as the year 904, between which and the year 
1131=1135, four “kals.” would seem to have been omitted. 
Of these four, one has apparently been left out after the 
year 904, one at the year 968 (where the transactions of 
two years have been combined in the one entry), a third 
at the year 1061, and the fourth at the year 1076, where 
the entry embraces the events of two years.’ 

The result of these omissions and irregularities may be 
summarily stated as follows :— 


From A.D, 353. to 634, inclusive, the chronology is ap- 
parently correct. 

From A.D. 635 to 639, inclusive, it is one year in arrear. 

640 ,, 645, x » twoyears 4 

2 646 ,, 651, 2? »» three years ,, 

ry) 652 ,, 718, » » four years  ,, 
805 ,, 904,  ,, the chronology is correct. 
905 ,, 968, » it is one year in arrear. 
969 ,, 1061, 4, 4, twoyears  ,, 

1062 ,, 1076, All » three years ,, 

1077 * F1Gi, 2 » four years ,, 

1141 to the end the computation is correct. ~ 


2? 


29 


2? 


9 


29 


2? 


2? 


The loose method followed by the older annalists, of 


simply indicating the succession of years by the repeti- 


tion of the sign “ct.” or “}c.” for “kalends,” to which they — 


sometimes added the ferial or day of the week on which 
the 1st of January occurred, together with their habitual 


practice of omitting to paginate their MSS., has led to 


innumerable errors in the chronology of Irish history. 





. 1 Two years. See note 7, p. 292. | 


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INTRODUCTION. xlvii 


These errors might in some measure be corrected by the © 
help of the ferize, if we possessed the original MSS. But 
these criteria have been so corrupted in the course of 
successive transcriptions of the earlier chronicles, by igno- 
rant scribes who did not understand their value, that they 
are comparatively useless in determining the correct 
chronology, unless when combined with other criteria. 
Even in the copies of Tighernach at present available, the 
order of the ferize is so confused and irregular, that any 
attempt to bring it into harmony with the succession of 
“kals.” or years, would prove a fruitless undertaking. 
O'Flaherty has endeavoured to accomplish the task as 
regards the present chronicle, the chronology of which he 
has altered and arranged according to his own corrected 
system. But although his authority on this subject is 
entitled to great respect, the Editor felt that the adoption 
of O’Flaherty’s corrections would involve such an altera- 
tion of the order and arrangement of the entries, as would 
seriously affect the integrity of the text, to produce a 
reliable and accurate edition of which he has sedulously 
laboured. Bearing in mind, also, the example of Dr. 
O’Conor, who, in trying to settle the chronology of the 
Annals of Tighernach, Inisfallen, and Boyle, has com- 
mitted errors which render his editions of these chronicles 
quite unreliable,’ the Editor considered that it was his 
duty to adhere to the computation of his original text. 
This he has faithfully done, with the exception already 
pointed out, where he felt justified in allowing for a palpa- 
ble omission; and the marginal dates represent the actual 
enumeration of the “kals.” or years contained in the 
chronicle. 


The reader will find much assistance towards fixing the 





1 Unreliable. ‘The chronology of | 17, and in others 22 years in arrear; 
O’Conor’s edition of the Annals of | and an anachronism of 27 yearsoccurs 
Inisfallen is in some places 13, in some | in his ed. of the Annals of Boyle, 


xviii INTRODUCTION. 


correct chronology in the annotations of O’Flaherty, which 
have been added in the foot notes, sometimes over the 
full name, but more frequently over the initials “ O’F.” 


The English reader will doubtless be surprised at the 
promiscuous application of the title of “king” to indivi- 
duals who must have been petty princes, or chieftains. 
But this very practice is an evidence of the antiquity of 
the chronicle, as the later annalists, the Four Masters for 
instance, are more particular in applying the term. 

Duald Mac Firbis, writing in 1666 of the chieftains of 
the O’Dubhdas, or O’Dowdas, states that the historical 
books gave them the title of kings, “and though strange 

“it appears at this day,” he observes,’ “it was not so 

then [i.e anciently] among the Gaeidhel, according to 
their own laws at that time, and according to other nations 
also. Behold,” he adds, “before the coming of the chil- 
dren of Israel to the Land of Promise, how there were 
thirty kings together in that country, and it not more 
than 200 miles in length, or breadth.” 

On this application of the word js, or king, O'Flaherty 
also remarks? :— 

“Sua omnibus linguis, et nationibus aliqua peculiaris 
insita est proprietas, cujus absurda foret in aliis imitatio. 
Quare in eorum sententiam ultrd eamus, qui falsé conten- 
dunt Regem Latiné supremum tantum, et nulli subjectum 


dominum denotare; ac proinde nobis inepté illud Mar- 


tialis hemistichium exprobrant, 
‘Qui Rex est, Regem, Maxime, non habeat.’ 


Quid verd hoc nostra interest? Scoti swmus, non 
Galli ; Scoticé loquimur, non Latiné; atque hoc idiomate 
trito adagio dicimus ; ut hemistichio aliud opponam : 


‘ Degener in tuguri Rex lare quisque sui.’” 





1 Observes. See O’Donovan’s ed. of ® Remarks. Ozygia, p- 31, 
Hy-Fiachrach, p. 299. 





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INTRODUCTION. xlix 


- And again:' “ Veteres Regis nomen tribuebant ei, qui 
uno oppidulo preeesset: sic Ithacee Rex Ulysses, cujus 
ditionem aded exiguam nidumeestimat Cicero saxo affixum. 
Sic Nestor Pyli Rex. Josue 30 regibus in Palestina gulam 
fregit. Strabo testatur singulas Phcenissarum urbes regem 
habuisse; et Plinius strategiis et preefecturis omnibus olim 
reges preefuisse: unde usitato more Divine Scripture 
cujusque oppidi Dominus Rex appellatur. Atque ut pro- 
pits ad vicinos accedam, in Cantii partibus (qui nunc in 
Anglia) Comitatus) quatuor reges Ceesaris eetate regnarunt. 
Denique nullum modo in Europa, preeter ipsam Hiberniam, 
regnum, quod non pluribus regibus sibi invicem minimé 
subjectis antiquitus paruerit: quos tamen nostree memo- 
riz Scriptores, cum in eorum mentionem incidunt, Reges 
dicere non heesitant.” 

There are numerous references in the present chronicle 
to the affairs of Scotland and Wales, and also to the 
Cruithne, or Picts. But the annalist frequently leaves.it 
uncertain whether he refers to the Picts of Scotland or of 
Ireland. The allusions to the affairs of England are com- 
paratively few, and the events sometimes misplaced by 
many years. The birth of Bede, for instance, is entered 
under the year 644, and the composition of his book “ De 
Natura Rerum,” is referred to the year 686; the former 
event being 28 years antedated, and the latter probably 
quite as much too early. The phraseology of the latter 
entry, which reads, “In hoc anno Beda fecit librum De 
Natura Rerum et Temporibus, et in pagin et in figell,” 
seems very corrupt. At least the Editor confesses himself 
unable to understand the concluding words, “in pagin et 
in figell.” 

It would seem that the compiler consulted some ancient 
work on English history besides Bede, and the Anglo- 
Saxon chronicle, as some important events recorded 





‘ 1 Again. Ogygia, p. 32. 


| ay INTRODUCTION. 


imfra—the death, for instance, of Osirice, son of Albirt, 
“royal heir of the Saxons,” entered under the year A.D., — 
629—are not found in either of these-authorities. 

Many entries of curious interest to the Irish historian, 
which are not contained in any collection of Irish Annals 
at present available, will be found in the present volume. 
The reference (at A.D, 964—965) to the erection of the 
Cloigtech, or Round Tower, of Tomgraney, in the county of 
Clare, (of which not a vestige now remains), is the earliest 
allusion extant to the erection of such a structure. The 
curious entry at the year 10951099, regarding the perse- 
cution exercised against Clonmacnois, implies that there 
was at that date a nunnery in connection with the estab- 
lishment. The notice which appears under the year 
1005=1007, recording the purchase of the “ Eneclar” of 
the great altar of Clonmacnois, by King Maelsechlainn, or 
Malachy II., who exacted “a hide from each fort in Meath 
on account thereof,’ is of value, as proving that at this 
comparatively late period taxes were paid in such a com- 
modity. The account of the synod of Uisnech, which is 
given under the year 11071111, is of especial value to 
the Irish ecclesiastical historian, as bearing on the much 
disputed question of the establishment of diocesan juris- 
diction in Ireland. But probably one of the most his- 
torically interesting notices in the chronicle is the brief 
one at the year 888, referring to the adoption “by the 
virgins of Ireland,” of the practice, or “change,” of “cutting 
the hair.” The phraseology of the original being. rather 
ambiguous, the Editor felt uncertain at first as to whether 
the adoption, or discontinuance, of the practice of cutting 
off the hair of females entering into the religious state 
was intended to be recorded. On further consideration 
of the subject, however, he has been led to the conclusion 
that the adoption of the practice was certainly meant. 

The question is rather a curious one, both in a histori- 
cal and antiquarian point of view, . 





INTRODUCTION. hi 


It appears to have been the custom in the monasteries 
of Egypt and Syria, in the early ages of the Church, to 
cut off the hair of virgins and widows dedicated to God | 
in religion, as appears from the passage of St. Jerome— 
“ Moris est in Aigypti et Syriz monasteriis, ut tam virgo 
quam vidua, quee se Deo voverint, et szeculo renunciantes, 
omnes delicias sculi conculcaverint, crinem monasteriorum 
matribus offerant desecandum, non intecto postea contra 
Apostoli voluntatem incessurz capite, sed ligato pariter et 
velato.”! But St. Jerome adds that the custom was 
observed with a view to personal cleanliness. 

This practice of cutting off the hair of virgins does not 
seem to have prevailed in other, or at least in many other, 
parts of the Christian Church, in the early ages. From 
the 6th century to the 9th it was imposed as a punish- 
ment for scandalous transgressions in the Western Church, 
It is not easy to determine the time when the ceremony 
of cutting off the hair of nuns, in token of voluntary sub- 
jection to a life of penance and mortification, was intro- 
duced generally into the West. But the entry at the — 
year 888, which undoubtedly refers to the subject, shows 
that it was practised in Ireland at a very early date.? 

The Irish text of the present volume is an accurate 
reproduction of the contents of MS. A., the extension of 
the abbreviations, and the correction of a few manifest 
errors on the part of the transcriber, being the only sub- 
stantial liberties the Editor felt himself justified in taking 
’ with the text of the MS., which it appeared desirable to 
produce with literal exactness, as being the oldest, and 
far the most valuable copy of the old chronicle now 
known to exist. Some of the abbreviations are so ingeni- 
ously contrived, and difficult to be interpreted, that the 

1 Velato. Vid. Ep. ad Sabinianum; | * Date. See a brief summary of 
Ep. 147, in the Abbe Migne’s ed. of | the question in Menard’s Notes et 
_ the works of St. Jerome, Vol. I. It is Observationes in Librum Sacramen- 
No. xciii. in Martianay’sed., and No, | dorum S. Gregorii Magni Pape L; 
48 with others, Parisiis, M.DC,XLL, pp. 212, 213, 








lii INTRODUCTION. 


transcriber of the MS. B., a most accomplished Irish 
scholar, has frequently misunderstood them, as may be 
seen by the various readings at foot of the following 
pages. Whenever a word or two appeared to have been 
omitted by the scribe, through inadvertence, the liberty 
has been taken of supplying the words thus left out. The 
words so supplied have been introduced within brackets 
in the Irish text, and the corresponding words in the 
translation will also be found so distinguished. 

The idiomatic brevity of many sentences in the Irish 
text rendered it necessary, in order to convey the actual 
meaning, to introduce words into the translation which 
are not represented by corresponding words in the origi- 
nal. In order, however, to make the translation as useful 
as possible to the Irish student, all words so atlded have 
been printed in italics. The transposition of a few ex- 
pressions in the original has also been remedied in the 
present text. 

The translation is also strictly literal, and consequently 
may appear rather rugged. But the Editor considered 
that the objects of the historian and the philologist would 
be more effectually served by a literal translation than by 
a free interpretation. The Latin phrases in the original, 
which are very numerous, and frequently mixed up with 
the Irish in a most curious fashion, have been rendered 
into English, where “the perverse ingenuity of successive ~ 
scribes in disfiguring Latin words” had not made it im- 
possible to do so. Many Latin words have, neverthe- 
less, been left untranslated, as exhibiting characteristic 
meanings. The words “iugulatio,’ and “iugulatus est,” 
for instance, are apparently used by the annalist to signify 
death by violence of whatever nature, not simply by 
“cutting the throat,” as it has been understood by the 
Editor of the Annales Cambrie,' while the expressions 





1 Annales Cambrie. See the ed. by the Rev. John Williams ab Ithel; Preface, 
p. xviii. 








INTRODUCTION. liii 


“ occisus est,” and “interfectus est,” are seemingly meant 
to convey that death was inflicted in battle. The death 
of an ecclesiastic is almost invariably signified by “quies,” 
“quievit,” “dormitatio,” or “dormivit ;’ but the obit of a 
layman is nearly always represented by the expression 
“moritur,” or “mortuus est.” The words “in clericatu,” 
seem to be used in the sense of “in pilgrimage.” Atleast 
some individuals who are stated in the following chronicle 
to have died “in clericatu,” are represented in the corres- 
ponding entries in other Irish Annals, as having died a 
n-ailitre, z.e. “in pilgrimage.”* 

The Irish ecclesiastical titles apéinnech (airchinnech) 
and comapba (comarba) have not been translated, for, al- 
though they are generally understood as respectively signi- 
fying “superintendent” and “successor, or heir,” they are 
occasionally used in a sense somewhat different. The word 
“airchinnech,” for instance, which Dr. Reeves understands 
to mean the “ hereditary warden of a church,”* is explained 
by Dr. O’Donovanas a “lay superintendent of church lands.”* 
In more recent times the office of “ airchinnech” would 
seem to have been exercised by a layman, but anciently 
it was probably filled by an ecclesiastic. At the year 977 
infra one Flann, lector of Clonmacnois, is stated to have 
been Bishop and “airchinnech” of Cluain-Deochra; and a 
similar combination of offices is occasionally noticed in the 
other Annals. | 

The word comarba, which appears for the first time in 
the present chronicle at the year 895, and respecting the 
meaning of which Ussher‘ seems to have been entirely 
mistaken, is correctly defined by the Rev. Dr. Todd,> as 





1 In pilgrimage. See note 7, p. 223, 8 Lands. O*Donovan’s Suppit. to 
infra. O’Reilly’s Irish Dictionary, in voce. 

2 Church. See Reeves’s ed. of Col- 4 Ussher. See his tract, Original of 
ton’s Visitation (Ir. Arch. Soc. pub.), | Corbes, &c., Works, Elrington’s ed., 
p- 4; and also Reeves’s Columba, p. | xi., p. 430. 

364, note ™. 5 Todd. St. Patrick, &c., p. 155. 


liv INTRODUCTION. 


properly signifying “co-heir, or inheritor; co-heir or m* 
heritor of the same lands or territory which belonged to 
the original founder of a church or monastery; co-heir — 
also of his ecclesiastical or spiritual dignity, as well as of 
his temporal rights.” It is generally used in the sense of 
’ “heir” or “successor” to a person, in the present chronicle, 
but sometimes also in that of “inheritor of a place.” 
Thus at the year 928, Cele, son of Scannal, is called 
“comarb of Bennchar,” or Bangor, in Down; under the 
year 956 Flann, son of Aedhagan, is described as the 
“comarb of Glenn-da-locha;” and in the entry at the year 
964, Cormac Ua Cillin is called “comarb of Tomgraney.” 


The liberty has therefore been taken of preserving the | 


word, in the anglicised form of “comarb,” in the transla- 
tion. 

Proper names of persons and places have been printed 
in the translation as they appear in the original text. To 
readers of Irish history unacquainted with the Celtic lan- 
guages they will therefore appear uncouth, seemingly un- 
pronounceable, and embarrassing. But, as Dr. Todd has 
correctly observed,’ “to change the spelling of such names, 
with a view to represent to English eyes their pronunci- 
ation, seemed a course which, besides being unscholarlike, 
would be very unlikely to effect its object. The name in 
its new form,” he adds, “would be more barbarous in ap- 
pearance, and perhaps quite as difficult of pronunciation 
as it was in its original and correct orthography. Any 
change in that orthography, made with this view, would 
destroy the etymology, and render it impossible for the 
philological student to trace, with any certainty, the real 
origin and meaning of the name. The reader of the his- 
tory of Ireland, who is ignorant of the Irish 4 
must therefore make up his mind to encounter this diffi- 
culty, as the reader of the history of France, or Spain, 





1 Observed. St. Patrick, Preface, p. vii. 








INTRODUCTION. . Ww 


Arabia, Russia, or Poland, has to encounter the corres- 
-ponding difficulty if he should happen to be ignorant of 
the languages of those’countries.” To assist him in over- 
coming this difficulty the English reader will find great 
assistance in the following concise rules, published by the 
same learned writer in the Preface to his Life of St. 
Patrick :— 


VOWELS. 


A is always sounded as @ in wall, or ain hat ; never as a in fate. 
E is always as ¢ in grey, or ¢ in set ; never as e¢ in meet. 

I is always as ee in meet, or as 7 in pin; never as ¢ in fight. 

O is as o in more ; or, when short, as o in pot, or uw in tub. 

U is like w in rue, or 00 in fool ; and, when short, like w in full. 


DIPHTHONGS. 


ATis tin inwd as o¢ in soil ; and, when short, like az in the 
_ French travailler. 

AE like ay in mayor; by natives of Connaught, like wee in 
queen. 

AU like u long, or 00. 

EA like ea in bear, swear ; or, if short, like ew in heart. 

EE, in old spelling, is the same as EA, and pronounced ea in 
bear, or ai in nail. 

EI, when long, like e¢ in reign ; when short, like ¢ in serve. 

EO long, like o in pole, or oa in coal ; if short, like w in cut. 

EU is the same as EA, and often written for it. © 

TA always long, like ee in beer. 

IO, when long, is the same as [A ; when short, like io in action. 

IU, long, both vowels sounded, like ew in few; short, like oo in 
good. 

OI. Whether long or short, the two vowels are separately 
sounded ; the o predominating when long, and accented thus, 
6i ;’ when short, and the accented as o2, the ¢ or the ee sound 
predominates, and the combination is sounded like wee in 
queen. 


lvi INTRODUCTION. 


OO, in old spelling, is pronounced like o in pole. 

UA is always long, like wa in war. 

U1 is pronounced always so as to make each vowel distinctly 
heard; if accented ai, the w predominates, as 00-ee ; if accented 
ui, the sound resembles wee in weep ; if short, or unaccented, 
the sound is the same, but shortened as much as possible. 


CONSONANTS. 


B, as in English. BH as v or w. 

C, always hard, as K ; never as ¢ in ceiling. CH as the Greek 
x, or German ch in reich ; never as ch in cheer. 

D, as in English. DH nearly as y. 

F, as in English. FH quiescent, or without sound. 

G, as g in gale ; never as gin ginger. GH final had best be 
pronounced like /, or gh in high. Its correct pronunciation 
can only be attained by a native. 

L, as in English. 

M, as in English. MH like v; in the middle of words, like w. 

N, asin English. The combination NG can only be pronounced 
by a native. 

P, as in English. PH like F, or ph in Philip. 

R, as in English. 

8, before or after a, 0, and wu, like s in sun, or hiss ; before or 
after e and 7, as sh in shine, blush. SH as h in hill. 

T, before the broad vowels a, 0, u, is to be pronounced like a 
slender th, as in thought ; before the small vowels e, 2, like ¢ 
in tune. TH is pronounced like the English / ; at the end 
of words or syllables, almost quiescent. 


In conclusion, the Editor desires to express his grateful 
sense of the kindness evinced towards him by the Right 
Honorable Lord Romilly, who took the trouble of ex- 
amining with critical care, the evidence submitted to 
his Lordship touching the genuineness of the present 
chronicle, and who, in his Lordship’s communications on 
the subject, manifested the liveliest interest in the publi- 
cation of the native Irish records. To Thomas Duffus 














INTRODUCTION. lvii 


Hardy, esq., Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in 
England, the Editor also feels indebted for many obliging 
services, and much useful advice and encouragement. 

His thanks are likewise due to the Provost and Senior 
Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, and to the Council of 
the Royal Irish Academy, for allowing him free access to 
their collections of Irish MSS. 

The Rev. Dr. Reeves, ever ready to extend a generous 
hand to every fellow-labourer, and whose rich store of 
information is always at the service of every inquirer, 
placed the Editor under a lasting obligation, by reading 
the proof sheets, and correcting many errors which, if 
allowed to pass into print, would seriously affect the accu- 
racy of the present publication. 

The Editor’s acknowledgments are due, in an especial 
manner, to his kind friend, the Rev. Dr. Todd, Senior 
Fellow of Trin. Coll, Dublin, from whose learned works 
on the history, language, and antiquities of Ireland, he 
. has derived much advantage; who afforded him the benefit 
of an enlightened judgment on many points of difficulty 
encountered in the progress of the work ; and to whose 
friendly aid and counsel the Editor owns himself largely 
indebted for whatever qualifications he may be considered 
to possess for the task of editing the present volume. 


Dusuin, August, 1866. 












INCIPIT CRONICUM sCOTORUM 
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TINNSCOCNTAR CROINIC NOC SCOT CCN'DSO. 





TUS, a Llécchtéip, pa addbap caprde, ocup so follup 
20 recna ermealcap, supab ed ap cl Linn cpatcao 
casa ocup accumaip do DénuM ap a1ppin na Scot 
amén fan coipre, as fasim&l lipcacoa na Leapap. 
aaapin amg. Comd ape pin 1appammaro ompbr Fan 
ap nincpeachad cu, uMap Dpevammap supab aobal 
an tceapnarh hé. 

Prma Mun aevap conctinet annop iuxca Sbpaop 
m.oclur. luata uepo .lax. Incepppetep .1. milla, 
cexli, quae Tota pepiit in DilutMo PrcuUT inPanTiam 
mepsepe polet oblimo. x. senepacioner. 

Cs ro map avep an Zaorveal nuimip na haora fo. 

1c re bluaona .v. fe ced cpué do pithim, 
Mite mop an arpmim 6 Coham 50 oilinn. 

kct. u. pe Lee = m.Leeie. anno munor. 

1n hoc anno vent pilia alicuiup ve Specip ao Nibep- 
nam cui nomen epac hepiu, no bepba, no cepap, ec .1. 
qiliae, et 111 tips cum ea. Ladpa Subepnacop eopum 
euis qua primup im Nibepma cumuLlacup eft: hoc non 
nappans anctiquap Scotopum. 





1 To swallow. mEe; for mepsepe rane for “rann,” i.e. a 
eg - sae kt ae 4 Kal. v., f. l. x: i.e. the Kalends, 
vimana de Oi. 1} megs ee first, of January fell on the 5th 
from Adam to Noah, inclusive. feria, or day of the week (Thursday), 
8 Age. In the margin opposite to | which was the tenth day of the Moon’s 
this couplet occurs the character “p.,” | age. 








INCIPIT CHRONICUM SCOTORUM, 
4.6. 


THE CHRONICLE OF THE SCOTI IS BEGUN HERE. 





UNDERSTAND, Reader, that for a certain reason, and 
plainly to avoid tediousness, what we desire is to make a 
short Abstract and Compendium of the History of the 
Scoti only in this copy, leaving out the lengthened details 


of the Books of History ; wherefore it is that we entreat 


of you not to reproach us therefor, as we know that it is 
an exceedingly great deficiency. 

The First Age of the world contains 1656 years 
according to the Hebrews, but 2242 according to the 
Seventy Interpreters; all which perished in the Deluge, in 
the same manner that oblivion is wont to swallow! up 
infancy. Ten generations.’ 

Thus do the Gaedhel express the number of this age*:— 


Six years, fifty, and six hundred, as I reckon, 
A great thousand I count from Adam to the Flood. 


Kal. v. 1.10.4 Anno Mundi 1599.° 

In this year the daughter of one of the Greeks came 
to Hibernia, whose name was hEriu, or Berba, or Cesar, 
and fifty maidens, and three men, with her. Ladhra was 
their conductor, who was the first that was buried in 
Hibernia. This the antiquaries of the Scoti do not* relate. 





5 Anno Mundi 1599. 7.lacix. | forty years, and others forty days, 
(m.Ixcix.), A.; apparently a mistake | before the Flood; but in either case 
for f-oxcix. (m.dxcix.) The Irish | the figures 1599 are incorrect. 
chroniclers differ as to the date of the ie 7 
alleged arrival in Ireland of Cesar | _ ° Not. i, A., for non; or possibly 
(pron. Kesar); some referring it to for nunc. 

B2 


A.M. 1599. 


4 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Secunda aecap Mundi incipit quae continet anno 
concn. 1x20 .G. Cbpaop, ut Poewa art :— 


O oitinn 50 hObpam hi Fenaip tap. péourb 
Da bluaoain baile toate, noact ap vib cévor1b, 


luxta eno Incepppeterp, -dcccc.xL. 

ct. Onno mundi m.occche. Deé mblicdna rappin 
co DIPsZaoiled an cup. 12. mbliadna rappin so Lemur. 
Noe anno fLeniup comporpins bepla na ngaorvel a 
Lew.11. Linguip, et port vev1t Faoiveal pilio Osnomin, 
1. ©. ANNO pos DEPTPUCTiONeM TUPI Nempoc>. 

Tepu1a HeTAP nciIpis quae continet annor dececc.xLi1. 
eT InciIpit a naciuicace Cbpam, ut Dias poeca, , 


On sen. fin sen Fabad 50 Daud in plait feoil — 
Cethpaca vo bliadnarb nao .c. 50 mndemin, 


CCnno La’. aecanip Cbpahami Papptaton in Nibepniam 
uenit. Ope an Papptalon ro ced po Fab Cpinn r4p 
noilinn, & cetpomain, x1111. FoR mains, occcap a Lin, .1. 
cetpap fear ocupr cetpap ban. Ro fopbpipms iapum 
50 papaccap .L. ap cetpe mile pean ocup mile ban. 
Cetpe mage an epinn po perdidcea La Pappraldn 


1. mag TuUIped, no nevapa, La Connachcaib, es mas 


Sepe La Connachtarb, ocup mag nica La LarsnanB, ocur 
mas Lacpainn La Oal Opie, ocup Lecmag La h. me 
Uap, etip Dip ocur Camur. 

Setc mbliadna rap ngabal Epenn vo Pappcaton 





1 Tower: i.e. The Tower of Babel. tract on the Gaedhlic language in the 


2 Agnoman. The Gaeidhel, or 
Gaedhel, to whom Fenius is alleged 
to have committed the Gaedhlic lan- 
guage, is called Gaedhel, son of Etheor, 
in some authorities, and Gaedhel Glas, 
son of Agnon, or Angen (who was 
Fenius’s nephew), in others. See a 





Book of Lecan, fol. 152, a; and Todd’s 
Nennius, p. 234. 


8 After the destruction. Port vip- 
Tpuction-, A. 


4 The 14th of May. ac. xi, A. 
The letter c. appears to stand for 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. | 5 


The Second Age of the world begins, which contains 
292 years, that is according to the Hebrews, as the poet 


- says:— 


From the Flood to Abraham, who was happily born, 
Two full, prosperous years, ninety and two hundred ; 


but according to the [lxx.] Interpreters, 940 years. 

Kal. Anno Mundi 1859. Ten years after that to the 
demolition of the Tower.' Nine years after that to 
Fenius. In this year Fenius composed the language of 
the Gaeidhel from seventy-two languages, and subse- 
quently committed it to Gaeidhel, son of Agnoman,? viz., 
in the tenth year after the destruction® of Nimrod’s 


~ Tower. 





The Third Age commences, which contains 942 years, 
and it begins with the birth of Abraham, as the poet 
said :— 


From that birth, without peril, to David, the faithful prince, 
Forty-two years and nine hundred, certainly. 


In the sixtieth year of the age of Abraham, Parrthalon 
arrived in Hibernia. This Parrthalon was the first who 
occupied Erinn after the Flood. On a Tuesday, the 14th 
of May,‘ he arrived, his companions being eight in 
number, viz.:—four men and four women. They multi- 
plied afterwards until they were in number 4,050 men 
and 1,000 women. 
There were four’ plains cleared in Erinn by Parrthalon, 
viz.:—Magh Tuiredh, or nEdara, in Connacht; and Magh 
Sere in Connacht; and Magh Ita in Laighen; and Magh 
Latrainn in Dél Araidhe; and Lecmagh in Ui Mac Uais, 
between Bir and Camus. 

Seven years after the occupation of Erinn by Parrthalon, 





ceicain, or cetpomain—May. See 5 Four. Cetpe, A. The text 
Cormac’s Glossary, voce cetpomain. | enumerates five. 


A.M. 1859. 


6 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


conveapbdls an ced pep Da muinTip..1. Pea a ainm. ap 
ann po hadnact a mms pea, cond uard po hainmnicéer. 

Sect Loé maomanna ro tip a pploaachiup Pappoaléin 
1. loc mepeu, ocup Loé vecet, Loé Largline, Loé 
Ruoparohe, Lot Eccpa, ocup mupcola Dpena. Tp 
bliaona 1ap ceona cat po bmi Pappcalon pop pomop- 
chaib .. vemna 1ap frip a noealbaib vaoinmb, a 
pleamnatS mage lta 1. pip co né&on Lamaib ocur 
50 nd&on copa. 

Cn bliavain vo tanapcap wobat Slanga an cetpam- 
had apeé Epeann, 50 po adnacht La Pappcalon a pleb 
Slanga, cond umd canmnigcep an pliab. On bliaoain 
14p nés Slanga comarom Loga Lasglinne es mopp erup, 
unde pup nominacup. Op eipide an cetpathad ape 
Epeann. OF clarde a fepta po meabard an Loé; et 
comaom Loca Ectpa evtip pliab Moovapn ocup pliab 
Lun. Pite bliaona 1apum comarom Loéa Ruoparde 
La hULicab, 1pin bliavain ceona mupcola mbpéna Tap 
Tip, cond 6 an pectmad Loch. Cp ni caipmiec Papptalén 
an Cpinn ap a cenn aéc tpi Loca et .x. narbne «1. 
Luimm, ocup Loé Lopopemuin og plia’ mip La mumaan, 
ocup finnloc Ippap -h. Lpracpaé. ice, imoppo, na .x. 
nabne 1. Ouap, evoip Ol naparde et Dal prcoa, ocup 
Rurpoeé ab Lippe, ec Depba Largen, et Laor La mumain, 
ocur Samaoip evip -h. Pmracpat, Movapn eoip Cinel 








1 Seven. Six only are mentioned 
in the following list. See next note. 

2 Loch Con. Omitted in A. The 
eruption of Loch Con is stated in the 
ancient Irish Reeords generally to 
have occurred during Parrthalon’s 
reign. See Keating's Ireland, Hali- 


day’s ed., p. 169. 
3 Slemains: i.e. smooth places, or 
plains, 


4 The Fourth: i.e. one of the four 
chieftains, sons of Parrthalon. 

5 Named: i.e. from whom it re- 
ceived its first name, being afterwards 
called Stiab “‘Dorhangaipo, now 
Sliabh Donard. 





6 His: i.e. Laighline’s. The clause 
which follows, though clearly paren- 
thetical, is not marked so in the MS. 

7 Prius. up, A. the 1 being 
omitted over the first letter, the word 
being frequently written in the abbre- 


1 
viated form pur. 

8 Brena. mupcola Dpena, A.: 
z.e. the sea flood of Brena, now Strang- 
ford Lough, the “Fretum Brene” 
mentioned in St. Patrick’s life in the 
Book of Armagh. See St. Patrick, 
Apostle of Ireland, by Rev. J. H. 
Todd, p.p., p. 406, n. 4. 

9 Fordremuin. In the margin of A. 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 7 


the first man of his people died, viz. :—Fea was his name. 
In Magh Fea he was buried; from him, therefore, it has 
been named. 

There were seven! lake eruptions through the land in 
the reign of Parrthalon, viz. :—Loch Mesca, and Loch 
Decet, Loch Laighline, Loch Rudhraidhe, Loch Echtra, 
and the sea inundation of Brena, [and Loch Con?]. 


Three years afterwards occurred the first battle which 


Parrthalon gained, in the Slemains* of Magh Itha, over 
the Fomorians, viz.:—they were Demons, truly, in the 
guise of men, 7.e. men with one hand and one leg each. 
In the succeeding year died Slanga, the fourth‘ chieftain 
of Erinn, who was interred by Parrthalon in Sliabh 
Slanga; hence from him the mountain has been named.® 
The year after Slanga’s death, occurred the eruption of 
Loch Laighline, and his® death; unde prius’ nominatur ; (he 
was the fourth‘ chieftain of Erinn ; in digging his grave 
the lake burst forth) ; and the eruption of Loch Echtra, 
between Sliabh Modharn and Sliabh Fuaid. Twenty 
years afterwards occurred the eruption of Loch Rudraidhe, 
in Uladh. In the same year the sea inundation of Brena® 
broke over the land, so that it is the seventh lake; for 
Parrthalon found in Erinn before him but three lakes and 
ten rivers, viz.:—Loch Luimnigh, Loch Fordremuin® at 
Sliabh Mis, in Mumhan, and Finn Loch of Irrus Ui 
Fiachrach. The ten!° rivers, moreover, were, the Buas, 
between D4l Araidhe'! and Dél Riada, and the Ruirtech 
or River Liffe; and the Berbha of Laighen; and the Laoi 
in Mumhan ; and the Samaoir, between Ui Fiachrach and 





occurs a memorandum in the hand- 

writing of Roderick O’Flaherty, par- 

tially destroyed, enumerating the 

names of the ancient lakes :— 

“Fordremanus [Finnloch, Loch Lur- 
gan stagna vetusta], 

Quos, quam culta prius, fudit Ierna 

lacus.” 


See Ogygia, p. 164. 





10 The names of the ten rivers are 
written in the margin in O’Flaherty’s 
handwriting, thus :— 

“ Banna, Sligo, Bosius, Finn, Liffeus, 
Erna, Mogornus, 
Berva, Lius, Muadus, flumina prisca 
decem.” 
See O’Flaherty’s Ogygia, p. 164, 
1 Dal nAraidhe. 20 naje, A. 


8 cCRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Conall ocup Cinel n€ogain, ocup Linn et Danna an 
Ulloa, Mud ocup Slicceé La Connachtorb. 

Cetpa bliabna 14ap ccomarom Dpena bap Pappraldrmn. 
O ren Mas Ealta po hadnocc. Ap ape, umoppo, 
appepap Sen mags vepiom, ap nip Zenap fod ann pram. 
Oa bliavain ap eccce. no ccce. ut Eocharoh c. po baor 
muintep Pappcaloin an Epinn. Ceona ouinibad 
canis an Epinn rap noilinn 1. cath muntipe Pappta- 
Léin, vor fopbarps Dia Luain 1 }ct. ma, ocup Popcennpas 
sup an vomnaé vo tanapcap. Op von ouimibad pin 
muintipe Pappcaldin cobepap tamLecoa rep nEpeann. 

xxx’. bliadna rap bap Pappcaldéin vEpinn as fap, 50 
coams Nitheo mac Conomain .uu. an Inbep Sgene. 
Sabap Epinn rappin amail inoipcep a ngapalorb 
Eipenn. 

}ct. Onno mund1 11.m. eccLu. Noc TEMpope PORappac 
Eipbols Epinn. Sed non hoc ppobanoum ere. 

}ct.. OCnno mundi 11.m.ccexc atin: Ip an campp 7 
posabpat Tuata ve Danann for Lepard bols 1. Deal- 
baot ocup Dpepp, an Dagoa, Nuada, osapp Ostha, ex 
peliqui. 

fet. Onno mundi 11.m. cecce.alin. NéLL mac Lemor 
in Cexiptum uemzt, pepstup mulcapum Linsuapum. 


Cocdp udim dub, a Lesnicé, naé po Lim paocap an 
tplecoda fo D0 Fpaippned opum, conad apr pin aalim 





1 Eochaidh: i.e. Eochaidh O’Floinn, 4 Succeeding. ‘00 Snape, for vo. 
a celebrated Irish poet and historian, canapcap, A.; lit. “that sue 
who died about the year 984. ceeded.” 


2 Sang. c. for “Cecinit,” A. There 5 Tamhleachda: i.e. Pl 
is a copy of' a poem attributed to £ 1.6 Sinus gravee 





Eochaidh O’Floinn, in the Leabhar 
Gabhala of O’Clery (R. Ir. Acad.), p. 
18, which gives 300 years as the dura- 
tion of the Parrthalonian occupation of 
Treland ; but a copy of the same poem 
in the Book of Lecan, fol. 274, has 500. 

% Happened. Témig, A.; lit. 
“ came.” 





6 Death. b., A.; abbrev. for bar. 

7 Adhnoman. The meaning of the 
characters ‘uu,’ which follow the 
name of Adhnoman, is not clear, unless 
they represent the words ‘‘ ma co1g,” 
for “a coro,” ‘ who went.” 

8 In the Invasions: 7.e. in the ‘‘ Books 
of Invasions,” 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 9 


Cinel Conaill ; the Modharn, between Cinel Conaill and 
Cinel Eoghain; and the Finn and Banna in Uladh; the 
Muaidh and Sligech in Connacht. 

Four years after the eruption of Brena, the death of 
Parrthalon took place. In Sen Magh Ealta he was buried. 
The reason, moreover, why that is called Sen Magh is 
because no tree ever grew there. Five hundred and two, 
or 402 years, as Eochaidh' sang,? Parrthalon’s people were 
in Erinn. The first plague that happened*® in Erinn after 
the Flood was the pestiience of Parrthalon’s people. It 
commenced on Monday, the Ist of May, and prevailed 
until the succeeding* Sunday. From that plague of 


Parrthalon’s people the Tamhleachda’® of the men of 


Erinn are called. 

Erinn was waste for thirty years after the death® of 
Parrthalon, until Nimhedh, son of Adhnoman’ .wu. came 
to Inbher Sgene. He occupied Erinn afterwards, as it is 
related in the Invasions® of Erinn. 

Kal. Anno Mundi 2355. At this time the Fir Bolg 
occupied Erinn. But this has not been proved.® 

- Kal. Anno Mundi 2390.'° In this time the Tuatha De 
Danann, viz., Dealbaeth, and Bress, the Daghda, Nuadha, 
and'' Ogmha, and the rest,!? overcame the Fir Bolg. 
~ Kal. Anno Mundi 2544.3 Nel, son of Fenius, learned 
in many languages, went to Egypt. 


A.M. 2355. 


A.M. 2390. 


AM. 2544. 


You have heard from me, O, Readers, that I like not . 


to have the labour of writing this section imposed on me, 
wherefore it is that I beseech of you, for the sake of true 





9 But this has not been proved. jf. 
ni. h. pprobanoum (for “sed non hoc 
probacum”) ert, A. See O’Fla- 
herty’s Ogygia, p. 73, where the date 
of the arrival of the Fir Bolg in 
Ireland is fixed at A.M. 2657; and 
Todd’s Nennius, p. 44, n.*. 

10 2390. The MS. A. reads 11.m. 
ecexc.xti11, the last six characters 





(xt1111) being surrounded, as shown 
in the text, by a circle of dots, in 
token of deletion. 

i And. opapp, A.; for ogup or 


aga 

12 And the rest. —ptiqui, for ec 
qeliqn (et reliqui), A. 

13 2544. 11.m.cccaceti1. A., ma- 
nifestly a mistake for 11.m.cccccxtii11. 


10 cromniCcumM scOoTORUM. 


oipbps tne pip Eorgle san thingsprm cpio (mad curgcep 
Lip cped povepa inn amos) op ap demin nae 1¢0 cLainn 
Eipdims ap cincaé. 

ket. Tocomla ono Milid mac Dile a h€apbdain von 
Scithia ocup ap an Seithia an Ersips rap nsuin Reploip 
mic Nemain (amail sapcup a ngabalaib Epeann); ec 
na TUE SUpodb Fo Zap rap Nell an Cegips, atc 1 blicdna 
na vias Eena, poms Mild ap in Serchia rap nguin 
Reploip oc copnath plantip na Serta. Céo mbape a 
mop cabLaé amanl mtpruperp an carps ap ap torppnged 
an éoipm. Cé1g Lanamna.x. sacha borpce ocup amur 
Zan mnaoi ince. Onpac cp mya a minny Tappobana ; 
vp mip aile Dno fon faIpPsZe mapa p. Fo pancuccap 
50 Popann, 50 pig aesipte. Ro posleampis paompys 
anoupin. Onpac ocht mblicona La Popann an Cesips 
appo plac a ml vana ocup aml smoma, Lure Scova 
ingen Popainn 50 Mild mac Dile. lappin v0 6619 
Milid cona plums fon muip moip, ocup Scota men 
Popann Leip, cap inmip Tappobanae, ocup anpac mip 
inte. Impoo rappin cImcr0ll na Scitia Do inbep mapa 
Carp. OUnpac tors teopa nomava fon mum Conpp 
Pra Ddpo na mupoucann convacepaipce Carcep opaos. 
Raps rapum pea€ pund Slebe Ripe acuard sup sabpac 





1 Fault. The meaning of this is, 
that the uncertainty of the events 


gen. mapa porhpa, being a corrup- 
tion of “mare rubrum,” See Todd’s 





narrated is not to be attributed to 
negligence, or ignorance of their pro- 
fession as hereditary antiquaries, on 
the part of the Clann Firbisigh. 

2 The death of Nel. In all the 
tracts relating to this subject, Nel is 
said to have died in Egypt. The 
words in italics have, therefore, been 
supplied, to make the sense of the 
passage clear. 

3 Taprobane : i.e. Ceylon. 

4 Red Sea. Corpse mapa pu, A., 
i.e. Paapse mapa porhpas, lit. “the 
Sea of the Red Sea”; muip pothuip, 





Nennius, p. 231, n. °. 

5 Pharaoh. PCopann, A. 

6 Married. Luro 50, A., lit. 
“went unto.” 

7“ Inbher :” i.e. estuary or mouth. 
During the Middle Ages the Caspian 
Sea appears to have been considered 
an arm of the Northern Ocean, al- 
though it had been pronounced to be 
a lake by Herodotus and Ptolemy. 
Strabo, following Eratosthenes, calls 
it a gulph (lib. xi., cap. vi., sect. 1; C. 
507); and the cosmographer Aethicus, 
who is supposed to have lived in the 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 11 


friendship, not to reproach me for it (if the reason thereof 
is understood by you), for it is certain that it is not the 
Clann Firbisigh who are in fault.! 

Kal. Milidh, son of Bile, proceeded then from Spain to 
Scythia, and from Scythia to Egypt, after the slaying of 
Reflor, son of Neman (as it is found in the Invasions of 
Erinn) ; and understand not that it was soon after the 
death of Nel? in Egypt, but many years, indeed, after it, 
that Milidh departed from Scythia, after the slaying of 
Reflor, contending for the sovereignty of Scythia. His 
great fleet consisted of 100 ships, as the vellum relates 
from which this copy has been drawn; fifteen families in 
each ship, and soldiers without wives in it besides. They 
remained three months in the island of Taprobane.* 
Three months more, also, they were on the Red Sea,‘ 
until they came to Pharaoh,’ the king of Egypt. They 
learned the arts of that country. They remained eight 
years with Pharaoh in Egypt, where they propagated 
their various arts and their various actions. Scota, 
Pharaoh’s daughter, married® Milidh, son of Bile. After 
that, Milidh went with his host on the great sea, (and 
Scota, Pharaoh’s daughter, along with him), past the island 
‘of Taprobane, in which they stayed a month. They 
rowed afterwards round Scythia to the “Inbher”’ of the 
‘ Caspian Sea. They remained three nomada’ motionless 
on the Caspian Sea, through the chaunting of mermaids, 
until Caicher, the druid, rescued them. They voyaged 
afterwards past the point of Sliabh Rife, from the north, 
until they landed in Dacia. They stayed a month there. 








fourth century, describes it as flowing 
from the Northern Ocean. (See Aethici 
Cosmographia, ed. Gronovii; Lugd. 
Batav. 1722). Cosmas Indicopleustes, 
who flourished in the sixth century, 
says that it flowed from the Northern 
Sea to the East. (Collect. Nova 
Patrum et Scriptorum Grecorum, ed. 
Montfaucon; Parisiis, 1706; tom. ii., 





p- 182). Marco Polo seems to have 
been the first who really exploded 
the medieval notion. (Travels, 
Bohn’s ed., p. 33). 

8 Nomada: pl. of nomaid, a period 
of time, the duration of which has not 
been defined, but apparently signify- 
ing some ennead of time, probably 
either nine days, or nights. 


12 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


anoacia. Onpao mip ano. Cypbept Carcep dpaoi 
rriu, manpum 50 prpum h€pinn. Reapprot pec Fotiam, 
rec Sepmaan vo Opesainn, con sabpac Eapbdin, ba 
rolath jap aceonn. Cnpac annypin xxx. bliadna, ocup 
po pst cetpe cata ap L% pp Lpepenu ocup Longbapou 
ocur bachpu, ocup po mepaid wile pe M1lid mac Dile. 
Um cept neppdine po repta na cata pin, ocup ap vepin 
po hammmiecéed ve1~ium Mild Eppainne; ocur ap ince 
po Zenpac va mac Mild «1. Epemon ocup hEpennan, 
iwhé an va porapn; an oa Prnprop .."Donn ocup Ebip; ap 
ify Tap po senap “Donn ipin Sertia, ocup Ebip an 
Cex pe. 

Our cams cam aonlarte in Eappain .xn. Lanamna 
im a cops prsu t. Mril1d mac bile, Urge ocup Orge. To- 
cumLu10 .xlui1. Lanamna ocur cetpe ammp La maccorb 
M1l1d ocur La Scoit ingen PLopainn, pop Poipse Docum 
Epnn. Oo chuaccup riapum vo sabdil Epenn 15 Inpep 
Slain. Timeillpac Epinn fo cm Fup sabpac paveors 
an Inbep Ssene. “Oo chuaid Epenndn porap mic Mild 
IPN fepna pil vo versyin ca eput uata Zo tip. Cobat 
ann sup ppaoilpes a ball um caippecib, ocup v0 beps 
acenn an ucht a macthap ag hés, ocup pocepro opnud ap. 
Decbep, ap a machaip, f610 hEpenain evip va inbep 
reé m painice inbep sup cd&inice, popsap ppp inpep 6 
coame. Ip in Lorin caime ainbsine udémap ocup 
rsapup an bape aparb “Oonn mac Mil1 .L. pean ocup 
211. Mnaoi, ocup cetpa hamaip, sup barved ag na oum- 
achat 1pin pupps Tian va napap ceé nDunn. Oia 





1 Gothia. Gaethluighe, or Getulia, | of one day”; but used to express 
according to O’Flaherty. See Ogygia, | “‘there died of a plague in one day.” 








p-67. Rather the country of the Goths. 

2 Bregann. Brigantia, the Flavium 
Brigantium of antiquity; the port of 
Betanzos, in Spanish Galicia. See 
Todd’s Nennius, p. 238, n. *. 


8 Died. “Dur céamig cam aon- 
Laite, A.; lit. “there came a plague 





4 Sons. motte; for macco1b, A. 

5 Was drowned. (Cobar, A. ; lit. 
“he was drowned”; but sometimes 
idiomatically used to signify immer- 
sion. 

6 Said his mother. The meaning 
of the above expression is rather ob- 





oe 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 13 


Caicher, the druid, said to them, “we shall not stay until 
we reach Erinn.” They subsequently passed by Gothia,' 
by Germany, to Bregann,’ until they occupied Spain. It 
was uninhabited on their arrival. They remained there 
thirty years, and fought fifty-four battles against Frisians, 
and Longobards, and Bachru; and they were all gained 
by Milidh, son of Bile. For the right of Spain these 


battles were fought ; and hence he was called “ Milidh of 


Spain.” And it was in it Milidh’s two sons, Eremon and 


hErennan, were born. These were the two youngest. 


The two oldest were Donn and Ebhir; for in the east, 
in Scythia, Donn was born, and Ebhir in Egypt. 

Twelve families died* of a plague in one day in Spain, 
together with their three kings, viz.:—Milidh, son of Bile, 
Uige, and Oige. Forty-seven families and four soldiers 
went with the sons‘ of Milidh, and with Scota, Pharaoh’s 
daughter, on the sea to Erinn. They subsequently pro- 
ceeded to land in Erinn at Inbher Slaini. They sailed 
round Erinn thrice, until finally they came to Inbher 
Sgene. Erenan, the youngest of Milidh’s sons, went up 
into the mast to see how far they were from the land. He 
was drowned’ there, so that his limbs were severed by 
rocks, and, in dying, his head was placed on his mother’s 
breast and gave forth a sigh. “No wonder,” said his 
mother,® “Erenan’s going between two Inbhers, but he 
reached not the Inbher to which he came; he separated 
from the Inbher from which he came.” In that day there - 
came a terrible storm, and the ship in which was Donn, 
son of Milidh, with fifty men, twelve women, and four 
soldiers,’ was cast away, so that they were drowned at 
the Dumacha in the western sea, called Tech nDuinn. 





scure. It seems to be in the nature 
of a proverb, founded on Erenan’s 
death at Inbher Sgene, after having cy for cecpa, four. amar, pl. of 
left Inbher Slaini. A play upon the amar, a soldier, 

word “ Inbher” seems also intended. 


n 
7 Four soldiers. c7 ama, A. 


14 CRONICUM sCcOTORUM. 


vépoaoin pop |ct. maoi sabmp capsup mic Milid 
Epinn in Inbep Sgéne, pop .xun. Lunae, ocup wobat ann 
bean Oimepsin slaiingil 1. Ssene “Oauilpip, ocup poe- 
rer a feapt ann, unve Inpep Ssene. Wgup pocpear 
rept Cpanaind von Let ele. Tpeap Late 1ap ngabail 
n€penn vo maccorb Milid pa ctnppit cat Slebe mip 
fm vemnaib ocur pp Lomopchard, ocup po meabard 
pia maccoib M1Lled, ocup po sabpac cennur Epenn so 
hacsapp 1apum, ocupr apaile. 

Scuipim 50 aampip orle, ocup cuiped an civgpap Lep. 








a Enaip wm. Pacpimup nacur ert in hoe anno. 


t. Enarip un. 
Ict. 111. 


Hct. 1111. 
Ict. u. 
i tu. 
1 
Ict. 2». 


Ict. 111. 
Ict. 1111. 


}ct. u. ~Mupetach Tipeé v0 mapbad La Caoclbad 
mac Cpuind, La RIF nUlads, oc Pont pros uap Oabalt. 
jet. u. = Eochmoh mumgmeson mac Mupedms Tims 
pr anmp occvo. Pacpimup captiuup eps in Nibepniam 


DUCTUP- 





1 Thursday. In the margin of MS, 
A. there is a note in O’Flaherty’s 
handwriting, “Kl, Maii die 2f, 34.” 

® Erennan’s. ayuod., A., for 
Cprannains, gen. of OCpannan, as 
the name is frequently written. 

8 They fought.. pa gipyit, A, 
for pa cumyrt, lit. “ they put.” 

4 Very soon. 50 hes A., for 50 
hargapp- 

5I pass. poujpum, A.; lit. “I 
desist.” 

6 He Who Is will, bless it. ip 


ancic® Ter A. The translation is 
AS 








but a conjectural interpretation of this 
curious form of abbreviation, which 
would read cusped an tit 

, and mean “He Who Is will bless 
it.” The words an ci oa, “He Who 
Is,” are at present used in many parts 
of Ireland to signify the Divinity. 

7 Kal. January vi.: i.e. the kalends, 
or first, of January fell on the sixth 
day of the week; which answers to 
the year A.D. 353. From this down 
to where the year of the World 4481 
—-recté 4381—(corresponding to A.D, 
429), is given, there are seventy-six 
“ Kal.,” each of which represents a 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 15 


On Thursday,' the Kalends of May, on the 17th of the 
Moon, the fleet of the sons of Milidh occupied Erinn at 
Inbher Sgene, and the wife of Aimergin Gluingil, i.e. 
Sgene Davilsir, died there, and her grave was made there; 


hence it was called Inbher Sgene. Erennan’s? grave was 


placed on the other side. The third day after the occu- 
pation of Erinn by the sons of Miledh, they fought’ the 
battle of Sliabh Mis against demons and Fomorians, and 


‘the sons of Milidh gained it, and they assumed the 


sovereignty of Erinn very soon‘ afterwards; and so forth. 
I pass® to another time, and He Who Is will bless it.® 


Kal. January’ vi. In this year Patrick was born. 

Kal. January® vii. 

Kal.? iii. 

Kal. iv. 

Kal. v. 

Kal. vi. 

Kal. i. 

Kal. iii. 

Kal. iv. 

Kal.'° v. Muiredhach Tirech slain by Caelbadh, son of 
Crund, King of Uladh, at Port Riogh, over the Dabhall. 

Kal. v.'!_ Eochaidh Muighmedhoin, son of Muiredhach 
Tirech, reigned’? eight years. Patrick is carried a captive 
into Hibernia. 





late Charles O’Conor, of Belanagar; 
but the kalends of January fell on a 


year. This is the first entry in B., the 
three first leaves of which are wanting. 





8 Kal. January vii. This means 
that the 1st of January fell on the 
seventh day of the. week, and indi- 
cates the year 354, in which the Ist 
of January fell on a Saturday. 

9 Kal. iii. The year 354 (Dom. let. 
B) having begun on a Saturday, the 
1st of January in the year 355 (Dom. 
let, A) fell on Sunday. A year seems, 
therefore, to have been here omitted. 

10 Kal. y. The date 357 appears in 


the margin in the handwriting of the 





Wednesday in that year. The entry 


is, however, probably misplaced, and 
should appear under the year 358, 


Ul Kal. v. These characters, being 
seemingly but a repetition of the cri- 
teria for 8364, have not been reckoned 
asa year. See note 9, 

12 Reigned. “..” A., for “regnat,” 
or “regnavit;” or probably for pig 
(king), in which sense it has been in- 
terpreted by the transcriber of B. 


+t 
ACLS 


[A.D.353.] 


[364.] 


[364] 





16 cronNIcUmM SCOTORUM. 


ket. Ppacprmup a capciurcace polucup ert pep an- 


seLum. 


ng 2 
‘a Eocharodh mur1smevon mopcuup ert. Cpriomcand 
mac Piodaicé p. in Nibepma anni .u. Fy 


G3. 

t. 111. 

t. 1111. 
Ict. u. 


Ict. u. =Cpioméand mac fLiovharcé mopcuup ere. 


Pacmcup aod Sepmanum. 
tb. 1111. 
4: 


Ict. 


fet. Niall sx. Frallach p. annrp .cxt. 


}ct. 111. 





1 Kal. vy. The ferial numbers for 
this year and the following (366, 
367) are manifestly incorrect, and 
should be, respectively, i. and ii. 

2 Five years. In most authorities 
the duration of Criomthand’s reign 
is extended to thirteen years. See 
next note. 

3 Died. mopcur ert (mortus est), 
AandB. Either the number of years 
allotted to Criomthand’s reign, at the 
year 371, is too little, and his obit 
misplaced here, or the accession of his 





successor, Niall, which appears under 
the year 384, should be entered under 


‘this year. See last note, and also 


notes 6, p. 17, and 4, p. 19. 

* Kal. iv. The 1st of January in 
the year 376 having fallen on a Fri-- 
day, (and the Dominical Letters being — 
C B), the ferial number for this year 
should be i. ; 

5 Kal. The ferial number ii. and 
the year “‘378” are added in the hand- 
writing of Roderick O’Flaherty, who 
has corrected the ferie for the suc- 





Kal. vi. 
Kal! v. 
Kal. vi. 
Kal. 


Kal. i. 





Kal. ii. 
Kal. iv. 
Kal. v. 


_ [went] to Germanus. 
Kal. iv.‘ 

Kal. iv. 

Kal. v. 

Kal. i. 

Kal? 


seven years. 
Kal.’ iii. 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Kal. vi. Criomthand, son of Fiodhach, died.* 


Kal. Patrick was released from captivity by an angel. 


Kal. Eochaidh Muighmedhoin died. Criomthand, son 
of Fiodhach, reigned five years? in Hibernia. 


Patrick 


Kal. Niall® of the Nine Hostages reigned twenty- 


















ceeding twenty-seven years in accord- 
ance with his view of the chronology. 
But, as there are forty-six “Kal.” 
from this date to the year 429, it is 
plainthat O’Flaherty’scalculation does 
not here agree with the chronology of 
this Chronicle. 

6 Niall. See note %, p. 16. If the 
period ascribed to Criomthand’s reign 
at the year 371 be correct, this entry 
is, very likely, misplaced, and should 
appear above under the year 376, or 
377. It being evident that one of 
the “Kal. Kal.” which appear in the 
text between “Kal. i.” and “Kal. iii.” 





is redundant, they are only reckoned 
as one year, The ferial numbers for 
the succeeding twenty-five years are 
correct, with few exceptions, which it 
has not been considered necessary spe- 
cially to point out, as the criteria are 
in general so irregularly noted, that 
any attempt to bring them into har- 
mony with the series of ‘“Kal.,” or 
years, would occupy too much space. 


7 Kal. iii, Should be “ Kal. iv.,” 
the year 385 having commenced on a 
Wednesday, and E being the Domini- 
cal Letter. 

Cc 


17 


A.D. 


[376.] 


[384.] 


18 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


t. u1. 
ic 111. Niall naorpiallaé mopcuup ert iap na sain 
pCotao mac Enna Cinopealans 15 muip néc. 
fet.1. Nat mac Piaépach p. anny .aan. 





1 Kal. iv. Corrected to i. by 
O'Flaherty, who has added the Sun- 
day sign, ©. But this is the year 
405 according to his calculation; and 
although the ferial numbers for the 
fourteen years which follow, while not 
entirely in accord with the ferie for 
the years 412 to 426, agree perfectly 
with the criteria for 406 to 420—thus 





probably indicating 405 as the correct 
year—it has not been thought desir- 
able to depart from the reckoning of 
the original. Other criteria written in 
the margin by the same hand cannot 
now be read, a part of the margin 
having been cut off, and the fragment 
“A°,405, Kl. Ja....” only being 
legible. 

































Kal. v. 
Kal. vi. 
Kal. i. 
Kal. iv. 
Kal. v. 
Kal. i. 
Kal. ii. 
Kal. v. 
Kal. vi. 
Kal. i. 
Kall. iv. 
Kal. v. 
Kal. vi. 
Kal. i. 
Kal. iv.. 
Kal. v. 
Kal. vi. 


Ictian Sea. 
Kal? i. 
years. 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 19 


Kal.’ iv. Niall of the Nine Hostages died, after being 
wounded by Eochaidh, son of Enna Cennsealach, at the 


Nathi,’ son of Fiachra, reigned twenty-three* 














_ the Dominical letters for the year 412 
being G F. 

8 Nathi. Otherwise Dathi. The 
note pi Ep., for “Ri Erenn” (King 
of Erinn), appears in the margin. 

4 Twenty-three. As there are only 


2 Kal. i. This ferial should be ii.,. 





sixteen “Kal.” from this to the record 
of Nathi’s death, this entry seems to 
be misplaced, and should appear under 
the year 405. The anachronisms 
pointed out in note %, p, 16, and 
note ®, p. 17, would seem to have led 
to this error also. 
c2 


AD; 


[411.] 


[412.] 


20 cCRONICUM sCOTORUM. 


Ict. 10. 
Ice. 1911. 
Ict. wm. 
ie u11. 
41: 
ket. 11. 
Ict. 1111. 
Ict. u. 
Ict. un. 
Ket. un. 
Ict. 10. 
Ict. 110. 
Ict. 1111. 
ket. u. 
}ct. un. 
|ct. 2. 


Nati mac fiaépaé incepnt ice Sle6 Calpa 


fulmine, ap ngabd&il Ricche Eipeann ec an Domain 


conuize fein. 

fet. 1. Ob 
.1111.m.cccc. Lexa. 
nmiae TENT .xxx. annip. 


~ fete an. 
Ict. u. 


1nivi0 


mund1 
Laogaipe mac Nell Resnum Nibep- 


recunoum €bpeor 


Cb incapnacione “Domini cccc.xaai’. 
CC mopce Concculaind hepop upque ao 


hune annum ccce.xxx.; a mopce Concupap mic Nepra 


ccce.x11. ann PUNT. 
Pacmcup 1. 


apchiepipcopup in Nibepmam ent 


acyue Scocor baptizape inchoat, nono anno Teon17 





1 Kal. iv. Kal. iii., B., which is 
incorrect. It should be v. 

2 Nathi. See note %, p. 19. 

8 Sliabh Ealpa, i.e. the Alps. 

4 Kal. ii. The year 428 having 
. been leap year, and A G the Domini- 
cal letters, the year 434 (Dom. Let. G) 
was the next on which the Kalends of 
January fell on the second feria (Mon- 
day). The correct feria] should be iii. 





5 4481. The MS. reads 1111. m. ecce. 
Lent. a mistake for 1111.m. ccclaxst. 
(4381), the latter being the year of 
the world, according to the Hebrew 
computation, corresponding to A.D. 
432, as estimated by the Irish An- 
nalists. See O’Flaherty’s’ Ogygia, 
Proloquium, p. [8). 

6 Kal. iii. This ferial has been 
altered to vi. (recté v.) by O'Flaherty, 











_CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 21 


Kal. iii. 
Kal.! iv. 
Kal. vi. 
Kal. i. 
Kal. iv. 
Kal. v. 
Kal. vi. 
Kal. ii. 
Kal. iv. 
Kal. v. 
Kal. vii. 


Kal. i. Nathi,? son of Fiachra, perished by lightning at 
Sliabh Ealpa,* after possessing the sovereignty of Erinn, 


and of the worid, so far. 


Kal.‘ ii. From the beginning of the world, according 
to the Hebrews, 4481° years. Laeghaire, son of Niall, 
held the kingdom of Hibernia thirty years. 

Kal. iii, From the Incarnation of the Lord, 432 years. 

Kal. vi. From the death of the hero, Cucullainn,’ to 
this year, there are 431 years; from the death of Con- 
chobhar Mac Nessa,* 412 years. 

Patrick, i.e. the Archbishop, comes to Hibernia, and 
begins to baptize the Scoti, in the ninth year of Theo- 





who has also added a marginal note, 
of which only the characters ‘‘ A®°. 
43, .. Kl.Ja... ” are left, the rest 
having been cut off. 
7 Cucullainn. A marginal note, 
in O’Flaherty’s handwriting, partly 
mutilated, reads thus:—‘431 ann. 
a Morte Cuculann. . 2°, A° ere 
xpi. obiit . O'D... . . fol. 13...” 
8 Conchobhar Mac Nessa. At foot 





432 
of this entry, in A., the figures 48 

B04 
appear in O’Flaherty’s hand. The 
394 should, of course, be 384, sig- 
nifying the number of years that 
elapsed between the death of Con- 
chobhar and the advent of St. Patrick, 
according to O’Flaherty’s opinion. 
See Ogygia, p. 282. 


A.D. 
[414] 


[428.] 
[429.] 


[481.] 
[432.] 


22 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


minopip, primo anno Eprpeopacup Siac .clu. Sprpeops 


Romanae Ecclesiae, in 1111°. anno pegsnt Laegaipe mic. 


NelLt. 


t. un. =Pprma ind1cT10. 
t.1. Ceona brad Saran an Epinn. 


‘ 
tin. Opepal pi Lagen mopcuur ere. 
tt 
}ct. wm. =Secunoinup ec Cualiup ec Eppepninup 
mMiIToUNTUP ad Nibepnenrer, atc ni po sabpao aipecup 
na usvappar 1 pé Paopaic nama. Sencup Mop vo 
peprobad ipin blicoainys. 
fct.1. Nacimcap Sanccae Dpisroae dia cédaoin an 
ochtmad uachao epcca Lebpa. “Oia céoaoin po sab 
caiLle 50 noéo nogaib an .xui11.; d1a cédaoin an .xxu111. 
queue. 


fect. 11. 


epipcopup Romae, quiet. 


Mone mac Nell mopcuur ero. Sixeup 
Crhalgad mac Liacpaé pi 





Connacht mopcuup ero 1. céo pi Connacht 1r40p 
ecpeoiom. 

}ct. 111. 

145th. ati. A., corrected by | (meaning that the Dominical letter 


O'Flaherty to 45, which is followed | was F, and the 1st of January fell on 


in B.; xt being very likely a mis- 
reading for xtu. A marginal note 
by O’F. has been mutilated, the fol- 


lowing only remaining:—“... 
Indictio. .... a gh) Re 
a Dominica .... [Theo]dosii, A°. 
423.” 


2 Kal. vii. The first of the Indic- 
tion corresponds to the year 433, in 
which the Ist of January fell on a 
Sunday. O'Flaherty adds the note 
«A. Litera Dominica” in the margin. 


8 Kal.iii. The “Kal.” for this and 
the following year are written in 
one line in A., and a mutilated note, 
Sie 0 «Ba cs) eee meee 





Tuesday), appears in the margin in 
O’Flaherty’s handwriting. It doubt- 
less represented the criteria for the 
year 435. 

4 Kal. vi. Recté vii. 

5 Kal. i. After “Kal. i.,” the year 
and Dominical letter (A°, 439, A.) 
have been added by O’F. 

6 Birth. There is a note of O’Fla- 
herty’s in the margin, “ Natus A°. 
449, . . ie. 16 Feby.,” and a muti- 
lated memorandum, of which the fol- 
lowing is all that can be read:— 
“ .. 8 feriad4.... 8 Febr.,S. 
Brigida (347. 2°. Mar.) .... eic; 


quarta ;” 

















Kal. 


Kal. v. 


Kal. i° 


the 28th, she rested.® 
Rome, quievit.'! 


faith.'? 


Kal." iii. 


Kal.‘ vi. Secundinus, and Auxilius, 
are sent to the Irish; but they obtained not pre-emi- 
nence or authority in the time of Patrick alone. 
Senchus Mér was written in this year. 

Birth® of St. Brigid, on a Wednesday, the 8th 
of the February moon; on a Wednesday, the 18th, she 
received’ the veil, with eight virgins; on a Wednesday, 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 23 


dosius the younger, the first year of the episcopate of 
Sixtus, 45th’ Bishop of the Roman Church, and the 
fourth year of the reign of Laeghaire, son of Niall. 

Kal.? vii. First Indiction. 

Kal. i. First Saxon depredation in Erinn. 


Kal.’ iii. Bresal, King of Laighen, died. 


and Esserninus 


The 


‘Kal.’ ii. Maine, son of Niall, died.’ Sixtus, Bishop of 
Amhalgadh, son of Fiachra, King of 
Connacht, died, z.e. the first King of Connacht after the 










but, in consequence of its fragmentary 
condition, it is not easy to decide 
whether it refers to her birth or re- 
ception of the veil. 

7 Received. po sap, for po sab, 
she received. 

8 Rested. A marg. note in O’Fla- 
herty’s handwriting reads, ‘ A®. 523 
... Feb. fer. 4... . ae 28” (ie. 
A°, 533 .. . February, fourth day 
of the week, 28th of the moon). 


9 Kal. ii. The year 440 is added 
in the margin in O’Flaherty’s hand. 


10 Died. mopcury, for mortuus est, 
A. B. 


1 
UL Quievit. g., A., for quievit, the 





expression generally used in recording 
the death of ecclesiastics throughout 
this Chronicle; mortwus est, or moritur, 
being the form used in the case of laics. 
A marginal note in O’F.’s hand, partly 
destroyed, reads:—“ . . [4]40... 
Mar. [Six]tus obiit. litera Dominica 
- + . da, fer. 2.” 

2 After the faith, i.e. after the in- 
troduction of the faith. This obit is 
written in the lower margin of A., 
p. 6, with a mark of reference 
pointing out its proper place in the 
text. 

13 Kal, iii. The ferial numbers for 
this and the three following years 
should be, respectively, iv., v., vi., 
and vii. 


[439.] 


[440.] 


24 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


ict. 1. 
kt. 111. 


bellum emin in quo cecroit mac Caupoind, 


mic Colbot, mic Nell. CUI vicunc ap vo cpmrtmp 


0. 
}ct. 1911. 


Quer Secunoini pili 


Repuicut, Laeeu’. 


anno aetaup puae, cup macep Culmana Pacpieti 


fopor. 
t. u. 


t. uw. 
Ict. 1. 
Ict. 1. 
Ict. 111. 
}ct. 1901. 


Cacpoamod mop pica Laesaipe mac Nell pop 


Lasgnerp. 
tu. Perr Tempe La Laosaipe mac Neill. 
t. ui. A 
fet... Mopp Enna mie Catbada. 


t. 41. 
t. 1111. 


Ict. u. 


Dopmicacio Sanct Semp Pacpicii epipcopr 


41. Slopoomenmp Ecclepiae. 
Cat Ota Dana pra Lavgnit pop Laogaipe in 


quo wre captur eft, ped TUNc DIMPppUP eft supanP 
pep polem et uencum pé bouer eip “Oimippupum. 





1 Kal. iv. The criteria, ‘*.. E. 

. . Ja, fer. 4” (E the Dominical 
letter; kalends of January on the 4th 
feria, or Wednesday), answering to 
the year 447, have been noted in the 
margin by O'Flaherty. The criteria 
for the six following years should be 
iv., V., Vii., i., ii., and iii., respectively. 

2 Kal. vi. Corrected to vii. by 
O’Flaherty, to correspond with the 
year 449, 

3 Kal. iv. This is the year 453 
according to O’Flaherty, who has 





noted that year in the margin, adding 
D as the Dominical letter. He has 
also altered the ferial number to 5. 

4 Temhair, i.e. Tara. O'Flaherty 
adds the marginal note, ‘454, C. Kal. 
Ja. on Friday.” 


5 Kal. i. O'Flaherty adds the year 
456, and the Dom. Letters A G in the 
marg. 

6 Church. cectiae, A. The cri- 
teria for the year 458 have been 
noted in margin by O’F., who adds, 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM., 


bo 
ue 


Kal. vi. 

Kal. vii. 

Kal. i. 

Kal. iii, Battle of Feimin, in which fell the son of 
Cairthind, son of Colboth, son of Niall. Some say that 
he was of the Picts. 

Kal. iv. Death of Secundinus, son of Restitutus, in 
the seventy-fifth year of his age, whose mother, Culmana, 
was Patrick’s sister. 

Kal. v. 

Kal.? vi. 

Kal. i. 

Kal. iii. 

Kal iv. A great battle-breach by Laeghaire, son of 
Niall, over the Lagenians. . 

Kal. vi. The Feast of Temhair* celebrated by Laegh- 
aire, son of Niall. 

Kall? i. 

Kal. iv. Repose of Old Saint Patrick, Bishop, ze. of 
the church® of Glastonbury. 

Kal. v. The battle of Ath Dara gained by the Lage- 
nians over Laeghaire, in which he was taken prisoner; but 
he was straightway set at liberty, upon swearing by the 
sun and wind that he would forgive them the Borumha.’ 


Death of Enna, son of Cathbadh. 








“Drust mac Erb. Rex Pictorum 
obiit, Cod. Cl.;” ‘Cod. Cl.” meaning 
“Codex Cluanensis,” or “Annals of 
‘Clonmacnois,” in which the death of 
Drust is recorded under the year 445. 

7 Forgive them the Borumha. 6 
bouep erp DiImippupum (se boves 
eis dimissurum), A. B. This means 
_ that Laeghaire undertook to remit 





A. has a marginal note in O’Fla- 
herty’s hand, “cat ata “Oana, 
A°. 458, War. Antiq. p. 382” 
(“ Battle of Ath Dara, Anno 458, 
Ware’s Antiquities, p. 32”); and a 
further note, mateo na bopurha, 
“remission of the Borumha,” in the 
hand of the late Charles O’Conor, of 
Belanagar—both of which are omitted 


the Borumha, or Boromean Tribute. ; in B. 


[452.] 


[453.] 


[455.] 


[457.] 


[458] 


26 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


fect. uw. Cat Acha Dapa pra Larsnent pop Laogarpe, 
quibup Cremtand tune ppaeepac. 


Mopr 


Laesaipe mic Nell 15 Fpeallars “Oarprl 


for cae’ Carp 1 Mang Lire, evip na va Enoc 1. Crpe 


ocup OCLba [an] anmano. OC pata pe 


Lasmi6 1. span 


ocup FLOs po mapprao e and, picuT PoetTa DINIT >— 


Cobat Laesarpe mac Nett 

Fon caob Carp Suaiys 1cip. 
Ouile De copesaid part 
Tuspao Dail mbar fopran pus. 


a. 
t. ut. 
ae 


Immum Regn Oilealla muilce mic Nacht. 


Ict. 1. “Oomangopt mac Nips que. 
t.11. Quep Denigm puccerpopp Pacpen. 


t. u. 
t. uw. 
Ict. un. 


— «fCt 
Ict. 111. 


Leip Tethpa La hOilill Mole. 


}ct. 1911. "Dopnogal Dpi éle pop Loagmiu pra Orit 


Mote. 


Mote. 


Ict. tu. 
Ict. s 


[kct.] Cat Oumage Cidip pra Leasmu pop Orlitt 





1 Kal. vi. The criteria for the year 
460 have been noted in the margin 
by O’Flaherty, who also adds the 
mem., ‘“Crimthann Rex Lageniz.” 
This record seems a repetition of the 
previous entry. 

2 Erinn, Cpe, A. B. 

3 Kal. v. O’Flaherty has altered 
this to iv., and added the criteria for 
the year 464 in the margin. At the 
end of the entry, however, he has 
noted the year 463. 





4 Domangart. The note “462, Kal. 
J. 2” (462, Kalends of January on 
2nd feria), has been added in the 
margin by O’F. , 

5 Kal. iti. O'Flaherty has altered 
this to iv., and added the marginal 
note, ‘469, S. Benign, ob‘. E, Kl. 
Ja. 4.” 

6 Benignus. Dism, A. Digm, B. 

7 Feast. This is the year 471 ac- 
cording to O'Flaherty, who adds the 
criteria, “C,. Kl, Ja. Friday,” and 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 27 


Kal.’ vi. The battle of Ath Dara gained against 
Laeghaire by the Lagenians, over whom Crimthand was 
then commander. 

K. Death of Laeghaire, son of Niall, at Greallach 
Daiphil, on the side of Cais in Magh Lifé, between the 
two hills, viz., Erinn? and Alba are their names. His 
guarantees to the Lagenians, 7.e. the sun and wind, that 
killed him there, as the Poet said :— 


Laeghaire, son of Niall, died 

On the side of Cais, green its land ; 

The elements of God, which he had pledged as guarantee, 
Inflicted the doom of death on the King. 


Kal.? v. Comemorinens of the reign of Oilill Molt, 
son of Nathi. 

Kal. vii. 

Kal. i. 

Kal. ii. Domangart* Mac Nisi quievit. 

Kal.’ iii. Quies of Benignus,® successor of Patrick. 

Kal. v. 

Kal. vi. The Feast’? of Temhair celebrated by Oilill 
Molt. 

Kal. vii. 

Kal. i. 

Kall. iii. 

Kal. iv. The conflict of Bri Ele gained over the 
Lagenians by Oilill Molt. 

[Kal.°] Battle of Dumagh Aicher gained by hey 
Lagenians over Oilill Molt. 

Kal.!® vi. 
~ Kal. i. 














also the note, ‘468, War. Ant., p. 
17,” signifying that the event is re- 
ferred to the latter year in Ware’s 
cere Me aD ae 

8 Kal. iv. O'Flaherty has noted 
the criteria for the year 475 in the 


. Margin. 





9[Kal.] This Kal., together with 
ferial for the year 476, has been in- 
serted by O'Flaherty. It is apparent, 
from the order of the ferial numbers, 
thata‘‘Kal.” wasomitted by the scribe. 

10 Kal. vi. Corrected to vii. by 
O’F., who makes this the year 477. 


A.D. 
[459] 


[460.] 


[461.] 


[464.] 
[465.] 


[467.] 


[471.] 


(472. 


28 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


}ct. 1». 

fect. 11. Mopp Conall Cpethéann mic NéLL. 
Ict. uw. 

Ict. un. 

Ic. 


Ie 

ket. 

fet. 1. OilsiLL Mots vo crnTIM La Muipceptaé mae 
Eapca (4. pi Epeann) a ceaé Ocha, ec La Lucas 
mac Laegupe, es La Lepsup Cippbél mac Conall 
Cpemtamne, es La Piacpaé Lénn mac CoeLlbot pig Dal 
(CCpirde, unve Dec mac "Dé D1aIT -— 


Mop cat Ocha peppa icin, 
Immopnatca caca fi, 
Pon Olstt Mote mac Oaki, 
Meaburoh pra OAL Cproaohi, 
La Luccard ta Piacpac té6no 
1p La Murpceptaé mop ott, 
la Fensur mac Condit caoim, 
0 cep. OCU paen pis; 
Cz ta Lepsur so Lochz, 
0 iccpocaipy CHUL paép Motz. 


QC cempope Concupap mic Nepra upque ao Copmac 
mac Olipt, ccc.un. anni punt. OC Copmac upque ad hoc 


belLum cc.u1. 


fet. 11. Imizium pesm Lugoat mic Laogarpe. 





1 Kal, iii. The year 480, the Do- 
minical letters (F E), and the cor- 
responding ferial number (iii.), have 
been added in the marg. by O’F. 

2 Kal. i. O'Flaherty has added 
the year 484 in the margin, together 
with the Dom. Letters A G, and the 
proper ferial, He also adds the 
further note, “483, B. Kal. J. Sat. 
quo Oililli necem Annal. Ult. ha- 





bent. Unde ad Dalriedinos in Scotia, 
20. an.” The Annals of Ulster re- 
cord the battle of Ocha under the 
year 482, and again under 483, adding 
“secundum alios.” 


3 Of the blemish. 0 Locht, A. B.; 
lit. with stain. He is called Fergus 
“san tochs,” “without stain,” in 
other authorities, 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 29 


Kal. iii. Death of Conall Crimhthann, son of Niall. 


Kal. vi. 
Kal. vii. 
K. 


Kal 


Kal.? i. Oilill Molt fell in the battle of Ocha by Muir- 
certach Mac Erca (i.e. King of Erinn); and by Lughaidh, 
son of Laeghaire; and by Fergus Cirrbel, son of Conall 
Crimthainn; and by Fiachra Lonn, son of Caelboth, 
King of Dal Ardidhe, of which Bec Mae De said -— 


The great battle of Ocha was fought, 
Through which many fights were contested ; 
Over Oilill Molt, son of Dathi, 

It was gained by the Dal Ardidhe, 

By Lughaidh, by Fiachra Lonn, 

And by the great, puissant Muircertach, 

By Fergus, son of mild Conall— 

By them fell the noble King Ailill ; 

And by Fergus of the blemish*— 

By them fell the noble Ailill Molt. 


From the time of Conchobhar Mac Nessa to Cormac 
Mac Art there are 307* years; from Cormac to this 


battle, 207.5 


Kal.* ii, Commencement of the reign of Lughaidh,’ 


son of Laeghaire. 





4307 years. cccu., A. B., pro- 
bably a mistake for cctun. (257), the 
era of Conchobhar being referred to 
A.D. 20 in a previous entry, (vide 
supra, ad an, 482); and that of Cor- 
mac being usually fixed at 277. For 
307 O'Flaherty writes 207. 

5207. O'Flaherty writes 206. 





6 Kal. ii. The ferial number ii. has 
been corrected to 3 by O'Flaherty, 
who has added the year 485, and 
some criteria not now decipherable. 


7 Lughaidh. The letters “p. €.,” 
for pig Cpenn, “King of Erinn,” are 
written in the marg. in the orig. hand. 


[482.] 


[483.] 


30 ~CRONICUM sCcOTORUM. 


fet. 1. Sain Crriomeaann mic Enna Cinopealang, Ri 
Langen, La Gott Fuineé Oib Veappce, ocup La Napeda 
Cliaé. 

Céo .cat Fpaine in quo Murpcepcach mac Eapca 
uictop uit. Cat ele 1 ngpaine itip Lagen 101 
Largsneéanb badern, 1n quo Linnchad Ri ua Cinnpealiags 
cecroit, ocur [Eochard mac] Coipppe mecvop pure. 

}ct. u. Quer Eppeorp Maol an OCpo Cupad. 

}ct. wu. Qmep Sance Cranans."DarmLiag cn Pacpacrup 
Euanselium puum. Lapsicup ert. 

Ict. un. Qwmer Eppors mic Cantle. 

Caé Ceall Opnms a Mursh Lea bi cecioepunt 
Clonsur mac Natppaoré, Ri Muman, ocup uxop eiuyp .1. 
Eitne uacaé ingen Cprorhcainn, mic Enna Cinopealans. 
lollann mac “Ounlaing ec Oilill a bpacaip, ocup 
Eocharoh Suinec, ec Murpceptcat mac Eapca, Ri Oils, 
uictvopep epant, ut DICITUP :— 


Cobat cpaob dor bite méip 
Congur mothtaét mac Natppaore 
Pagbad ta tollann a cenn. 

QC ceaé ceatt Opnarg claoin. 





Ict. 11. 





c 

1 Guinech. sun. A.; Summ. B. 

2 Graine. The date 485 appears 
in the margin, in the handwriting of 
O’F., and also the mutilated note, 
“Kal. . . . Lageniw ... Grane 
» . « [prae]lium 2°. hoc A®. .. .” 

8 Another. See under the year 492, 
where a third battle of Graine is 
called the second; or probably it is 


the battle here referred to. 
4 In the land. . 1cip, A.; voip 
(between), B. 


5 Lagenians. Leagnaib (Lag- 
nechaib), A.; Larsmb, B. 





6 Eochaidh Mac Coirpre. The 
words ‘‘Kochaidh Mac” have been 
interlined by O'Flaherty, who adds at 
the end of the entry, “de quo post 
493 infra.” See under the year 492. 

7 Kal. v. O'Flaherty adds in the 
margin, “S. Mel. Eps. obt. 488, Ult. - 
Annal.” The Annals of Ulster record 
Bishop Mel’s death at the year 487, 
which is equal to 488 of the Common 
Era, 7 


8 Ard Curadh. Possibly a mis- 
take for Ard Achadh, i.e. “the high 
field,” now Ardagh, of which Mael, or 
Mel, was Bishop. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 31 


Kal. iii. Criomthann, son of Enna Cennsealach, King 
of Laighen, [mortally] wounded by Eochaidh Guinech! of 
the Ibh Bairrche, and by the men of Aradh Cliach. 

First battle of Graine,? in which Muircertach Mac Erca 
was the victor. Another* battle was fought at Graine, 
in the land‘ of Laighen, between the Lagenians’ them- 
selves, in which Finnchadh, King of Ui Cennsealaigh, 
fell, and [Eochaidh Mac*] Coirpre was the victor. 

Kal.’ v. Quies of Bishop. Mael at Ard Curadh.® 

Kal? v. Quies of Saint Cianan of Damhliag, on whom 
Patrick bestowed his Gospel. 

Kal. vii. Quies of Bishop'® Mac Caille. 

' The battle of Cill Osnaigh in Magh Fea, in which 
fell Aengus Mac Nathfraeich, King of Mumhan, and his 


wife, i.e. Eithne the hateful, daughter of Criomthann,. 


son of Enna Cennsealach. lIollann, son of Dunlaing, 
and Oilill, his brother, and Eochaidh QGuinech,'! and 
Muircertach Mac Erca, King of Ailech, were victors, as 
was said!?:— 


A branch of the great’ spreading tree died— 
Aengus the praiseworthy, son of Nathfraeich ; 
His head was left with Iollann, 

In the battle of foul Cill-Osnaigh. 








Kal. ii. 
9 Kal. v. O'Flaherty has: altered | Guinech in all authorities, and at the 
this ferial to 6, and added the marg. | year 484, supra. 
mote, “S. Kien. .... 489, Ult. 


Ann.;” but the Annals of Ulster have 
St. Cianan’s obit under the year 488 
of their reckoning. 

10 Bishop. Erp. A.; Capcop, B. 
O'Flaherty has noted the year 490 in 
the margin, altering the ferial number 
un to 1, 

11 Guinech; or “the wounding.” 
Bluinech, A. and B.; but called 





12 As was said. UT Ofiey. Ass for 
UT DICITUPL; UT INIT, B. The 
abbrev. jp. is written in the margin, 
signifying that a pann (rann), or 
verse, follows, 

18 Of the great. méimp, A. B., gen. 
of m6p (mor), great. Tigernach and 


the Four Mast. read an orp, “of the 
gold.” 


A.D. 
[484.] 


[485.] 
[486.] 


[487.] 


32 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


}ct. 10. Pacpiciup Cpchepipcopur ect. Wpopcolup 
ibepnenpum, anno aecvacip puae centeppimo .xan®., Lut. 
Kct. Cppilip queuc, uz DICITUP :-— : 


O senaip Cprort, aipem ort 
Cetpe céd pop caom nocait 
Teona bliccdna beaée rappin 


Bo bap Pocopoas, Ppiorh CCpparr. 


Hct. 1101. 
kct. u. 


NélL. 


Caé Tallcen pop Lasmu pra Corpppe mac 


Ict.1. Caé cana Fpaine in quo cecroie Epaeé 
mac Lionnchada Ri Larsen Versabaip. CEocharvds mac © 


Coipppe uictopn PUT. 


fet. 1. Quer Curnvdeda mic Caéthoga 1. mac Cuiline, 


eprcop Lupca. “Oepeccurp.polip appapurc. 


Expusgnacio 


Otinlecslaim. Selapup quieurc. 
ket. Cnaypcapup papa opoinacup eps, ware anny 11. 
Caé Slemna Mise por Larsmu pra Coipppe mac NéLL. 


Mochaoe néonopoma ques. 


Epreop Copmac fin] 


pepnive comapba Paopars pauper. 





1 Kal. iii. Of the criteria, which 
had been noted in the margin, all that 
now remainsis..... 6. O’Fla- 
herty, however, understood this to be 
the year 493, in accordance with the 
authority of the stanza quoted in the 
text. But there are only fifty-seven 
‘“‘ Kal.” from the year 432 to the pre- 
sent entry, which would indicate this 
to be the year 489; and although it 
seems likely that the year 493 was 
intended by the original Annalist, the 
Editor has not felt himself at liberty 
to depart from the actual data which 
the Chronicle furnishes, 

2 Four hundred. ccce., A.B. _ 

* Exact. bey, for beaée, A. f 
being an abbreviation for aét (acht). 
B. reads bey, omitting the sign of 
abbrey. over the p. The following 





stanza, apparently in the hand of the 
orig. scribe, occurs at the bottom of 
page 8 in A,:— 
“Nonagessimus et quadringentesi- 
mus atque 
Tertius a partu virginis annus 
erat, - 
AEtatisque sux centesimus atque 
secundus 
Anni bisque decem preteriére 
quidem: 

Patricius sanctus fidei monstrator 

Hibernis t 
Mortuus in Duno quandosepultus 
erat.” 

4 Kal. v. Corrected to 7 by O’Fla- 
herty, who observes, ‘ut folia 9, b,” 
referring to the copy of Tigernach 
bound up with MS. A., which has the 
ferial number vii. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 33 


Kal.' iii. Patrick, Archbishop and Apostle of the 
Trish, in the 122nd year of his age, on the 16th of the 
Kalends of April, quievit, ut dicitur :— 


Since Christ was born, a joyful reckoning, 
Four hundred? and fair ninety ; 
Three exact® years after that 
To the death of Patrick, Chief Apostle. 
- Kal. iv. 

Kal‘ v. The battle of Taillten was gained over the 
Lagenians by Coirpre, son of Niall. 

Kal. i. The second® battle of Graine, in which fell 
Fraech, son of Finnchadh, King of Southern Leinster. 
Eochaidh, son of Coirpre, was the victor. 

Kal. ii. Rest of Cuindidh, son of Cathmogha,® 2.e. 
Mac Cuilind, Bishop of Lusca. An eclipse of the sun 
appeared. Battle of Dunlethglaise. Gelasius quievit. 

Kal. Anastasius was ordained Pope, and lived after- 
wards two years. The battle of Slemhain of Meath gained 
over the Lagenians by Coirpre, son of Niall. Mochaoe of 
Naendruim quievit. Bishop Cormac’ [in]dernidhe, com- 








harb of Patrick, pausavit. 


5 Second. Two battles of Graine 
are referred to under the year 484. 
This would make a third, unless it be 
the record of one of the two battles 
in question. See p. 30, notes * and 3, 

6 Son of Cathmogha. me Catmoga 
4. mac Cuitino (Mac Cathmhogha, 
‘ge. Mac Cuilind), A.; which O’Fla- 
herty alters to ‘‘MacCathbadha Mogh 
Cuilind (son of Cathbadh of Magh 
Cuilinn), ut fol. 9, b.” The refer- 
ence “ut fol. 9, b.” is to the copy 
of Tigernach in H. 1, 18, T.C.D., 
which reads, “ quer Cuinveda mic 
Catbada in mac Cuitinn” (“Quies 
of Cuindidh, son of Cathbhadh, the 
Mac Cuilinn”). B. reads, “mac 
Catthoga Mags Curtind” (son of 
Cathmogh of Magh Cuilinn). The 


/ 





obit of Gelasius proves this to be the 
year 496. 

7 Cormac [in]dernidhe. The letters 
mm (‘the,” or “of the”) have been 
supplied by O’Flaherty. In the An- 
nals of the Four Masters he is called 
“Copmac Crié in Epnarde” (ie. 
Cormac of the territory of the Er- 
naidhe). See Dr. O’Donovan’s note 
to F.M. under the year A.D. 496. 
In a list of St. Patrick’s successors 
in the Book of Leinster, Cormac is 
said to have been “de Chlainn Cher- 
naigh,” i.e. of the Clann Cernaigh, or 
Kearney. See Todd’s St. Patrick, 
p- 180. O’Flaherty adds in the 
margin, “497, Mochaius Antrim, 
(recté Naendrum), et Corm. Ard- 
machae, obierunt.” 

D 


A.D. 
[489.] 


[491.] 


[492.] 


[493.] 


[494.] 


34 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


}ct. U. 


Ingenp ceppaemocup Ponticam concuppc 


Prounciam. Cnapcapup paupaure. 


Ict. u1. 


Romanae Eccle~prac .cliz. Simachup Papa, 


mat anmp .cu. Cat Cind ilbe pop Laigne pe Coipppe 


mac NéLL. 


Ict. un. Cad Sefpa pad Muipcepcaé mac Eapca pop 
‘Ouach Tensuma Ri Connatc, ub: Duach cecroit, unve 


Cenopaolad D1a1T :-— 


Cat Segpa, 


ben vo mnath pooptiiarp ; 
Ro baoi cpa dap cpupish 
La Ouiprs mgien ‘Ouarce. 


Cat Deatsa et cat Mucpeme, 
Ocur cot Tuama copuba; 

La cot Sespa accpocaip 

Ouaé Tensuma. 


1. 
t. 111. 
NéiLL. 
Riaoa paptem 


Cath Opoma Loémarge pra Leagmp ap Wb. 
Lepsur Mdp mac Capea cum gence Ocal 
TaMae Tents et 1b1 MopTUUL eft. 


fet. u. bellum inve Moipe a copré -h. nFabla pop 
Lagmp, ocup pop 1olLann, mac “Ounlaing, in quo Map- 
ceptat mac Epca wictop epac. 

Mopr Eppors 1btip in rz. Ict. moa, cuiup aectar 


cce.11. anmip. 


Ic 





1 Shook. ‘Conclusit,” A., altered 
to “concussit” by O'Flaherty. 

2 Anastasius. ‘'498, 13, Kal. Dec. 
obiit.” Note by O’'F. in marg. The 
ferial number (v) answers to the year 
498. The ferie from this down to 
the year 513 are rather confusedly 
noted. 

8 Symmachus. Smachup, A. and 
B. “498, 23 Nov. creatus.” Note 
by O’F. in marg. 

4 A certain woman. Den 0 
tmnanb, A., lit. “a woman of women.” 





The words 00 mnaib are erroneously 
repeated in A. 

5 Red blood was. po baoi cpt. 
These words occur twice by mistake 
in A., viz., at the end of one page and 
beginning of another. 

6 By Duisech. “Ouryig, ablative of 
‘Durpech, A. For msen “Ouracé, 
B. incorrectly reads ingen t Ouvarce, 
being a misreading of the words t 
Duancé (i.e. “or of Duach”), which 
are written over the word puaroh, 
put erroneously for “Oucicé in A., 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 35 


Kal. v. A great earthquake shook! the Pontic Pro- 
vince. Anastasius? pausavit. 

Kal. vi. Symmachus,’ 49th Pope of the Roman Church; 
lived fifteen years. The battle of Cenn Ailbhe gained 
over the Lagenians by Coirpre, son of Niall. 

Kal. vii. The battle of Seghais gained by Muircertach 
Mac Earca over Duach Tengumha, King of Connacht, in 
which Duach was slain; of which Cennfaeladh said :-— 


The battle of Seghais— 

A certain woman‘ caused it ; 

Red blood’ was brought over lances 
By Duisech,’ daughter of Duach. 


The battle of Delg, and battle of Mucremhe, 
And the battle of Tuaim Drubha, 

With the battle of Seghais, wherein fell 
Duach Tengumha. 

Kal.’ i. 

Kal. iii. Battle of Druim Lochmaighe gained by the 
Lagenians over the Ui Neill. Fergus Mor Mac Erca, 
with the tribe of Dél Riada, held a part of Britain and 
died there. 

Kal. v. The battle of Inde Mér,’ in Crich Ui Gabhla, 
gained over the Lagenians, and over Illann,® son of 
Dunlaing, in which Muircertach Mac Erca was victorious. 

Death of Bishop'’® Ibar on the 9th of the Kalends of 
May, whose age was 303 years. 

Kal. 

Kal. 





but marked with dots in token of 
deletion, This is the year 500 ac- 


implying that this battle is recorded 
in the Annals of Clonmacnoise at the 


cording to O’F., who adds the marg. | year 499. 
note, “500, Kal. 7.” 9 Tllann. “R. L.,” te. Rex La- | 
7 Kal. i. Corrected to 2 by O’Fla- | geniae. Marg. note in O’F.’s hand- 





herty, who has added the criteria 
“501, Kl. Ja. 2,” in the margin, 

8 Inde Mér. A marginal note by 
O'Flaherty reads “499, Cod: Cl:” 





writing. Rhy: 

10 Bishop. Crp, A.; Ercop, B. 
O’F. adds the note ‘501, Dung. 
Annal. 8. Ibarus: 500, Ussher.” 


D2 


A.D. 


[495.] 
[496.] 


[497.] 


[499.] 


[500.] 


36 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


if bellum Ppethainne Mive pop Lrachad mac 
Neill pra Porlse Depparve, unde DICTUM eT I— 


Cn Ri ale appepid, : 
Fiachond mac Nétt ni ceatond, 
Cr fap. Tap. creamnat cite 

Cat Sltemna M1de meabard. 


t. 411. 

i un. Dap Lugoaé mic Laogaipe Ri¥ Tempaé an 
Cehavh Lapéa. Ro benad vo nim co papca tentde 
ma cend ap noitlcad Poopars. 

}ct. 1. Mupcepcac mac Capea Resnape incipic. — 
Mac Cmypyr .1. Congup, Eppcop Condipe, quiews, emup 
pacep [Pobpaoc] vicctur eps, cmupque macep Cnep 
ingen Comarve 00 “Ocal Certipe, a qua nominacup ert 


mac Cneiy. 
Ict. 


polip contisic. 


Ict. 1. Omer Dpons, Epipcop: Corpilippe. “Oepeccur 


Kct. 11. Omer Epcr Epipcop SLaine, wxe®. anno aetariy 
ude, De Quo Pacpiciup at :— 


Erpos Enca, 


_ Baé ni conceptad ba cept ; 
Saé con beper concogenet cept 
Popcpoaib bennatc Crpoig Ene. 


}ct. Nacwcap Sance Crapanr pli apoprerp. bellum 





1 Battle of Slemhain. Cat Stemna, 
A. B.; evidently a mistake for cat 
Lperhainn or Lpethna (battle of 
Fremhainn), as in Tigernach, the Ann. 
Ult., and the Four Mast.; and also in 
the prose entry in the text, O’Fla- 
herty adds the marg. note, “502, D. 
Ann. ;” but the Donegal Annals (or 
Four Mast.) have the entry at the 
year 501 of their reckoning. 





® Was struck. po ba, for po 
benao, A.; po baro, B.; the tran- 
scriber of which appears not to have 
noticed the sign of abbreviation. 


8 Muircertach. The letters “p.e.,” 
for Rif Gnenn (King of Erinn), 
appear in the marg. O’Flaherty has 
added a note, of which only ‘“ Mur- 
chert . . 518, Kl. . . .” can be read. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 37 


K. 
) one 
K. The battle of Fremhain, in Midhe, gained over 
Fiachaidh, son of Niall, by Foilge Berraidhe ; of which 
was said :— . ; 

The other king they mention, 

Fiachaidh, son of Niall, they deny not; 

Over him, against a false prophecy, 

The battle of Slemhain' of Midhe, was won. 
Kal. iii. . 
Kal. iv. Death of Lughaidh, son of Laeghaire, King of 
Temhair, in Achadh Farcha. He was struck? on the head 
_ with lightning from heaven, for denying Patrick. 
Kal. iii. Muircertach? Mac Earca begins to reign. 
Mac Cnissi, zc. Aengus, Bishop of Condere, quievit ; 
whose father was called [Fobraech];‘ and whose mother 
was Ones, daughter of Comaide, of the Dal Ceithire, from 
whom he was named Mac Cnisi. 
Kal. 
Kal. i. Quies of Bron, Bishop of Caisel Irre. An 
eclipse of the sun occurred.® 
Kal. ii. Quies of Erc,® Bishop of Slane, in the 90th 
year of his age, of whom Patrick said :— 











Bishop Ere— 

Everything which he adjudged was right ; 
Everyone that passes a just judgment 
Shall receive the blessing of Bishop Ere. 


Kal. Birth of Saint Ciaran, son of the artificer.’ 





4 Fobraech. Interpolated by O’Fla- 








5 Occurred. contigic, A. B. After 
this word B. has “xc®. anno aeta- 
tip,” which is a clause belonging to 
the next sentence. <A mutilated note 
by O’F. in the margin, reads ‘512, 
Kal. . . . Bronius . . Eclipsis solis.” 





6 Erc. O°. adds a marg. note, of 
herty. See Reeves’ Antiquities of | which only “513, Kal... .. Ereus 
Down and Connor, pp. 238, 239. -..S....” can be read. 


7 Son of the artificer. Ciaran is 
called “mac an cpaory” (son of the 
carpenter) in the Irish Calendars and 
Martyrologies, and infra, under the 
year 544. “516, Natus.” Marg. 
note by O’F. 


[505.] 


[507.] 


[508.] 


[510.] 


[511.] 


[512.] 


‘ 


38 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Opoma Depsarse por Ports) mbepparve pra Priacens 
mac Nell, unde campup MNive a Lagemp pubLacup ert, 
uct Cénopaolad cect :— 
Orosal Oia peace mbluaona 
barpiorsoe a cpude, 
Coté a n’ Opomarb Oensparse 
ba ve v0 cep Mag Mrvde. 
kKct. u.  "Oubcaé Ob CCrpromacha queue. 
}ct. uw. Quer “Oapepca Cille Slebe Cuilinn, quae 
Moninne, Cninne panaco portea nominaca ere. 
ket. us. ~Comgatt bénncasp nacup ere. 
Kct. 1. Coanneé OCchard D6 nacup eps. 
Ict. 111. Conlaed Eppog Cille Oapa quiere. 
fet. 1101. Dellum Oecna a nOpomart Dpe¥ in quo 
cecinis CCposal mac Conall Cpethtainne mic NelL. 
Mupceptat mac Eapca, ec Colsa mac Clorée, me 
Cpuinn, mic PLedlimid, Ri Cipsiall, wevoper epanc. 
buz: mac Dponagy obiic. Colam Crlle nacuy ers, ve 
quibup dictum ert :— 
Sem caomn Choloam ap ccletpash 


Oni 6p Cipand 6vatcch ; 
aon Ut ni pod nuabaip 
ap ban bucdargs mic Dponarg. 





1 Droma Dergaighe. “Opomeat 
Depspaige”(Dromaibh Dergraighe), 
abl. pl. of “Opuim Depspaige,” 
* recté Dpuim Depgsaige, as it occurs 
six lines before. O’Flaherty adds in 
the margin, “508, Fia. .. . . filius 
Nielli.” The note refers to the battle 
recorded above under the year 505. 
The battle here alluded to is entered 
in the Annals of the Four Masters 
under the year 507=508; but the 
Annals of Ulster state that it was 
fought in 515 “ vel 516.” 

2 Kal. v. Over the ferial in the 
text O'Flaherty has written the num- 
ber 3, the latter being the ferial 
number answering to the year 513 of 
the Common Era, or 512 of the An- 





nals of Ulster, which have Dubtach’s 
obit at the latter date. 

8 Kal. vi. Corrected to 2 by O’Fla- 
herty, who considers 518 to be the 
proper year. The ferial for 514 is iv. 

£ Sanatho. This word is probably 
corrupt. Its meaning is obscure. For 
the various names applied to Darerca, 
or Moninne, see Duffus Hardy’s Cat, 
of Brit. Hist., Vol. I., Pt. I., p. 94, sq. 

5 Comgall. ‘Natus, Kal. Ja. 1.” 
Marg. note by O’F.; indicating that 
Comgall was born in the year 517, 
according to his opinion. 

8 Kal. ii. O’Flaherty corrects this 
to “Kal. 3,” answering to the year 
519, which he considers the year of 
Cainnech’s birth. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 39 


Battle of Druim Dergaighe gained over Foilge Berraidhe 
_by Fiachaidh, son of Niall, on account of which the plain 
of Midhe was taken from the Lagenians, as Cendfaeladh 
sang :— ; 

The seven years’ vengeance of God 

It was that tamed his heart ; 

The battle in the Droma Dergaighe'— 

By it the plain of Midhe was lost. 


Kal? v. Dubtach, Abbot of Ardmacha, quievit. 

Kal.*-vi. Quies of Darerca, of Cill-Slebhe-Cuilinn, who 
was afterwards called Moninne, Aninne Sanatho.* 

Kal. vii. Comgall,> of Bennchair, born. 

Kal.® ii. Cainnech, of Achadh Bé, born. 

Kal.’ iii, Conlaedh, Bishop of Cill Dara, quievit.* 

Kal. iv. Battle of Detna, in Droma-Bregh,® in which 
fell Ardgal, son of Conall Crimhthann, son of Niall. 
Muircertach Mac Earca, and Colga, son of Cloith,'® son of 
Crunn, son of Fedhlimidh, King of Airghiall, were the 
victors. Buti, son of Bronach, died,'' and Colum Cille 
was born, of whom was said!? :— 


The gentle birth of Colum, our cleric, 

To-day over noble Erinn ; 

On the same day occwrred—no arrogant saying— 
The bright, victorious death of the son of Bronach. 








7 Kal. iii. The same annotator 
adds “Kal. 4,” which answers to the 
year 520. The death of Conlaedh is 
recorded in the Annals of Ulster 
under the year 519, equa] to 520 of 
the Common Era. The ferial for 517 
is i, and for 518, ii. 


1 
8 Quievit. q., A.; 065 (“died”), B. 


9 In Droma-Bregh. an Opomend 
Des, A-; an Dpeg, B., in which 
the word “Opomarb has been trans- 
ferred to a preceding line, by mistake. 

10 Son of Cloith. Wioctorte (Mo- 
cloithe), A., which O’Flaherty has 





altered to mac Ctoiée (Mac Cloithe, 
or son of Cloith). The Four Masters 
have mac Lorc (son of Loit). 

ll Died. O'Flaherty adds, ‘522, 
sc[ilicet] die quo 8. Col. natus est.” 
For the year of St. Colum Cille’s 
birth, see Reeves’ Adamnan, p.1xix., n. 

12 Said. The character fv., for 
spatnn, a verse, is written in the marg. 
in A. The stanza which follows is 
from the Félire, or Festology, of 
Angus Céle Dé, a very ancient copy 
of which is preserved in the MS. Laud, 
610, Bodleian Library; and another 
in the Leabhar Breac, in the collection 
of the Royal Irish Academy. 


A.D. 
[512.] 


[513.] 
[514.] 


[515.] 
[516.] 
[517.] 
[518.] 


40 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


CULL Cb Cipo Mata vopminc. . Deo Epos OCipo 


Capna quieut. 
Ict. u. 
Ict. 

Papa .111. anny. 

t. 11. 
t. 111. 


Nopmiypca Papa quest, cur puccept lohanner 


Ict. ‘Dopmitacio Sanccae Dpigioae, Leee.un. aetacip 
puae, uel Lexun®. ut alii oicunt. 


loannep Papa quietic. 


fet. 11. Mopp 1lLand me Ounlaing Ri Lorgen. 
Caé Luacpa pia Copp pop Up Nell, ve quo oviecum 


et :— 


Cat Lonn Luacpra uar antar, 


(ocer 


Onisi0 ni pipe Par ; 


Llannchat Pionnabpaé ba hudap 
Um copp loltaind 10p. mbérp. 


- u. 
t. wu. 


Ict. 11. 


Sen Caeman Dpice. 


Ict. 11. Cat Cinderé et cat Ocha Size pop Large. 
Muipceptacé mac Eapca uictop epac. 


}ct. 10. 


Ict. 11. Caé Eblinne pra Mumpceptaé mac Eapca, 
et cat Mme Cilbe pop LaignenB, ocup caé Orne ror 





1 Slept, i.e. died. The note “526, 
Ussr. (Ussher),” appears in the mar- 
gin in O’F.’s handwriting. The feriz 
for the five following years are very 
irregular. 

2 Bishop. Epp, A.; Gapeop, B. 


1 

3 Quievit. q. for quieurt, A.; 065 
(died), B. 

4 Hormisdas. Nopmipca, A. B. 
“523, obiit, 6 Augt.; 12 Anugt. 
creatus S. Joannes;” marg. note in 
O’F.’s handwriting. 

5 John. \hoaney, A. B. 

6 Dormitatio; i.e. death. A mar- 





ginal note by O’Flaherty reads, “523, 
Kal. Febr. fer. 4” (i.e. 523, the first of 
February on a Wednesday), which 
would accord with the criteria for the 
year of Brigid’s death given at the 
year 439, ante. 

7 The 87th. VCxxxun., A.; cor- 
rected to 84 by O'Flaherty. B. reads 
Caw. (84). 

8 Illann. O'Flaherty writes in 
the marg., “R. L. (Rex Lageniae), 
507, Dungall. An.; 523, Tigr. (Tiger- 
nach).” The entry is found in the 
Annals of Donegal, or the Four Mas- 
ters, at the year 506 of their reckon- 
ing. The feria from this down to 











Ardearna, rested.* 
Kal. v. 


Ailill, Abbot of Ardmacha, iii 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 41 


Beoid, Bishop? of 


Kal. Pope Hormisdas* quievit, to whom succeeded 
Pope John,* who ruled three years. 


Kal. ii. 
Kal. iii. 


Kal. Dormitatio® of Saint Brigid, in the 87th’ year 
of her age, or 77th, as some assert. 


Pope John quievit. 


Kal. iv. Death of Ilann,* son of Dunlaing, King of 
Laighen. The battle of Luachair gained by Coirpre® 
over the Uibh Neill, of which was said :— 

The fierce battle of Luachair, over head, downwards, 
Brigid saw ; no fruitless miracle ; 

The bloody battle of Finnabhair was noble, 

About the body of Illann after death. 


Kal. v. 


Kal. vi. Birth of Caeman Brec.!° 


Kal. vii. 


Kal. ii. The battle of Cenn-eich'! and the battle of 
Ath-Sighe gaimed over the Lagenians. Muircertach 


Mac Earca was the victor. 
Kal. iii. 


Kal.!? iv. The battle of Ebhlinn gained by Muircer- 


tach Mac Earca, and the battle of Magh Ailbhe, over the 
Lagenians; and the battle of Aidhne over the men of 





the year 535 run on in regular 
sequence, but they are one year in 
advance of the series of years repre- 
sented by the number of “ Kal.” in 
this Chronicle, 

9 Coirpre. Copp, A. and B., the sign 
of abbreviation over the word being, 
doubtless, omitted. The name in 
Tigernach is Cairpre; but the Four 
Masters have Cucorb. 

10 Caeman Brec. “529, Ussr. 
(Ussher), Kal. Ja.2;” marg. note by 
OF. 





ll Cenn-eich. A marginal note by 
O'Flaherty reads, “530, Cod. Cl. 
(Codex Cluanensis); 532; Diocle. 
ere 248, Lampadii et Orestis Pro 
Consulatu, Cinneich et Athsighe 
prelia, supra, fol. 10, b.” The re- 
ference is to the copy of Tigernach 
bound up with MS. A., in which the 
annotator had made a similar entry, 
now partly destroyed. 

12 Kal. iv. The date ‘533, Kal. 
Ja. 7,” has been noted in the margin 
by O'F. 


A.D. 
[518] 


[520.] 


[523.] 


[524.] 


[526.] 


[528.] 


[530,] 


42 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Connachta, ocup cat Clmaine, ocur caé Cinnerée pop 
LarsnanB, ocur opcain na Cliaé, in uno anno, ve a: 
Cénopaolad cecimt :— 


Cat Cino e16, cat Odimaine, 
ba cCIMPIPL CAPOIPLC campe, 
Opsain na celiac, cat OCrdne, 
€c cat Mange Widibe. 


Ict. u. Dadad Mupcepoms mic Capea a ceelcuma 
fiona, et a Lopccad, et a Sun, avdche Samna a mullaé 
Cleimis uap Déinn, uc pictum ert a Sancto Caspnecho:— 


1p am oman ap in benn 

Ima Luardpea tlap Sin ; 

Opan pep Loipsprdepn. 

Fop caeb Cleivis barop1d pion. 


Sin an ben po mapd chu, 

CO Mic Capca map aochia ; 
61d 1omda a hanmanna abur, 
Cuippi1d nec pop. ameotur. 


Ni hiomain an ben 

Drianaod comainm Sion ; 
Moog an Ri Loipsper ten, 
CO ag Cleimrs baroprd fin. 


Prltup an Ri mac Canca 
Cilert Ua NEL; 


Sins pul pepnu 1 mars, 
Sap cpica 1 cén. 








1 Immersed. Dadad Murpcep- 
tars; lit. “the drowning of Muir- 
certach.” The passage lit. trans- 
lated would read, “the drowning of 
Muircertach Mac Earca in a vat of 
wine, and his burning, and his 
{mortal} wounding.” O’Flaherty has 





noted the date “534, prid. Kal. Nov.” 
(the day before the Kalends of No- 
vember), i.e. November eve (in Irish, 
arvoche Samna, as in the text). He 
also adds, “532, Kal. J. 5; 533, K. 
Ja. 7; 534, Ki. 1.” 

2 Sin; pron, Sheen. <A fairy wo- 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 43 


Connacht; and the battle of Almhain and battle of 
Cenn-eich over the Lagenians; and the plunder of the 
Cliachs—all in one year, of which Cendfaeladh sang :— 


The battle of Cenn-eich; the battle of Almhain ;— 
It was an illustrious, famous period ;— 

The devastation of the Cliachs; the battle of Aidhne ; 
And the battle of Magh Ailbhe. 


Kal. v. Muircertach Mac Earca immersed! in a vat of 
wine, and burnt and [mortally] wounded, on the night of 
Samhain, on the summit of Cleitech, over the Boyne, as 
was said by Saint Cairnech :— 


TI am fearful of the woman 

Round whom many storms shall move ; 
For the man who shall be burned 

On the side of Cleitech, wine shall drown. 


Sin? is the woman that killed thee, 
O, Mac Earca, as I perceive ; 
Numerous will her names be here— 
She will set one astray. 


Not beloved is the woman 

Whose name is Sin; 

As for the King, fire shall burn him, 

In the house of Cleitech wine shall drown him. 


The King, Mac Erca, returns® 

To the side of the Ui Néill; 

Blood reaches girdles in the plain ; 
Territories increase afar. 





man; for an account of whom see | next are attributed to Cendfaeladh, 

O’Donovan’s ed. of the Annals of the | in a valuable tract on the exploits of 

Four Masters, p. 173, n. . Muircertach Mac Erca, contained in 
3 Returns. This stanza and the | the Book of Lecan, fol. 67, b 2. 


A.D. 
[530.] 


[581.] 


+4 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Po pect peparp naor ccappte, 
1p bid cian bur cuman ; 

‘Oo bent sialla Leip Ud NEL 
la siatlarb marge Muman. 


Sion DAIT aS INDI; a hanmann :— 


Ornad, Ernad, Sin Fan ard, 
Baet sand, ect Femaoharg, 
Oépad lachtad, pod Fan sSaoi 
lve manmanoa apn aén caoi. 


OCilBe ImLeta 1uBcap quiere. 

kct. un. Tuatal Maelgapb, pesname annip .x1. 

Dopmitacio Sanct: Mochta, Diperpuls Pacpren, .cur. 
}ct. Sepcembmp, prcus ipre pepippic in epipcola ua. 
Mocceup peccacop Pperppitep Sancu Pacpicii viper- 


pulup in Domino palucem. 


kct.1. bellum Luacpa Moipe Eroip va Inbep pua 
Tuatal Maelszapb pop Ciannacc. 
fet. 1. OCLL Ob Cpoa Macha, que, 


t. 
Ict. 
Ict. . 


. 1, Nacimcarp Daoréine valoa Colom CilLe. 


Dellum Claenlocha 1n quo cecioit Maine 


mac Cepbarll oc copnath sellpine Ua Maine Connacho. 





1 Seven times. po ect, A.; B. 
incorrectly reads poy eac- 

2 Nine battles. noi ccappte, A. 
and B. Over the word ccappte in 
A. the orig. scribe writes “2% ccata’”’ 
(no ccoata, or battles), which is, 
doubtless, the correct reading; the 
words nao1 ccappte meaning “nine 
chariots ;” although in the Book of 
Lecan (fol. 67, b.) they are repre- 
sented as signifying nine men; the 
line as in the text being glossed, 
1. Nae capbaro fo .u11. PO mab, 
ie. “seven times nine Carbads he 
killed.” 

3 Names. These names are all 





figurative: Osnadh meaning a sigh ; 
Esnadh, music; Sin, storm; Gaeth 
garbh, rough wind; Gemadhaigh, 
wintry; Ochsadh, a groan; Tachtadh, 
lamentation. See O’Donovan’s note 
on the subject, Annals of the Four 
Masters, A.D. 527, n. 4. This stanza 
is apparently quoted from a very an- 
cient and romantic Irish tale, called 
“OCrved Muipcepoag mic Cpea” 
(“Death of Muirc. mic Erca”); a 
copy of which is contained in a four- 
teenth century MS. in the Library of 
Trin. Coll., Dublin; class H. 2, 16. 
4 Quievit. O’Flaherty adds in the 
marg., “527, Ussr.;” but Ailbhe’s 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 45 


Seven times' he fights nine battles,’ 

And long shall it be remembered ; 

He carried off the hostages of the Ui Neill, 
With the hostages of the plain of Mumhan. 


Sin said, recounting her names?® :— 


Osnadh, Esnadh, Sin without blemish, 

Gaeth garbh, and Gemadhaigh, 

Ochsadh, Iachtadh—a saying without falsehood— 
These are my names in every way. 


Ailbhe, of Imlech Ibhair, quievit.* 

Kal. vii. Tuathal Maelgarbh’ reigned eleven years. 

Dormitatio of Saint Mochta, disciple of Patrick, on the 
16th of the Kalends of September, as* he wrote in his 
epistle,’ “Mochta, a sinner, Presbyter, disciple of Saint 
Patrick, sends greeting in the Lord.” 


Kal. i. 


The battle of Luachair-mér edir-da-Inbher® 


gained by Tuathal Maelgarbh over the Ciannachta. 
Kal. ii. Ailill, Abbot of Ardmacha, quievit.? 
Kal. iii. Birth of Baeithin, foster son of Colum Cille. 


Kal. 
Kal 


Kal. v. The battle of Claenloch, in which Maine, son 
of Cerbhall, was slain, defending the hostages of the Ui 





obit is entered in Ussher’s Index 
Chron. at the year 526. 

5 Tuathal Maelgarbh. The note 
“ni Op,” for pi Enenn (King of 
Erinn), appears in the marg. in the 
orig. hand. A mutilated note by 
_ O'Flaherty reads, “533, K... . B. 
Litera. .... ” The ferial number 
“-vii.”? answers to the year 533. 


6 As. re for sicut, A.; yc, B. 


7 In his episile. epptola PAs 
epiptola pacna, B. 





8 Luachair-mér edir-da-Inbher ; i.e. 
“the great rushy plain between two 
streams, or estuaries.” See Index. 
The dates, 535, Cod. Cl.” (Codex 
Cluanensis), and “534, Kal, J[an. 
1],” have been added in the margin 
by O’F. 

® Quievit. A note in the marg. 
by O’F., partially destroyed, reads 
6, 6 e « Obit, Dar aw eal 2? 
Ussher (Index Chron.) refers Ailill’s 
death to the year 536, in which the 
first of January fell on a Tuesday, 


[532.] 


[533.] 


[534.] 
[535.] 


[538.] 


46 . CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Soibnenn [mac Conall] pi o Lpracpaé Crdne wiccop 
epac. 

Ict. u1. 

Ict. un. Naciuicap Bresopli Papae. 

kct.1. Mopcalicap magna quae Velepet diercup, rn 
qua Mobi Claipineé cur nomen eps Oepcan propeccano 
poetae peptic. 

t. Oilbe Senéua hua nOCilitla qureurc. 

t. Cach Topcan pra Loagnar’ in quo cecroie mac 
Epca (a quo Lip Cepa), mie Cililla Murte, me Oak. 
bellum Slisige 1n quo eeciois Eoshan bél Ri Connake. 
Lepsur ocur Oomnall, va mac me Epca, ocup Cinmipe 
mac Senna, ocup Ninos mac Ouaé wmccopner Lepanc] :— 


jécep. cats ua ppiacpac 
reins Peobamp Tap 1m Det; 
Seip buap namoao fp plesa, 
Speta an cat 1 Cpinvep. 


Cp cetc Stigeé do muip, map 
Purle fen lia pedit ; 

Denaro 10lerg cap eba 

1m cenod Cosaimn Deo. 


Luseour, Epipcopur Convepe, quietie. 





1 Son of Conall. The words “mac 
Conatv” have been interpolated by 
O'Flaherty, who adds “fol. 10, b.,” 
referring to the copy of Tigernach in 
the same volume, where the inter- 
polated words occur. The original 
writer notes the year of the Indiction, 
“anicium inte,” for “ Initium In- 
dictionis.” The year 538 was the 
first of the Indiction, so that the 
Chronology seems to be correct, al- 
though the ferial number (v) would 
indicate this to be the year 537. 
But the ferie are very confusedly 





noted here, and do not at all follow the 
sequence of “ Kal.,” or years. Some 
other criteria traced in the margin 
are illegible. 


a 
2 In which. im aq, A.; a mistake ~ 
for in qua. 


8 “ Prorectano poete;” obviously 
a corruption. In a tract on the 
Genealogies of the Irish Saints, pre- 
served in the Book of Lecan, Mobhi 
Clairinech, or Berchan, is described 
(fol. 52 a, col. 5) as “Profans, Eps. 
(Episcopus) et poeta;” the word “‘pro- 














CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 47 


Maine of Connacht. Goibhnenn [son of Conall],’ King of 
Ui Fiacrach Aidhne, was the victor. 

Kal. vi. 

Kal. vii. Birth of Pope Gregory. 

Kal. i. <A great mortality which is called Belefeth, in 
which? Mobhi Clairinech, whose name is Bercan, “ pro- 
rectano poetze,”* perished. 

Kal. Ailbhe, of Senchua Ua nAililla, quievit.* 

Kal. The battle of Tortan gained by the Lagenians, 
in which fell Mac Erca (from whom are the Fir Cera),’ 
son of Ailill Molt, son of Dathi. The battle of Sligech,® 
in which Eoghan Bel, King of Connacht, was slain. 
Fergus and Domhnall, two sons of Mac Erca; and 
Ainmire, son of Senna; and Nindigh, son of Duach, were 
the victors :— 


The battle of Ui Fiachrach is fought, 

With the fury of edged weapons, against Bel ; 
The enemy’s kine roar at lances ; 

The battle is spread out at Crinder ; 


The Sligech bears to the great sea 
The blood of men, with their flesh ;7 
Trophies are carried across Ebha, 
With the head of Eoghan Bel. 


Lughaidh, Bishop of Condere, quievit. 








fans” being probably intended as an 
abbrev. for “Profetans,” or “ Prophet- 
ans;”’ and in the copy of the same tract 
in the Book of Ballymote, the expres- 
sion is ‘‘ Propheta, Eps. (Episcopus) 

et poeta.” Tigernach reads “ Depcan 
: 0.” 

4 Quievit. O'Flaherty adds the 
date, “[54]6, A.D.,” in the margin. 
The “ Dungallenses Annales” (Annals 
of the Four Masters) contain the obit 
of Ailbhe at the year 545. 





5 From whom are the Fir Cera. 
a quo Pip Cepa, A. Interlineation 
in original hand. Omitted in B. 

8 Sligech. ‘588, Sligo Praelium, 
D. A.;” note by O’F. in margin. The 
battle of Sligech, or Sligo, is entered 
in the Donegal Annals (or the Annals 
of the Four Masters, by which name 
they are better known) under the 
year 537 of their reckoning. 

1 With their flesh. “lia pedir,” A. 
B. incorrectly reads “trad pedi.” 


A.D. 
(538.] 


[540.] 
[541.] 


[542.] 
[543.] 


48 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


fet. u. Tuctal Maelsapb, mac Copmeare caoré, mie 
Coipppe, mic Neill, Ri Tempat vé5 0 Surin Maoilmdip 
hu mac hi, qui et 1ppe Poacim occipuyr eft, unde DICTTUP 
echt Maoilméip. Omer mic Cumlind ocur Oopan o 
Lecpacha. 
pep wptutem Sancci Ciapam 1. Lurde e1t1§ Do pad fo 
Lah sup sap allm pop a muinél, un. anmp wuup 
manic apud monacor. 

Ciapdn Mop mac an cpaip qureurs, saa anno 
aetanyp uae; men~p autem feptimo poroquam 


Oicennad Cmbactc a naonaé Taillcenn - 


Cluain muc Noir conrtpuepe coepic. 


Deoro canm 


acap Crapdin, et Oapeapca canm a macap, preus spre 


D1IXIT -— 


Dapepca mo machaip 71 
Nion bo banysét otc 
e010 an poop macaip 1 
O Lotarpnip Motc. 
Didpmaid mac Cepbaill pesnape incipis; mac 
machap vo Oiapmaro mac Cepbarll Maelmép. 
Ict. Tisepnaé mac Coipppe, Eppeop Cluana eoryz, 


queue. 


ket. 11. 
Ict. u. 

Ict. 111. 
Ket. 1911. 





1 A wound inflicted by Maelmor. 
6 gun Maorrshoip; lit. “from 
the wound of Maelmor.” The date 
“543, Kal. 5,” has been noted in the 
margin by O'Flaherty. * 

1 

2 Who also. q¢ 7, A., for qui et 
(qui et). B. reads “és” (died), 
the transcriber having understood 
the “Gg 7” as representing the word 
quiet (recté quievit). 

8 Alive. In the Dublin copy of 


the Annals of Inisfallen it is stated 
that Saint Ciaran took Ambacuc to 





Cluain-muc-Nois to be cured, and that 
the latter lived there six years. The 
word “ingnad” (wonder) is written in 
the margin, in the original hand. The 
event forms one of the ‘‘ Wonders of 
Ireland,” a list of which has been 
published by the Rev. Dr. Todd in 
his ed. of the Jrish Nennius, p. 207. 

4 Ciaran. “SS. Kieranus obiit A°. 
549, wt. 33.” Marg. note in O’Fla- 
herty’s handwriting. His birth is 
recorded above under the year 512. 


5 After. pquam for postquam, 
A.; “Preterquam,” B. 














CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 49 


Kal. v. Tuathal Maelgarbh, son of Cormac Caech, son 
of Coirpre, son of Niall, King of Temhair, died from 
a wound inflicted by Maelmor' Ua Machi, who also? 
was forthwith slain himself. Hence is said “the feat 
of Maelmor.” . Quies of Mac Cuilind, and of Odhran from 
Letracha. The decapitation of Ambacuc at the Fair of 
Taillten, through the power of Saint Ciaran, viz. :—a 
false oath he swore by the Saint's hand, so that a gan- 
grene settled on his neck. Seven years he remained 
alive? with the Monks. 

Ciaran‘ the Great, son of the Carpenter, quievit in the 
33rd year of his age; in the seventh month, also, after® he 
began to build Cluain-muc-Nois. Beoid was the name of 
Ciaran’s father, and Darerca the name of his mother, as 
he himself said :-— 

Darerca was my mother ; 

She was not an evil woman ; 

Beoid, the carpenter, was my father ; 
He was of the Latharna Molt. 

Diarmaid® Mac Cerbhaill begins to reign. Maelmor was 
a son of Diarmaid’s mother. 

Kal. Tigernach, Bishop of Cluain-eois, quievit.’ 

Kal. vii.* 

Kal. v. 

Kal. iv. 





iv, vi, and vii,) are written in two 
lines, opposite to which, in the mar- 
gin, is the original entry, “Dec 
mac De pporpecape (prophecane) 
incipit,” “Bee Mae De prophetare 
incipit;” but as no mark of refer- 
ence appears in the body of the work, 
it is uncertain under which of the 


6 Diarmaid. The note pi Ep, for 
ni Gpenn (King of Erinn), ap- 
pears in the marg. The year 544 
has been added by O'F. The ferial 
should be vi. , 

7 Quievit. O'Flaherty adds the 
note “550, Ussr.,” to signify that 





Tigernach’s death is referred by 
Ussher to that year. 

. 8 Kal. vii. This and the four 
“KL” which follow (the ferie for 
which should be, respectively, ii, iii, 





five “Kl.” it should be entered. 
O'Flaherty adds the date 545, seem- 
ingly in connexion with the entry. 
See note }, p. 50. 

E 


A.D. 
(544.] 


[545.) . 


50 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


kct. u. DelLum Cirle Conarpe, a Cepa, 1n gto cecroe- 
punt Oll Inbanoa, mac Eogain, Ri Connacec, ocup 
od Poptamhal a bpataip. PLepsup ocur Oomnall, va 
mac mic Enca, wiccoper epanc. 

Ict. m1. Mopcalicap magna 1. an Crom Conall, 10 
qua iptv: Sancti paupauepunc 21. PLinnian «a. Cluana 
Ipaipo, mac hu Thellurb, ocup Colam mac Crimtdn, 
Colam Inny Cealcpa, Sincell mac Cenanain, bb Cille 
(ito Opomaca, ocur mac Tl Cille Cuitlinn, ar 
nominacup Cosan mac Copcpdin. 

kct. 1. Dellum Cuillne ub: cecrdepuns Copco te 
Muman pep opacionem icae Cluana Creaoan. Mopp 
Lotand mic Cond. 

Ict. 1. Mopp Eachach mec Conlard, Ri ULad, « “ 
hua E€éach Ulead naw punt. 

Mopp bie mic De Prophecae. 

Ict. 11. Naciurcap Molua mie hu Oée. 

perur quae uocacup Samopurs. 

Ict. u. Catbad mac Lepsupa, Eppeop CCéard Cuinn, 
c™. .U. anno aetanp puae quretie. 

UWnpiliup Papa quieus. 

t. tu. 

t. Occipio Lepsna hur 1boams, Ri Ulad, a ccat 
Opoma Cleiée, La Oeman mac Carpill ocup La hurb 
Céaé OCpoa. 


Nerran Lepporurp qtuetic. 





The date “545” | writes, ‘“Tigr., 7,” implying that 
the Crom Conaill is recorded in Tiger- 
nach at the year 550, the Dom. letter 
for which is B. 


1 Cuil Conaire. 
has been noted in the margin by 
O'Flaherty; but it is uncertain 
whether it refers to this entry or to 


ou a 





the event regarding Bec Mac De, 
noticed in note 8, p. 49. 

2 Fell. cecyoit, A. B.; a mistake, 
doubtless, for cecroepunt. 

3 Crom Conaill. The original 
writer adds in the marg., * «1. in 
Duror Conaitt” (ie. the Buidhe 
Conaill”), O’Flaherty adds the date 
“550, B. 7,” and over the ferial he 





4 Finnian, i.e. of Cluain-iraird. 
The words Ctuana Iparpo (gen. of 
Ctuain parvo) are written over the 
name Finnian in the orig. as a gloss. 
B. reads “paupauepunc 1 Clucn 
lponpo” (pausaverunt in ‘Cluain- 
Iraird), as if they all died in Cluain- 
iraird (Clonard); but this is an in- 
correct reading, 











CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 51 


Kal. v. The battle of Cuil Conaire,' in Cera, in which 
Ailill Inbhanda, son of Eoghan, King of Connacht, and 
Aedh Fortamhail, his brother, fell? Fergus and Domhnall, 
two sons of Mac Erca, were the victors. 

Kal. vi. A great mortality, 7.c. the Crom Conaill,’ 
in which these Saints died, viz., Finnian (i.e. of Cluain- 
iraird*), son of Ua Thelluibh;> and Colum Mac Crimthainn; 
Colum of Inis Celtra ; Sinchell, son of Cenanan, Abbot of 
Cill-Achaidh-Drom[a fata; and Mac Tail of Cill-Cuillinn, 
-who is called Eoghan son of Corcran. 

_ Kal.i. The battle of Cuillne, in which the Corco-che® 
of Mumhan fell, through the prayer of Ita, of Cluain 
Creadan.? Death of Fothadh, son of Conall. 

_ Kal. ii, Death of Eochaidh,® son of Conlaedh, King of 
Uladh, from whom the Ui Echach Uladh are descended. 

Death of the prophet Bec Mac De. 

Kal. iii. Birth of Molua Mac Ui Oche. 

The plague which is called the Samhtrusg. 

Kal. v. Cathbadh, son of Fergus, Bishop of Achadh 
Cuinn, in the 150th year of his age, quievit. 

Pope Vigilius® quievit. . 

Kal. vi. 

Kal. The slaying of Fergna Ua Ibdaigh, King of 


Uladh, in the battle of Druim Cleithe, by Deman, son of 


Cairell, and the Ui Echach Arda. 
Nessan, the leper, quievit. 





5 Ua Thelluibh. Nu Tettub, 
A. B.; Nu Teltousd and Ni Telt- 
‘out in other authorities, 

6 The Corco-Che were slain; i.e. a 
number of the Corco-Che, or Corca- 


adds “p. u. (Rex Ultonie), 550.” 
The obit is entered in the Four 
Masters under the year 549; which 
is the year 550 according to O’F.’s 
calculation. 








Oche, a Munstertribe. A.and B. read 
cecroit, in mistake for cecroepunt. 
7 Cluain Creadan. Written Cluain- 
‘Creadal in other authorities, and infra 
under the year 571. 
- 8 Eochaidh. A marg. note in the 
‘orig. hand has “p. ut,” for “pi 
Utav” (King of Uladh). O'Flaherty 





9 Vigilius. Inthe marg. O'Flaherty 


also adds the date 555, C. 6,” 


which is the proper year. The chro- 
nology of this chronicle seems, there- 
fore, to be correct at this period; but 
the ferie for the years 551 to 555, 
inclusive, should be i, ii, iv, v, and 
vi, respectively. 

E2 


A.D. 
[550.] 


[551.] 


[552.] 


‘[553.] 


[554.] 


[555.] 


[557.] 


52 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


}et.1. tusulacio Colman Méip mic “Oriapmeoa in 
cuppu uo 6 Dubsloic hu Tpena Ecclema Dennearp 
fundaca eft. 

Ict. Dpenainn ecclepram Cluana Lepoa pundaurs:— 

O sabarp mac hut Ctcat, 
Dpenaino 50 Lion a bectat, 
Ccht mar pepp m1 Mefra ve 
O rin co re Clucan Pentat. 


CCpcenyro Dpenaind in cuppu pto in aepem. 
Ict. Coena Portpema 1. Tempa, La Orapmaro Mac 


Cepbarll. Mopr Sabpcan mic Oomangorps, Ri OCLban. 
Terted “Dalbancorid pia mOpurge mac Maelicon Ri 
Cpmétneé. lugulacio Copn&in mic eda mic Echach, 
Ri Connaés, La Oiapmaio mac Cepbantt, ap cumaipce 
Cotarm CrlLe, et ap ape pin tuccard cat Curle “Opemne. 

Ict. DelLum Curle Opeimne .1. 1 exncu, Pop "Orapmaro 
mac Cepbaill. Lepsup ocur “Oomnall, va mac mic 
Epca, ocur Oinmipe mac Senna, ocur Nindis mac 
Oudch, ocur Cod mac Eataé Tipmeapna, Ri Connatz, 
uictoper epant, pep opacionem CoLaim Cille, vicentip :— 


0 Oia, 
Ci0d naé vinsba an cra, 
Our anepmaipmir a tin 
Cn cpluangs vo boing bpeva vin. 


Sluag vo cing accimcealt Cain 
If mac aing¢te nor our monn ; 
Cyé mo opui nimena 

Mac Oé tr -inne conséna. 





1 Church of Bennchair. This entry, 
which in A. is written over the entry 
immediately succeeding, is not in B. 
The event is twice recorded in the 
Annals of Ulster, viz., at the year 
554—555, and again at the year 558 
= 559. 

2 Cluain-Ferta. O'Flaherty adds 
the date ‘554, D. 5,” in the marg. 

8 Feast. Caena, A.B. O’Flaherty 





has added the date (560) in the 
marg. 

4 For transgressions. 1 Cintu; ie. 
for Diarmaid’s transgressions against 
Colum Cille. See next note. 

5 Has taken judgment from us. “Do 
béing bneca om. This expression 
is probably in allusion to the judg- 
ment stated to have been pronounced 
by King Diarmaid against St. Colum 





a 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 53 


Kal. i. Murder of Colman Mér, son of Diarmaid, 
in his chariot, by Dubhsloit Ua Trena. The church of 
Bennchair' was founded. 

Kal. Brenainn founded the church of Cluain Ferta? :— 

Since Mac Ua Eltai possessed t-— 

Brenainn, with all his perfections— 

If not the better, not the worse therefor, 
From that time to this has Cluain Ferta been. 

Ascent of Brenainn in his chariot into the air. 

Kal. The last Feast,* i.e. of Temhair, celebrated by 
Diarmaid Mac Cerbhaill. Death of Gabhran, son of 
Domangart, King of Alba. Flight of the men of Alba before 
Bruidhe, son of Maelcon, King of the Picts. Murder of 
Cornan, son of Aedh, son of Eochaidh, King of Connacht, 
by Diarmaid Mac Cerbhaill, against the protection of 
Colum Cille; and it was on that account the battle of 
Cuil Dremne was fought. 

Kal. The battle of Cuil Dremne, 7.¢. for transgressions, * 
was gained over Diarmaid Mac Cerbhaill. Fergus and 
Domhnall, the two sons of Mac Erca; and Ainmire, son of 
Senna; and Ninnidh, son of Duach; and Aedh, son of 
Eochaidh Tirmcarna, King of Connacht, were the victors, 
through the prayer of Colum Cille, saying :— 

O, God! 
Why dost thou not ward off the mist, 
That we might reckon the number 
Of the host which has taken judgment* from us. 
A host that marches around a Cairn, 
And a son of storm that betray us; 
My druid—he will not refuse me’—is 
The Son of God; with us’ He will act. 








Cille, respecting the transcript which 
the latter had secretly made of a 
copy of the Gospels belonging to St. 
Finnian, of Magh Bile. See Reeves’ 
_ Adamnan, p. 248. 

6 He will not refuse me. nimepa. 
Over the letter p the orig. hand has 





written “& U” (“or U”), 


signifying 
that the expression should probably 


be “nimeta,” which would mean 
“He will not betray me.” 

7 With us. T ginne, A. B.; the 
word “pinne’ ” beings probably a ern 
take for “ ppinne.” 


A.D. 
[558.] 


[559.] 


[560.] 


[561.] 


5+ CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Cr aloinn pepup adtuad 

Boban Oaeoain nepin plaats 

r ta Daovén guile bude 
epard a henen fuippe. 


Lraetan mac Tenupan ap 6 do pao an epbe nopuad 
00 Orapnmaro mac Cepbarll. Tuacan mac Oimain, mic 
Sapain, mic Copmaic, mic Eoshain, ap 6 po Lad an epbe 
nopuad vapa cenn. Maglaine po cing carpy qu polup 
occipup ere. 

Kct. ur. Caé Cuile huinnyend a cceppa pop Drapmaro 
mac Cepbaill pra ned mac Dpenamn Ri Terra, im 
quo Diapmard PUsIT. 

Ict. Natsgacio Coluim Cille aod inpolam tae .xli°®. 
anno aetacip Puce. 

Caé Mona Daape Lotmp pop CpwnénechiB pe hurt 
NélLL an cuaipsips, df accopcpaccap -un. pi§5 Cpurtne; 
tim Qed mUpec. Daecan mac Cuind conoiS Crmémb 
no PIs EM Cprurtne, ocur Cinel nEogsain ocup Conall no 
fisret-. Conduct mepcede na Lea ocur Cpoa Colaips, 
re quo Cennpaolao cecinict :-— 


Singrc paobasp Lringre] frp. 

Im Méin véips Voipe Lota; 
Coban companoa nao cepz, 

uit. pig Cpruitni0é um Cod mOnec. 





1 On him. purppe, lit. “on her.” 
The word puippe has probably been 
put for pop (‘on him”), to rhyme 
with the last word of the preceding 
line. The meaning of the line is 
very obscure, and the translation con- 
jectural. There is, apparently, some 
corruption of the text. 


2 Alone was slain; i.e. of Colum 
Cille’s people. 





3 Kal. vi. O'Flaherty has added 
the marg. note “561, Kal. Ja. 7.” 
The ferial for 562 should be i. 

4 Voyage. The dates 563,” “562, 
Kal. i,” appear in the marg. in 
O'Flaherty’s handwriting. 

5 The 42nd. Colum Cille’s birth 
is entered above under the year 518, 
the correct year being 521, as Dr. 
Reeves has shown; Adamnan, pref. 
p- Ixix. Seen. 5, p. 65, infraa 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 55 


How grandly he bears his course— 
Baedan’s steed—before the host; 
Good for Baedan of the yellow hair, 
He will win his renown on him.! 














Fraechan, son of Tenusan, it was that gave the 
druidical Erbhe to Diarmaid Mac Cerbhaill. Tuatan, 
son of Diman, son.of Saran, son of Cormac, son of Eoghan, 
was the person who placed the druidical Erbhe for his 
(Diarmaid’s) sake; Mag Lainne that passed beyond it, 
who alone was slain.” 

Kal.* vi. The battle of Cuil Uinnsend, in Teffia, 
gained over Diarmaid Mac Cerbhaill by Aedh, son of 
Brenainn, King of Teffia, in which Diarmaid fled. 

Kal. i. Voyage* of Colum Cille to the Island of Hi, in 
the 42nd° year of his age. 

Battle® of Moin-Daire-Lothair gained over the Cruithne 
by the Ui Neill of the North, in which seven kings of 
the Cruithne were slain, including Aedh mBrec. Baetan, 
son of Conn, with two Cruithne, that fought against the 
Cruithne ; and the Cinel nEoghain and [Cinel] Conaill, 
against whom the Cruithne fought, obtained the Lea and 
Arda Eolairg as a recompense; of which Cennfaeladh 


em 
They stretch sharp weapons [they stretch’] men 
Round the red Moin Daire Lothair— — 


The cause of an unjust partition— 
Seven Cruithnian kings, with Aedh Bree. 













6 Battle. The note “t. Kt.” (for 
vel Kal,”) appears in the marg. in the 
orig. hand, signifying that another 
“ Kal.,” or year, should probably be 
introduced here; but as the departure 
of Colum Cille for Hi and the battle 
of Moin-Daire-Lothair are entered 
under the same year in all the Irish 
Annals, and also referred to the same 





date by Adamnan (Vita Sancti Co- . 


lumba, ed. Reeves, p. 31), the interpo- 
lation suggested has not been adopted, 
7 Stretch. The text of this line is 
incomplete in A. and B.; the word 
“sinyic” (they stretch) being omit- 
ted before the last word (yp). It 
reads “yingit paobaip, pinyic 
rip,” in other copies of the poem. 


A.D. 
[561.] 


[562.] 


[563.] 


56 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Fictip cat Cruitne nute 
Ocur poptorectep Cilne 
Lrcemp. cot Fabpa Lire 

Ocur cat Curle “Opernne. 


Denpare grata rap congantt 
Crp pian im cnfap nuaé, 
Fensur, Oomnatt, Oinmine, 
Ocur Ninn1d mac Oaiaé. 


Pilipit va mac mic Epca 
Op cénd an cata cénoa 
Osur an pi Cinmipe 
Prltup an pelaub Senna. 


Evan Ua Piacpaé queue. 

ct. Mola: o Daiminip quiet. 

ct. Occipio Diapmaoa mic Cepbaill, a Raré biee 
a. 6 Lod Dup mac Subne Cpade .. pi Ulad, ocup 
Tuccad a cend co Cludin muc Noip co po aonats innte, 
ocur po hadnatc a Colaind hi Convép, cui pucceppepuns 
ouo pilii mic Epca «1. Pepsup ocur “Oomnall. 

in hoc anno capta ert an Muipgeite .1. Liban, insen 
Géaé mic Murpeda, pop ctpacd OLlLopba a Lin Devan mic 
aes 4. 1apsgaipe Compaill benncarp. Quer Dpenainn 

Ppa. 

kt. 111. Cat Sabpa Lie pop Larsmb. Lepsur ocur 
‘Domnall wctopep epanc. bap Domnall mic Muip- 
ceptors mic Epca, ctr pucceppit Cinmipe mac Senna. 
Mopr Daimine mic Coipppe “Daimapsaro. 





1 Ninnidh. Incorrectly written 
Nainn1d (Nainnidh) in A. and B. 


2 The same battle; i.e. the battle of 


are written in the margin, just before 
the “Kal.,” in the original hand; 
but evidently in mistake for otaxu. 


Gabhra Life; not the battle of Moin- 
Daire-Lothair, as Dr. O’Connor states, 
Rer. Hib. Script., vol. ii., p. 149. 


8 Kal. The numerals vxxu. (525) 





(565), which is the proper year, as 
O’Flaherty has noted. The error here 
committed has been repeated at the 
years 566, 571, 594, 604, 605, 606, 
625, 626, and 628. . 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 57 


The battle of all the Cruithne is fought, A.D. 
And Eilne is burnt ; [563.] 
The battle of Gabhra Life is fought, 

And the battle of Cul Dremhne. 


They bear off hostages after conflict, 
Thence westwards, with rich treasure— 
Fergus, Domhnall, Ainmire, 

And Ninnidh,' son of Duach. 


The two sons of Mac Erca return 

To join in the same battle ;* 

And the King, Ainmire, 

Returns into the possessions of Senna. 


Edan Ua Fiacrach quievit. 

Kal. Molaise of Daimhinis quievit. [564.] 

Kal.* Diarmaid Mac Cerbhaill slain at Rath Bec, i.e.  [565.] 
by Aedh Dubh, son of Suibhne Araidhe, viz., King 
of Uladh; and his head was brought to Cluain-muc- 

Nois, and interred therein; and his body was buried in 
Conner ; to whom succeeded the two sons of Mac Erca, 
viz., Fergus and Domhnall. 

In this year the Muirgeilt, ie. Liban, daughter of 
Eochaidh Mac Muiredha, was caught on the strand of 
Ollarbha, in the net of Bedan, son of Innle, fisherman of 
Comgall of Bennchair. Quies of Brenainn,‘ of Birr. 

Kal.® iv. Battle of Gabhra Life gained over the [566] 
Lagenians. Fergus and Domhnall were the victors. 

Death of Domhnall, son of Muircertach Mac Erca, to 
whom succeeded Ainmire, son of Senna. Death of 


Daimhin, son of Coirpre Damhargaid.® 








4 Brenainn. His obit is again re- | was certainly meant, as O'Flaherty 
corded under the year 573. ‘ has noted. Seen. %, last page. 

é 6 Coirpre Damhargaid. A. and 

5 Kal.iv. The date owxu. (526) | B. read Damapsaro Comp., for 
appears in the marg. in the orig. | “Oamapsaro Coipppe, the words 
hand; but the year olaut. (566) | being transposed. 





58 cRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


kt. 111. 


{ct Ocerp1o"Demain mic Carpull La baélacu bappinne. 
tL. 1. Occipro CCinmipeé mic Senda La Lepsup mac 
NelLlene, ve quo dictum ert :— 


Lemen an can pombui a pi 
Nin bo mepnoct naé veotat, 
Cnii ap popoeans ati 

ba hQinmipe Mac Sennat. 


Hct. 11. 1ugulacio Lepsmip Mic Nelline 6 OLéd mac 
OCCinmipec. Oena mac hu Las, Ob Cluana muc Now 
4. mac Eosuin 0 Lansip, petenop ppuncipacum anmp 


LNLU1. QUIET. 


It. 11. 1ce Cluana Cpeaoail qureurc. 


Ice. 1911. 


Moenu Eppos Cluana Lepta Dpenaine, 


quiewt. Occi~o va hu Mupeohans .. Daecain mic 
Mumpcepoms, ocup E€aé Pind mic Domnanlt .111°. anno 


pesmi pt. 
occipop eopum epac. 
Ict. «1. 


Cponan mac Tisepnms, pi Crannachca 


Caé Leimin pra Caipppe mac Crimtain, pi 


Mumhan, in quo mccup ept Colman Oec mac Oiapmaoa; 
Ped ipre euame. Dpenainn Dippa obiit. 

Cat Tala ocup Loptola 1. nomina campopum eroip 
Ele [ocup] Oppagse, exp Clucan Lepca Molua ocup 
Saiip. PLiaéna mac Daecain wevop epac. 





1 Kal. iii. The year (567) has been 
added in the marg. by O’F., who has 
altered the ferial number to 7. 


2 Femhen; i.e. Magh Femhen, the 
name of an ancient plain in Munster. 
This quatrain seems to have been 
composed in praise of some Munster 
King, after whose death the plain of 
Femhen was devastated by Ainmire. 


3 Kal. ii. O'Flaherty has added 
the year 569 in the marg., and altered 
the ferial number ii. to 3. 





4 Laighis Rete. This'was the name 
of a district in the now Queen’s Co, 
The entry is corrupt in A. and B.; 
the words “of the Laighis Rete after 
holding” beimg represented by ‘00 
Laigip Recenop.” In the Dublin 
copy of Tigernach (H. 1, 18, T.C.D.) 
the reading is “m0 Loagip Raeva, 
cenenp” (“of the Laighis Raeda, 
tenens”). 

5 Kal. iii. The numerals oxwx., 
denoting 530, appear in the marg. in 
the orig. hand; but the year olax. 


oe Sa ae 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 59 


Kal.' iii. 
Kal. Deman, son of Cairell, slain by the shepherds of 
Barrinn. 

Kal. i. Ainmire, son of Senna, slain by Fergus, son of 
Nellin ; of which was said :— 





Femhen,? when he was a king, 
Was not an ignoble place ; 
To-day, crimson is its aspect 
From Ainmire, son of Senna. 


Kal.® ii. Murder of Fergus, son of Nellin, by Aedh, 
son of Ainmire. Oena Mac Ua Laighsi, Abbot of 
Cluain-muc-Nois, 7.e. the son of Eoghan of the Laighis 
Rete,* quievit, after holding the Abbacy 36 years. 

Kal.’ ii. Ite, of Cluain Creadal, quievit. 

Kal.® iv. Moenu, Bishop of Cluain-Ferta-Brenainn, 
quievit. Occisio of two descendants of Muiredhach, viz., 
Baedan, son of Muircertach, and Eochaidh Find, son of 
Domhnall, in the third year of their reign. Cronan, son 
of Tigernach, King of Ciannacht, was their slayer. 

Kal. vi. The battle of Feimhin gained by Cairbre,’ 
son of Crimthand, King of Mumhan, in which Colman 
Bec, son of Diarmaid, was vanquished; but he escaped. 
Brenainn® of Birr died. 

The battle of Tola and Fortola, viz., the names of plains 
between Ele [and] Osraighe, between Cluain-Ferta-Molua 
and Saighir. Fiachna, son of Baedan, was the victor. 





(570) was certainly meant. It 
should, however, be 571, reckoning 
the number of “Kal.” from where 
the same hand has written vxxw1. 
(recté vtxu1.) O'Flaherty has added 
the date ‘‘570,” and altered the ferial 
number to “4.” See note %, p. 56. 

6 Kal. iv. The ferial “iv.” has 
been altered to “5” by O’F., who 
has added the year 571 in the marg. 





7 Cairbre. Copmac, A. B.; al- 
tered to Cairbre by O’Flaherty, who 
has written the date 572 in the marg. 

8 Brenainn. The death of Brenainn 
is also recorded under the year 565. 
It is twice entered in the Annals of 
Ulster, viz., at the year 564—565, 
and again under 571=572. O’Fla- 
herty, in a marg. note, refers Bre- 
nainn’s death to the year 572. 


AD. 
[568.] 


[569.] 


[570.] 


[571.] 


- 572.) 


[573.] 


60 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Ict. un. bap Conall mic Comgailt, Py Daluaoa, 
xu®. anno pegsm ptr, qui oppepebac inpoLam 1ae Colum 


Cille. 


ket. Qmep Dpencand mic Opruin. 
Hct. 111. (mer Dpenainn Cluana Penta. 
lugulacio eda mic Eéaé Tipmeapna, pi Connacht, 


La hind Dprtin. 


pmum pepiculum ULud an Earhain. 


L. 492. 
Oba. 


Quer Eccen Eppos Cluana foca Darcern 
Reuepyio ULad 1n Eman. 


Ict. u. mer Linmam, Epipcop: neposip Pracac. 


Caipeé Depsan quretic. 


}ct. Caé Opoma mic Epce, ub1 Colcu mac Domnall, 
mic Muipcepcarg cecivic. Ceovh mac Cinmipec wuictop 


epac. 


Ict. Daovan mac Carpill, pi Ulead, mopcuup ers. 


Ict. 


kc. 1usulacio Lepsupa Ssanoal, pis Mumhan. 
Qmer Lepsupa Eppos Opoma Letslanys, qui eoipicatns 


Celt Diann. 


fet. Qmep mic Hipp, oULLco1b v0, CCb Cluana muc 


Noir. 


}ct. Ocerpio Daovain mic Ninveva mic “Ouaé, mic 
Conall Sulban, pis Tempac. Cuin: mac Colmain, ocur 





1 Conall. The note ‘‘573, Dung- 
[allenses] An[nales]. Rex Scotorum. 
A°, 574, Ussher,” appears in the 
marg. in O’Flaherty’s hand. The 
same annotator also adds “ Cat 
Deatsan a ccioncipe (Battle of 
Dealgan in Cenntire, or Cantyre), in 
quo Dunch[{adh] mac Conaill, mic 
Comgaill cum multis cecidit, supra.” 
The reference is to the copy of Tiger- 
nach’s Annals contained in the MS, 
H. 1, 18, Trin. Coll., Dublin, in which 





the entry occurs at the year 573 of 
O'Flaherty’s computation. 

2 Brenainn, son of Briun. O'F. 
adds the date 574 in the marg. 

8 Kal. iii. The year “577,” and 
the Dom. letter and ferial “‘C. 6,” 
have been added in the marg. by 
O’Flaherty, who further notes that 
Brenainn died on Sunday, the 16th of 
May. The ferial for 576 should be iv. 

4 Return. euro, for peuepp1o 
(reversio), A. reuotuyio, B. 


eee eee 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 61 


Kal. vii. Death of Conall,' son of Comgall, King of 
Dalriada, in the 16th year of his reign, who presented the 
island of Hi to.Colum Cille. 

Kal. Quies of Brenainn,? son of Briun. 

Kal. iii. Quies of Brenainn, of Cluain Ferta. 

Murder of Aedh, son of Eochaidh Tirmcharna, King of 
Connacht, by the Ui Briuin. 

First attempt of the Ulidians to re-establish themselves 
in Emhain. : 

Kal. iii. Quies of Etcen, Bishop of Cluain-fota-Baetain- 
abha. Return‘ of the Ulidians to Emhain.° 

Kal v. Quies of Finnian Ua Fiatach,° the Bishop. 

Cairech Dergan quievit. 

Kal.” Battle of Druim mic Erce, in which Coleu, son 
of Domhnall, son of Muircertach, was slain. Aedh, son of 
Ainmire, was victorious. 

Kal. Baedan, son of Cairell, King of Uladh, mortuus 
est. 















K. 

K. Murder of Fergus Sgandail, King of Mumhan. 

Quies of Fergus, Bishop of Druim-leth-glaise, who built 
Cill Biann. 

Kal. Quies of Mac* Nisse. 
and Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois. 

Kal.? Occisio of Baedan, son of Nindidh, son of Duach, 
son of Conall Gulban, King of Temhair. Cuini, son of 


He was of the Ultonians, 





1 Kal. The year “580” has been 
noted by O’F. 


8 Mac Nisse. O’Flaherty adds the 
date 590. Mac Nisse’s obit is en- 


5 To Emhain. m @main, A. B. 
Tigernach and the Annal. Ult. read 
toe Gmain (from Emhain). The date 
‘« 578” has been added by O’F. 


6 Ua Fiatach. Nepotyp Pracaé 
(Nepotis Fiatach), A. B. A marg. 
note in O’Flaherty’s handwriting 
reads, ‘579, S. Finnianus de stirpe 
Fiathachi.” 








tered in the Ann. Ult. under the years 
584=585 and 590=6591. 


9 Kal. The year 572 has been 
added by O’F.. 


[584.] 


[585.] 


62 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Cumaine mae Libpein, mic 1LLavain, mie Cepbartt occr- 
Depunt eum, conpilio Colman: Papw oc Lerm ind eé:— 


Meapord amait acpiadoapn 
Ria Conatl an cat ceolac, 
Seis pet precoib popann 
Ria Conatt ocur Cogan. 


Imtium pesni eda mic Cinmipec. 

kct. 1. Dellum Dealers Omée 1n quo cecto1t Colman 
bec mac Diapmaoa. Oed mac Oinmipech uiccop epac. 

Dans mac Carprll quiewc. 

kt. 11. 1usulacio Leva Dumb Mic Sune Cpmie, 
qui inveppecit Oiapmaio mac Cepbarlt. 

Hct. 111. Gurep Epporg Ceda mic Opice. mer Ceva 
mic Dpenaine, Ri Teppa Ap ré po r10dbaip Oupmaé 
v0 Colum Cille. Eovem anno aeptap Toppidva es Picca 
contisit. “Oauro Cille Muine [obiic]. 

}ct. Moppp Lerdtim1 mic Tisepnarg, RF Mumhan. 

Nauimcapr Cuimine Loca. 

Kct. m1. Depectio poltp, [mane] cenebporum. 

i Lugoaé Lip Mor. 

a 

ct. Mopp Cengupa mie Cmalseda. 
Qedsa, pi Connatc, ecc aobat. 

Brepomiup nacione Romanup, ex pacpe Sofvindlnds 
penis anmp .x111. menpibur .u. diebur -x., puis Tempope 


Uaou mac 





1 Kal.i, O’Flaherty adds in the 
margin “573, Kal. i.; de quo D. A. 


and corrected the ferial to 7. Some 
other notes by the same hand are 


(Dungallenses Annales), ad eundem 
ann.” The event is recorded in the 
Annals of Donegal, or of the Four 
Masters, under the year 572, which 
O'Flaherty understands to represent 
578. The ferial for 586 should be 
iii, for 587, iv, and for 588, v. 

2 Aedh Mac Bric. O’Flaherty has 
noted the year 589 in the margin, 





partly mutilated. 

3 Summer. ert A; aecary, B. 

4 A dark Cmorninglh conbyvaiiaim 
(tenbrarum), A. Teibrarum, B. The 
expression in Tigernach and the An- 
nal. Ult. ismane tenebporum. In 
DL’ Art de Verif: les Dates (tom. i., p. 
63), this eclipse is referred to the year 
591. The ferial for 590 should be i. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 63 


Colman, and Cumaine, son of Libren, son of Illadhan, son 
of Cerbhall, slew him, by the advice of Colman Bee, at 
Leim-ind-eich :— i 
- By Conall, as ’tis admitted, 

Was won the joyful battle; 

A happy path, prosperous streams spread 

Before Conall and Eoghan. 


Commencement of the reign of Aedh, son of Ainmire. 

Kal.’ i.. Battle of Bealach Daithe, in which fell 
Colman Bec, son of Diarmaid. Aedh, son of Ainmire, was 
the victor. Daigh Mac Cairill quievit. — 

Kal. ii. Jugulatio of Aedh Dubh, son of Suibhne 
Araidhe, who slew Diarmaid Mace Cerbhaill. 

Kal. iv. Quies of Bishop Aedh Mac Bric.? Death of 
Aedh, son of Brenand, King of Teffia. It was he who 
presented Durmagh to Colum Cille. In the same year a 
torrid and dry summer* occurred. David of Cill-Muine 
. Death of Fedhlimidh, son of Tigernach, King of 
Mumhan. : 

Birth of Cumin Fota. 

Kal. vi. An eclipse of the sun ; a dark [morning].* 

Death of Lughaidh of Lis-mor. 

Kal. 

Kal. Death of Aengus, son of Amhalgaidh. Uadha,* 
son of Aedh, King of Connacht, died.® 

Gregory,’ by nation a Roman, whose father was Gor- 
dianus, sat 13 years, 6 months and 10 days; (he lived in 





5 Uadha. Latinized ““Huadus” by 7 Gregory. O'Flaherty has added 

O’F. in a marg. note. the marg. note “590, 13 Sept. S. 

Greg. Na... . Romanum.” Pope 

6 Died. ecc wobat (ecc adbath), | Gregory succeeded to the Papacy in 
A. B.; lit. “death he died.” 590, and died in 604. 


[585.] 


[586.] 


[587.] 


[588.] 


[589,] 


[590.] 


[592.] 


64 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Maupicti, et pepulcup ert in Daprlica beaci Pecpi 
Oportols [ance] Secpecopium. 
pga Senéan mic Colmain Moip. 
. 111. 
fet. 11. Qurep Colum Cille 1m nocte Dominica 
Penticortep, u. 1D. lun, anno peprspinaciomp puae 
rer’.u’, aetacip uepo Lex.u®. ut drcITUp — 


Tucha bluadain baoi san ter 
Colum Citle na ouppesler 
Lard 50 hoangtib apa cacht 
“s lap peacht mbluadna peachtmogac. 
t. 

Ic. Cat Slerbe Cua a Mumain, in quo fiaéna mac 
Daovdan micvop epac. Occrpio Cumupgars mic eda la 
Dpanoup mac Echach a nin Duéao. Mopp Tipparce 
mic Calgargs. 

kt.1. Gurep Daoitine OCbbacip 1a¢. 

Cat Otin Dols ta Dpanoup mac Echaé co Largnib 
a 111. 10. Enarp, ub cecidit Wed mac Cinmipeé, pi 
Epenn, anno .na®. pesni pur, aecacip uepo La.u”. ocur 
Dec mac Cuanaé, pr OCipsiall ec caetepr nobilep. Unde 
DicTUM eft :— 

Ombuaé 
Fepar an conn fpipin mbpucé 
Clcped [peeta] cepup cpére 
ed mac Cinmineé po bit 





1 In the time. cempup, A. B., 
for cempope. 

® [Before] the Sacristy. 
tonum, A. B. The word “ante,” 
omitted by the orig. scribe, has been 
supplied in the text. See Liber Pon- 
tificalis, seu de rebus gestis Romanorum 
Pontificum (ed. Vignoles), tom. i., p. 
234. 

8 The numerals olji. are written in 


A. before the “ Kal. iii.,” in the orig. 
hand. The number 552, or 554, seems 





to have been intended; probably the 
latter, the dash over the final cha- 
racters “11” signifying that they 
should be doubled. The year [594] 
is therefore supplied, as the orig. 
notation is 40 years short, owing to 
the error committed at the year 565, 
and repeated subsequently. See notes 
%, p. 56, 5, p. 57, and 5, p. 58, 

4 On Pa night of Whitsunday. in 
nocte Oominica Penticorter, A. 
B. This means = night precddily 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 65 


the time’ of Maurice), and was buried in the Basilica of 
the holy Apostle Peter, [before] the sacristy.” 

Murder of Senchan, son of Colman Mér. 

Kal. iii.* 

Kal. iv. Quies of Colum Cille, on the night of Whit- 
sunday,* the 5th of the Ides of June, in the 35th* year of 
his peregrination, and the 77th, truly, of his age; as is 
said :— 

Thirty years, without light, was 
Colum Cille in his Black Regles ; 
He went to angels from his body 
After seven years and seventy. 


Kal. 

Kal. Battle of Sliabh Cua in Mumhan, in which Fiachna, 
son of Baedan, was victorious. Murder of Cumusgach, 
son of Aedh, by Brandubh, son of Eochaidh, at Dun 
Buchad. Death of Tipraide, son of Calgach. 

Kal. i. Quies of Baithen, Abbot of Hi. 

The battle of Dan Bolg gained on the fourth of the 
Ides of J anuary, by Brandubh, son of Eochaidh, with the 
Lagenians ; in which Aedh, son of Ainmire, King of Erinn, 
was slain, in the 19th® year of his reign, and the 66th 
year of his age; and Bec, son of Cuana, King of Airghiall, 
and other’ chieftains, were slain. Hence was said :— 


At Buach 
The wave dashes against the brink ; 
[Accounts }* report, though abhorrent, 
That Aedh, son of Ainmire, was slain ; 





Whitsunday. See Reeves’s Adamnan, 
p. 230, n. 4, and Add. Note L, p. 309. 

5 The 35th year. The departure of 
Colum Cille for Hiis entered above 
at the year 563. His obit should 
therefore be recorded under the year 
597. See Reeves’s Adamnan, p, 310. 

6 The 19th year of his reign. The 
accession of Aedh is recorded above 
under the year 585. 





7 Other. c&1, for caeteyu (exter), 
A. Cent, B. 


8 [Accounts] report, though abhor- 
rent. The reading in A. and B. is 


acped cepup ont (cperé), the word 
“ceva” (accounts, reports) being 
omitted. In the Four Mast. the line 
reads more correctly, “acpeo poeta 
cia pa pert,” (‘Accounts report 
though wearisome”). 

F 


[597.] 


[598.] 


66 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 
COMUL DIVIT -— 


baccap mmain Tp To1b 

Emr na pnepen onteppec, 
Taeban Tarttizen, caeb Temper, 
Taeb Leda mic Cinmipec. 


Imcum pesni Colman Rimeda waist eda Stame 
rimul. 

Ket. Cilimp CCbb Cluana muec Nor quieme. 
Murpepade a cinel. Saxonep proem acciprunc. 

ket. Qmep Comms ears bo. tugulacio Strbne 
mic Colman Médip Ris Mise, la Wed Sline a 
fea pop Suaimu. 

Dermmena Dpanombd 1 mUpesa. mopy 

Sudl can mic Coipppe [mic] Lecene (1. Ri Ua Manne, 

6 plointep port mOpennuinn « Marg 00). 

kt. Comgatt Obb Denneap queue xe”. anno 

aecvacip puae, ppincipacup aucem .L. ann. et .111. mene, 
eT x. DIC; Ut. 10. Moar qiem+. 

Cat Slemna in quo Colman Rimyrd, Ri Cinedit 1. Coke . 
wictop epac, ocur Conall mac Meda mic OCrnmpet 
pupyimiuup euaye. 

Caé Curle Cost in quo Liatna mac Daeoain tnevop 
epac, et Piachna mac “Oemdin fugic. 

Mopp Losapcars mic eda. 

t. ur. Quer PLincan Cluana Erdneé. Sinealt 
Eprcop Mag Orle, [qureurc]. 


‘Do 





3 Quies. The date 599 has been 
prefixed to Cainnech’s obit by O'Fla- 
herty. 

4 Blows. beimmen[a], A. B.; 


1 [ Whose] sah said. 
conus O&-(.. +++ conjux dixit), 
A. A word (probably eu) has 
been cut off. Omitted in B. 


2 Of Cluain-muc-Nois. Cluana 
muc tip, A. B.; the “t” of the 
last syllable, the abbrev. for the lat. 
‘vel,” being put for no, its Irish 
equivalent. 





plural of berm, lit. “a blow.” Ina 
poem in the Book of’ Leinster, fol. 26, 
b. 1, the “‘Beimmena” of Brandubh 
are described as seven battles, all 
gained by him in Bregh, or Bregia, 











CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 67 
[whose] wife said! :— 


There were three beloved sides 

Of whose return there is no hope ; 

The side of Taillten, the side of Temhair, 
And the side of Aedh, son of Ainmire. 


Commencement of the reign of Colman Rimidh and 
Aedh Slaine, together. | 
Kal. Ailitir, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois,? quievit. His 


family was of the Muscraidhe. The Saxons receive the 


Faith. 

Kal. Quies*® of Cainnech, of Achadh-bo. Murder of 
Suibhne, son of Colman Mér, King of Midhe, by Aedh 
Slaine, at Bridamh on the Suainiu. 

Kal. v. The blows* of Brandubh in Bregh. Death of 
Brenainn, son of Coirpre, [son of] Fechin (i.e. the King 
of Ui Maine, from whom Rath Brenainn, in Magh Ai, is 
named). 

Kal. Comgall,> Abbot of Bennchair, quievit in the 
91st? year of his age, and also in the 50th year, 3rd 
month, and 10th day of his government. On the 6th of 
the Ides of May he rested. 

The battle of Slemhain was fought, in which Colman 
Rimidh, King of the Cinel Eoghain, was the victor ; and 
Conall, son of Aedh, son of Ainmire, escaped by flight. 

The battle of Cuil-Coil was fought, in which Fiachna, 
son of Baedan, was the victor; and Fiachna, son of 
Deman, fled. Death of Fogartach, son of Aedh. 

Kal. vi. Quies of Fintan, of Cluain Eidhnech. Sineall, 
Bishop of Magh Bile, [quievit]. 








the ancient name of a district in | ‘ 601” as the date of Comgall’s death. 
Meath. He also corrects the year of his age 
5 Comgall. O'Flaherty, on the | to “85.” 


authority of Ussher, adds the year 
F2 


A.D. 
(598.] 


[599.] 


[600.] 


[601.] 


[602.] 


[603.] 


68 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Ict. lusgulactio Colmain Rimeoa a uipo De Fenepe 
puo, qui DICTULP ePT Locan "Oilmava; unde dic1TUp :— 


Ceou pise cevtt pect, 
Ceou nent pop paspooa ; 
€n1o0 Colman Rim1d Ri, 
Rombi Logan "Oitmaa. 


lusgulatio Leva Slane o Conall mac Subne, pop 
bpu Loéa Semoile. Med Suaycan comalca Conall, et 
baesal Dille po sunepccap; unde diccum eft :-— 


Nion bu capmint in aimpte 
Dona osaib Tuait Tuipbe ; 
Conatt pombi Wed Slaine, 
Med Staine pombi Suibne. 


lugulatio Leda poin Ri Ua Lralse a prarste mic 
Mecenain; CCed Duive Ri Tepoa ocup Ri Ua Marne 
4. Ua Marne me Nell, a mOpmsin va Coca on Conall 
cednd, in eovem DIE quo 1ugULacUL eft Cled SLaine :— 


ba fo Mon an puad cuma 
Pon prospard Epenn tile, 
Oléd SLaine Fo focurdibh 
Qed Réin, ooh Durde. 


Moppr Conall mic Leda mic Clinmipes. Ch cen 
macaap, Ri Muman, nacup eps. Colman mac Lenine 
quiet. Larppen Mena Opokic quemc. Maupeup 
mopuTupe 

ct. Cat Slarbpe in quo mecup ere Dpanoup mae 





1 Kal. The date olan. (564) 
appears in the marg. in the orig. 
hand. The year 604 must have been 
meant. See note 3, p. 56, O’Fla- 
herty adds the date 605. 

2 On the brink of Loch Semdighe. 
pop bru Loéa Semoite, A.B. The 
last word has been altered by O’Fla- 
herty to Semoige, as the name is 
written in Tigernach. The lake in 





question is now called Loch Sewdy, 
and is in the county of Westmeath. 
See the Annals of the Four Mast. 
(O’Donovan’s ed.) at the year 600, 
note f, 


8 Foster-brother. comatta, A. B., 
for comatca. 


4 At Faithghe Mic Mecenain. «@ 
frargte mic Meccnain, A. B. for 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 69 


Kal." Murder of Colman Rimidh by a man of his 
kindred, who was called Lochan Dilmada. Hence was 

said:— é 

Notwithstanding Kingship—notwithstanding law— 
Notwithstanding power over chieftains— 

Behold! Colman Rimidh, the King! 

Lochan Dilmada slew him ! 

Murder of Aedh Slaine by Conall, son of Suibhne, on 
the brink of Loch Semdighe.? Aedh Guastan, foster- 
brother? of Conall, and Baeghal Bille, that slew him. 
Hence was said :— 

Not wise was the counsel 

To the youths of Tuath Tuirbhe ; 
Conall that slew Aedh Slaine, 
Aedh Slaine that slew Suibhne. 


Murder of Aedh Roin, King of Ui Failghe, at Faithche 
Mic Mecenain,* and of Aedh Buidhe, King of Tephtha and 
Ui Maine, i.e. Ui Maine Mic Neill, at Bruighin Da Choca, 
by the said Conall, on the same day on which Aedh Slaine 
was put to death :— 

Great was the red sorrow 

Over the chieftains of Erinn all— 

Aedh Slaine, with multitudes, 

Aedh Roin, Aedh Buidhe were slain. 
_ Death of Conall, son of Aedh, son of Ainmire. Cu-cen- 
mathair, King of Mumhan, born.” Colman Mac Lenin 
quievit. Lasren of Menadrochit quievit. Mauricius 
moritur. 


Kal.® The battle of Slaibhre was fought, in which 








a praitée (or a prpatge) mic 
Meccnain, which means Mac Mecc- 


nan’s green, or Fair green. 


5 Born. mopcuur (mortaus), A. 
B.; which O'Flaherty has altered to 
“natus est,” adding “ut habet 
Tigfernach].” The death of Cu-cen- 





mathair (i.e. “the hound without a 
mother”) is recorded under the year 
661, infra. 

6 Kal. The numerals oloeu. are 
added in the marg. in the orig. hand. 
They denote 565; but the year 605 
was certainly meant. See note 3, 
p. 56. 


A.D. 
[604.] 


[605.] 


70 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


eéat, Ri Lagen. Nepocep Nell tccvoper epant. 
lugulacio Dpanomb Ri Largen a senepe puo cuuy 
nomen epac Sapan Saebvepnce, Cipcinnec Senboc Sine. 
Unde dictum et :-— 


Sapan Saebvepcc Seot ngtan ngle, 
Oipcinneé Senbot rine, 

Ne ni vatb sen banout mbpat, 

Ro mapb Dpanoud mac Ecac. 


De quo anup Largen Locuca ert pand :— 


Mad smbetard mic Cacaé 
Dompipad an cuatpeepclach |, 
In cacv im anuapnatap, 

1p cian ho do piupcappao. 


Drambao a tTpeip cTuipedars 
- Mac Caéaé mic Muipeoars, 

Noco bépaind mo bots Lan 

Do cill ap, ae1 OCed OCLoain. 


Obicup Loarppen OCbbaciy 1a6. Moprp Colmain mic 
Lepaoas, Ri Opparse. Cod Ucprodnaé pesnac anny 
uN. 

Kct. 1911. Mopp Ledain mie Fabporn, anno wex*.un’. 
pesmi pur; aecacip uepo Lawe®.uii1®. b a1”. 

lugulacio piliopum Daevain mic Capall a n Din 
ey a pilio macy puae. hid 

ee 
Hct. Mopr Liaéna caoré mic Dacddan La Cpimnéneéard ; 
et qtner Cboacé. 





1 Aedh Uairiodhnach. OCod OCttan 
(Aodh Allan), A. B.; the word 
Ucaprodnaé has been written by 
O'Flaherty over the word OCttan in 
A, Aedh Allan did not become King 
of Ireland until the year 734, See 
the entry of Aedh’s death, at the year 





612, infra, where he is called “ Aedh 
Aldan, i.e. Aedh Uairidhnach,” The 
letters p. €., for pig penn (King of 
Erinn), and the date 605, have been . 
added in the margin by O'F. 

® Kal. iv. The original scribe has 
written the numerals oles. (566) in 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 71 


Brandubh, son of Eochaidh, King of Laighen, was van- A.D. 
quished. The Ui Neill were the victors. Murder of  [605.] 
Brandubh, King of Laighen, by [one of] his kindred, 

whose name was Saran Saebderg, Airchinnech of Senboth 

Sine. Hence was said :— 


Saran Saebderg, clear, bright guide, 

Airchinnech, of Senboth Sine ; 

He it was—no falsehood—without bright judgment, 
That killed Brandubh, son of Eochaidh. 


Of which an old woman of Laighen spoke the verse :— 


If, in the lifetime of Eochaid’s son, 

The Northern had come to me, 

From the battle regarding which they boast, 
They would have been long panic-driven. 


If in a pillared house 

Were the son of Eochaidh, son of Muiredhach, 
I would not bear my full sack 

To a church for the sake of Aedh Aldan. 


Death of Lasren, Abbot of Hi. Death of Colman, son 
of Feradach, King of Osraighe. Aedh Uairiodhnach' 
reigns 7 years. 
Kal. iv.2 Death of Aedhan,® son of Gabhran, in the  [606.] 
37th year of his reign, and in the 88th, or 86th, year of 
his age. Murder of the sons of Baedan, son of Cairill, in 
Din Mogna, by their mother’s son. 
Kal. | 
Kal. Fiachna Caech,* son of Baedan, slain by the [e028] 
Cruithne ; and quies of Eochaidh. 





the margin, repeating the mistake of { note “606, Ussher. R[ex] Scoto- 

40 years already referred to. (See | rum.” 

note ¥, p. 56). 4 Fiachna Caech. O'Flaherty notes 
% Aedhan. O'Flaherty adds the |! 607 as the date of this event. 





72 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


fet. 1. Occipio Seénap$ mic Fapbain Ri Cineoit 
Dogaine 0 Domnall mac Cleda Cfnep Lucéoaé mre 
hu Oée. 

}ct. u. Mopp CHeva mic Colcain pesip na noarpoep 
in Pepespinacione a ccludin muc Np, ve quo DiccumM 
eft — 

Ro baoi tan 
Da tnd opoain Loé da dam ; 
Nip. bo hé an Loé ba hopoan, 
Clés an plait ed mac Cotsan. 
Cuma vam nao may 
Capa povomcaip, 
Cibe pocep tpilly Tpep 
Cn wnnyt Lota oha oat. 

bap Sillain me Cumin bad benoemp, et bap 
CCevain ancapc. Dap MaerLutna mie Daevén. . 

Ict. fulminacup ero exepeicup Ulard 1 mbapert 
gulmine cepprbdilt. Mopr Maeleouin mic Wilene Rs 
Mog[ohopna]. Cuepr Colmain Cala, mic hu Sett, 
Lu’. anno aecanip puce. 

fet. u. =Mopp Leda Ciloain mic Domnall, Ri 
Tempaé 1. Led Ucapronac. 

Cat Ovba pé Lensupr mac Colmain, in quo cecin1s 
Conall Loeg Dpeg, mac Heda Slane, ut DicITUP. :— 

1n pce a mutlaé Odba 
Censa1 Dospa ni Laérp, 
Deitbip. 01 ced olcc a DENN, 
Ro bui mop cenn ina cpaer. 


Maelcota pesnape incipre. 





1 Lughaidh Mac Ua Oche, called 
Molua Mac Ui Oche at the year 554, 
where his birth is recorded; the form 
‘¢Molua” being compounded of the 
devotional prefix mo, my, and lua, 


Dr. Todd, Martyrology of Donegal, 
App. Introd., p. xliii, nm 4. 


2 Mogh{dhorna}. Mog, A. B. 
So also in Tigernach; but in the An- 


put for Lughaidh (pron. Loo-ee). 
See an interesting note on the forma- 
tion of Saints’ names, by the Rev. 





nals of Ulster, A.D. 610, it is written 
Mogoopnea (Moghdornea); and in 
the Four Masters, under the year 606, 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 73 


Kal. i. Murder of Sechnasach, son of Garbhan, King 
of Cinel Boghain, by Domhnall, son of Aedh. Quies of 
Lughaidh Mac Ua Oche.' 

Kal. v. Death of Aedh, son of Colcan, King of the 
Airthera, in pilgrimage at Cluain-muc-Nois; of which 
was said :— 








There was a time 
When Loch-dha-dhamh was a linn of splendour ; 
It was not the Loch that was splendid, 
But the Prince Aedh, son of Colgan. 


I care not, since he lives not— 
The friend who loved me— 
Whoso places a brilliant house 

On the island of Loch-dha-dhamh. 


Death of Sillan, son of Cumin, Abbot of Bennchair; and 
death of Aedhan, anchorite. Death of Maelumha, son of 
Baedan. 

Kal]. The army of Ulidia was struck by terrible light- 
ning in Barchi. Death of Maelduin, son of Ailen, King 
of Mogh{dhorna].? Quies of Colman Ela, Mac Ui Selli, 
in the 56th year of his age. 

Kal. v. Death of Aedh Aldan,* son of Domhnall, King 
of Temhair, 7.e. Aedh Uairidhnach. 

Battle of Odhba gained by Aengus, son of Colman, in 
which fell Conall Laegh Bregh, son of Aedh Slaine, as 
was said :— 

The whitethorn on the summit of Odhba, 
Though sharp darts it throws not, 

Lawful for it that its aspect should be evil— 
There was a great head in its mouth.‘ 


Maeleobha begins to reign. 





itis Mogdopn Margen (Moghdhorn 4 Mouth. This rather extravagant 

Maighen). metaphor is doubtless intended to 

signify that the head of some person 

 Aedh Aldan. See note}, p. 70. | slain in the battle—perhaps that of 

O'Flaherty has added the date “612” | Conall Laegh Bregh—was stuck on 
in the margin. the whitethorn bush, 


A.D. 
[609. ] 


[610.} 


[611.] 


[612.] 


74 CRONICUM sSCOTORUM. 


Ket. Qmep PLincoan Oentpab Cbbacip Dentin 
Mopp Colman Uachargsh. 

Het. wr. Lucent Foca Cb Cluana muc Noip queue. 
Scella wpa eps hopa un. d161. 

Kct. 1ugulacio Maelcoba mic Leda mic CCinmipeé 
in bello montip Toat t Taet. Surbne Menn mecop 
epac, mac fiatna. Quer Orapmaoa, cepcii Cbbacip 
Cluana ipaipo. Mopp Ronan mic Colman Ri Langen. 
Surbne Menn pesnac. FSopman vo Musdopnarb, a quo 
navi punt mic Cuinn; appre po bui bliadain fop upce 


Tippas Lingin ; ocup in aalisps a celucan aobat. 


kct. 


Ict. Comburtio “Donnan Exc hi .an. fet. Mer cum 
cL. mapupibup, et uaptacio Topage. 
fet. Caemgen Slinne va toga -cxx. anno aetacip 


yuae, in Chpipto quiere. 
Colmain Mdip, Ri Mire, 6 Cnpapcaé 


Mumnnap Dlarzinne. 


Ict. 1. 


lusulacio Lepsupa mic 
h. Mepean do 


CCed bendan Cipopi Murhan quiews: von 


Eoganacc. Mopr Sillain Marge Vile, ocup Lingen mac 


Piacpaé quiets. 


ket. Occi~0 Fenepip Daovenn, 1 Mags Leced a ccpuc 
Connacht ; CCililla mic Daovain, ocup Maoilroun mic 


Lepsupa mec Daevdn, ocuy “Orucullu. 


Mopp Pracpaé 


mic Crapoin mic CCinmipec, mic Senna «a. aliup punda- 


comp Oarpe Calsars. 





1 Lucaill Fota; i.e. Lucaill the long. 
O'Flaherty has corrected the name to 
“Tolua Fata,” adding “ut p. 12 b., 
qui obiit A°. 615, Cod. Cl.” The 
reference “ut p. 12 b.” is to the copy 
of Tigernach in the MS. H. 1, 18, 
Trin. Coll, Dublin, in which the 
name is written ‘Tolua.” In Mac- 
Geoghegan’s transl. of the Annals of 
Clonmacnoise, at the year 617, is the 
entry, ‘* Lucall, brother of St. Queran 
(Ciaran, or Kieran), and Tolua Foda, 
Abbot of Cloum, died.” Probably a 





clause corresponding to the words 
between ‘“Lucall” and “Foda,” in this 
entry, has been omitted in the text. 

* Maelcobha. ‘The date (615) has 
been added in the marg. by O'F, 

8 Ronan. The death of a Ronan, 
son of Colman, is also entered under 
the year 624, infra; but he is not 
said to have been King of 

4 Of Glenn-da-locha. Slinne 2 
Locha, for Bunne va Locha (Of the 
Glen, or Valley of the Two Lakes), A. 
Bunne ert tocha, B. The tran- 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 75 


Kal. Quies of Fintan of Oentraibh, Abbot of Benn- 
chair. Death of Colman Uathach. 

Kal. vi. Lucaill Fota,’ Abbot of Cluan-muc-Nois, 
quievit. A star was seen at the 7th hour of the day. 

Kal. Jugulatio of Maelcobha,’ son of Aedh, son of Ain- 
mire, in the battle of Cnoc Toath or [Cnoc] Taeth. Suibhne 
Menn, son of Fiachna, was the victor. Quies of Diarmaid, 
third Abbot of Cluain-iraird. Death of Ronan,’ son of 
Colman, King of Laighen. Suibhne Menn reigns. 
Gorman, of the Mughdhorna, from whom the Mac Cuinns 
are descended, died. It was he who lived a year on the 
water of Tiprait Finghin ; and in pilgrimage at Cluain- 
[muc-Nois] he died. 

Kal. 

Kal. Burning of Donnan of Eg, with 150 martyrs, on 
the 15th of the kalends of May; and the plundering of 
Torach. 

Kal. Caemhghen of Glenn-da-locha,* in the 120th 
year of his age, in Christo quievit. Murder of Fergus, 
son of Colman Mér, King of Midhe, by Anfartach Ua 
Mesean, of the Muintir Blatinne. 

Kal. vi Aedh Bendan, Arch-King of Mumhan, quievit. 
He was of the Eoghanacht. Death of Sillan of Magh 
Bile ; and Finghin, son of Fiachra, quievit. 

Kal. Murder of the family of Baedan, in Magh Lecet, 
in the territory of Connacht,* viz.:—Ailill, son of Baedan ; 
and Maelduin, son of Fergus, son of Baedan; and Diucull. 
Death of Fiachra, son of Ciaran, son of Ainmire, son of 
Senna, 7.e. another founder of Daire Calgaigh. 








scriber of the latter MS. mistook the 
figure 2, which in the MS, A. repre- 
sents its Irish equivalent, oa, for the 
character 2, the abbrev. for ert (est) 
in ancient MSS. O'Flaherty adds in 
a marg. note, “618, Ussher; de quo 
ro Pes a ad ann. 622, infra.” 

5 In Magh Lecet, in the territory of 





Connaught. The word Lecet is repre- 
sented by Lec7. This clause, which 
is an interlineation by the orig. hand 
in A., is omitted in B. For “Magh 
Lecet,” Tigernach, the Annals of Ul- 
ster, and the Four Mast. read “Magh 
Slecht.” The date “620” has been 
added in the marg, by O'Flaherty. 


A.D. 


[618.] 
f614.] 


(615.] 


[617.] 


[618.] 


[619.] 


[620.] 


76 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


}ct. Mopr Censupa mic Colmain modip «1. Ri Ua 
Nell. “Oonnchad mac Eogandin, Neccan mac Cana- 


nainn, ocup Wed obiepunt. 


Encpive quiet. 


ingen mac Lrachpach 


Ict. Cat Cinn Oelgzen in quo cecrdepunt duo Pili 
Libpein mic 1LLainn mic Cepbarll. Conall mac Smbne 
uietop epac, et Domnall Opec cum eo. 

t. hoc anno quiep Caermsin. 

Conaing mac Cevain mic Fabpain vemeprup et :— 


Tonna mapa mop slana, 
Smian po darvigpetap, 
Inna cupcan plepsac pand 
For Conains concomrpetay. 


in ben pola a mung finn 
Inna cupcan pop Conaing ; 
Cp cap po tibe a sen 


— Anott pe 


Dite Toptan. 


bar Mailebpaéa mic Rimeva mic Colman mic Cob- 
charg, ocuy OCilelLa mic Ceallars. 

Cat Cenogubar in quo cecroit Colman mac Cobchms 
1. atop Suaipe Ri Connacs, la Ragallach mac Ucoaé. 


bap Colgan mic Ceallong. 


Ict. 11. Obicup Pepsnae Ob tae. Curer Mic Lappe 
Cb Cipomata. Expupsacio Rata Suala pe Liaéna mac 


mbaevarn. 


Ket. Mopp Rondin mic Colman, et Colman Scellan 





1 Aengus, son of Colman mér, 
O'Flaherty adds the note ‘621, Cod, 
Cl. R. Mid. O...... »” signifying 
that the death of Aengus, King of 
Meath, is recorded in the Annals of 
Tigernach under the year 621, 
See the entry at the year 625, infra, 
in which Aengus, King of Meath, is 
said to have been “slain.” It is pro- 
bably a repetition of the present entry, 
as the King of Meath was sometimes 





ealled King of the [Southern] Ui 
Neill, or Hy Niall. 

® Caemhghen. The death of Caemh- 
ghen, or St. Kevin, is also entered 
under the year 618. See note 4, p. 
74, The year 622 has been noted in 
the marg. by O’F. 

8 Kal. iv. The ferial number has 
been altered by O'Flaherty to “ vii.,” 
to agree with the year 623. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 77 


Kal. Death of Aengus, son of Colman mér,' i.e. King 
of the Ui Neill. Donnchadh, son of Eoganan ; Nechtan, 
son of Cananan; and Aedh, obierunt. Finghin, son of 
Fiachra Encridhe, quievit. 

Kal. Battle of Cenn Delgten, in which the two sons 
of Libren, son of Illann, son of Cerbhall, were slain. 
Conall, son of Suibhne, was the victor, and Domhnall 
Bree with him. / 

Or in this year the quies of Caemhghen? took place. 

Conaing, son of Aedan, son of Gabhran, was drowned :— 


Great, bright sea-waves, and 

The sun, that punished him ; 

In his weak wicker skiff, 

Against Conaing they arrayed themselves. 


The woman who flung her fair locks 
Into his skiff, over Conaing ;— 
Pleasantly she smiles 

To-day, before Bile Tortan. 


Death of Maelbracha, son of Rimidh, son of Colman, 
son of Cobthach ; and of Ailill, son of Ceallach. 

Battle of Cenngubha, in which Colman, son of Cobthach, 
ae, the father of Guaire, King of Connacht, was slain by 
Raghallach, son of Uadach. Death of Colga, son of 
Ceallach. 

Kal. iv. Death of Fergna, Abbot of Hi. Quies of 
Mac Laisre,* Abbot of Ardmacha. Capture’ of Rath-Guala 
by Fiachna,® son of Baedan. 

Kal. Death of Ronan,’ son of Colman; and Colman 








* Mac Laisre, O'Flaherty adds | cadh), i.e. burning; and the Annals 
the marg. note “Mae Lasr. .... . of Innisfallen, “ cosont,” destruction. 
Ardm. . . . obiit 622=623. Dun- 6 Fiachna, “R. U.,” for “ Rex 
[{gallenses Annales].” Ultoniz.” Marg. note, O'F. 

5 Capture. “expupsacio” (ex- 7 Ronan. The death of a Ronan, 


purgatio), A. B. ‘Tigernach and the 
Ann. Ult. have “expusnatio.” The 
Four Mast. read “Uopecad” (los- 





son of Colman, who is called “ King 
of Laighen,” is recorded above under 
the year 615. 


AD. 





[621.} 


[622.] 


[623.] 


[624.] 


78 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


obiit. lugulatio Doip mic Cova CClLain. Larlbe Llano 
Pioban poouy son, unde macep erup cat -— 


ba sun Sdaip, 
Ni bu cogand Inq C&d, 
Oia cTomac saip, na mbioovbad 
Im cend Pailbe Llano Lrodbad. 


Nacimcap Coamnain Ob 1ae. 
}ct. un. ~Maosos Lepna queue. Mac Prachnee «1. 


Monson ab Cptup pilio 


cup toni Lapide pep- 


cuppup incepfiz, unve Dece Darpce dia1t :-— 


Cp udp an saot vap ile 

“Our pail dé5a Cinntine 

Oo senait sniom namnur de 
Mapbpro Mongén mac Piacna. 


Copmac caom, ocup lollann mac Piataé, mopuntup. 


Rondén mac Tuadcharl :-— 


Lann Cluana COpzip moi, 
Cmpa cetpup popppiad ; 
Copmac caem fp imocrd, 
Ocur Wann mac Praca. 


Osur an d1a7 ave, 

Dia fosnaid mop vo Tuacaid ; 
Mongsén mac Piacna Lupsan 
Ocur Ronan mac Tudcarr. 


Qensup mac Colman Médip Ri Mive vo mapbad. 
Catal mac eda Ri Muman, mopcuur ere. 





1 Colman Stellan, O'Flaherty adds 
a marg. note, partly illegible, pointing 
out that Colman Stellan’s death is 
referred by Ussher to the year 634. 
See Ussher’s Index Chron. 

® His mother; i.e. Dor’s mother. 
In the Annals of Tigernach, under 
the above date, and in the Four Mast., 


i, RES 
ne 


ms a P see 
Da ae ‘ 





at the year 619, it is stated that 
Failbhe Flann Fidhbadh was slain in 
revenge for the murder of Dor, and 
that the foregoing stanza was com- 
posed by Failbhe’s mother. Dr. 
O’Donovan’s transl. of the verse 
(Ann. Four Mast., loc. cit.) has been 
adapted to this view of the case; but 










CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 79 


Stellan! died. Killing of Dor, son of Aedh Allan; A.D. 
Failbhe Flann Fidhbadh that slew him. Hence his [624] 
mother? said :— 


It would be a noble wounding, 
It would not be the demolition of Inis Cail— 
If the shout of the enemy was raised 
Round the head of Failbhe Flann Fidhbadh. 


Birth of Adamnan, Abbot of Hi. 

Kal. vii. Maedhog of Ferna quievit. Mac Fiachna,  [625.] 
i.e. Mongan, was killed with a stone by Arthur, son of 

Bicur, a Briton ; of which Beg Bairche said :-— 


Cold is the wind across Ile 

Which blows against the youth of Cenn-tire ; 
They will commit a cruel deed in consequence ; 
They will kill Mongan, son of Fiachna. 


Cormac the mild, and Iollann, son of Fiacha, moriuntur. 
Ronan, son of Tuathal, died :— 


The church of Cluain- Airthir to-day— 
Illustrious the four on whom it closed: 

Cormac the mild, who submitted to tribulations, 
And Illann, son of Fiacha ; 


And the other pair, 

To whom many territories were obedient— 
Mongan, son of Fiachna Lurgan, 

And Ronan, son of Tuathal. 


Aengus,‘ son of Colman Mér, King of Midhe, was slain. 
Cathal, son of Aedh, King of Mumhan, mortuus est. 





that of Dr. O’Conor, in his ed. of | years made by the scribe at the year 
Tigern., is very inaccurate. 565, and repeated at various dates. 

8 Kal. vii. The date [oljxxxu. 4 Aengus. The death of an Aengus, 
(585) appears in the marg. in the | “son of Colman Mor,” is also entered 
orig. hand. It represents the year | above under the year 621. See note}, 
625, allowing for the mistake of 40 | p. 76. 


; % 
6 | 
s & “a} ‘3 


Asi tet AM 
ihe gs 


80 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Het... Caé Lactic quo inteppectur ept Piacna mac 

aeoain 1. Ri Dalaparde. Piacna mac Oemarn, 2. Ra 
Dal Pidéaé, wicctop epac. 

et..  Caé Opoa Coppann, “Odlpava wiecoper 
epant; im quo cecivic Piatna mac Oemain La Rigs 
Darlpraoa [.1. Connadh Cepp}. Caé Capn Lepadhars, 
Parlbe Lland uietop epac. Fucape Crdne pugic. Conall 
mac Maeloub Ri oMaine cecrd17, ocup Maelouin ocup 
Maelpucain ocup Maelcalgms, Conall mac Meaeloub 
mic Maelbpeppall. Usipro Lupru opctenpa ere. 

fet. Cac [Ouma Cchep ta] Ourts Luaéa in quo 
cecrnit 1ppe. PLaelan mac Colmén, Ri Largen, mecop 
epac. beltum Doe in quo Subne Menn mac Pracna 
uictop epac. “Dorhnall mac Meda fugic. Occipro 
Suibne Menn, me Pracna, 1 Tpars Opene 6 Congal 
Caeé mac Ssannail. Paupan Columban: pli bavvan 
Cbbao Cluana. lusulacio Cumani pil Colman. 
Uarcacio Larsen La Domnall. Domnall mac Ceovha 
pesnac. 

Ict. bellum Leda Eun in quo Maelemé (4. Ra 
Cpuiténe) mac Ssannal, weccop epac. Dalmaoa 
cecroepunt, et “Oricull mac Eéoa, Ri Cineoil Crmtne 
cecin1t, ec nepoter Cledan cecrdepunt 1. Rigullan mac 





1 Kal.i. The date vlaxau. (586) 4 Failbhe Flann. “R[{ex] Momo- 


is written in the margin in the original 
hand. It should be 626. See note 3, 
p. 56. The ferie for this year and 
the following should be, iv and y. 

2 Fiachna, O'Flaherty adds the 
note “R[{ex] Ult[onie],” and the 
year 629 as the date of Fiachna’s 
death. 

8 Connad Cer.  Interlined by 
O'Flaherty, who adds the note “D. 
A., 624,” implying that the event is 
recorded in the Annals of Donegal, 
or the Four Mast., under the year 
624—627. 





nie.” Marg. note by O’F. 


5 Guaire Aidhne. “R{ex] Con- 
nacie.” Marg. note by O’F. 

6 Kal. The date olxxxum. (588) 
is written, in the orig. hand, in the 
right marg., the numerals olexxun. - 
being written in the left through mis- 
take. It corresponds to the year 628. 
See note 3, p. 56. 


7 Of Duma Acher. The words with- 
in brackets have been interlined by 
O'Flaherty, who adds in the marg., 
“Bolg luatha, de quo nomine D. A. 











CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 81 


Kal. i! Battle of Laethet, in which Fiachna, son of 
Baedan, King of Dél-Araidhe, was slain. Fiachna, son 
of Deman, King of Dal-Fiachach, was the victor. 

Kal. ii. Battle of Ard Corrann, in which the DAl- 
Riada were the victors, and Fiachna’?, son of Deman, was 
slain by the King of Dél-Riada [i.e. Connad Cer].* The 
battle of Carn-Feradhaigh. Failbhe Flann‘* was the 
victor. Guaire Aidhne® fled; Conall, son of Maeldubh, 
King of Ui Maine was slain ; and Maelduin, Maelruain, 
Maelcalgaigh, and Conall, son of Maeldubh, son of Mael- 
bresail wereslainalso. The Vision of Fursa was manifested. 

Kal.® The battle [of Duma Acher]’ was fought by Bolg 
Luatha, in which he himself was slain. Faelan, son of 
Colman, King of Laighen, was the victor. The battle of 
Both,in which Suibhne Menn, son of Fiachna, was the 
victor. Dombhnall, son of Aedh, fled. Suibhne Menn,‘ 
son of Fiachna, slain at Tragh Brene, by Congal Caech, 
son of Sgannal. Death® of Columbanus, son of Baddan,'° 
Abbot of Cluain[-muc-Nois]. Jugulatio of Cuman, son 
of Colman. Devastation of Laighen by Domhnall. 
Domhnall, son of Aedh, reigns. 

Kal. The battle of Fidh-Eoin,!! in which Maelcaich 
(u.e. King of the Cruithne), son of Sgannal, was victorious. 
The Dalriada were slain, and Dichull,son of Eochaidh, King 
of the Cinel Cruithne, fell; and the descendants of Aedhan 
were slain, viz. :—Rigullan, son of Conaing, and Failbhe, 





6....” The Dungallenses Annales, 10 Of Baddan. Davoani, A. B.; 


which seem to be indicated by the 
letters D. A., have the death of Bolg- 
luatha, who is called “Lord of Ui 
Cennsealach,” at the year 644. The 
orig. text would read “ battle of Bolg 
Luatha.” The death of Bolg Luatha is 
also recorded under the year 645, infra. 

® Suibhne Menn. “628, R[ex] 
H[ibernie].” Marg. note by O'F. 

% Death. pauyan (pausan), A. B. 





generally written Dayoan (of Bar- 
dan). 

11 Battle of Fidh-Eoin. Dettum 
fea Cuin (Bellum Fea Euin), A. B. 
O'F. corrects the “Lea Guin” of A. 
to Leda Corn, as in Tigernach and 
the Ann. Ult. [1d Corn, gen. Teda 
€oin, means the “ Bird's Wood,” or 
“John’s Wood.” The place has not 
yet been identified. 

G 


AD. 
[626.] 


[627.] 


[628.) 


[629.) 


82 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Conaing ocup Paelbe mac Cloak, ect Opprce mac OCLbiprz, 
poamna Saxan, cum pTpage maxima puopum. Mopp 
Gacat Durde mic edain anno .ax. pesni pur. Cat Ofin 
Cersepn in quo Congal Caeé pugit, es “Domnall mac 
eda wictop epac, in quo cecid1t Suaipe Farllpeé, mae 


Popannain. 
t. u1. 


Cinel_mic Epca in qud Maelptps cecroie. 


mac Piaéna wictop epac. 


Cat Lecarpb: eroip Cinel Lepaohas ocur 


Epnan 


lusulacio DpainviiB mic Maeleoba. Mopp Conners 
Cipp, us alii vicunt anno 1°. pesm pur [qui wecup ere] 


in bello Leva Eurn. 


om. Mobar mac hur CLoan. 
Mopp Cineva me Luchzpen, pesip Pre- 


Ict. t11. 


Toptum. 


Dopmicacio Pinncain mic Mael- 


Mopp Celli, Ri Saran. 


ket. u. bellum Céa CCbLa in quo cecroie “Orcull mac 


Lepsura Tule La Mumann. 


Imp Meosoie funovaca 


fet. 19. Coté Oéa Foon 1n 1apoup bo in quo.cecrDIT 


Cnemtann mac Coda, me Senms, Ri 


15en. PLaelan 


mac Colman, et Conall mac Surbne, Ri Mrbe, ocup 


Lailbe Plann, Ri Muman, wueccopep epanc. 
Enan Opoma Rent queurc. 


Muman. 


bar Moipe 





1 Osirice. Orpace (Oiriec), A. B. ; 
corrected to Osirice by O*Flaherty. 
His death is not noticed by Bede, or 
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 

2 Eochaidh Buidhe. O*Flaherty 
writes ‘‘Rex Scotorum” in the marg., 
and adds the date “629.” 

3 Battle of Din Ceithern. The 
same annotator adds ‘‘ Dun Kethern 
prelium, 629,” and also the further 
note, “Dap Cartéin mic “Oima o 
Latmunne (‘Death of Cailchin, son 
of Dima, from Liathmaine’), supra, 
13 b.” The ref. is to the copy of 
Tigernach’s Annals bound up with 
the orig. of this Chronicle, 

4 Kal. vi. The ferial numbers for 





this and the four following years 
should be, respectively, ii., iii., iv., 
vi., and vii. 

5 Who was vanquished. The words 
‘qui victus est, s[upra],” have been 
interpolated by O’Flaherty, who has 
also added a marginal note, of which 
only the following can now be read, 
viz.:—“Connadius Kerr, [Dal ]riedie 
Dominus ... . ad ann, 624,” The 
reference (“supra”) is to the copy of 
Tigernach in Class H. 1, 18, Trin. 
Coll., Dublin, in which the entry of 
Connadh Cerr’s death, at the year 
630, reads thus:—“Dap Connarvo 
Cipnp, uc alii vicunt, anno primo 
pesmi pu, qui uiccup eft 1 cach 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 83 





son of Eochaidh, and Osirice,' son of Albirt, royal heir 
of the Saxons, with a great slaughter of their people. 
Death of Eochaidh Buidhe,? son of Aedhan, in the 20th 
year of his reign. The battle of Dun-Ceithern,® in 
which Congal Caech was put to flight, and Domhnall, 
son of Aedh, was triumphant; and in which Guaire 
Gaillsech, son of Forannan, was slain. 

Kal. vit The battle of Lethairbhe was fought between 
the Cinel Feradhaigh and Cinel Mac _Erca, in which 
Maelfithrigh was slain. Ernan, son of Fiachna, was the 
victor. 

Jugulatio of Brandubh, son of Maelcobha. Death of 
Connadh Cerr, as some say, in the first year of his reign ; 
[who was vanquished]? in the battle of Fidh-Eoin. Rest 
of Finntan, son of Maeldubh. Mobai Mac Hui Aldai rested. 
Death of Aelle,* King of the Saxons. 

Kal. vii. Death of Cened, son of Luchtren, King: of 
the Picts. 

Kal. v. Battle of Ath Abhla, in which Dieull, son of 
Fergus Tuile, was slain by the men of Mumhan. Inis 
Medgoit’ was founded. 

Kal. iii. The battle of Ath Goan; in Iarthar Liffe, in 


which Crimthann, son of Aedh, son of Senach, King of 


Laighen, was slain. Faelan, son of Colman; and Conall, 
son of Suibhne, King of Midhe; and Failbhe Flann, King 
of Mumhan, were the victors. Death of Mor Mumhan. 
Enan of Druim-Raithe quievit. 





PLeoa Con;” te. “Death of Connadh 
Cerr, as some say, in the first year of 
his reign, who was vanquished in the 
battle of Fidh-Eoin.” 

6 Hille. Calta, A.B. A muti- 
lated marginal note, in O’Flaherty’s 
handwriting, reads “ Edwin f[ilius] 
. . . Rfegis] Sax[onum] A°.6.... 


Saxonum.” The annotator probably’ 


meant to signify that the death of 
Edwin, son of Aille, should be here 





recorded, as A®ille’s obit is entered’ in 
the Saxon Chronicle at the year 588) 
and Edwin’s at the year 633. 

7 Inis Medgoit. O'Flaherty has 
added a note, of which only the frag- 
ment “ab Aidano Lindisfarn.... . 


can now be read. He also writes the: 
date “634” in the marg. 
8 Kal. iii, The date “635” has 
been added by O'F. 
G2 


A.D, 
[629.] 


(630. } 


[631.] 


[632.] 


[683.] 


84 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


fet. 9. tugulacio ouopum prlropum Cleda Slane 
la Conall mac Suibne os Loé Tpetin, oc Lpemain .1. 
Consal Ri Dpeg¥ pen atap hi Conang, ec, OCLiUL 
Cpiuntipe penacap Sil "Olucams Occipro Conall mic 
Suibne, Ri Mid: 1 cms me Nappoié La Oiapmaro mac 
eda Slane. Qmepr Lincanm (Munnu) ~ilii Teléan in 
aii. }Ct. Nouembmp, ec Epnarne me Cpepine. Cat 
Seagaiys in quo. cecidepunt Logene mac  Necconn 
Cennrooa, et Cumupecoé mac Congurpa. 

}ct. 1ugulacio Epnane mic Piaéna qui uci Maol- 
pepas mac Ceda CClLainn a ccaé Lecarpbe. 

Eppusatio Capcars 1. Mocuda 1. Mocca mic Pipault, 
o Rardin in Diebup Parchae. 

Ket. Cat Mate Rat pra nVorhnall mac Leda ocup 
pia maccoié Meda Sldine, (peo Domnall mac eda 
pesnamuc Temopmam in illo cempope), mm quo ceerDIT 
Congal Caeé Ri Ulead, ocur Laeléu mac Cipmeaohas 
Ri Mide, 1 eepissurn, cum mule nobilibup. 

Cat Saelzipe pia Conall Cael mac Maelcoba, por 
Cinel n€ogain in eovem die. Mopyp Lailbe Ri Muman. 
Qmep Moéca Raven hi .11. 1. Mar. 

ket. 1. DelLum Blunne Marpupon in quo familia 
Domnall DOpice in pugam weppa eps, ev obreppo. 
Ecain. Cponan mac U Loesve, bb Cluana muc Noir, 
quent. Obicup Oaéua Daltae. 

fet. 11. 1ugulacio Congail mic ‘Dunchava. Obrcur 





1 Kal. iv. O'F. adds the date | * Cumusgach. qmupecoé, A. B.; 


“636.” The entries under this year 
in this Chronicle are divided between 
two years in the Annals of Ulster. 
Dr. O’Conor follows the arrangement 
of the latter in his ed. of Tigern. 
See n. 5, p. 86. 

% Fintan. O’Flaherty has added a 
marg. note, now nearly destroyed, 
signifying that Ussher (Index Chron.) 
has Fintan’s “ quies,” or obit, at the 
year 634, 





the letters cu being represented by q- 

4 Mochuda. The words “i.e, Mo- 
chuda, ze. Mochta, son of Firaull,” 
are added in A., in the original hand, 
as a gloss, over the entry. 

5 Ruled Temhair. This is equiva- 
lent to saying that Domhnall was 
Monarch of Erinn, O'Flaherty adds 
the note “[634] D. A.; sed 687, 
Uss'.;” implying that the battle of 
Magh Rath is entered in the Ann, Four 











' CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 85 


Kal. iv.’ Jugulatio of the two sons of Aedh Slaine, by 


‘ Conall, son of Suibhne, at Loch Trethin near Fremhain, 


viz. :—Congal, King of Bregh, ancestor of the Ui Conaing, 
and Ailill Cruitire, ancestor of the Sil Dluthaigh. Mur- 
der of Conall, son of Suibhne, King of Midhe, in Mac 
Nafraich’s house, by Diarmaid, son of Aedh Slaine: Quies 
of Fintan? (Munnu), son of Telchan, on the 12th of the 
kalends of November; and of Ernan, son of Cresin. The 
battle of Seaghais, in which Lochene, son of Nechtan 
Cennfoda, and Cumusgach,’ son of Aengus, were slain. 

Kal. Jugulatio of Ernan, son of Fiachna, who van- 
quished Maelfitrigh, son of Aedh Allann, in the battle of 
Lethairbhe. 

Expulsion of Carthach, 7.e. Mochuda,* 7.e. Mochta, son 
of Firaull, from Raithin, in diebus Pasche. 

Kal. The battle of Magh Rath gained by Domhnall, 
son of Aedh, and the sons of Aedh Slaine, (but Domhnall, 
son of Aedh, ruled Temhair® at that time); in which 
Congal Caech, King of Uladh, and Faelchu, son of 
Airmedhach, King of Midhe, were slain in the heat of 
battle, together with many chieftains. 

The battle of Saeltire was gained by Conall Cael, son 
of Maelcobha, over the Cinel Eoghain, on the same day. 
Death of Failbhe, King of Mumhan. Quies of Mochta® of 
Raithin, on the 2nd of the Ides of May. 

Kal i. Battle of Glen Mairison,’ in which the army of 
Domhnall Breac was routed; and the siege of Etan. 
Cronan Mac U Loeghde, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
quievit. Death of Dachua‘ of Balla. 

Kal. ii. Jugulatio of Congal, son of Dunchadh. Death 





Mast. at the year 634, but under 
the year 637 in Ussher’s Index Chron. 

® Quies (death) of Mochta, .“ 637, 
Ussher; quies Mochuda,” Marg. 
note, O’F. 

7 Glenn Mairison. ‘In Scotia.” 
Marg. note, O’'F. ‘Not Glenmori- 
son, on Loch Ness, in Inverness, as 





Chalmers (i., p. 286) suggests, but a 
tract in the debatable ground of 
West Lothian,” Reeves’s Adamnan, 
p- 202, note, 


8 Dachua. Called ‘“Mochua” in 
Tigern., the Ann. Ult., and the Four 
Mast. 


[634.] 


[635.] 


(686. ] 


[637.] 


[638.] 


86 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Dunyise txopip “Domnall. Cuer Cpitan ino Cen- 
opium. Cmuep Leva Oud (a. Ri Larsen) Cbbaxp 
Cille Dana. “Daley: mac hu 1moae, OCbb Lertglinne, 
quent. Mopp Oileatla (4. pesip Larsen) mic Cleve 
Ron. Noc tempore Teovopup Papa flops. 

fet. 11. Caé Caépaé Cinn Con La Mumain. Oengup 
Liatana [o Flinn Vathain] wccop epac, es Maelotin 
mac Oebda Dennan pusic. Dap Maelurdip Caeré, 
pesip Omencalium, ec bar Dpturvoe mic Port. Lopeeao 
Maelioiin mic Leda an Inip Cain. 1ugulacio Maeli- 
duin me Lepsupa mic Maelsoain mic Colmain. 

Qimer Oagain inbep OarLe. 

ct. Mopr Domnall mic eda pesip Tibepniae in 
fine lanuapii .cim°. anno pesni pur, an po Lotmé. 
Portea Dorhnall Opec in bello Spata Capuin in pine 
annt, in “Oecembpe inceppectup ert, anno .an®. pesni 
fui, ab Noan pese Dpiconum. 

lusulacio Cililla mic Colmain pesip senepip. Lae- 


Rape. 


Ict. uw. Nic oubizacup quip pesnaurs pops Domnall. 
ODicuns alii hipcoprospaphs, pesnappe quacuop peser 





1 Domhnall; i.e. Monarch of Erinn. 

2 Aendruim ; otherwise Naendruim, 
or Nendrum; now Mahee Island, in 
Strangford Lough. See Reeves’s 
Eccl. Antiq., p. 148. 

8 Dalaise Mac Ua Imdae, O’Fla- 
herty has corrected this name to 
‘‘Molaise Mac Ua Dimae,” in Tiger- 
nach. It is written “ Dalaise Mac hu 
Imdae” in the Four Mast. B. reads 
“Molaisse Mac Ua Duma.” The 
form Molaisse, or Molaise, is the more 
correct. The marg. note, ‘639, obiit 
Molassius, Ussher,” has been added 
by O’F. 

4 King of Laighen. The words 
“negip Lash” are written as a gloss 
over the name of Ailill in A., but 
omitted in B. Dr. O’Conor reads the 
gloss “Regis Lugine.”  Rer. Hib. 





Script., tom. ii., p. 194. Ailill’s name 
appears in the list of Kings of Ui 
Failghe, or Offaly, preserved in the 
Book of Leinster. At the end of this 
entry O'Flaherty adds “Cuan mac 
Omatgaio (Cuan, son of Amal- 
gaidh), Rex Momonie obiit; supra, 
13 b.; sed perperam Momoniz.” The 
ref. “13 b.” is to the Dublin (Trin. 
Coll.) copy of Tigernach. 

5 From Glenn Damhain. o Blunn 
‘Darthain ; interlineation by O’F. in 
A., which is taken into the text in B. 
The events of this year also are di- 
vided between two years in the Ann. 
Ult., and by Dr. O’Conor in his ed. of 
Tigern. Hence the chronology of this 
chronicle is not at one with the reckon- 
ing of those Annals from this down 
to the year 718. See n., p. 84. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 87 


of Duinsech, wife of Domhnall.' Quies of Critan, in 
Aendruim.? Quies of Aedh Dubh (i.e. King of Laighen), 
Abbot of Cill-Dara. Dalaise Mac Ua Imdae,* Abbot of 
Leithglinn, quievit. Death of Ailill (Je. King of 
Laighen‘), son of Aedh Roin. At this time Pope 
Theodorus flourished. 

Kal. iii. Battle of Cathair-Cinn-Conn in Mumhan. 
Aengus Liathana [from Glenn Damhain]’ was victorious, 
and Maelduin, son of Aedh Bennan, was put to flight. 
Death of Maelodhar Caech, King of Airthera; and death® 
of Bruidhe, son of Foth. Burning of Maelduin,’ son of 
Aedh, in Inis-Cain. Jugulatio of Maelduin, son of 
Porgus, son of Maelduin, son of Colman. 

Quies of Dagan® of Inbher Daile. 

Kal. Death of Domhnall,? son of Aedh, King of 
Hibernia, at Ard Fothaigh, in the end of January, in the 
13th year of his reign. Domhnall'® Brec was slain by 


in the end of the year, in December, in the 12th year of 
his reign. 

Jugulatio of Ailill, son of Colman, King of the He 
Laeghaire. 

Kal. vi.'? Here it is doubted who reigned after 
Domhnall. Some historians allege four kings to have 





Hoan, King of the Britons, in the battle of Srath Caruin,!! - 


through these words in A., referring 
the reader to “13 b.” (i.e. of the 
Dublin copy of Tigernach). But 
the entry is corrupt in the latter MS. 
He also adds the note “Comoan 
mac Oa Ceapoa (Comdan, son of 
Da Cearda) obiit, 18 b., supra,” refer- 
ring to the last mentioned authority, 
in which the entry occurs at the place 
indicated. 

8 Quies (i.e. death) of Dagan. The 








6 Death. bay, A.; omitted in B. date ‘‘642” has been added in the 

7 , Maelduin. marg. by O’F. 

sobs apechy ianeirgpaariaten, heal BCR mie eae Wee arate 
A.B. O'Flaherty has drawn his pen 10 Domhnall Brec. “Rex Scote- 


rum.” Marg. note, O’F. 

ll Of Srath Caruin. Spota Ca- 
puin, A.B. Over the word Capuin, 
in A., O'Flaherty has written “ Cap- 
mac (Carmaic).” This event is also 
entered, through mistake, under the 
year 682, infra. See Dr. Reeves’s 
note on the subject, Adamnan, p. 202. 

12 Kal. vi. Corrected to “Kal. 3” 
by O'Flaherty, who considers 642 to 
be the proper date. 


[689. ] 


[640.] 


[641.] 


88 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


1. Ceallaé et Conall Caél, et va mac Leda Slaine «. 
Diapmar ocup DLatmac, pepmiaca pesna. 

barp huaple filiae Suibne mic Colman 1. pagan 
Laelain Ri Largen. Cure Cponan Epreop Naénopoma. 
Caé Cinn Gon. Ceallaé ocup Conall Caél pesnape 
inciprunc. Dap Scanlan Méip mic [Chnnpaclad, Ri 
Oppage. Dapp Cuanaé mic Carter ». Laoé Liatthumne, 


Ri Lepnmange. 


}ct. 1ugulacio nepocum Doguine, Maelbpeppanl ex 
Maelanpard Enars. Mochoe Naenopoma quien. 

Ict. Mopp Lupuopain pli Dece mic Cuanaé Ri Ua 
Mic Uap. Logene mac Lingin Ri Crmréne obfic. Cat 
Sabpa eroip Largnib snurcem. 


Ict. Sun Scanolain mic Decine me Pracpaé, Ri 


Cpuréneé. Mac Larppe, Ob Denvéarp, qureure. 


cune nacur eft. 
glopuit. 


60a 


Noe tempore Mapcranup Papa 


}ct. Maelcoba mac Tracna, pex Ulead, rugulacup 
ero La Consal Cenopaoa mac Ounchaoa. [ber] buts 


Luacha, Ri Ua Cindprolaicé. 


fect. Buin Ragallarsh mic Uaoaks, Ri Connache .1. 
la Maelbpisoe mac Mochlaéan 1. Copcu Cullu occro- 





1 Battle of Cinn-Chon. This seems 
to be a repetition of the entry “Battle 
of Cathair Cinn-Conn,” which appears 
under the year 639. 

2 Laech Liathmhaine ; t.e. “the hero 
of Liathmhain,” or of Cloch-Liath- 
mhuine, a place in the parish of Kil- 
gullane, bar. of Fermoy, and co. of 
Cork. The words “Loch Liachm- 
huine,” which occur in Tigern., have 
been interlined by O’F. in A., and 


copied in B. 

8 Lochene. ‘R[ex] Pictorum.” 
Marg. note, O’F. 

4 King of the Cruithne. ju 


Cpménet, A. B. “Rex Pictorum 
Hibernie;” marg. note, OF. For 
an account of the Irish Cruithnigh, 





or Picts, see Reeves’s Adamnan, p. 94, 
note »; and Todd’s Frish Nennius, 
p. Xxix. 

5 Beda. O'Flaherty adds the note 
“673, Ussher,” in the marg., to sig- 
nify that the birth of Bede is recorded 
by Ussher (Index Chron.) at that 
year, It is entered in O'Conor’s ed. 
of Tigern. under the year 646. For 
the precise date of Bede’s birth, see 
T. Duffus Hardy’s Cat. of Brit. Hist., 
vol. i,, p*. i., p. 446. 

6 Martin. pelts: (Marci- 
anus), for Mapemup (Martinus), 
A. B. Pope Martin I. is meant, who 
reigned from 649 to 655. 


7 [Death] of Bolg Luatha. Dats 





-CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 89 


reigned in joint sovereignty, viz. :—Ceallach and Conall 
Cael, and two sons of Aedh Slaine, i.e. Diarmaid and 
Blathmac. 

Death of Huaisle, daughter of Suibhne son of Colman, 
i.e. the queen of Faelan, King of Laighen. Quies of 
Cronan, Bishop of Naendruim. Battle of Cinn-Chon.' 
Ceallach and Conall Cael begin to reign. Death of 
Scanlan Mér, son of Cennfaeladh, King of Osraighe. 
Death of Cuana, son of Calcin, 7.e. Laech Liathmhaine,? 
King of Fernmhaighe. 

Kal. Jugulatio of the descendants of Boghain [viz. :—] 
Maelbresail and Maelanfaidh Enaigh. Mochae of Naen- 
druim quievit. 

Kal. Death of Furadran, son of Bec, son of Cuana, 
King of Ui-Mic-Uais. Lochene,’ son of Finghin, King 
of the Cruithne, died. Battle of Gabhra between the 
Lagenians themselves. 

Kal. [Mortal] wounding of Scannlan, son of Becin, 
son of Fiachra, King of the Cruithne.* Mac Laisre, 
Abbot of Bennchair, quievit. Beda’ was born now. At 
this time Pope Martin® flourished. 

Kal. Maelcobha, son of Fiachna, King of Uladh, was 
slain by Congal Cennfoda, son of Dunchadh. [Death] of 
Bolg Luatha,’ King of Ui Cennsealach. 

Kal. [Mortal] wounding of Raghallach, son of Uada, 
King of Connacht, 7.e. by Maelbrighde, son of Mothlachan, 








Bluaca, A. B., for Dunts Usaca, 
the gen. of Dots Luaca. The name 
being in the gen. case, it seemed clear 
that some word, or words, had been 
omitted in the text; and the entry 
being manifestly the obit of. Bolg 
Luatha, the word béyp (death) has 
been supplied.. At the end of the 
entry in A., O'Flaherty adds ‘“‘ Mor- 
tuus est, 14 a,” referring to the copy 
of Tigern. in the MS. H. 1, 18, Trin. 
Coll., Dub., which, at the year 647, 





reads “Dots Luacho p. h. sCinv- 
felaish mopcuup ert.” But in 
the latter chronicle, at the year 628, 
and under the same year, supra, Bolg 
Luatha is stated to have been slain 
in the battle of Duma Acher. The 
Ann. Ult., at the year 646—647, have 
“Det. Colgan mic Cprunmaet 
Durtg Lucca pi Nuae Cennret- 
targh.” “Battle of Colga, son of 
Crunmael Bolg Luatha, King of Ui 
Cennsealach.” 


A.D. 
(641.] 


[642.] 


(643.] 


(644. } 


[645.] 


[646.] 


90 CROMICUM SCOTORUM. 


epunt eum. Cat Capn Conall in vie Pentecortery, 
ubi duo Cuan cecrvepunt .1. Cuan mac Cnva Ri Muman 
ocup Cuan mac Carull Ri hua Lprdgence, ocup Tolo- 
mnaé Ri Nua Latin, ec Fucape fugit, et “Orapmaro 
mac Leva Slaine wictop epac. 

(Dia vomnars, aped 1apom vo Lud “Orapmard Do 
cabaips an cata pin .1. tpr Clucan muc Nop, ocup 00 
pins pamao Craporn ecla parp co tipad plan oincaib 
a copabeachta pom. tap pod 1apom an Ri po edbaip 
Dommnepe cona poolars 1. Licé Manéan nou a canm, 
map foo fy alcdip vo Crapan; ocup do bept ceopa 
Tue Pop Ri Mive va ceaisead nech dia muimnTip cid 
D5 nupque; coms ve Tin po posaps “Orapmaro a 
aonacol a ccluain muc Norr.) 

CQmer Luppa in Pappunna 1 Lepangeorb, pecunoum 
aliop. Mochaemds LAE morp moprcup. 

fet. Cat Opra pia Pance in quo Pancva cum xxx. 
pesibup cecioit. Cat Duin Crihtoainn in quo cecroit 
Cengupy mac Oomnarill [mic Leda]. Pilii Maelcoba 
urctopep epans 1. Conall Cael ocup Ceallac. Mopp 
ig mic Domnall Dpic. Mopp Cponain Marge 

Le. 

kct. Sun va mac Olatmac mic Ceva Sliune 41. 
“Oonnchad ocup Conall La Maclodpan, vo Largnib 1 
mtiulind Maloopan. Quer Levan Sppeoip Saxan. 
lusulacio Oipine mic Oipps -— 





1 On Sunday. The paragraph en- 
closed in parentheses occurs as a gloss 
by the orig. hand, over the preceding 
entry, in A. It is misplaced in B. 


% Fursa. There is a marg. note in 
O’F.’s hand, of which only the follow- 
ing can be read, viz.:—“[65]4. S. 
Furseus . . . Peronaw obiit. [Codex] 
Cl{uanensis] Rectius, 652.” 


3 According to some. ‘p. atior, for 
fecunoum atior (secundum alios), 
A. ator, B., the transcriber of 





which mistook the abbrev. y. for the 
letter p. : 

4 Oswiu. Opa (Ossa), A. B, 

5 Penda. Panca (Panta), A. B. 
O'Flaherty has added a marg. note, 
of which only the fragment “.... 
Beda. [Pen]da, Merciorum R{ex], 
[65]}$,” can now be read. The death 
of Penda is recorded in the Anglo- 
Saxon Chron. under the year 654. 

6 [Son of Aedh]. mec eda; 
supplied by O’F. in A.; and copied 
in B. 











CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 91 


viz.:—the Corca Cullu that slew him. The battle of 
Carn Conaill fought on Whitsunday, in which two Cuans 
were slain, viz.:—Cuan, son of Enna, King of Mumhan, 
and Cuan, son of Cairell, King of Ui Fidhgheinte ; and 
Tolomnach, King of Ui Liathain, was killed. CGuaire fled ; 
and Diarmaid, son of Aedh Slaine, was victorious. 

(On Sunday.' The way that Diarmaid went to fight 
the battle, moreover, was through Cluain-muc-Nois, and 
Ciaran’s congregation prayed for him, that he might 
return safe through the merits of their supplications. 
Subsequently, on the return of the King, he presented 
Doimnere with its subdivisions, viz. :—Liath Manchan is 
its name to-day, as an altar sod to Ciaran ; and he imposed 
three curses on the King of Midhe, if one of his people 
consumed even a drink of water thereof. Wherefore it was 
that Diarmaid ordered that he should be buried in Cluain- 
muc-Nois.) 

Quies of Fursa? in Peronne, in France, according to 
some.* Mochaemhég, of Liath-Mér, moritur. 

Kal. A battle fought by Oswiu‘ against Penda,° in 
which Penda was slain, together with 30 kings. The 
battle of Dun Crimhthainn, in which Aengus, son of 
Domhnall [son of Aedh]® was slain. The sons of Mael- 
cobha, viz. :—Conall Cael and Ceallach, were the victors. 
Death of Cathusach, son of Domhnall Brec. Death of 
Cronan, of Magh Bile. 

_Kal. [Mortal] wounding of the two sons of Blathmac, 

viz.:—Donnchadh and Conall, by Maelodhran,’ of the 
ee in Maelodhran’s mill. Quies of Aedhan,* 
Bishop of the Saxons. Murder of Oswine, son of Osric :— 





7 By Maelodhran. La Maeto- 
pan. These words are misplaced 
in the MSS. A. and B., in which they 
occur at the end of the second entry 
succeeding, as if Oswine had been 
murdered by Maelodhran. A similar 
mistake occurs in all the copies of 





Tigernach. See Dr. O’Conor’s-ed. of 
the Ann. Tig., Rer. Hib. Script., vol. 
ii., p. 198, ad ann. 651. 


8 Quies of Aedhan. “ Aidan, Lin- 
disfarn .. . [obiit] 81 August, 651.” 
Marg. note, O’F. 


A.D. 
(646. 


[647.] . 


[648.] 


92 cRONICUM sCcOTORUM. 


OC muitinn, 
Cia po melt mép do TuipNn ; 
Ni bo comaite pop pepbaind 
[OC] po mets pop hu Cepbartt. 


OCLn] spain meter an muilend 
Ni conca att ip Deps Tuipenn 
Ip 01 Poslad an cnuinn map 
ova muilinn Maeloopain. 


fet. Obicup Segen: CCbbacip tac. mer eda Loga 
CLbbanyp Cluana muc Noip; 01 Failencearb Copainn a 
cinel 1. mac Samain. “Oopmitacvio Maincens Cbbanyr 
Menaopocait. Imaipes Curile Coppa in quo ceciroit 
Cuilene mac fopannain, Ri 6 ppailge. Maelopert 
ocup Oncu wictoper epanc. Cugamna mac Suibne 
mopitup. Uritalianup Papa hoc cempope flopure. 

Ict.  lusulacio Conall Cop. Cac Connacht .1. 
laptop Seola in quo cecivit Mapcan mac Toman Ri 
+h. Marne. Cennpaolad mac Colgan, ocup Maenaé 
mac Dlatin, Ri Ua mOpaiuin, wictoper epanc. Maelooro 
mac Suibne, Ri Mrde, moprtup. 

fet. tugulacio Conall mic Maelicoba. Colman 
Epreop, mac hu Tellub, ocur Oipine Lova, nuo Wb- 
bacer Cluana ipaipo quieuepunc. lugulacio Lepsupa 





1 [When thou] didst grind. “po 
metc” (‘did grind”), A.B. a po 
mett, Tigern. an po mett, Four 


5 Marcan. ‘653, Cod[ex] Cl[uan- 
ensis].” Marg. note, O’F., to signify 
that Marcan’s death is entered under 


Mast. 

8 The grain. a spain (0, grain), 
A. B. an spain, Tigern., and Four 
Mast. 

3 Great tree; i.e. Cerbhall, the an- 
cestor of Donnchadh and Conall. 

4 Kal. This is the year 652 ac- 
eording to O'Flaherty, who adds the 
marg. note “Camin Inre Cetcpach 
(Camin, of Inis Celtra) obiit, supra 
(i.e. Ann. Tigern., Dublin copy), fol. 
14a. A°. 652, Ussher.” 





the year 653 in the Annals of Tiger- 
nach. 

6 Conall. O'Flaherty, following 
Ussher and the Codex Cluanensis, 
refers the death of Conall to the year 
654. He also subjoins the following 
note, at foot of pages 26-27, in A. :— 
“*654, Jugulatio Conalli Regis Hi- 
bernia. 654, Mors Kellachi Regis 
Hiberniez.’ Ita heic et apud Tiger- 
nacum, supra [i.e. Codicem Dub- 
liniensem],- fol. 14 a, ad eosdem . 
annos. Unde Wareus idem videtur 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 93 


O, Mill! 
Though thou grindest much of wheat ; 
It was not grinding oats thou wert 
[ When thou] didst grind' the descendants of Cerbhaill. 


The grain* which the mill grinds 
Is not oats, but it is red wheat ; 


With scions of the great tree® 

Is fed the mill of Maelodhran. 
Kal* Death of Segene, Abbot of Hi. Quies of 
Aedhlugh, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois. His family was 


of the Gailenga of Corann, viz.:—he was son of Saman. 
Dormitatio of Manchen, Abbot of Menadrochit. The 
battle of Cuil Corra, in which Cuilene, son of Forannan, 
King of Ui Failghe, was slain. Maeldreith and Onchu 
were the victors. Cugamhna, son of Suibhne, moritur. 
Pope Vitalian flourished at this time. 

Kal. Murder of Conall Cor. Battle of Connacht, 7.e. 
_ of Iarthar Seola, in which Marcan,° son of Toman, King 
of Ui-Maine, was slain. Cennfaeladh, son of Colgan, and 
Maenach, son of Blathin, King of Ui Briuin, were the 
victors. Maeldoid, son of Suibhne, King of Midhe, died. 

Kal. Jugulatio of Conall,® son of Maelcobha. Bishop 
Colman Mac Ua Tellubh, and Oisine Foda,’ two Abbots 
of Cluain-iraird, quieverunt. Jugulatio of Fergus, son 








excerpsisse lib. de Antiq. Hibernia, 
p- 28; ed. 2. [Con]allum a Diermitio 
2£°, Aidi Slani occisum, et Kellachum 
apud Opug na Domne mortuum 
omnes habent ....m. Kellachi 
mortem ante Conalli necem ponunt 
Flannius de Monasterio, in poemate 
fol.ll4a,b ... . [et Gilla] Moduda 
in suo de C[hrist.] R[egib.] Hibernia 
poemate, fol. 13 a; et Cod. Cluan- 
{ensis] apud Goghaganum, Conalli 


De his porro Codex Lecan, fol. 309 a, 
col. 2 (apud me, p, 20), Conallus et 





Kellachus, filii Meelcobe Regis Hiber- 
nie, Reges Hibernie. Kellachus in 
Bonnio submersus [est] vel morbo 
abreptus apud Opug (Brugh)a Bon- 
nio; cadaver abreptum ad at cuipp 
oc tind e¢. Conallus a successore 
occisus in prelio Odba ad boream 
Temoria.” “5 6 6 sis fratre sed ex- 
tincto regni consorte Conallus quatuor 
autumnos usque superstes erat.” The 
death of Kellach, or Ceallach, is 
entered under the year 654, infra. 

1 Foda; i.e. “the long.” o2, 
for fova, A. Pop, B. 


A.D. 
[648.] 


[649.] 


[650.] 


[651.] 


94 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


mic Domnall, ocup Lepsupa mic Rogallons, ocup Leda 
becpa mic Cuming, La U Lpracpaé CCrbne. 

Cat Speta Ecaipt pe Tolapcan mac Clings Ri 
Cpméneé, vu acconcap Ounchadh mac Conams ocup 
Congal mac Ronan. Clod Ron mac Maelcoba moptuur 
eye. 

ket. Caé Plepeem$ ubr cecinie Cumupecoé mac 
Oililla, Ri h. cepemtainn, in quo Cpunomdol mac 
Subne Ri Cinedil Cogan wictop Pure. Lasgnen [mac 
' Colmain] Ri Connats mopcuur ert. Mopp Crunomartl 
Epbuits mic Ronan, Ri Larsen Oergabaip. 

Ict. Quer Ulcani mec U1 Conchuphaip, hi .11. nén. 
Sepcembmp. Cuer Surbne mic Cuiptps Ob lace. Cat 
DeLenn in quo inteppectur ert Maeloo1n mac Conaings 
t Conall. Mopp Tolapsain mic Cnpmt, Ri Cpurtneé. 
(user Concaine Cille Slebe. 

kct. Mopp Ceallarxs mic Maelcoba 1;1n mOpué. 
bap Ceallass mic Saporn, Abb Otna Moipe. Mocua 
mac Lonéan queue. 

Ket. Oima Oup Eppcop Connepe ocur Curmine Epp- 
cop Naénopoma, ocupr Sillan Eprcop Oaiminny, ocuy 
~ Ounchavh mac Leda Slane mopou puns. 1usulacio 
Oipedoro mic Seénupars ocup Conéinn mie Langnen. 

fect. Obicup Liném mic Rimeda. Eppcop Colmén 
Suinne da Locha quiewz, et Oamel Eppeop Cinnganao 
qmemc. Mopp Ckom¥ mic Olachmarc me Meda 
Slane. Suin Laelain Ri Opparse vo Lavsnib. Mae- 


1 Battle of Srath-Edairt. “658, 





word ‘“Lepra” is added in the orig. 


hoe prelium.” Marg. note, O’F. 

® Tolarcan. The marg. note “Rex 
Pictorum” is added by O’F. 

8 Of Anfrith. OCinprch, A. B. 

* Son of Colman. Interlined by 
O’F., who adds “supra, 14 a,” refer- 
ring to the copy of Tigernach in Trin. 


Coll., Dublin, class H. 1,18. The’ 


date “655” has also been noted in 
the marg. by the same hand. 
5 Mortuus est. m.2, A. B. The 





hand in A., to denote that Laighnen 
died of that disease. It is omitted 
in B, ; 

6 King of Laighen Desgabhair. - 
“R[ex] Lagenie Australis.” Marg. 
note, O’F. ; 

7 Kal. This is the year 657 ac- 
cording to O’Flaherty. 

8 Quies (death) of Concain. “657. 
Cod[ex] Cl{uanensis].” Marg, note, 
O’F. In the Dublin copy of the 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 95 


of Domhnall; of Fergus, son of Raghallach, and of Aedh 
Bethra, son of Cuimin, by the Ui Fiacrach Aidhne. 
Battle of Srath-Edairt’ gained by Tolarcan,” son of 
Anfrith,? King of the Cruithne, in which Dunchadh, son 
of Conaing, and Congal, son of Ronan, were slain. Aedh 
Ron, son of Maelcobha, mortuus est. 

Kal. Battle of Flescach, in which Cumuscach, son of 
Ailill, King of Ui Crimthainn, was slain, and Crundmael, 
son of Suibhne, King of the Cinel Eoghain, was the 
victor. Laighnen [son of Colman],* King of Connacht, 
mortuus est.° Death of Crundmael Erbuilg, son of Ronan, 
King of Laighen Desgabhair.® 

Kal.’ [4.] Quies of Ultan Mac Ui Conchobhair, on the 
second of the Nones of September. Quies of Suibhne, son 
of Cuirtri, Abbot of Hi. Battle of Delenn, in which 
Maeldoid, son of Conaing, or Conall, was siain. Death of 
Tolarcan, son of Anfrith, King of the Cruithne. Quies 
of Coneain,® of Cill-Slebhe. 

Kal. Death of Ceallach,? son of Maelcobha, in the 
Brugh. Death of Ceallach, son of Saran, Abbot of [F]othan 
Mér. Mochua, son of Lonan, quievit. 

Kal. Dima Dubh, Bishop of Conner ; Cuimine, Bishop!® 
of Naendruim ; Sillan, Bishop of Daimhinis,'’ and Dun- 
chadh, son of Aedh Slaine, mortui sunt. Jugulatio of 
Oredoid, son of Sechnasach, and of Cuchenn, son of 
Laighnen. 

Kal. Death of Finan, son of Rimidh. Bishop Colman 
of Glenn-da-locha quievit ; and Daniel,'? Bishop of Cinn- 
garad, quievit. Death of Eochaidh, son of Blathmace, son 
of Aedh Slaine. Faelan, King of Osraighe [mortally] 


Annals of Clonmacnoise the death of 10 Cuimine, Bishop. Omitted in B. 
“ Conchaynne, of Cill-Slebhe,” is re- 
corded under the year 653, 

2 Ceallach. ‘‘Kellachus, R. H. 
ane tacg ae : pong in the margin in O’F.’s hand. 

- herty’s hand. See also. note ®, page 12 And Daniel, Gc. This entry: is 
92, not in B. O’F. adds the date 660, . 





























Daiminys, B., the proper gen. form 





1 Of Daimhinis. “"Dormmip, A.. 


of the name. The date 659 is added 


A.D. 
(651.] 


[652.] 


[653.] 


[654.] 


[655.] 


[656.] 


96 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


vhos Lepna quieurct. Conall Cnunoamna mopcuur ere. 
Eozgandn mac Tuachalé&in moptuur ere. Orslill mac 
Dunchava mic (eda Slaine moptuur ert. 

Ket. Tomini Wb ocur Epreop CWipomacha quiewie. 
Leoenenn mac Dlatbannaré quem. Conaing h. Oarnt, 
(Cb imleé tubaip, queue. Curmine Cobar av Nibep- 
mam uemt. Mogoboc mac hu Lama quieure. 

Ict. Curmine Lova Laan’. anno aecacip puae, qureure. 
Colman hua Cluapars quieurs. Sapan hua Cpivain 
queuc. Maelotin mac Wéda bennaan moptuuy eft. 
Cat Osamain oc Cinn Copbavan ubi cecidenunt Conaing 
mac Congaile, mic Coda Slane, ocup Ullcan mac 
Epnaine, Ri Crannachta, ocup Cenopaelad mac Septrde 
Ri Cpoa Ciannachca, n quo bello DLatémac [mac] eda 
Slane wiccup eft, a pociir Diapmaova mic Leda Slane, 
qu: vicuncup Onéu mac Sappdin ocur Maelmiléon 
ocur Catapach mac Erhine; 1n quo bello Laelché mac 
Maéluman cecroic. Noc pimp pesn: Olatmare uz alit 
picunt, imitium pesm “Orapmava Maelotin mac 
Lupuopain Ri “Ouplup mopcuup ere. Maenaé mac 
Lingin Ri Muman mopcuur ert. Maelpuacmsé mac 
Epnaine Ri Cianachta mopcuur ert. Conall Cloccaé 
quieuit. 

Kt. Suape Crdne Ri Connacht mopcuup ert, ocuy 
a adnacail a ccludin thuc Noir. 

lugulatio duopum filropum “Domnall mic eda .1- 
Conall ocup Colca, 6 Ceppnceinn. Mopp Fapcnaic 
mic Oomnaill Ri Crpméneé, et Domnall me Tuate- 
Lain, et Tuachail mic Mopgainn. Inovepcad ocup Dima 
DUO epifcopl, qu1euepuNeT. 





1 Maedhog. Wiaeos, A. B., for 
Mo-evh-og, or Maedhog. 

2 Kal. This is the year 661 ac- 
cording to O’Flaherty. 

8 Quievit. O'Flaherty adds the 
note “661, D. A.,” signifying that 
Tomine’s death is entered in the Four 





Mast. at the year indicated. The F. 
M. have it under the year 660=661. 

4 Kal. O'Flaherty adds a note in 
the margin, indicating that this is 
the year 662 according to Ussher, 
and the year 661 according to the 
Four Masters. 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 97 


wounded by the Lagenians. Maedhog! of Ferna quievit. 
Conall Crandamhna mortuus est. Eoganan, son of 
Tuathalan, mortuus est. Oilill, son of Dunchadh, son 
of Aedh Slaine, mortuus est. 

Kal? Tomine, Abbot and Bishop of Ard-Macha, 
quievit. Ladgnenn, son of Blathbannaigh, quievit. 
Conaing Ua Daint, Abbot of Imlech Iubhair, quievit. 
Cuimine, Abbot, came to Hibernia. Mogoboc Mac Ua 
Lamha quievit. 

Kal. Cuimin Foda, in the 72nd year of his age, 
quievit. Colman Ua Cluasaigh quievit. Saran Ua Cri- 
_ tain quievit. _Maelduin, son of Aedh Bennan, mortuus 

est. The battle of Ogaman at Cenn Corbadan, in which 
Conaing, son of Congal, son of Aedh Slaine, and Ulltan, 


; son of Ernan, King of Ciannachta, and Cennfaeladh, son 


of Gerthidh, King of Ard Ciannachta, were slain ; in which 
battle Blathmac [son] of Aedh Slaine, was vanquished by 
the friends of Diarmaid, son of Aedh Slaine, who were 
named Onchu, son of Saran, and Maelmilchon, and 
Cathasach, son of Emhin ; [and] in which battle Faelchu, 
son of Maeluma, perished. This is the end of Blathmac’s 
reign,® as some say, [and] the beginning of the reign of 
‘Diarmaid. Maelduin, son of Furadran, King of Durlus, 


- mortuus est. Maenach, son of Finghin, King of Mumhan, 


‘mortuus est. Maelfuataigh, son of Ernan, King of Cian- 
nachta, mortuus est. Conall Cloccach quievit. 

Kal. Guaire Aidhne, King of Connacht, died, and 
was interred in Cluain-muc-Nois. 

Jugulatio of two sons of Domhnall, son of Aedh, viz., 
Conall and Colgu, by Cerrncein. Death of Gartnait, son 
of Domhnall, King of the Cruithne; and of Domhnall, 
son of Tuathalan, and of Tuathal, son of Morgann, In- 
dercadh and Dima, two bishops, quieverunt. 





5 Mortuus est.. m. ert, A. B. 6 Of Blathmac’s reign. p.e. (for pig 
incorrectly reads “an eyt.” Epenn, “King of Erinn”), Marg. 
j note in the original hand. — 


H 


A.D. 
[656.] 


[657.] 


[58] 


[659.} 


98 CcRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Cftrep Sesain mic Nun Cuinn Cbbanip Denneurp. 

Ict. Tenebpae a fect. Mon in hopa nona, et in earoem 
aepcace coelum apoepe mpum eye. Mopralicarp in 
Nibepniam pepuens a }ct. Cusure. Mopr Cepnags 
Socal pil Oiapmava mic Leda Slaine, e ev TEppae- 
mocur 1m Tibepnia, ocup Comgan mac Curceme, ocup 
benaé Cb Benncomp quietepunt. Daevan mac th Cop- 
maic (00 Conmaicne Mapa a cinel), Ob Cluana muc 
Noip quieurc. CO mas 1ocha POTMINT Exapyre mopcali- 
var primo in Mibepmia; « mopre Pacmen CC.11.5 POPS 
mopralicacem 0.211. iat 

Ict. Mopralicap magna in hibepma 1. an mburbe 
Conall. “Orapmaro mac Leda Slane, ocur blatmae, 
oa Ri Cinenn, et Maéelbpepart mac Maelrouin Mopeti 
pune. Uttcan mac Nui Ciinga, Ob Cluana IPAPrD, 
qrureurt. “Oopmicacio ecine Labarp, ocur Epepdin an 
epna, ocur Ronain mic Depa, ocur Maeloé10 mic 
Eingin, ec Cponain mic Siln1. Cu cen machaip mac 
Catal, Ri Muman, moprcup. blatmac Ri Tebéa, 
Oensur Ulad, ocup Manéan Leé, epipcop, abbacer, 
peserque innumepabilep mopotr punt. 

Colman Cap Ob Cluana muc Norp (mac Pualupeems, 
00 Copca Moka a cinel, aen bliaoain, tpabup miebup 
cansum TENT ppincrpacum) ; Cuimine Cb Cluana muc 
Norp, v0 Spece agit Loga Techeo a cinel, Dopmrepunic. 
Secnupat mac Olatmanie hegnape incipre. 





1 Was seen. wipum ere (visum che ea A.B. These words 


est), A. uipae punt (vise sunt), B 
2 In Hibernia. O’Flaherty, follow- 


ing Tighern. and the Ann. Ult., sub- 


stitutes “‘ Britannia” for Hibernia in 
A. The earthquake does not seem 
to have been noticed by the English 
Chroniclers. This is the year 664, 
according to O’Flaherty. 

3 Berach. The obit of this eccle- 
siastic is repeated under the year 663. 

4 In Magh Itha Fothairt. « mag 





seem to have been understood by the 
transcribers as forming part of the 
preceding entry of Baedan’s death, as 
the word that follows, (Cxapy T), 
commences with a capital letter ; Te 
they are rather the continuation of 
the entry six lines higher. 

5203 years. There is apparently 
some error here, although the Annals 
of Tigh., of Ulster, and Clonmacnois 
have the same figures. The death of 


a ee 


pattie te: 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 99 


Quies of Segan Mac Ui Cuinn, Abbot of Bennchair. 

Kal. Darkness on the Kalends of May, at the ninth 
hour; and in the same summer the sky was seen! to 
burn. A mortality reached Hibernia on the Kalends 
of August. Death of Cernach Sotail, son of Diarmaid, 
son of Aedh Slaine. An earthquake in Hibernia.? Com- 
ghan Mac Cuiteme, and Berach,*?: Abbot of Bennchair, 
quieverunt. Baedan Mac Ui Cormaic (whose tribe was 
of the Conmaicne Mara), Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
quievit. In Magh Itha Fothairt* the mortality first broke 
out in Hibernia; from the death of Patrick, 203 years ;° 
after the mortality, 112 years.® 

Kal. <A great mortality in Hibernia, viz., the Buidhe 
Conaill. Diarmaid, son of Aedh Slaine, and Blathmac— 
two Kings of Erinn—and Maelbresail, son of Maelduin, 
mortui sunt. Ulltan Mac Hui Cunga,’ Abbot of Cluain- 
Traird, quievit. Dormitatio of Fechin of Fobhar; and of 
Ereran the Wise; and of Ronan, son of Berach; and of 
Maeldoid, son of Finghin ; and of Cronan, son of Silne. 
Cu-cen-mathair, son of Cathal, King of Mumhan, moritur. 
Blathmac, King of Tebhtha, Oengus Uladh, and Manchan 
of Liath, and bishops, abbots, and ae innumerable, 
mortui sunt. 

Colman Cas, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, (son of Fulas- 
cach; his tribe was of the Corca Mogha; one year and 
three days only he held the government), and Cumine, 
Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, whose tribe was of the Gre- 
graighe, of Loch Teched, dormierunt. Sechnasach, son of 
Blathmac, begins to reign. 








Patrick i is entered under the year 489, 
supra; but if the number 208 is cor- 
rect, the event should be referred to 
461, as the chronology of this chro- 
nicle is four years behind the common 
reckoning at this period, and the date 
660= 664. 





6 After the mortality 112 years, i.e., 
after the mortality recorded at the 
year 551, supra. For 112 years, A. 
and B. have cca (212). © 

7 Mac Hui Cunga. Mac Nu 
Cunga, A. Mac eo, Cungat 
(Mac Hui Cungal), B 

H2 


[661.] 


100 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 

Ict. Mopr Oililla Llannepra, mic Domnall, mic 
eda, me Cinmipeés. Maelcaré mac Scanoail 2. Ri 
Cpmtne; Maeloun mac Scanoal, Ri Cinel Comppps, 
obiepunc. _ Gochard laplate, Ri Cpwtne, mopcuur. 
“Oubinopacht, mac “Ounchada, Ri Hh. mVprtan Or, 
moptup. Mopp Ceallags mic Fumpe. bellum 
Lep[t]p emp Ullcu ocup Cpmtne, in quo ceerns 
Catupaé mac Lurpeint. barcinr Cb benncarp quiet. 
Laelan mac Colméin, Ri Larsen, mMopiTup. 

Ict. Mopoalrcap in qua quacuop Cbbacer Denabean 
pemepuns .. Oepaé, Cumine, Colum ocup Oedan. Cat 
Cine ep Cpaou ec h. Lrogeinte, ubi cecivic Cogan 
mac Crunnmail. Suin Dpain Lind mic Maileccpars, 
Ri na nOe~ Muman. 

Ict. Nawigacio Colmain Epipcop: cum peliquip Sco- 
Topum ad impolam uaccae albae, in qua punoabas 
ecclepiam, et nawmsacio Piluopum Fapcnais ao Nibep- 
mam cum plebe Set. Lepsur mac Muccedvo mopatup. 
Mupceptcact Nap, Ri Connacht, 1. mac Fuaipe, moprcup. 

Ict. Obicur Cumin CCLbi Cbbaciy tae, ec Cpicdin 
CCbb benvéup, ec Motuae mie Cups; es mopp Maeli- 
fochaipzsh mic Suibne Ris nepocum Tupops. Icupnan 


et Copinda apud Pictonep Defunct Punt. 
Ict. Suin Maelrotin neposip Ronan. Mopp DLoach- 
maic mic Maelicoba, et 1ugulacio Cunoai mic Ceallag. 





1 Kal. This is the year 666 accord- 
ing to O’F, 

2 Cruithne. O’Flaherty interlines 
the word “‘ M1de” (i.e. “ of Meath”), 
in A., to signify that Eochaidh was 
King of the Picts of Meath. He is 
so called in Tig. (ad. an. 666); but 
in the “‘ Fragments of Annals,” pub. 
by the Ir. Arch. and Celt. Soc., Dub., 
1860 (p, 65), he is called “ King of 
Dal-Araidhe,” and stated to have 
been slain. 

8 Kal. O'Flaherty adds the date 
667 in the marg. 





4 Berach. The death of Berach is 
also entered under the year 660. 


5 Bran Finn. The death of a “Bran 
Finn, son of Maelochtrach,” is also 
entered under the year 667. 


6 Voyage. O'F. adds the marg. 
note ‘668, Ussr.,” to signify that 
Ussher (Index Chron.) refers the voy- 
age of Colman to that year. 

7 Insula vacce albe; i.e. Inis-bo- 
fin, “the Island of the White Cow ;” 


now Bophin Island, off the west coast 
of the co. Mayo. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 101 
» Kal) Death of Ailill Flannessa, son of Domhnall, son 
of Aedh, son of Ainmire. Maeleaich, son of Scannal, %.e, 
King of the Cruithne, and Maelduin, son of Scannal, 
King of Cinel Cairpre, obierunt. Eochaidh Iarlaithe, 
King of the Cruithne,? mortuus. Dubhindracht, son of 
Dunchadh, King of Ui mBriuin Ai, moritur. Death of 
Ceallach, son of Guaire. Battle of Fersat, between the 
Ultonians and Cruithne, in which Cathusach, son of 


Luircen, fell. Baithin, Abbot of Bennchair, quievit. 


Faelan, son of Colman, King of Laighen, moritur. © 
Kal? <A mortality in which four Abbots of Bennchair 
perished, viz, Berach,t Cumine, Colum, and Aedhan. 
Battle of Aine, between the Aradha and the Ui Fidh- 
___ gheinte, in which Eoghan, son of Crunnmael, fell. [Mor- 
_ tal] wounding of Brann Finn,’ son of Maelechtrach, King 
of the Desi of Mumhan. 


Kal. Voyage® of Bishop Colman, with the rest of the 


Scoti, to Insula vaccee albze,’ in which he founded a church; 
and voyage of the sons of Gartnait* to Hibernia, with the 
people of Seth.? Fergus, son of Muccid, dies. Muircher- 
tach Nar, King of Connacht, i.e. son of Guaire, moritur. 
Kal. Death of Cumine Albus,!° Abbot of Hi, and of 
Critan, Abbot of Bennchair, and of Mochua Mac Cuist; 
and death of Maelfothartaigh, son of Suibhne, King of the 
UiTuirtre. Iturnan and Corinda'! died among the Picts. 
Kal.'?_ [Mortal] wounding of Maelduin Ua Ronain. 
Death of Blathmac, son of Maelcobha; and murder of 
Cunda, son of Ceallach. The sons of Gartnait left 








8 SonsofGartnait. ‘ Gartnati Pic- 
torum Regis filii.”. Marg. note by 
OF. 

9 Seth. This is probably a mistake 
for Sceth, as in the Ann, Ult., or 
Scith, asin Tig. The island of Skye 


' is apparently meant. See Adam- 


nan’s Columba, ed. Reeves, p. 62, n.». 
10 Cumine Albus. O’F. adds the 





marg. note “669, Ussr.,” implying 
that Cumine’s death is referred by 
Ussher to that year. 

11 Corinda. This name, which is 
apparently Copma (Cormda) in A., 
is written Corinda inB. ‘“Cormda,” 
Ann. Ult. “Corinda,” Tigh. 


12 Kal. This is the year 670, 


according to O’F, 


“A.D. 
[662. 


[663.} 


[664.] 


[665.] 


[666.] 


102 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Uenit senup Sapcnaro ve Nibepnia. Fuin bpan Pino 
mic Maclipocapcms. Mopy Ounchada nepooip Ronan. 
Hct. Mopr Oppt pilii Eoilbpic, Ri Saxan. Fun 
Setnupa$ mic Olarchmare Resip Termopras micio 
hemp :-— 
ba prranaé bet heétarsach 
Cn cet ambi0d Seénapach 
Da mda fuovell pop Plait 
Ip ceé amb10d mac OLaiématc. 


Dubotin Ri Cinel Coipppe rugulauie illum. Bran 
Pionn mac Maéloccpags mopcuup. Meaelpuba in Op 
Taniam naga. 

fet. bellum Dungaile me Maeilicuite, Ri Cineot 
Dosaine. Loinspec wictop fut, ec “Oungsal cecrdiT. 
Mopyp Cuniupecai$ mic Ronain. Cenopaelads mac Diaé- 
moe pesnape inciprt. | 

Ict. Sui Domangaipe mic Domnall Opie Ri 
Oauilmava Natmgacio Lailbe Ob 1ae in Tibepniam. 
Maélpuba punoatns ecclepiam Cpopcporan. 

ct. Sun Congaile Cennpooa mic Ounchaoa Ri 
Utad. Dece Daipche inceppecis eum. Nuber cenmp 
et tpemula ao ppeciem coelepuyp apcup, 11. wipilra 
nocuip u% pepia ance Parcha, ab oprente in occidentem, 
pep pepenum coelum appapuic. Luna in pansuinem 
uepyra ef. 

t. bellum Cinopaclad mec Dlachmae me Coda 

Slane. Occipup ero Cennpaelad. Pinnachcta mac 
“Ounchada ticcop epac. LEinnachta Llevat pesnape 
INCIpiT. 





1 Edilbirt; ie. Zthelfrith, The |  * BattleofDungal. DettumOun- 


date 671 is written in the marg. by 
O’F. Oswiu’s death is referred by 
Bede to the year 670 of the Incarna- 
tion=669 of the Common Era. 

2 Bran Finn. The[mortal] wound- 
ing of a person of this name is re- 
corded under the year 663, 





sate (bellum Dungaile), A.B. The 
entry of this battle in the Frag. of 
Annals, pub. by the Ir. Arch. and 
Celt. Soc., Dub., 1860 (p. 69), is 
“ Battle of Tulach-4rd, in which fell 
Dungaile, son of Maeltuile,” &. This 
is the year 672, according to O’F,, 





108 


Hibernia. [Mortal] wounding of Bran Finn, son of 
Maelfothartaigh. Death of Dunchadh Ua Ronain. — 
Kal. Death of Oswiu, son of Edilbrit,' King of the 

Saxons, [Mortal] wounding of Sechnasach, son of Blath- 
mac, King of Temoria, in the beginning of winter :— 

Full of bridles—full of horsewhips— 

Was the house in which was Sechnasach ; 

Many were the leavings of plunder 

In the house in which the son of Blathmac dwelt. 


Dubhduin, King of Cinel Cairpre, killed him. Bran 
Finn,? son of vepnenaigetaigpee ‘tmortuus. Maelrubha sails 
into Batiaiis: a 

Kal. Battle of ede 3 son of Macltuile, King of 
Ciel Boghaine. 
was slain. Death of Cumuscach, son of Ronan. Cerin- 
faeladh, son of Blathmac, begins to reign. 

‘Kal [Mortal] wounding of Domangart, son of Domh- 
nall Bree, King of Dal-Riada. Voyage* to Ireland of 
Failbhe, Abbot of Hi. Maelrubha founded the church of 
Aporerossan. 

Kal. [Mortal] wounding of Congal Cennfoda,* son of 
Dunchadh, King of Uladh. Bece Bairche slew him. A 
thin and® tremulous cloud, in the form of a rainbow, 
appeared at the fourth watch of the night of the fifth day 
__ before Easter Sunday, stretching from east to west, in a 
clear sky. The moon was turned into blood. 

Kal? Battle of Cennfaeladh, son of Blathmae, son of 
Aedh Slaine, in which Cennfaeladh was slain. Finnachta, 
son of Dunchadh, was the victor. Finnachta Fledach 


begins to reign. 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 





Loingsech was the victor, and Dungal . 





who adds the marg. note, quoted from 
Tig.} “Expulsio Drosti (Picti) de 
regno, et Combustio Bennchorie Bri- 
tonum.” 

4 Voyage. O' F. notes the year 672 
in the marg. opposite to this entry. 
§ Cennfoda, i.e., ‘of the long head.” 





cennpo2, A., in which the last cha- 
racter of the word represents the let- 
ters va. Cennpop, B. O’F. makes 
this the year 674. 

6 And. et, A. eT, B. 

7 Kal. This is the has 675, 
according to O’F, 





A.D. 


(666. 
[667.] 


[668.] 


[669.] 


[670.] 


[671.] 


104 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Ict. Columba Epipcopur Inpolae taceae albae, et 
Linan [mac] Cipenoain qmeuepunc. Corpeacpad Os. 

1Speinn La Linnachcta mac “Ounchada. Pailbe ve 

ibepma peuepticup. Consal mac Maerlroiin, ocup 
Cupcarle, 1ugulac punc. 

Ict. Stella comump wpa ert Luminora in menre 
Septembpip et Octobmip. “Ounéaoh mac ULlcain, Ri 
Cipsiall occipup ert a nOtin Lopso La Maelotin mac 
Maelipicprgh. Cac eoip Linnachca ocup Largnetard 
in Loco ppoximo Lota Sabon, in quo Linnachtca wiecon 
epac. Conspepr0 Cuile Maine ubi cecidepuns va mac 
Maeliaéoan. Decan Réminod quent in inpola Dpi- 
Taniae. 

Ict. Mopr Colgan mic Failbe Plann, Ri Murthan. 
“Darpertl mac Curpetar Eppeop Slinve va Locha quiere. 


Mopr Oporco mic Domnall. 
Ict. Quer Larlbe CCbbacip 1ae. Convpaclat Sapenp 
queus. Cat [pe] Linnachca concpa bec Darpce. Dop- 


mictacio Nectain. 


Ict. Colman (Cb benncaip quiett. Sum Lianamlo 


mic Maelicuile pegip Lagenopum. 


Lotpetan via 


munTp ferin poosesuin ap Linnachca. Catal mac 
Rogallars mopitup. Cat Saxonum ubi cecroics Clmune 


mliup Orru. 


Mopr Maelipotapcms Eppeorp ipo 





1 Columba. Called Colman in the 
entry at the year 664. O’F. adds 
the note “ 676, Ussr.,” to signify that 
Abp. Ussher refers Colman’s death to 
that year. 

2 Consecration. A. and B. read 
corpeach for coipeacpad (coisea~ 
cradh), “consecration.” But in Tig. 
and the Four Mast., the word used 
is corecproh, “ spoiling,” “ destruc- 
tion,” which is undoubtedly the true 
reading. The Ann. Ult. and Ann. 
of Inisfallen have “ Destructio ;” and 
the word used in “ Fragments of 


Annals” is copspaoh. 





8 Of October. Octimbyury, A. B. 
This is the year 677, accord. to O’F. 
The appearance of a comet is recorded 
in the Anglo-Saxon Chron. at the 
year 678. 


4 Drost. “[Rex] Pict[orum].” 
Marg. note by O'F., who adds that 
the correct year is 678. 


5 Kal. O’F. adds the year 679 as 
the correct date. 


SOf.... Abbot. Obbacippa, 
for abbatip, A. B., on which Dr. 
O’Conor remarks, “ Miror Dualdum 
Firbisium ita erasse.” Rer. Hib 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 105 


Kal. Columba,’ Bishop of Insula vaccee albee, and 
Finan, [son] of Airennan, quieverunt. Consecration? of 
Ailech Frigreinn by Finnachta, son of Dunchadh. Failbhe 
returns from Hibernia. Congal, son of Maelduin, and 
Aurtaile were slain. 

Kal. A bright and luminous comet was seen in the 
months of September and of October. Dunchadh, son 
of Ultan, King of Airghiall, slain in Dun Forgo by 
Maelduin, son of Maelfitrigh. A battle between Fin- 
nachta and the Lagenians, in a place close to Loch 
Gabhar, in which Finnachta was victorious. The con- 
flict of Cul Maine, in which two sons of Maelachdain 
were slain. Becan Ruminn quievit in the island of 
Britain. 

Kal. Death of Colga, son of Failbhe Flann, King of 
Mumhan. Daircill, son of Cuireta, Bishop of Glenn-da- 
locha, quievit. Death of Drost,* son of Domhnall. 

Kal.’ Quies of Failbhe, Abbot® of Hi. Cennfaeladh 
the Wise, quievit. A battle [gained by] Finnachta over 
Bee Bairche. Dormitatio of Nechtan. 

Kal. Colman, Abbot of Bennchair, quievit. [Mortal] 
wounding of Fianamhail, son of Maeltuile, King of the 
Lagenians.’ Foichsechan, one of his own people, wounded 
him, through the instigation of Finnachta. Cathal, 
son of Raghallach, died. A battle among the Saxons, 
in which Almune,’ son of Oswiu, was slain. Death of 
Maelfothartaigh, Bishop of Ard-Sratha. A battle in 
Bodhbhghna, in which was slain Conall Oirgnech, ie. 

























Script., tom. II., p. 210, n.11, But | tarsen an.” Dr. O’Conor, in his 
Duald Mac Firbis was a much more | ed. of Tig. (ad. an. 680), translates 
correct copyist than his critic. this “ Brannus filius Conalli Rex 
7 King of the Lagenians. O’F. | Lagenie anno,” although he has 
adds the marg. note “Opan mac | Bran’s obit at the year 690. In the 
Conatt R{ex] Lfagenie], supra, | list of Leinster Kings, preserved in 
15.” The reference is to the Dublin | the Book of Leinster, Bran is said to 
copy of Tighern., in which the entry | have reigned 11 years. 
reads “Opan mac Conatt pu 8 Almune; i.e, Zlfwine. 








A.D. 
[672.] 


[673.] 


(674.] 


[675.] 


[676.] 


* eum. 


106 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Spata Cats mbodbEnt bi ceciDit Conall Orpsneé «1. 
Ri Copppe. Leppa spamppima quae vocacup Dolgaé. 

Hct. Combuytio Resum a n° Din Cetipn a. Oungal 
mac Scanomil Ri Cpmtne, ec Cenopaelad mac Suibne, 
Ri Cranachta Slinne Semein, imt0 aeycacip, La Mael- 
otfiin mac Maeclipicpms. Crap shgen Ou bpea quietiic. 
Caé Dai Slebe ported initio hiemip, 1n quo mtveppeccup 
ert Maelotin mac Maelipicpars La Crannachca Slinne 
Semin, ocup La Lland Lionn mae Maelicuile. 1ugu- 
Lamio Conall mic Ounchada a ceinn Tipe. 1usulatio 
Setnupais mic Cipmeohans, et Conains mic Congale. 

fet. 1ustilacio Cinvpaolad mic Colgan Ri Cotinate. 
ULéu Deps N. Conllarde, 01 ConticremB Curle, occrore 
Caé Rata méipe Murge Line concpa Vpiconer 
ub cecivepunt Catupat mac Macliotin, Ri Cpurtne, 
et Ullcdn mac Orcolla. 

fect. Ounchad Muppee pliup MaeilomB «a. Ri 
Conriacht, iugulacup. DellLum Copcaind in qtio cecrde- 
punc Colcu mac Dlavémaic; dcup Lepsup mac Maerliduin, 
Ri Cineoil Copp. Initium mopcalicacip puepopum 
in menre Occobpip. “Dopmitacio Clipmevhars no 
Cpaibe. Colman Obb Cluana muc Ndip quiems. OC 
Oipceé Oo. 

fect. Mopcalicap papuulopum. Mopr, Mame Ob 
nCenopoma DellLum Conyrit Emnobaipp. Loé nechach 
00 Pound 1 FEUiL. 

Ict. Uentur magnuy ect teppaemocup im Tibepnia 
inpola. Saxoney Campum Dpeash uaycauepunt et 
ecclemap plupimar in menre unit. Mopp Conall 





1 Kal. O’F. notes the year 681 as 
the true year. 

2 Kal. O’Flaherty adds the marg. 
note ‘681, Cod. Cl.,” to signify that 
this is the year 681, according to the 
Codex Cluanensis; but in the trans- 
lation of the Ann. of Clonmacnois the 
death of Cennfaeladh is given at the 





year 67 7 , the proper year apparently 
being 682, 


3 Kal, The correct year is 682, 
according to O’F. 
4 Beginning. Inicium, A.B. The 


rest of the entry is written in the 
English character in A. 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 107 


King of Cairpre. A very severe leprosy, which is called 
“ Bolgach.” 

_ Kal! Burning of the Kings. in Dan Cethirn—viz. : 
Dungal, son of Scannal, King of the Cruithne, and Cenn- 
faeladh, son of Suibhne, King of Ciannachta of Gleann 
_ Geimhin—in the beginning of summer, by Maelduin, son 
of Maelfitrigh. Ciar, daughter of Dubhrea, quievit. The 
battle of Bla Sliabh, afterwards, in the beginning of 
winter, in which Maelduin, son of Maelfitrigh, was slain 
by the Ciannachta of Gleann Geimhin, and by Flann Finn, 
son of Maeltuile. Jugulatio of Conall, son of Dunchadh, 
at Cenn-tire. Jugulatio of Sechnasach, son of Airmed- 
hach, and of Conaing, son of Congal. 

_ Kal? Jugulatio of Cennfaeladh, son of Colga, King of 
Connacht. Ulcha Derg Ua Caillaidhe, of the Conmaicne 
_Cuile, slew him. The battle of Rath-mor of Magh-Line, 
against the Britons, in which fell Cathasach, son of Mael- 
duin, King of the Cruithne, and Ultan, son of Dicuill. 

Kal? Dunchadh Muirsce, son of Maeldubh, 2.e. King 
of Connacht, slain. The battle of Corann, in which Colcu, 
son of Blathmac, and Fergus, son of Maelduin, King of 
the Cinel Cairpre, were slain. Beginning‘ of the mor- 
tality of children in the month of October. Dormitatio 
of Airmedhach, of Craebh. Colman, Abbot of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, quievit. He was from Airtech. 

Kal.* Mortality of children. Death of Maine, Abbot 
of nAendruim. The battle of Caisel-Finnbhairr. Loch 
nEchach was turned into blood.® 

Kal? A great wind and earthquake in the island of 
Hibernia. The Saxons laid waste the plain of Bregia, 
and many churches, in the month of June. Death of 





5 Kal.. O’F. adds the date 683 in | ‘‘ Wonders of Eri,” a list of which is 


the marg. given in Todd’s ed. of the Irish Nen- 
6 Turned into blood. The word | nius, p. 193, sq. 
impnao, ée., wonder, is written in 7 Kal. The true year is 684, 


the marg. in A., in the orig. hand. | according to O’F, 
It is not enumerated among the 


A.D. 


[676.] 
[677.] 


[678.] 


[679.] 


[680.] 


[681.] 


108 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


mic Suaipe. Mopp Opeppait [mic] Lepsupa mopbo «1. 
Ri Coba. 

fet. Domnall Opec mac Echach Durde v0 cure1m 
La Naon RE Dpecan 1 ccat Spacta Capun. lusgulacio 
Rocveachtars ocup Oapsapoa pi oie Popepon 
0b Cluana muc Nop queue. 

fet. 1usuLazio Lepadars mic: Congaile. mer 
‘Documatonoc WCbbanp Uallir va Lota Dopmitacio 
Roipcene Cb Copcaige méipe. Mopr Oppene Epipcopr 


Monarcenn Lincani .. Munnu, me Tulcant. Oovam- 
nanup capTitopr peouUNIT ad Tibepmiam. 
Ict. Quer Seseni Spreoip ipo macha. Occipio 


Canoinn mic Faptnais. Pinnacoa clepicacum purpcepie. 
Caé Imleéa [Lio] pra Niall mac Cepnors Socal pop 
Congalaé mac Conaing, ubi cecrdepunt Ouboainbep, Ri 
Cpoa Ciannatoa, ec Nuapepide h. Oprene, Ri Conartle. 
Consalaé mac Conaing fugic. 

ct. Linvachoa peuepricup ao pesnum. olan 
Eprcop Sapao obnc. lusgulacio Oiapmava Mive .1. 
Ri Mive, me Cipmeovhas ta Cod mac “Oluchas Ri 
rrep Cal. Moprp Catupargs h. Domnatt Opric. Mopr 
Lepaohans mic Tudcalain. Mopp Maerlrofiin mic 
Conall Cpannamna. Obpcupaca ert papp polip. 

ket. Consol mac Maeilrofin mic Leva bennarn, Ri 
Muman, ab uno peolarzico intveprectur eft, es Ounchad 
mac Oipcont ocup OCilill mac “Oungarle, Ri Cpruréne, 
1usgulaci punt. In hoc anno beva fecit Libpum “Oe 
Nacupa Repum et Tempopibur et in pagin et in Prgell. 





1 Domhnall Brec. The death of 
Domhnall Bree is also entered under 
the year 640, supra, which is the 
more correct data See nn, 10, 1, 
p- 87. O’F. adds that this is the 


8 Gartnait. Capnarc, A. B. 

4 Imlech [Fio]. The word fio 
(Fio), interlined by O’Flaherty in A. 
is omitted in B. O’F. adds that the 


year 685. 

2(i.e., Munnu). Written as a 
gloss, in the original hand, over the 
name of Fintan, in A. B. reads 
mumhan (of Munster). 





true year is 657. 


5 Garad; i.e. Cenngaradh, or Cinn- 
garadh, now Kingarth, in Bute. 
The correct year is 688, eg. 
to O’F. 








_CHRONICUM SCOTORUM, 109 


Conall, son. of Guaire. Death by disease of Bresal, [son] 
of Fergus, i.e. King of Cobha. 
Kal. Domhnall Brec,' son of Eochaidh Buidhe, fell by 
Haon, King of Britain, in the battle of Srath Caruin. 
Jugulatioof Rothechtachand Dargarta,sonsof Finnghuine. 
Foreron, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. 
_ Kal. Jugulatio of Feradhach, son of Congal. Quies of 
Dochumachonoe, Abbot of Glenn-da-locha. Dormitatio of 
Roisten, Abbot of Corcach mér. Death of Ossen, Bishop 
of the Monastery of Fintan (7.e. Munnu’), son of Tulcan. 
Adamnan brought captives back to Hibernia. 
Kal. Quies of Segene, Bishop of Ard-Macha. The 
killing of Canon, son of Gartnait.* Finnachta received 
holy orders. The battle of Imlech [Fio*] gained by 
Niall, son of Cernach Sotail, over Congalach, son of 
Conaing, in which were slain Dubhdainbher, King of 
‘Ard Ciannachta, and Huarcridhe Ua Ossene, King of 
Conaille, Congalach, son of Conaing, fled. 
_ Kal. Finnachda returns to the Sovereignty. Iolan, 

Bishop of Garad,> died. Murder of Diarmaid Midhe, 
- 4e. King of Midhe,® son of Airmedhach, by Aedh, son of 
Dluthach, King of Fera Cal. Death of Cathasach, grand- 
son of Domhnall Brec. Death of Feradhach, son of 
Tuathalan. Death of Maelduin, son of Conall Cran- 
damhna. A part of the sun was darkened. 

Kal. Congal,’ son of Maelduin, son of Aedh Bennan, 
‘King of Mumhan, was killed by a student; and Dun- 
chadh, son of Oredoith, and Ailill, son of Dungal, King of 
the Cruithne, were slain. In this year Beda composed a 
book, “De Natura Rerum et Temporibus et in pagin et 





6 King of Midhe. RiMvohe; writ- | the killing of Congal is entered in the 
_ten as a gloss over the name. O’Fla- | Annals of Clonmacnoise under that 
_herty notes that this event occurred | year. He also adds that the death 

in the year 689. of Gnathnad, Abbess of Kildare, is 
_ %Congal. O’F. adds the marg. | recorded under the same year in the 
note. “689, Cod. Cl.,” indicating that | Dublin copy of Tighernach. _ 


A.D. 


[681.] 
[682.] 


£683.] 


[684.] 


[685.] 


[686.] 


110 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Mopp Linguin Longs, es Pepcohars Meré mic Neccligh, 
et Coblaré pilia Canonn, mopcua ert. Opan mac 
Conall, Ri Larsen, moputup. 

Ict. Cponan mac Concualne bb bennearp, mopitup.. 

Teovopup epipcopup Opicanniae quem. Prdgellat 
mac Llaind Ri .N. Maine qmeus t mopitup. 

Ket. Coamnanup ann anno port paupam Lailbs oro 
Tibepmam pepsic. Luna in panguimeum colopem in 
nacale Sanct: Mapcini. 

Ict. Mopp Dipaé Epreorp Lepnan, ec Opan nepor 
Laelain Rex Lagemenpium mopcuup eps. Cat eroip 
Orparse ocup Largne in quo cecrdic faeléap N 
Maeiloope. Caé contpa plium Pancteae. Plutia 
panstinec in Lagenia pluate. BPs 

Ict. Cponan bec Cb Cluana muc Noip obit «1. Con 
bec «1. a Cucatgne a &nel. Obicup Crondin bet ni. 

ket. Linpnachta mac Ounchabda, mic eda SLaine, 
Ri Epenn, ocup Dperpal pliup eu, 1usulaci runt, hic 
Spealles Dolleé 6 Ces mac Olucha mic CCiLiLLa, 
mic Qeda Slane 1. Ri Len Chil, ocup 6 Congalaé - 
mac Conaing [mic Congaile] mic Heda Slaine. Cure 
Minnbaipend Cb Cchard bé. Loingpeé mac Cengupa 


pesnape inciprt. 





1 Et in pagin, et in figell. The 
editor is unable to explain what these 
words are intended to represent. The 
word “vigil” is generally written 
“ mri” (figil) in Irish MSS. ; but the 
form “ figell” is unusual. 

2 Bran. “ Rex] L[agenie]. Ceal- 
lach Cualonn succedit.” Marg. note, 
O’F. Bran’s death is also entered 
under the year 689. Seen. 7. 

8 Theodorus. ‘Theodorus Can- 
tuar. Archiep. obt.” Marg. note by 
O’F., who also adds the year 690 as 
the true year. ' 

4 Or moritur. The characters ¢.m. 
(for “vel moritur”) are written after 





the abbrev. ¢t: (quievit), in A., as if 
it seemed uncertain whether Fidh- 
ghellach should be classed amo 

ecclesiastics or laymen, the praare m 
“‘quievit” being generally used in 
this Chronicle to signify the death of 
an ecclesiastic, “ mortuus est,” or 


“ moritur” being the form used in the 
case of a layman, 


5 Moon. A marg. note in O’F.’s 
hand reads “ Luna sang. 11 Novt., 
Epact: 24, et die Lune 14, A° 691, 
et Lune 26, A°, 692.” 

6 Festival; i.e. the festival of St. 
Martin's birth, the 11th of Noveinber. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. Ill 


in figell.”! Death of Finghin the Long, and Feradhach 
Meith, son of Nechtlech ; and Coblaith, daughter of 
Canonn, mortua est. Bran,? son of Conall, King of 
Laighen, moritur. 

Kal. Cronan, son of Cucualne, Abbot of Bennchair, 
moritur. Theodorus,’ Bishop of Britain, quievit. Fidh- 
ghellach, son of Flann, King of Ui Maine, quievit (or 
moritur).‘ 

Kal. Adamnan proceeds to Hibernia i in the 14th year 
after the death of Failbhe. The moon’® was turned into 
the colour of blood on the festival® of Saint Martin. — 

Kal. Death of Dirath, Bishop of Ferna; and Bran Ua 
Faelain, King of the Lagenians, mortuus est.” <A batile 
between the Osraighe and Lagenians, in which Faelchar 
Ua Maelodhra was slain. A battle against the son of 
Penda. Bloody rain fell in Lagenia.® ~ 

Kal. Cronan Bec, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, died,® 
i.e. Cron Bec; viz., his family was of Cuailgne. Death of 
Cronan of Balla. 

Kal.!° Finshnechta, son of Dunchadh, son of Aedh 
Slaine, King of Erinn, and Bresal, his son, were slain at 
Greallach-Dollaith by Aedh, son of Dluthach, son of Ailill, 
son of Aedh Slaine, 7.e. King of Fera-Cul, and by Conga- 
lach, son of Conaing, [son of Congal], son of Aedh Slaine. 
Quies of Minnbairenn, Abbot of Achadh-bo. Loingsech, 6) 
son of Aengus, begins to reign. 








7 Mortuus est. moptm unt 
(mortui sunt), ‘A. B. O’F., who 
considers this to be the year 691, adds 
the note “ R{ex] L{agenie], de quo 
A®. 689, réctius.”’ Bran’s death is 
also entered above under the year 
686, which O'Flaherty thinks should 


be the year 689. 
in Lageniy (in La- 
genis), A. B. 


8 In Lagenia. 
” © Died. The remainder of the sen- 





tence is written as an orig. gloss over 
the entry. O’F. adds the note “693, 
Cod. Cl.” in the marg., to signify that 
Cronan’s obit is given in the Annals 
of Clonmacnoise under the year 693 
(rectd 689). 

10 Kal. This is the year 695, 
according to O'Flaherty. 

11 Loingsech. qu.e. (for pus Epenn, 
King of Erinn). Marg. note, A., in 
orig. hand. 


A.D. 
[686 ] 


[687.] 


[688.] 


[689.] 


[690.] 


[691.] 


112 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


fet. 1ugulacio Domnall mic Conall Cpranovathna. 
Linngtine mac Con cen mactap, Ri Muman, mopucup. 
Lepsal 1. Ri Connacht, mac Cpogail mic Supe Crone, 
mopitup. Logene Menn, paprenp, Ob Cille Dapa 1ug4- 
Lacuyp [ert]. Consalat mac Conaing, mic Congaile, mic 
(eda Slane, mopcuuy eps. 

ket. Coamnanup av Nibepmam pepgic, ev devs 
Lesem innocencitum populip. Moling Luachpa vop- 
mite. 

Ict. Caé a LLepnmarg ub: cecrdepuns Concupap 
Matae mac Maloun «». Ri na nipcep, ocup Wed 
CCiped, Ri Ocal Cparve. Mopp Lopanndin Cb Cille 
Dana. 

fet. prlipup anno uno ec menyprbup .u. 

t. Mcvenra ert bouina moptalicap in Tibepmia 1 
Ict. Lebpa 1 Mus Tpeaka a TTeatba. Cuep MCn- 
chopisae eda o Slebciu. icc mop in hoc anno 
coppepioc Loca ocup ain Epeann, coppér an muip erin 
Epin ocup CClbain Fombid image ecuppa poppin lice 
esa. Llano mac Cinodpaolad, mic Suibne, 1ugulacur 
ert. Lamep ec pepoilentia 111. annip in. Tibepma 
facta ert, ut homo hominem comevepet. Lland mac 
Maerlicuile, Ri Cinedil Co§an 1usulacup. Conall mac 
Suibne, Ri na n° Oem, moprtup. 

}ct. O1lill mac Con cen matap, Ri Muman mop- 
cuup [ert]. Conall mac Ooinennaicch, Ri sh. Lrd- 
Fens, Mopisup. 





1 Kal. O’F. supplies the date 
“696” in the marg. 

2“ The Law of the Innocents.” A 
marg. note, in a more recent hand 
than O’F.’s, reads “ et dedit eis legem 
legitimi Paschatis.” In the Frag- 
ments of Annals, pub, by the Ir, Arch. 
and Celt. Soc. (Dublin, 1860, p. 96), 
this law is said to have had for its 
object to prevent women and children 





from being killed, “san maca san 
mn v0 thapbad,” ie, “[that they 
were] not to kill women or children.” 
See Adamnan’s Columba, ed. Reeves, 
p- 179. O’F. considers this the year 
697. 

3 Dormivit. O'Flaherty adds“ plura 
16 b,” referring to the Trin, Coll. 
Dub. copy of Tighern., in which (697) 
it is added that Moling died in Britain. 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 113 


Kal! Murder of Domhnall, son of Conall Crandamhna. 
Finnghuine, son of Cu-cen-mathair, King of Mumhan, 
moritur. Fergal, z.c. King of Connacht, son of Ardgal, 
son of Guaire Aidhne, moritur. Lochene Menn, the Wise, 
Abbot of Cill-dara, jugulatus [est]. Conghalach, son of 
Conaing, son of Congal, son of Aedh Slaine, mortuus est. 

Kal. Adamnan proceeded to Hibernia, and gave “the 
Law of the Innocents”? to the people: Moling Luachra 
_dormivit.* 

Kal. A battle in Fernmhagh, in which Conchobhar 
Macha,‘ son of Maelduin, zc. King of the Airthera, and 


Aedh Airedh, King of Dal-Araidhe, were slain. Death © 


of Forannan, Abbot of Cill-dara. 

Kal. Philippus’ reigned one year and six months. 

Kal. A mortality broke out among cows in Hibernia, 

on the Kalends of February, in Magh Treagha, in Teath- 
bha. Quies of the anchorite Aedh, of Slebhte. Great 
frost® in this year, so that the lakes and rivers of Erinn 
were frozen over, and the sea between Erinn and Alba 
was frozen to such an extent that people used to travel to 
and fro on the ice. Flann, son of Cennfaeladh, son of 
Suibhne, jugulatus est. Famine and pestilence prevailed 
during three years in Hibernia, to that degree that man 
ate man. Flann, son of Maeltuile, King of the Cinel 
Eoghain, jugulatus [est]. Conall, son of Suibhne, King 
of the Deisi, moritur. 

Kal.? Oilill, son of Cu-cen-mathair, King of Mumhan, 
mortuus [est]. Conall, son of Donennach, King of Ui 
Fidhgheinte, moritur. 





4 Macha. TWiaeéae (Meche), A. | year 711. L’Art de verif. les dates, 
B. Wacha (Macha), Ann. of Tig. | tom. 1, p. 421. 
and Four M. Watcce (Maicce), 6 Great frost. This entry is writ- 
Ann. Ult. O’F. thinks 698 the true | ten in the lower marg. in MS. A., p. 
year. 33. This is the year 699, according 
5 Philippus. This entry is very | to O’F. 
much out of place, as the Emperor 7 Kal. O’F. adds the date 700 in 





Philip succeeded Justinian II. in the | the marg. 


I 


[693.] 


[694] 


[695.] 
[696.] 


[697.] 





114 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


fet. Murperach Muse OCi, Ri Connachs, a quo Sit 
Mupevhars naci puns, mopisup. ipgalaé h. Conaings 
a Dprcombup 1usguLacup ert. 

Hct. Cat Marge Culinn in Cpo tla n@coak, incep 
ULlcoib es Dpizonerp, ubi cecrnit piliup [Raogaind] 
aoueppapiup eccleprapum Der. Ulead uiccopep epant. 
Caé an Copan La Connachta, in quo cecroepunt 
Loingpeé 1. mac Cengupa, Ri Cpeann, cum cprbup prlup 
rmp 2. Apogal ocup Connachcaé ocur LLann Feps, ocup 
ouo filt1 Colcen, ocup Oupoibeps mac Oungaile, ocup 
Lepsup Lopcpams ocup Conall Sappa; ec cecivepunc 
multi Ducep. in 10. luli, ur. hopa oie: Sabbaci hoe 
bellum conpectum eps. Ceallaé mac Ragallors mic 
Ucoaé wiectop epac. 

}ct. Scpagep “Oalpraoa 1c Linn Limniae. O€oom- 
nanup Lexan’. anno aecacip puae in nono fCalenoapum 
Occobjup, bb 1ae, quiet. 

bellum pop Cloinaé ubs uictop puis Ceallaé Culdne, 
in quo cecidDIT Doobcad Mive mac Diapmava. Lo- 
sapoaé N. Cepnarg pusic. 

}ct. bellum Copcumpudd, ub: cecrois Celesap 
mac Comain. Ceallach mac Ragallené, Ri Connache, 
port clepicacum obiic. Congal mac Pepsupa pesnape 
INCIPIT: 

ket. “Oaconna Oaipe et Oppene prluup Fallups 
(Lpemuinn vo Calpase Tepta 66) Cbbao Cluana muc 
Noip, paupauepunc. Concupap mac Maeiliouin, Ri 





1 Kal. The year 701 has been | cate the year 702, in which the Ides, 


noted by O’F. as the true year. 

2 Ard-Ua-nEchach. (po aue 
n@coaé (Ard aue nEcdach), A. ; cor- 
rected to “ Ardes-Ui-nEachach” by 
O’F., who refers to the Dublin copy 
of Tighern., “fol. 16 b.” (ad ann. 
704), where the name is so written, 
B. reads ayo aucnecoach. 

3 Ides of July. This would indi- 





or 15th of July, fell on Saturday. 
In Tighern, and Ann. Ult. the battle 
is stated to have been fought on the 
4th of the Ides of July, being Satur- 
day, which would agree with the 
year 704, as O’F. observes in a note, 

4 Of Saturday. bochi, A. B. 

5 At Linn Limni, 1c Cin tm- 
niae, A. B. OF. would correct this 





the name is written in Tighern. 


115 


4 Kal.'| Muiredhach of Magh Ai, King of Connacht, 
~ from whom the Sil Muiredhaigh are descended, moritur, 
. _ Ingalach Ua Conaing was slain by the Britons. 

Kal. The battle of Magh Cuilinn in Ard-Ua-nEchach,? 
_ between the Ultonians and the Britons, in which the son 
i [of Radgand], the adversary of the churches of God, was 
slain. The Ultonians were the victors. The battle of 
i the Corann in Connacht, in which fell Loingsech, 4.e. son 
7 of Aengus, King of Erinn, with his three sons, viz.:— 
_ Ardgal, and Connachtach, and Flann Gerg; and the two 
sons of Colcen, and Dubhdiberg, son of Dungal, and 
4 Fergus Forcraith, and Conall Gabhra, and many chief- 
_ tains also fell. On the Ides of July, at the 6th hour 
_ of Saturday,‘ this battle was fought. Ceallach, son of 
 Raghallach, son of Uada, was the victor. 

Kal. Slaughter of the Dal-Riada at Linn Limni.’ 
_ Adamnan, Abbot of Hi, in the 78th® year of his age, on 
the ninth of the Kalends of October, quievit. 

A battle was fought at Claen-ath, in which Ceallach 
i Cualann was the victor, and Bodhbhcadh Midhe, son of 
_ Diarmaid, was slain. Fogartach Ua Cernaigh fled. 
Kal. The battle of Corcomruaidh, in which Celechair, 
- son of Coman, was slain. Ceallach, son of Raghallach, 
_ King of Connacht, post clericatum obiit. Congal,’ son of 
_ Fergus, begins to reign. 

_ Kal. Dachonna’ of Daire, and Ossene® (who was from 
_ Fremhain, in Calraighe of Tephtha), son of Gallust, Abbot 
of Cluain-muc-Nois, pausaverunt. Conchobhar, son of 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 





a (in A.) to, “1 ngtenn Lemnae,” as 


“ In 


6 The 78th. O’F. writes “ 77th,” 
and prefixes the date 704, 





- Valle Limnae,” Ann. Ult. Dr. 
Reeves thinks that the place meant 
; oe is ‘“Gleann Leamhna, the Valley of 
, _ the Levin Water, which runs from 
Loch Lomond to Dumbarton.” Adam- 
- nan, p. 378, n. &. 





7 Congal. “RR, HL,” for “ Rex 
Hibernix;” marg. note by O'Flaherty, 
who adds that this is the year 705. 

8-Dachonna. Ossene. O'Flaherty 
prefixes the date 705 to the obits of 
these ecclesiastics. 

12 


A.D. 
[698] 


[699.] 


[700.] 


[701.] 


[702.] 


116 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Cinedil Coipppe, mopisup. Llann Leabla Ab ACipo 
Macha, quieurc. 

Hct. Conovap Labap obnz. Ocerpro Inopeachoarg 
mic Ounchada 1. Muipipsge, Ri ceopa Connacht. Pep- 
sal mac Maerliviin, Ri Cineoil Eosain, ocup Lepsal 
mac Loinsm$ Ri Cinel Conall, occroepunt eum. Corb- 
menace Epreop Oipo ppacha, quiere. 

t. Cucuapain, Ri Cpmtne ec Ulao s1ugulacuyp. 
Lincu sh. Rebaan, inteppecit eum. Oo ap mop rcepum 
MCeNDdIeT. 

}ct. Caé Make Ele pep volum, ub1 1usulac punt 
Leélopap pliup Eévaé, Cuallaroh ocup Cudimarpe. 
Cachal mac Mumpeohms 1. Ri Connacht, moproup. 
Maéloobapcon Eprcop Cille Oapa, quewms. Pepoip 
quae vicicup Daccat, cum uentmp pporlutioin Tibepnia. 

}ct. Conmaol mac Larlbe, Odd 146, qtieuis. Conga, 
mac Lepsura, Ri Tempaé, pubisa monte pepris. PLepsal 
pesnape incipic. 

kt. [Cat pop] hua Meié1 Sleb Lucd ubr Tnhtaé 
mac MoéLloinsms ec Cupor mac Coda mic OLlusars, 
cecivepunc. Pepsal wuiccop furs. Cénnpaolad, Cbb 
Lobaip quiet. 

}ct. DellLum incep nepotep Meda Slane in quo 
Marine, pliup NEéLL mic Cepnas, 1ugulacup ert. Llano 
mac Qoda me Olutas, uictop puis. Cucepca, Ri 
Orpaige, moprtup. “Oubsualar CCbb Slinne va Lota 
quem. Cat Capn Lepadas, ubi cecroic Copmac mac 
Maenms, Ri Muman. 





1 Kal. O’F. considers the true 
year to be 706. 
2 Cow mortality. Do Gp, A. B. 


O’F. writes the word “ Lues” in the 
marg. in A. He also adds 707 as the 
correct year. 


3 Through treachery. Pep votum, 
A.B. Cath voto (Cath dolo), Tig. 
709. Dettum voto (Bellum dolo), 





Ann. Ult. 708. Cach volta, Ann. 
Four Mast., 707, which Dr. O’Dono- 
van translates “‘ the battle of Dola;” 
but the reading “pep volum” is 
probably correct, as the expression 
“ Jugulati sunt,” which is also found 
in Tig. and the Ann. Ult., would seem 
to indicate that Lethlobhar and his 
companions had been murdered. 

4 Baccach, i.e, lameness, O’Fla- 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 117 































_ Maelduin, King of Cinel Cairpre, moritur. Flann Febhla, 
_ Abbot of Ard-Macha, quievit. 
Kal?! Conodhar of Fobhar died. The killing of In- 
_ dreachtach, son of Dunchadh (i.e. of Muirisge), King of 
_ the three divisions of Connacht. Fergal, son of Maelduin, 
King of Cinel Eoghain, and Fergal, son of Loingsech, 
_ King of Cinel Conaill, slew him. Coibhdenach, Bishop 
of Ard-sratha, quievit. 
Kal. Cucuarain, King of the Cruithne and of Uladh, 
jugulatus. Finchu Ua Rebain slew him. A great cow 
mortality? again raged. 
_ Kal. The battle of Magh Ele, through treachery, in 
which Lethlobhar, son of Eochaidh, Cuallaidh, and Cudi- 
naise, were slain. Cathal, son of Muiredhach, ¢.e. King 
_ of Connacht, moritur. Maeldobharchon, Bishop of Cill- 
dara, quievit. The plague which is called the Baccach,‘ 
_ with dysentery, in Hibernia. 
Kal. Conmael, son of Failbhe, Abbot of Hi, quievit. 
_ Congal,’ son of Fergus, King of Temhair, died suddenly. 
- Fergal® begins to reign. 
Kal? [A battle gained over] the Ui Meith at Sliabh 
_ Fuaid, in which Tnuthach, son of Mochloingsech, and 
_ Curoi, son of Aedh, son of Dluthach, were slain. Fergal 
was the victor. Cennfaeladh, Abbot of Fobhar, quievit. 
_. Kal’ A battle between the descendants of Aedh 
Blaine, in which Maine, son of Niall, son of Cernach, 
: _jugulatus est. Flann, son of Aedh, son of Dluthach, was 
the victor. Cucerca, King of Osraighe, moritur. Dubh- 
_ gualai, Abbot of Glenn-da-locha, quievit. The battle of 
: Carn Feradhaigh, in which fell Cormac, son of Maenach, 
a "King of Mumhan. 





_ herty intimates that the true year is | penn.” Marg. note in orig. hand. 
708. O’F. adds the date 710. 

5 Congal. “pp. c.,” for “pig | 7 Kal. O'F. thinks this also the 
_ €penn,” King of Erinn; note in | year 710. 

 marg., in orig, hand. 8 Kal. The correct date is 711, 
§ Fergal. “pp. @,” for “pig | accord. to O'F, 


[704.] 


[705.] 


[706.] 


[707.] 


[708.] 


118 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Ict. Daecan Eprcop Inny bd6 pinne obit. Poarlbeur 
monicup, Ob Cluana muc Nop, quietic. Copmac mac 
CCililla, Ri Muman, in bello rugulacup eps. Seénupaé 
Ri N. Marne, moprcup. ; 4 

Ict. Cat Dili Tened 1n CCppul pia Mupchad Mie, 
ubi Llann mac Ceoha mic “Oluthas ec Oubotin h. @ 
Bécce cecrdeptins Colsu ocup Med Cluapat, mac Oiap- 
maoa, hi pppchshuinn. osapcat .N. Cepnagé ve 
pesno puo expulpur eps, in Dprcamam ue. Now Lucroa 
im audumno. a 

fet. Ceallaé Cuclano, Ri Largen, mopcuur ferc] @ 
Sun Mupchada mec Oiapmeaoa mic [Oipmedhars] 
Caer’, Ri .N. Nell La Conall nSpanc h. Cepnagh. 
Dorhnall mac Catarl, Ri Connacht, moprtup. 

ket. Losapoat h. Cepnané iwepum pesnac. Obicup — 
Cele Tisepnars bb Cluana Eorp. LElann Loipbte mac 
Losapcars mopitup. 

}ct. “Ounchad mac Cinnpaelad, CCbb tae, mopicup. — 
Cxpulmo pamlae lace tran Ooppum Dprcaniae a 
Nectonio pese. Congpeppio “Odil picoa, et Dpiconer 
DEUICT! PUNT. } 

Ict. bece Darpé obric. Cat Cenannpa ub1 Tuckal 
h. faelcon es Fopmgal mac Leda, mic “OLuthag, et 
CCmatecars h. Conaing, ocup Lepsal, pracep erup, ceci- 
vepunc. Conall Spanc wccop epac, et Conall Spans — 
h. Cepna¥ in eo Die pors bellum inveppeccup eft 6 
Lerpsal mac Maeilroun. Tonpupae copona fupep — 
framiliam lae vacup. Plus ppop Meala for Otain — 








1 Kal. O’F. adds the year 712 as | Domhnall is called “son of Cathal.” * 


the correct date. The correction is not copied in B, 
2 Kal. The true date is 713, | O’F. thinks 714 the true year. 4 
accord. to OF. 4 Fogartach. O'F. adds the marg. _ 


8 Son of Cathal. O'Flaherty cor- a eal 4 
rects this to “‘son of Ceallach.” But Pi a H[ibernie],” and the a 
' in a list of the Kings of Connaught, . a 
contained in the Book of Leinster, a 5 Dorsum Britannia; i.e., the range 
12th cent. MS, in Trin. Coll., Dublin, | of mountains dividing Perthshire vig 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 119 


Kal.! Baetan, Bishop of Inis-bo-finne, died. Failbhe 
Bec, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. Cormac, son of 
Ailill, King of Mumhan, was slain in battle. Sechnasach, 
King of Ui Maine, moritur. 
Kal? The battle of Bile Tenedh, in Assal, gained by 
Murchadh Midhe, in which Flann, son of Aedh, son of 
Dluthach, and Dubhduin Ua Becce were slain; and Colgu 
and Aedh Cluasach, son of Diarmaid, fell in the heat of 
battle. Fogartach Ua Cernaigh was expelled from his 
kingdom, and went to Britain. A bright night in autumn. 

Kal. Ceallach Cualann, King of Laighen, mortuus 
[est]. [Mortal] wounding of Murchadh, son of Diarmaid, 
son of [Airmedhach] Caech, King of the Ui Neill, by 
Conall Grant Ua Cernaigh. Domhnall, son of Cathal,’ 
King of Connacht, moritur. 

Kal. Fogartach* Ua Cernaigh again reigns. Death of 

_ Cele-Tighernaigh, Abbot of Cluain-EHois. Flann Foirbthe, 
son of Fogartach, moritur. 
Kal. “Dunchadh, son of Cennfaeladh, Abbot of Hi, 
moritur. Expulsion of the family of Hi across “ Dorsum 
Britanniz,”® by King Necton.6 A battle in Dal-Riada, 
and the Britons were defeated. 

Kal.’ Becc Bairche died. The battle of Cenannus, in 
which Tuathal Ua Faelchon, and Gormghal, son of Aedh, 
son of Dluthach, and Amalghaidh Ua Conaing, and Fer- 
_ gal, his brother, were slain. Conall Grant was the victor; 
and Conall Grant Ua Cernaigh was slain on that day, 
after the battle* by Fergal, son of Maelduin. The 


a coronal tonsure is received by the community of Hi. 


It rained a shower of honey upon Othan Bee, a shower of 





Argyle. See Reeves's Adamnan, p. 8 On that day, after the battle. in 


4 - 64, n,% eo vie port bellum (in eo die 


6 Necton. Called Naiton by Bede. | post bellum), A.B, The Ann, Ult. 
Hist. Eccl. lib. v., c. 22. This is the | and Tig. have “‘in fine duorum men- 
year 617, according to O’F. sium post bellum.” The expression 

7 Kal. O'F. notes 718 as the true | in the Four Mast. is “iap noib 
year, mioparb,” “ after two months,” 





A.D. 
[709.] 


[710.] 


[711.] 


[712.] 


[713.] © 


[714.] 


120 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 
mbic, prop apsio pop Otain médip, ppoy[pjola puppa 
foram Lagenopum, et inve uocacup Niall Lpopaé mae 
Fersaile, ap tune nacur ere. 

}ct. Conspeppio apuo Lagemenrep, ub: Ces mac 
Ceallas cecidic. Uapcactio Lagenopum .u. uicibur im 
uno anno La Nua NéLL. 

ket. Qepcap plumalip. Sinnaé innyr Clotpann 
popminc. Mupbpucht in menre Occtobmip. 

ket. Caé evip Connatoa ocup Copea Darpernn ubdr 
cecidit mac Talamnars t Tomalcmé inpad Largen 
ocup novom na Dopoma ocupr navom na sialla Larsen 
la Lepsal. iInmepsué Relisiopup Lesem, cum pace 
Chmyu puppa mpolam Nibepmiae cOnpuctins .1. 1M 
Campo “OeLenn. 

ket. Cat Clmane eorp Mupécd mac Dparn, Ri 
Laigen, ocup Lepsal mac Maoilsotin Ri Epenn, fii. 10. 
VDecembup die feprae .ui%. Numepup Sil Cuinn qu 
uenepunc ao bellum (Lmaine, pice mile. hi punt 
Reger senepip Sil Cuinn qui in bello cecivepunt, Lepgal 
mac Maeilioiin, Ri Epenn, cum .cle. pavellicibup pup, 
Conall Meann Ri Cinél Carpbpr ocup Popbapacé Ri 
Cineorl Dosti, ocur Lepsal h. Otetoa, ocup Lepsal 
mac Géoaé Letina Ri Tamnarés, Conalaé mac Conans, 
ocup Erccneé mac Colgan Ri na nOliptep, Coiboenat 
mac iacpat, Mumpsiup mac Conall, Letarceé mac 
Concapac, Leosgen h. Mats[am]nae, Nuada mac Oipe, | 
Ri Full ocup ipsuitl, ocup x. nepotep Meterlapispurs. 





1 Frosach; i.e. “the showery.” 5 Inmesgach. ‘‘Tnmesach” in the 


2 Overflow of thesea. muipbpucht, 
lit. “sea belch,” A. B. ‘“ Astus 
maris;” marg. note by O’F., who 
thinks 720 the correct year. 

8 Of October. Occimbyu, A. B. 

4 Or of Tomaltach. &. tomateans; 
interlin. by orig. handin A. The Four 
Mast. have Tomatcaig, “of Tom- 
altach;” but Tig. and the Ann. Ult, 
read talamnans, “of Talamnach.” 





Ann. of Ult. and Tig. Nothing else 
seems to be known regarding this 
person. 

6 Campus Delenn, or ‘‘ Magh De- 
lenn.” Dr.O’Donovan (Four Mast. ad 
an. 654, n. *), states that Magh Delenn 
was probably Telenn, a place in the 
[south] west of the county Donegal, 
near the celebrated Glencolumbkille ; 
and as Magh Delenn would be pron, 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 121 


silver upon Othan Mér, and a shower of blood on the Foss 
of Laighen; and hence Niall Frosach,' son of Fergal, is 
named, for at that time he was born. 

Kal. A battle among the Lagenians, in which Aedh, 
gon of Ceallach, was slain. The devastation of Leinster 
was effected five times in one year by the Ui Neill. 

Kal. A rainy summer. Sinnach of Inis Clothrann 
dormivit. An overflow of the sea? in the month of 
October.® 

Kal. A battle between the men of Connacht and the 
Corca Baiscinn, in which fell the son of Talamnach, or 
of Tomaltach.* Laighen plundered and the Borumha ex- 
acted, and the hostages of Laighen exacted, by Fergal. 
Inmesgach,’ the Religious, established a law, with the 
peace of Christ, over the island of Hibernia, viz., in 
Campus® Delenn. 

Kal. The battle of Almhain, between Murchadh, son 
of Bran, King of Laighen, and Fergal, son of Maelduin, 

King of Erinn, on the third of the Ides of December, the 
6th feria.’ The number of the Sil Cuinn who went to 
the battle of Almhain was 20,000. These are the Kings 
of the race of Sil Cuinn who were slain in the battle: 
Fergal, son of Maelduin, King of Erinn, with 160 of his 
body guard ; Conall Meann, King of Cinel Cairbre, and 
Forbasach, King of Cinel Boghuine, and Fergal Ua 
Aithechda, and Fergal, son of Eochaidh Lemhna, King 
of Tamhnacha; Conalach, son of Conaing; Eiccnech, son 
of Colga, King of the Airthera; Coibhdenach, son of 
Fiachra ; Muirghius, son of Conall; Lethaitech, son of 
_Cu-carat ; Aedhgen Ua Mathgh{am]na; Nuadha, son of 
Ore, King of Gull and Irgull; and ten descendants of 
Maelfitrigh. Those are the Kings of the North. Here 





Moy-ellen (the 0 being aspirated and 7 The 6th feria. This indicates 
silent), the name may still be pre- | the year 722, in which the 3rd of 
served in those of Malin and Mallin, | the Ides, or 13th of December, fell on 
two villages in the neighbourhood. the 6th feria, ie. Friday, 


A.D. 
[714.] 
[715.] 


[716.] 


[717.] 


[718.] 


122 


CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


1cé pin Rigte an cuapsepc. Ni puns Regep N. Nelt an 

vepeceipt 4. Plann mac RogelLangs, Oilill mac Pepaoh- 
ag, Cod Lagen h. Cepnn¥é, Strbne mac Consalag, 
Nia mac Copmaic, Oupdacpioé mac Oubdanbep, 
CULL mac Conall Spans, Llartethoit mac “Oluchars, 


Fersur 


h. Cosamn. hic cocup numepup ve Reg bup 


cecivepunt, et .clxe. ve ampaib Lepsaile, ec alii, et 12. . 


uoLacilep .1. sealta. 


Cibpetan mac Consgupa cecinit :— 


Cragap coc popoens plann, 

CC pip. Hepsaite a vex Und ; 
nonaé muincip mic Muipe ve, 

lan mbpeit a cTarse 10 cid. 


Do an clasth po Zao 
Cppappad cc darth ; 

Mains Lam po seogain a brat 
Ria cect a cats 50 mac Opain. 


Ma bert nec vo bene cad, 

Maova inopemain pe mac Opain ; 
CCnnpa tim nap on Opcoi 

On caoi[ pr} po ceachtoup. an evaati. 


Nuaoa h. Lomeli cecinit -— 


Do v1t Laute CCUmaine, 

Cg copnam buaip Opes muige, 
Ro Lao bavb bét vens biopaé 
lotaé um cenn Pepsarte. 





1 Volatiles. The word seatca, i.e. 
‘‘lunaties,” or ‘¢maniacs,” is added 
as a gloss. It probably means that 
the “volatiles” were persons who 
went mad from fright. 

2 Cubretan; lit. “the Dog of Bri- 
tain.” Cubretan is said to have been 
King of Fera-Ross, a tribe inhabiting 
the district around the present town 
of Carrickmacross, in the county 
Monaghan. 





3 From over his head. ora cnn (dia 
cinn); lit. “off his head.” In the — 
aceount of this battle, contained in 
the “Fragments of Irish Annals,” 
pub. by the Ir. Arch. and Celt. Soc., 
it is stated that Fergal’s army un- 
roofed and burnt the house of a leper 
named Aedhan, who resided in the 
vicinity of Almhain, and killed his _ 
only cow. See Frag. of Ir, Ann., p. 
387. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 128 


are the Kings of the Ui Neill of the South, viz.— AD. 
Flann, son of Raghallach; Oilill, son of Feradhach; Aedh [718] 
Laighen Ua Cernaigh.; Suibhne, son of Congalach; Nia, 

son of Cormac; Dubhdachrich, son of Dubhdainbher ; 

Ailill, son of Conall Grant; Flaithemhail, son of Dluthach; 

Fergus Ua Eoghain. This is the total number of Kings 

who fell; and there also perished 160 of the attend- 

ants of Fergal, and many others, and nine volatiles,’ 7.¢. 
lunatics. 

Cubretan,” son of Congus, cecinit :— 















A crimson, bloody battle is invoked, 

O, good Fergal; O, dear to us; 

The people of the son of Mary were sorrowful 
After the taking of the roof from over his head.* 


The Leper’s cow was killed* 

Beside his abode ; 

Woe! the hand that wounded its neck 

Ere coming into battle with the son of Bran. 


If there be any® who would give battle, 
If in hostility with the son of Bran, 
More formidable to me than the Druid 
Is the satire which the Leper utters.* | 


Nuadha Ua Lomthuili cecinit -— 


As an omen of the destruction of Almhain’s day, 
Contending for the cows of Bregh-magh, 

A red-mouthed, sharp-beaked raven 

Croaked over Fergal’s head. 





4 Was killed. See preceding note. | an caoi[p] po ceachtarp an 

5 Any. neé (nech). The letters | claith. Ina copy of this poem, pre- 
te, for pig Enenn (King of | served in an ancient MS. in Trin, 
Erinn), are written over this word in Coll., Dublin (H. 2. 16 939 
A, in the orig. hand. The line was | C°» Dublin CH. 2. 16, p, 989), 
therefore intended to be read, “If | thisline is written “in cae po canawo 
there be any King of Erinn,” m élaim,” “the way the Leper used 
6 The satire which the Leper utters, | to chaunt,” 





124 


CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


buard apo CClmaine anpén, 

Qs surde val va saé vit, 

Um reacht milib vepmain, 

Dal Pepsatd thaap mic Maotsofin. 


Cobat ced puipec pacac, 
Cumac, cortaoat, capnac, 
Um .un. ngealta san mine, 
Um .ui. mile rep. napmac. 


Topand po mbp et Eaot et centre 1LLo pele Paopars, 
co po mapb Daoine po 1md4G, 10 eft mille ocur Decem 


upor 1 tip. Copca Deapsinn. 


Inpad Larsen La Domnall. 


}ct. Mupedaé mac CCimipsin OCb Leréslinne quiewt. 
Mupceptac mac Donngaile, Ri Dperpne, mopuTup. 


ct. Teom mop a n€pinn in hoe anno. 


Sopmsal 


mac Oinaoms, Cb Cipro Mata, quiems. Murncep Nie 
Do mapbad 6 Fencib 1. Lleun. Lex Pacpren la Cod 


mac Neill. 


}ct. Conmaé mac Omboalerts, Cb OCipo Macha, 


fubita mopte pepe. 


Conptpuctio nouae cimicacip 





1 The Trophies. This stanza is also 
contained in the Book of Leinster, a 
twelfth cent. MS. in Trin. Coll., 
Dublin (fok 24, a). 

2 Seven. The prose account (last 
page), hasnine. Mageoghegan, in his 
transl. of the Ann. of Clonmacnoise 
(ad an. 720), states that “there were 
nine persons that flyed in the ayre as 
if they were winged fowle.” At the 
end of this stanza, which terminates 
at the top of the MS. A., p. 38, the 
transcriber (Mac Firbis), writes— 
“Tepoa bpottat va vurlleds 
on trenteaban ap a p5probuim 
TO Ocup Fasuim appuit pom von 
Vet caoibd yr na nonertt. Why 
Dubatcaé Pipbipss.” “A front 





of two leaves of the old book out of 
which I write this is wanting, and I 
leave what is before me of this page 
for them. I am Dubhaltach Fir- 
bisigh.” This entry is supplemented 
by a more recent one, as follows :— 
“Marre Sean N.Catain no pepab 
fom an ceatpurhad La veus v0 
mre theomn an Trarhnad, aor an 
Tigenna peatc Feed véug ocur 
cetpe bliena piceo. Sean N. 
Catan.” “I am John Ua Cathain, 
who wrote this the fourteenth day of 
the middle month of summer, the 
year of the Lord 1724. John Ua 
Cathain (John O’Kane).” 
Unfortunately the defect in the 
existing copies of this Chronicle is 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


The trophies! of noble Almhain were the prostrate, 
Entreating a respite from each element ; 
Including seven mighty thousands, 

The band of great Fergal, son of Maelduin. 


A hundred prosperous chieftains died, 
Powerful, sumptuous, festive ; 

Along with seven’ furious lunatics, 
And seven thousand armed men. 


Very great thunder, and wind, and lightning on the 
day of Patrick’s festival, which killed very many people, 


viz. :—one thousand and ten men, in the district of Corco- 


Baiscinn. Devastation of Laighen by Domhnall.* 

Kal. Muiredhach, son of Aimhirgen, Abbot of Leith- 
ghlinn, quievit. Muircertach, son of Donngal, King of 
Breifne, moritur. 

Kal. Great pestilence in Erinn this year. Gormgal, 
son of Dinadhach, Abbot’ of Ard-Macha, quievit. The 
family of Hi slain by Gentiles, viz. :—to the number 
of 68. The Law of Patrick promulgated by Aedh, son 
of Niall. . 

-Kal. Conmach, son of Dubhdalethi, Abbot of Ard- 
Macha, died suddenly. Building of the new establish- 








greater than that indicated in the 


foregoing memorandum by Mac Fir- 
bis, as the next date is A.D. 805; 
and as Mac F., following the loose prac- 
tice observed by the older annalists, 
omitted to paginate his copy, it is 
impossible to say how many leaves of 
his text are missing. 

3 Domhnall ; “filius Neill,” Ann. 
Ult. 

4 Kal. There are 51 “ Kl.” from 
this to where the orig. scribe has 
written the date occctu1. (856). This 





is, therefore, the year 805, as O’Fla- 
herty has noted in the margin. 

5 Abbot. The name of Gormgal 
does not appear in any of the ancient 
lists of the abbots of Armagh, except 
in that contained in the Book of 
Leinster (printed in Todd’s St. 
Patrick), where he is described as one 
of “three Airchinnechs who took the 
Abbacy by force, and who are not 
commemorated in the Mass.” See 
St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, p. 181; 
and note %, next page. 


A.D. 
[718.] 


[804.] 


[807.] 


126 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Columbae Cille a ccennanup. Lopccard Inner Mmper- 
hans 6 Feneb es npocd Roipp cam. Luna in panguinem 
uepyra eft. 

kct. Obicup Topbas Cb Cipo Mata. Linnachoa 
mac Ceallms, Ri Larsen, mopicup. Cfmep Torcsrg OCb 
OCipo Maca. 

ct. Ceo Ob Flinne va locha ques. findil, 
Cbbacippa Cluana Oponags, qtreurc. 

fect. Onlén mac Concuparp, Ri Crdne, moprcup. 


‘Buape, Cb Flinne va toda, quem. Tadg ocur 


Llama, ouo pilii Muipsepa, 1ugulaci punt o Luisi. 
Uapcacio Lnngm La Mupgep. mac Tomales. 

ket. Nuaoa Cb Cipo Maka vo oul 1 Conachta cum 
Lese pPacpicn eccona Cain. Onnup ppoviziopum anno. 
(Cy ince canis in Cele Dé von foripsi anep coparb 
vipmaid cen culu, et 00 bepta pouas pspibca do mith 
00 Tapa noenad ppocect v0 Faorvelaib, et vo bepvea 
puap DopIDIT~ 4 1n TAN TOIPZeD an ppocect ; es TIFED an 
Chel Dé sae Laoi vapran pourppse fover, 1ap compsypin 
an ppocecta. Oy inte dno 00 pusnid fuil vona baip- 
senorb, ocup po yrleod purl eptib ica ceepcad; ap inte 
no canoaip na hedin an cantain vaonna. Op Fence La 
huittouib. 

kct.. Nucda Locha huama, Eppeop ex Ob Cipro Maka, 
quiemt. Op Fence la pipu Umarll. Cp Conmaicne La 
Benuib. Op Fence La Mumain .. la Cobsaé. 1onopad 





1 Into blood, i.e., into the colour of | Annals of Inisfallen, where he is 
blood. This eclipse of the moon is | called Leptesin, i.e, “lector” of 
also noticed at the year 807 in L’Art | Armagh. The Annals of Ulster and 
de ver. les Dates, tom. 1, p. 67. Itis | the Four Mast. (808) style him abbot. 
recorded under the year 806 in the | He was probably one of the three 
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which adds | usurping abbots referred to in note 5, 
that the event occurred on the Ka- | p, 125. 
lends, or first, of September. i 

2 Toichtech. This name does nat ||, Cane | Ue ee 
appear in the old lists of the Abbots | °°» 4- 3: 
of Armagh. His death is entered 4 Muirghes. “R. C.” for “ Rex 
under the year 795 (recté 808) in the | Connacie ;” marg, note, O’F. 














CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 127 


ment of Colum Cille at Cenannus. Burning of Inis- 
Muiredhaigh by Gentiles, and devastation of Ros-cam. 
The moon was turned into blood.! 

Kal. Death of Torbach, Abbot of Ard-Macha. Fin- 
nachda, son of Ceallach, King of Laighen, moritur. Quies 
of Toichtech,? Abbot of Ard-Macha. 

Kal. Aedh, Abbot of Glenn-da-locha, quievit. Finbil, 
Abbess of Cluain-Bronaigh, quievit. 

Kal.. Anlon, son of Conchobhar, King of Aidhne, mori- 
tur. Guaire, Abbot of Glenn-da-locha, quievit, Tadhg 
and Flaithnia, two sons of Muirghes, were slain by the 
Luighne. Devastation of Luighne by Muirghes,‘ son of 
Tomaltach. 

Kal. Nuadha, Abbot of Ard-Macha, went into Con- 
nacht, with the Law of Patrick, and with his Rule, This 


q _ was a year of prodigies. It was in it the Céle Dé came 


over the sea from the south, dry footed,’ without a boat ; 
and a written roll used to be given to him from Heaven, 
out of which he would give instruction to the Gaeidhel, 
and it used to be taken up again when the instruction 
was delivered; and the Céle Dé was wont to go each day 
across the sea, southwards, after imparting the instruc- 
tion. It was in it, also, cakes were converted into blood, 
and blood used to flow from them when being cut. It 
was in it the birds used to speak with human voice. A 
slaughter of the Gentiles by the Ultonians. 

Kal. Nuadha of Loch hUamha, Bishop and Abbot of 
Ard-Macha, quievit. A slaughter of the Gentiles by the 
men of Umhall. A slaughter of the Conmaicne by Gen- 
tiles. A slaughter of the Gentiles by the men of Mum- 
han, i.e. by Cobhthach. Devastation of the south® by 





5 Dry-footed. The word ingna, | naught. The Ann. Ult., at the year 
“wonder,” is written in the marg., | 813, record a hosting by Muirghes 
in Mac Firbis’s handwriting. _ into “Ui Maine of the south,” or 

6 The south; i.¢,, the southof Con- | southern Hy-Many, 


Shite 
‘ices Beh. 





A.D. 
[807.] 


[808.] 


[809.] 


[810.] 


[811.] 


[812.] 


128 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


an verseipt La Muipsep mac Tomalecaicch. Cain Oars 
ror Connachtarb. 

ket. Op prep nuimall La Feneb, ubs cecrdepuns 
Copspaé mac Llainvabpac, ec “Ounchad, Ri Umall. 
Canolup Ri Lpainge et Impip Coppa, qurewe. 

ct. Coippsel Eppceop ocup CCbb Flinne va Lota 
quiewt. Lopcellach Pobaip, v0 Farlensaib mona, Cbb 
Cluana muc Noip, quiewis. Lex Ciapani pop Cruachan 
eleuaca eps La Muipsip mac Tomalcas. Saets mop 
ocuyr tpdm Zalap. 

ket. Mopp Mupsiupa mic Tomaloarg, Ri Connache. 
Conall mac Neill, Ri Dpeg, mopitup. Opsaimn Cluana 
Creama 0 Dpepnegad. Daoine 00 mapbad inte. 

fet. Lopsad Cluana muc Nop. Mopp Cagéal mie 
Oililla, Ri N. ppracpaé. Tibpavve Cb Cluana pepoa 
Dpenaind [qmemc]. Surbne mac Cuanaé, v0 1b Oprcan 
[Sleola, Ob Cluana muc Nop, quiews 1¢p tpicaro La 
ap Lopecao Cluana. 

Ict. Cucongelc mac Cacal, Ri Largen vepsabaip, 
[moputup]. 

Ict. Mupeohach mac Dpain, Lert Ri Laigen, [mopi- 
sup]. OApop Ppincepy CCipod Maéa, co pspin Paopars, 
70 dul co Connachtab. Cat 1 pepann Oelbnae Nua- 
foale [1.] cac PLopat, ub h. Maine ocup a RF Vo 





1 Muirghes. ‘‘R. C.,” for “Rex | tica Darii, vel Monasterii Derrensis.” 


Connaciz ;” marg. note, O’F. 

2 Rule of Daire. The Annals of 
Ulster (811) have the entry “Lex 
Darii for Connachtu,” which Dr. 
O’Conor renders ‘‘ Regula Monastica 
Darii stabilita supra Connaciam;” and 
again (812), ‘Lex Dariila hu Neill,” 
which is rendered “ Regula Darii 
[stabilita] per O’Neillos.” At the 
year 825, also, the Ann. Ult. record 
the re-introduction into Connaught of 
the “ Lex Darii,” which is explained 
by Dr. O’Conor as ‘Regula Monas- 





But in the Book of Lecan (fol. 166, 
p. a, col. b), and in the Leabhar Breac 
(fol. 38 b.), the Rule is called the 
‘Rule of Darii, the Nun, viz., not to 
kill cows.” It is further described as 
one of the four great Rules, or Cains, 
of Erinn; the other three being the 
Rule of Patrick, the Rule of Adam- 
nan, and the Sunday Law. 

3 Quievit; i.e, died. The death of 
Charlemagne is entered in the Anglo- 
Saxon Chronicle at the year 812, but 
the true year is 814. 





‘CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 129 


Muirghes,' son of Tomaltach. The Rule of Daire? was 
established over Connacht. 

Kal A slaughter of the men of Umhall by Gentiles, 
in which perished Cosgrach, son of Flannabhrat, and 
_ Dunchadh, King of Umhall. Charles, King of France, 
_ and Emperor of Europe, quievit.’ 

_ Kal. Edirsgel, Bishop and Abbot of Glenn-da-locha, 
quievit. Forcellach of Fobhar, of Gailenga Mora, Abbot 
_ of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. The Law of Ciaran was 
_ raised over Cruachan‘ by Muirghes,® son of Tomaltach. 
_ Great tribulation and heavy disease. 

_ Kal. Death of Muirghes, son of Tomaltach, King of 
- Connacht. Conall, son of Niall, King of Bregh, moritur. 
_ Plundering of Cluain-creamha by the Breifni; and people 
were slain in it. 
Kal. Burning of Cluain-muc-Nois. Death of Cathal, 
_ son of Oilill, King of Ui Fiachrach. Tibraide, Abbot of 
 Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, [quievit]. Suibhne, son of Cuana, 
of the Ui Briuin [S]eola, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
_ quievit, thirty days after the burning of Cluain. 

Kal. Cucongelt, son of Cathal, King of Southern 
 Laighen, [moritur]. 

Kal. Muiredhach, son of Bran, half-King of Laighen, 
_ [moritur]. Artri, Abbot of Ard-Macha, went to Connacht 
_ with the shrine of Patrick. A battle in the territory’ of 
~ Delbhna Nua[dhalt, [viz.] the battle of Forath,® in which 








___ Was raised over Cruachan. Pop 
_ Cpuachan ete ua ert, A. Lor 
 Cpuachan eveua , B. The 


_ meaning is that the Law of Ciaran 
Was promulgated at Cruachan, the 


seat of the Kings of Connaught. 

_ * Muirghes. His obit is entered 

__ under the next year. 

«6 Of Patrick. D., A. Pepe, B. 
7 In the territory. 1 Pepann, A. 

1 fyuann, B., which is corrupt. _ 

8 The battle of Forath. cat Lat, 





A.B. The Ann. Ult., in which the 
entry occurs at the year 817, have 
cach Popach (battle of Forath); 
but in the Four M. (816) the place 
is called ‘‘ Rath Fearadh,” which Dr. 
O'Donovan identifies with Rahara, a 
townland in the bar. of Athlone, and 
county of Roscommon. O’F. writes 
in the marg. “‘ Mortem Aidi R[egis] 
H[ib.], D. A.” The Donegal Annals 
have Aedh’s death at the year 817= 
818. 


K 


[814.] 


[815.] 


[816.] 


[817.] 


[818.] 


130 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


mapbao 1. Catal mac Mupchaa, et pluyim. Rize h. 
mOpruin 4. Orapmard mac Tomalcas ocup Maoleo- 
chars mac Losapchas wiccoper epanc. “Orapmaido Ob 
lae co pspin Colaim Cille vo oul a nOLbain. 

fet. tapcacio Larsen La Cod mac NéllL. Mopp 
Qeda mic Nell Lpopms ic HE va fepca a Mums 
Conaille. Cat evip Cinel Eosain ocup Cinel Conant 
in quo cecrD1t Maolbpeapal mac Mupecda, Ri Cinedrt 
Conall. Mupchaoh mac Maeilioun wmectop furs. 
Cacal mac “Ounlainge, Ri h. cCinproleng, MOPTUpP , 
Concupap mac Oonnchaova pesnac. 

fet. CLrlebpa h. Muipls Eppeop Of. ocup Doamliag, 
mopitup. PLedlim1d mac Cpimtain vo sabail Muman. 

}ct. Slucaged La Concupap mac “Oonnchada co Cpo- 
atod Slebe Luamid. lonpad na nOlipcep Lep conuige 
Erhain Macha. Comulpp Ri Savan moprdup. 

ket. Sice mop so pps na mmpe es na Loéa 
pucta na spaise ocup fedmanna poppa. Cocharoh 
Tuachal Eprpeop ec Cb Lugithang, guieus. Opgoan 
Daiminy es Copcarse 6 Senzrb. 

ct. Conaing 1. mac Congaile, Ri Teatba [obi]. 
Consalaé mac Ipsalors, canary: Obbao Cluana muc 
Nop, [quien]. Lex Paopme pop Mumain La Perd- 
limo mac Cpimcthain. Ronan, Ob Cluana muce Nor 





1 Kal. O’F. adds the date 819. 

2At Atha-da-ferta. 1c at 0a 
epoca, A., which O'Flaherty changes 
to “a scat va Lenca” (in the bat- 
tle of Da-ferta). 3B. follows O’F.’s 
alteration. The Four Mast. (817= 
819) have ‘“ Ath-da-fhearta;” the 
Ann. Ult. (818), ‘ Juxta Vadum duo- 
rum mirabilium ;” and the translator 
of the Annals of Clonmacnoise (816) 
also renders Ath-da-ferta “ the Foorde 
of the two vertues.” They all agree 
that the place was in Magh Conaille, 
a district in the present county of 





Louth; but the Bodleian Annals 
Inisfallen (ad an. 806=819) state 
that Aedh died “pop pluagoo in 
OCvbain,” ae. ‘on a hosting in Al- 
ba,” or Scotland. O’F. writes “R. 
H.” for Rex Hiberniz, in the marg. 

8 Air. This word is abbreviated, 
and the Editor is unable to say what 
place it represents, as the name of 
Ailebra Ua Muirle does not appear in 
any other Chronicle. 

* Of Daimhinis. “Deammyp, A.; 
over which O’F. has written “Inpe 
“‘Doithte” (“ of Inis Doimhle”), which 
































CHRONICUM SCOTORUM, 131 


the Ui Maine and their King, i.e. Cathal, son of Murchadh, 
_ with very many, were slain. The Kings of the Ui 
_ mBriuin, viz, Diarmaid, son of Tomaltach, and Maelco- 
_ thaigh, son of Fogartach, were victors. Diarmaid, Abbot 
_ of Hi, went to Alba with the shrine of Colum Cille. 

_ Kal! Devastation of Laighen by Aedh, son of Niall. 
Death of Aedh, son of Niall Frosach, at Ath-da-ferta,? in 
-Magh Conaille. A battle between the Cinel Eoghain and 
 Ginel Conaill, in which Maelbreasail, son of Murchadh, 
- King of the Cinel Conaill, was slain. Murchadh, son of 
 Maelduin, was the victor. Cathal, son of Dunlaing, King 
_ of Ui Cennsealaigh, moritur. Conchobhar, son of Donn- 
_ chadh, reigns. — 

Kal. Ailebra Ua Muirle, Bishop of Air.* and Damh- 

aa liag, died. Fedhlimidh, son of Crimhthann, assumed the 


sovereignty of Mumhan. 


_ to Ard-achadh of Sliabh Fuaid. The Airtheara were 
i: plundered by him as far as Emhain Macha. Cenwulf, 
a i mie of the Saxons, moritur. 

Kal. Great frost, so that the seas and lakes were 
" - frozen to such an extent that horses and burdens were 
_ onveyed across them. Eochaidh Ua Tuathail, Bishop 


and Corcach, by Gentiles. 

Kal. Conaing, i.e. son of Congal, King of Teathbha, 
[obiit]. Congalach, son of Irgalach, tanist Abbot of 
 Cluain-mue-Nois, [quievit]. The Law of Patrick estab- 
lished over Mumhan by Feidhlimidh, son of Crimhthann. 
Ronan, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, left his abbacy. The 


PM 
|) Sa eee 
ri .” 





a ts the place indicated inthe Annals of | Daimhinis, which is in Loch Erne. 
and the Four Mast.; | The transcrib. of B. has mixed up 
_ and as Inis Doimhle is situated in | O’F.’s correction with the orig. text, 
_ the south of Ireland, it would be | and writes ““Ocimmp ocup Inpe 
Moré likely to be mentioned in con- | “Ocimte Copcarge” (i.e, of Daimh- 
function with Coreach, or Cork, than | inis, and Inis Doimble of Corcach). 

i a : p K 2 


Kal. A hosting by Conchobhar, son of Donnchadh, 


_ and Abbot of Lughmhagh, quievit. Plunder of Daimhinis* — 


AD. 
[818.] 


[819.] 


[820.] 


[821.] 


[822.] 


[823.] 


182 CRONICUM sCOTORUM. 


00 [rlésab a aboaine. Sapuccad Cluana muc Noip 90 
Cachal mac CCiLilla, Ri h. Maine, pop pecnabad Muman 
4. Plann mac Llatbepoas, vo U1b Popsa, contapo 1pin 
Sincann contopcap. “Oliged .un. cell ind. Marom 
pia Catal mac Oililla pop Leolim1o mac Cpimchain 
a Mag hi ub1 mute CECIDENUNT :— 


Robsap tprena Connachca a Marg Ni, 
Niboon panna pia Peotsmid. 


Senvilep imuapepunc benocup mop. Salinove na 

petan exupta ert o Leodlimd mac Cpimthain, cum 
coca habitactione pua, et cum Opacopro. Tene v0 Nish 
forpra popus nCCbao an Cpo Macha, sop Loips. Mopp 
fepsura mic Lomngyicch, Ob Cipo Maka. 

Ict. Opsain Denocarp a Sencibup. Cat Pionnabpat 
in quo cecidepunt CCod mac Losapcans, et aln. 

}ct. Oiapmaro h. Coda Ron, ancoprta es peli- 
siomp voccop Nibepmae, [quiewc]. Magna pepe 
Lentia in Nibepma a pemopibup et inpipmip. Sopra 
mop ocur ipcpa anan. CCpsain Otinletslarps 6 Fenwsb. 
Lopecad Murge bile cona Epoamb 6 Fencb. Roanrud 
1 Mag imp pe nuUllcab pop FenuB, 1n quo cecidepuns 


plupami. 
inn Oaimle o Sencb. 


Raoimud por Opparsib 6 Senn’. Opgain 
Mapcpa Dlarchmeare mic 


Llainn 6 Senub in 1 Colum Cille. 





1 Cathal. O’Flaherty adds the 
marg. note, ‘‘Hymani: de hoc Imaniz 
rege Dungal. Annales 834, rectius ut 
infra A.° 827;” signifying that the 
profanation here referred to is recorded 
in the Annals of the Four Mast. at 
the year 834 = 835, which would seem 
the more correct date, as under the 
year 827, infra, the vice-Abbacy of 
Cluain-muc-Nois is said to have been 
then given for the first time to a 
Munsterman. 

2 Were adjudged. The meaning is 
that King Cathal was compelled to 





endow seven churches, as an atone- 
ment for his offence. 

8 Ai. Ni (prob.for 11), A. veg, B. 

4 Galinne. Satsnve (Salinde), B. 

5 Was burnt. exupctum & (ex- 
ustum est), A. B. 

6 Fergus. O’F., following the Four 
Mast., Colgan, and Ware, would sub- 
stitute “‘ Flanngus.” He is simply 
called ‘Mac Loingsigh” in the old 
lists of Abbots of Armagh. See 
Todd’s St. Patrick, §c., pp. 175, 178, 
179. Mac Loingsigh’s death is also 
recorded at the year 826, infra, which 
































CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 133 


_ profanation of Cluain-muc-Nois by Cathal,’ son of Ailill, 
_ King of Ui Maine, against the Munster vice-Abbot, viz., 

 Flann, son of Flaithbhertach of the Ui Forga, ioaeai 
4 he threw into the Shannon, so that he was drowned. 
B Seven churches were adjudged? in atonement. A victory 
7 gained by Cathal, son of Ailill, over Feidhlimidh, son of 
_ Crimhthann, in Magh Ai, in which many fell :— 


Strong were the Connachtmen in Magh Ai;? 
They were not weak against Feidhlimidh. 


_ Britons was burnt’ by Feidhlimidh, son of Crimhthann, 
with its whole dwelling-place, and with the oratory. 
Fire from Heaven fell on the Abbot’s mansion in Ard- 
q Macha, so that it was burnt. Death of Fergus,® son of 
~ Loingsech, Abbot of Ard-Macha. 

_ Kal. Plundering of Bennchair by Gentiles. The 
4 -patile of Finnabhair, in which fell Aedh, son of Fogartach, 
and others. 

Kal. Diarmaid, grandson of Aedh Roin, anchorite, 
¥ and doctor of religion of Hibernia, [quievit]. A great 
; pestilence i in Hibernia among the old and infirm. Great 
famine and scarcity of bread. Plundering of Dun-leth- 
% glaise by Gentiles. Burning of Magh-bile, with its 
k _ Erdamhs,’ by Gentiles. A defeat inflicted on Gentiles 
by the Ultonians, in Magh-inis, in which very many 
i a persons fell. A victory gained over the Osraighe by 
Gentiles. Plundering of Inis Doimhle by Gentiles. 
i Martyrdom of Blathmac, son of Flann, by Gentiles, in 
q 4 pe of Colum Cille.* 





4 would ; seem to be the correct date, as | church. Adamnan (Vit. 8. Columba, 
% the Ann. Ult. and the Four Mast. | lib. iii, cap. 20) uses the word 
. "have his obit at the year 825=826. | “exedra” apparently for it. See 
i B. ‘See note 1, next page. Reeves’s ed. of Adamnan, p, 224, n° 
 %£Erdamhs. The Erdamh seems 8 In Hi Colum Cille. 111. Co. C., 
a di ave been a small chamber, or | A.; apparently a mistranscription for 
p: chapel, attached to the side of a | 1n1Co,C. Theerroris repeated in B, 





i Gentiles attacked Bennchair Mér. Galinne* of the 


A.D. 
[823.] 


[824.] 


[825.] 


134 


fet. Niall mac Oriapmaoa, Ri Mide, moputup. 
Mac Longs, Cb Cipo Macha, mopicup. Apo mac 
Diapmaoa, Ri Teabca, 1usulacup eps. Clemenp, Ob 


CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Cluana Ipaipo, quieus. Suin Cpcpat me Mupgepa, 


Ri Teabta. Lew Oarpe co Connachtu rcepum. 

Ict. Sapuccad Cogain an po Macha la Cumap- 
ecach mac Catanl, vo Ri Oipgiall, ocup La Oipops mac 
Concupap, conad ume yin aobeps Cogan, pepleisinn 
Mamycpeé ann pann pa Diap cup a Saalmeeaolwud 
—pagallam Nell Calle, viappad comapbup Paopars 0 
copnarh 00 :— 


Chaip te Niatt niamoa 

Buc Cosain mic OCnmcechoroa ; 
Na b10d pan pige onaba 
Munab Cbb a anmcapna. 


Cipcpr mac Concupaip baor a ccomapbup Poopans 
anuaip fin; mac machap epive vo Ri Oipsiall 1. 00 
Cumurecaé mac Catal. Cre a cumaip, tronoilin na 
Rig a plik, ocup pepcap caé Lerte cam a Mags emp 
pa Niall mac Coda pop Cipsialhb ocup pop Ulloa, 
in quo cecidepunt Mupeovhach mac Cataé, Ri ULad, et 
Cumurpecaé mac Catal, Ri Cipsiall, ec Congalaé a 
bpatap, ec ali Reger oDWipsialleab ; ocur po sab 
E€osan Maimypopeé apo comapbup Paopargs pp pe .rx. 
mblicona iappin, tne nept Nell Calle; cond vo 
coppnsipe an cata pin, 00 can “Oaciapoe Sanccur 
Mpacwuil «1. Cell :— 





1 Mac Loingsigh. O’F. adds the 
marg. note, ‘de hoc 823, sed heic 
rectius, ut in Tr. T.;” by “Tr. T.” 
signifying Colgan’s Trias Thauma- 
turga [p. 294], in which the name of 
Flangus is given. See note §, p. 182. 

2 The Law of Daire. See note *, 
p- 128. 

* Eoghan. O’F, would substitute 





“‘Eochaidh” for Eoghan; but the 
latter seems the more correct. : 
4 Mainistir; i.e. Mainistir Buite, 
now Monasterboice, in the county 0: 
Louth. 
5 Muiredhach. O'Flaherty adds 
the marg. note, “heie non cecidity 


[vi]d. A®, 839, infra.” The killing 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 185 


Kal. Niall, son of Diarmaid, King of Midhe, moritur. A.D. 
;. Mac Loingsigh,’ ’ Abbot of Ard-Macha, moritur. Art,son [996 


y Abbot of Cluain-Tratrd, quievit. [Mortal] wounding of 

: _ Artri, son of Muirghes, King of Teabhtha. The Law 

of Daire? again promulgated in Connacht. 

Kal. Profanation of Eoghan in Ard-Macha by Cumase- —_[827.] 
ach, son of Cathal, King of Airghiall, and by Airtri, son 

_ of Conchobhar ; and it was respecting this that Eoghan,’ 

7 Lector of Mainistir,' uttered the following stanza, when 

_ he sent his Psalm-singer to converse with Niall Caille, 

_ to ask him to defend the successorship of Patrick for 
 hin:— 

a: Tell to the illustrious Niall 

The warning of Eoghan, son of Aamehiat : 

That he will not be in the power in which he was, 
Unless his confessor is Abbot. 





’ Jt was Airtri, son of Conchobhar, that was in the suc- 
cessorship of Patrick at that time; (he was son to the 
_ mother of the King of Airghiall, viz., Cumuscach, son of 
% | Cathal) The result was: the Kings assembled their 
armies, and the battle of Lethe-cam in Magh-enir was 
- fought by Niall, son of Aedh, against the Airghialla and 
tS the Ultonians ; in which battle fell Muiredhach,> 
gon of Eochaidh, King of Uladh; and Cumuscach, son of 
} Cathal, King of Airghiall; and Congalach, his brother; and 
other Kings of the Airghialla; and Eoghan acniateeh 
possessed the chief-successorship of Patrick during nine 
_ years afterwards, through the power of Niall Caille. It 
__was to foretel this battle that Saint Daciaroc of Aracul, 
ae, a Cill,® sang? :— 





of Muiredhach is recorded at the date | barony of Clogher and county of 
here indicated: Tyrone. 

ae 6A Cill; or church. This place, 7 Sang. 0 can, A. po cao} 
gow called Ecrigal-Keeroge, is in the | (he wept), B, 


136 


CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


lLete cam, 


"Do padpad mop ngatngZad ann ; 


Tappupoup 6 


te Luin, 


Crd cian, c1d cum, c1d matt. 


Cp as cappnsarpe an cata pin appepe bec Mac 


06 :-— 


Lete cam, 


Conpucpard diay amnup ann ; 
bro Ri Coshan ap Cogan ; 
Oro an gleogal bia ann. 


Seanoip 00 muintip Cipomacha cecimie a mtle an 


cata :— 


Nima pucpam ap mbaipne ; 


Nima Loomaipn pec 


Lene (.1. Lann Lene) 


Nimap sabpamap Cogan 
Seé ceé noeopard in he. 


Secnopote Cluana muc Now v0 cabaips 00 Muim- 


necharb na paba pram. 


kt. Nucoa mac Diapmava, Ri Tebta, inceppeccup. 
Catpaoinend pop Fenab pe Coipppr mac Catal, Ri 


h. Cinprlaé, ocup pé muincep Tse Muna. 


Mopp 


Muipevhas mic Rucdpaé, Ri Lengen. 
ket. Ceapball mac Linnatoa, Ri Oealtna becpa, 
mopicup. “Orapmaro Cb 1lae vo oul a nClban co 


mionoib Colaim Cille. 
gepard M11. 


Raoined pop Connacooib pe 


fect. CCensup mac Ounchada, Ri Teabta. Copmac 
mac Suibm, Epreop ocupr OCbb Cluana Ipoaipd, quiere. 





1 Overtaken. This would be ob- 
scure without the explanatory notice 
in the Four Mast. (825), which states 
that King Niall only joined in the 
battle, on the third day, at Lethe- 
Luin, near Lethe-cam, when the 
northern armies were broken and pur- 
sued to the west of Armagh, where a 
slaughter was made of them, 





2 Zann Lere. This is added by 
way of gloss on the name Lere; but 
it is misplaced in A. and B., being 
added at the end of the stanza, 
Lann Lere, which O'Donovan (Four 
M., ad an, 825, note &) thought was 
the name of a monastery (now called 
Lynn), near Lough Ennell, in the 
county Westmeath, has been proved 





battle :— 


family of Teach Munna. 
Ruaidhri, King.of Laighen. 


Bethra, moritur. 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM., 


Lethe-cam— 
Great heroes shall perish there ; 
They shall be overtaken’ from Lethe-Luin, 
Though far, though late, though slow. 


It was prophesying this battle that Bec 


Mac Dé 


Lethe-cam— 
A fierce pair shall there meet : 
Eoghan shall be King over Eoghan— 
Noble the conflict which will be there. 


A senior of the family of Ard-Macha sang after the 


Not well have we gained our goal ; 

Not well have we passed beyond Lere (7.e. Lann Lere) ;* 

Not well have we taken Eoghan, 

In preference to any pilgrim in Erin. 
The vice-Abbacy* of Cluain-muc-Nois given to Mun- 
stermen, which was never before done. 
Kal. Huada, son of Diarmaid, King of Tebhtha, inter- 
 fectus. A battle-breach against the Gentiles by Cairpre, 
son of Cathal, King of Ui Cennsealaigh, and by the 
Death of Muiredhach, son of 


Kal. Cearbhall, son of Finnachda, King of Dealbhna 
Diarmaid, Abbot of Hi, went to Alba 
with the reliquaries of Colum Cille. 

men of Connacht by the men of Midhe. 
Kal. Aengus, son of Dunchadh, King of Teabhtha,. 
_ died. Cormac, son of Suibhne, Bishop and Abbot of 


A defeat of the 





by Dr. Reeves to have been the an- 
cient name of Dunleer, in the county 
of Louth. The meaning of the ex- 
pression probably is, that the com- 
munity of Armagh were not wise in 
going beyond Dunleer, to Monaster- 
boice, to select Eoghan, who was 
Lector of the latter monastery, to be 
Abbot over them, 








8 The vice-Abbacy. Sec nopote, 
for pec nCCbaro, or peé nOCboarne, 
A. B. The marg. note, “ Cluain- 
muc-Nois. Prior ex Momonia, yiz., 
Flannius, de quo A°. 823,” is added in 
A., in O’Flaherty’s hand. See note }, 
p- 182, supra. This entry appears, 
therefore, to be somewhat out of place 
here, 


137 


[827.] 


[828.] 


[829.] 


[830.] 


138 CRONICUM scOoTORUM. 


Lorecad Pape La Lerdtimid. Sturbne mac Parpms, Ob 
Damingm, a nCpomata quretie. 

kct.  Diapmard [oo ciactain] an Epinn co miondoib 
Colum Cille. Murpenn Cbhbacppa Cille vapa, qtnewe. 
Inpad Conaille vo Fenub, sup sabaccap Maolbmsoe 
appi, ec Cananan a bpatap, ec co pu bept co a 
Lonceorb. 1npacd Lire La Concupap mac Donnchada. 

Ict. Ceona opsain Cipo Macha o Fencib fo cp an 
aon mip. Opsain Luckma$ ec Mucpnama, ocup Omer, 
et “Opoma hubta, ocur apaili cell. Opsain Oamlasg 
Cianain ocup pine Ciannaéoa, cona cellar’, o Sencib. 
Tuatal mac Lepaoms vo bpeit vo Fencsb, ocup pepin 
CCoamnain o Domneé Magen. inpod Detpa fo cpi La 
Lerdlimd. Lopecad Tepmainn Cluana Crapéan la 
Levolim1d mac Crimthain. Opsain lip mdip o Fencib. 
Mopp Concupap me Oonnchavha, Ri Tempaé. mer 
CCpcpaé mic Concupoip. Niall Cartle pesnac. 

Ict. Raoined pe Niall ocup pe Mupchaoh pop 
Sullu a n Vapi Caleas. Opsain Cluana “Oolcan o | 
Sena’. tusulamo muincipe Cluana muc Nop, ocuy 
Lorecad a Tepmainn copice vopup cille La Lerolim1s 
Ri Caryl. Laen cuma ceona muinup Oupmag, co 
oopup a ceille. Mopp Diapmaoa mic Tomalearg, Ri 
Connacht. 





1 Mucsnamha. Wiucpima, A. B., 
which is wrong, as Mucrimhe, or 
Mucramha, was the name of a plain 
in the county of Galway (Ogygia, 
pars iii., p. 67); and from the con- 
text it seems likely that Mucsnamha, 
now Mucknoe, in the county of Mon- 
aghan, was meant. The Ann. Ult. 
(831) and Four Mast. (830) have 
Mucpnarna. 

2 Omeith. This should probably 
read “the churches of Omeith,” or 
‘* Ui-meith-Macha,” a tribe and ter- 
ritory in the co, Monaghan, contain- 





ing, among other churches, that of 
Mucksnamha, or Mucknoe. 

. 8 Domhnach Maghen. “ODomnach 
Magagen, A.B. “Oomnach Ma- 
sen, Four Mast. (830). “Domnach 
Maghan, Ann. Ult. (831). The 
place referred to is Donaghmoyne, in 
the barony of Farney and county of 
Monaghan. See Dr. Reeves’s note 
on the subject of Adamnan’s shrine 
being taken from a church of which 
he was not the patron. Columba, p. 
389, note *. O’F. thinks the rest of 
this entry belongs to the year 838, 





; 139 
Cluain-Iraird, quievit. Burning of Fore by Feidhlimidh. 


©HRONICUM SCOTORUM. 




























Ard-Macha. | 

Kal. Diarmaid [came] to Erinn, with the reliquaries 
of Colum Cille. Muirenn, Abbess of Cill-dara, quievit. 
The plundering of Conaille by Gentiles, who captured 
Maelbrighde, its King, and Cananan, his brother, whom 
they carried off to their ships. Plundering of Life by 
Conchobhar, son of Donnchadh. 

Kal. First plundering of Ard-Macha by Gentiles ; 
thrice in one month it was plundered. Plundering of 
Lughmhagh, and Mucsnamha,' and Omeith,? and Druim- 
Hubhla, and other churches. Spoiling of Daimhliag 
Cianain, and the territory of Ciannachta, with its churches, 
by Gentiles. Tuathal, son of Feradach, carried off by 
Gentiles; and Adamnan’s shrine taken from Domhnach 
Maghen.* Bethra* devastated thrice by Feidhlimidh. 
Burning of the termon of Cluain Ciarain® by Feidhlimidh, 
son of Crimhthann. Plundering of Lis-mér by Gentiles. 
Death of Conchobhar, son of Donnchadh, King of Temhair. 
Quies of Artri,® son of Conchobhar. Niall Caille reigns. 

Kal. <A victory gained by Niall and Murchadh over 
the foreigners, in Daire Chalgaigh. Plundering of Cluain 
Dolcan by Gentiles. Jugulatio of the family’ of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, and the burning of its termon as far as the 
church-door, by Feidhlimidh, King of Caisel. In the 
same manner did he treat the family’ of Duirmhagh, as 
far as the door of their church. Death of Diarmaid, son 
of Tomaltach, King of Connacht. 





Suibhne, son of Fairnech, Abbot of Daimhinis, quievit at — 









4 Bethra; t.e. Dealbhna Bethra, now 
the barony of Garrycastle, King’s 
county. O’F. adds the date 833 in 
the marg. 

5 Termon of Cluain Ciarain; i.e. the 
Termon, or Church-lands of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, of which St. Ciaran was 
the founder. See Todd’s St. Patrick, 
Pr 160, 





_ 6 Artri. O’F. adds in the marg, 
that he was Bishop of Armagh. See 
under the year 827. 


7? Family. mumoipe, gen. of 
muincep; lit. ‘ people,” and fre- 
quently put for family, i.e. “com. 


munity,” or “ congregation,” 


[832.] 


[833.] 


140 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Ict. Coccan Maimypcpeé, Ob ipo Macha, quiretie. 
—Oeppae Lbbacippa Chille vapa, qureus. Ceallaé 
mac Dpain, Ri Largen, ec Cinaoé mac Conang, Ri 
Dpeg, mopruncup. Cat pop Senab pé “Ounchad mac 
Scannlain, Ri N. Lprogente, oti accopcap ile oiub. 
Opsain Slinne Sa Locha 6 Sencib. 

Hct. Opscan Lepna médip ex Cluana méip Maooéis 
o Senzib, ocuy Lopeead Mungarpoe, ocup aparle ceatl 
vin Mumhan. Cevacan Lusmars vé5 anailicpe a 
cCLluain muc Norp. 

fet. Surbne mac lope’, OCbb Flinne va Loéa, queue. 
Ceall vapa vapsain 6 Seni’ o inbep Vex, ocup pa 
Loipecpiod Let na cille. Sabarl an vepoaige a cCill 
papa pop Lopannan Cb CCipomaca, 50 pathad Paopars 
apchena, La feolimid mac Cpimchainn, co cat ec 
ndIn1, Ocup po Zabca 1cacv cona numaloois. Uapcacio 
Cluana mop Maoodig a Senctibur in nocce Naciu- 
cacy “Domini; mopripicauepunc mulcor; plupimor 
abpculepunt. Uapcatio cpudelippima ommum Con- 
nachtopum a Sencibur. 

Ict. Riacan mac Linnachta, Les Ri Larsen, mopi- 
cup. Lonsap Tu .xx. Long 00 Nopmainoid pop Doinn. 
Longap oile Ty .2x. Lons for abainn Lipre. Ro Llapao 
an vana Longa pen Mak Lire ocup Mak mbpes, 
evip cella ocur cuata. Raoined pé peparb net for. 
Sentibh contopcpaccap pe ax. 16. Caé pe Fentib 
for U1 NéiLL o Inbep na mbape, o muip 50 Sinuinn, 
ol po Laced ap nap haipmed prarh, act optimi pesep 
euapepunt. Lorecatd Cluana muc Noi ocup inp 
Celcpa, ocup cella Locha hpne mle; ec Oaimimyp v0 
mitlacpiuctad o Fencib. Mapbad Savoilb cars nec 
ngall La Ciannacht. Op Fence a cCapn Lepaohars. 





1 Affraic. The remainder of this £ Night; i.e. on Christmas Eve, 
entry is written in the English cha- 8 From Inbher-na-mbare, from the 
racter in A, and B, 8043 i.e. from Inbher-na-mbare, which 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 141 


Kal. Eoghan Mainistrech, Abbot of Ard-Macha, 
quievit. Affraic,’ Abbess of Cill-dara, quievit. Ceallach, 
son of Bran, King of Laighen, and Cinaeth, son of 
Conaing, King of Bregh, moriuntur. A battle gained 
over Gentiles by Dunchadh, son of Scannlan, King of 
Ui Fidhgheinte, in which many of them were slain. 
Plundering of Glenn-da-locha by Gentiles. 

. Kal. Plundering of Ferna-mér and Cluain-mér- 
Maedhdig by Gentiles, and burning of Mungairid and 
other churches in Ir-Mumhan. Aedhacan of Lughmhagh 
died on his pilgrimage at Cluain-muc-Nois. 

Kal. Suibhne, son of Joseph, Abbot of Glenn-da- 
locha, quievit. Cill-dara plundered by Gentiles from 
Inbher Dea; and they burned half the church. The 
taking of the oratory at Cill-dara against Forannan, 
Abbot of Ard-Macha, with the congregation of Patrick 
besides, by Feidhlimidh, son of Crimhthann, by battle and 
arms; and they were taken prisoners, with their submis- 
sion. Devastation of Cluain-mor-Maedhoig by Gentiles, 
on the night? of the Lord’s Nativity. They put many 
persons to death, and carried off a very great number. 
Most cruel devastation of all Connacht by Gentiles. 

Kal. Riagan, son of Finnachta, half-King of Laighen, 
moritur. A fleet of three score ships of Norsemen on the 
Boinn. Another fleet of three score ships on the river 
Liffe. These two fleets ravaged Magh Life and Magh 
Bregh, both churches and territories. A victory gained 
by the men of Bregh over the Gentiles, of whom six 
score were slain. <A battle gained by Gentiles over the 
Ui Neill, from Inbher-na-mbarc, from the sea,*? to the 
Sinuinn, in which such slaughter was inflicted as had 
never before been reckoned; but the chief Kings escaped.‘ 
Burning of Cluain-muc-Nois, and Inis Celtra, and all 








was situated on the eastern sea- ‘ Escaped. Inuapepunt (invase- 
coast of Ireland, westwards to the | runt), A.B. Cuapep . (for “evase- 
Shannon. runt”), Ann. Ult. (836). — 


[834.] 


[835.] 


[836.] 


[837.] 


142 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Maom na Lepcace pra Fencib. Cp Fente ag Ey- 
pumd. Ceo sabal WCéa Cliaé o Fenmb. Copmac mae 
Cuilennd&in nacup ert. Catal mac Murpgera, Ri 
Connacht, moputup. 

Ict. Ruaop: mac Donnchada, pecunoup Cbbap 
Cluana Ipaipo, canary Cbb Cluana muc Norp, quieurs. 
Cat pra n5enub pop Connachta, in quo cecioepuns 
Maelotin mac Muipsepra, et ali. Opan mac Paolain, 
Ri Larccen, mopouur. 

Ket. Murpevaé mac Céat, Ri ULed, 1uZulacup eps a 
rup fracpbup 1. Cod ocup Congup es aliip. Sorlt 
pop Loch Ccaé sup capyeton Tuanpyeps Epend ap, evip 
ell ip cunt. Lopccad Lepna ocup Copcaige 6 Send. 

Kt. Opsain Lugmang v0 Loé C&aé 6 Fonzi’, eprp- 
copor ev ppeppitepor ev papienter captitop DUXEpUNT. 
Llopicup Impepacop Lpancopum quiews. PLedlimid 
Ri Muman ovinpad Mive ocup Opek, convepro a 
coempais. Inpad [CLeapa] Cell ocur [Oeatbted eee 
la Niall mac Coda. Moprpp Mupchaoa Ri Connaéts 
1. mac Coda loreph Ror, Epipcopup ec bb 
Cluana eoip, quiems. Fun Cinaota me Copepas, Ri 
Dpeagmuine. 
et. Senze pop Loch C&aé bedp. Longpops oc Lino 
ouaéall, ap ap Loited cuata ocup cealla Teabta. 
Longpops og “Omblinn, ap ap Lorced Longin ocur h, 
Neill evoip cuacharb ocup cellaib co Sliab Dlcoma. 
Opsain Cluana Cones ec dilgenn Cluana Ipdipo ooup 
Cille aichand o Fencib. 





1 Cathal. O’F. adds the year 838 
in the marg., in A, 


2 Vice-Abbot, The words “ 
cunour Obbap Ctuana Ipaipo” 
are written as an orig. gloss over the 
name of Ruaidhri in A., and taken 
into the text in B. In the Four 
Mast. (837=838) Ruaidhri is des- 





cribed as “Prior of Cluain-Iraird and 
Abbot of other churches.” 

8 Muiredhach. See note §, p. 184. 

4 Floriacus; i.e. Ludovicus Pius, 
who died 12 July, 840. This entry 
is transposed in A. and B., being intro- 
duced between the words “Sencib” 
and “@prpeopor” in the preceding 


sentence. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 148 


the churches of Loch Erne, and Daimhinis destroyed, by 
Gentiles. The killing of Saxolb, Lord of the Foreigners, 
by the Ciannachta. A slaughter of Gentiles at Carn-Fe- 
radhaigh. The victory of the Ferta gained by Gentiles. 
A slaughter of Gentiles at Eas-ruaidh. First taking 
of Ath-cliath by Gentiles. Cormac, son of Cuillennan, 
was born. Cathal,’ son of Muirghes, King of Connacht, 
moritur. 

Kal. Ruaidhri, son of Donnchadh, vice-Abbot? of 
Cluain-Irvaird, and tanist Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
quievit. A battle gained by Gentiles over the Con- 
nachtmen, in which fell Maelduin, son of Muirghes, and 
others. Bran, son of Faelan, King of Laighen, mortuus. 
Kal. Muiredhach,’? son of Eochaidh, King of Uladh, 
murdered by his brothers, viz, Aedh and Aengus, and 
others. Foreigners on Loch Echach, so that they devas- 
tated the north of Erin, both churches and territories. 
Burning of Ferna and Corcach, by Gentiles. 

Kal. Plundering of Lughmhagh by Gentiles from 
Loch Echach, who carried captive bishops, and presby- 
ters, and sages. Floriacus,t Emperor of the Franks, 
quievit. Feidhlimidh, King of Mumhan, plundered Midhe 
and Bregh, and rested at Temhair. Plundering of [Feara] 
Ceall and [Dealbhna] Beathra by Niall, son. of Aedh. 
Death of Murchadh, King of Connacht, i.e. the son of 
Aedh. Joseph of Ross, Bishop and Abbot of Cluain-eois, 
quievit. [Mortal] wounding of Cinaeth, son of Coscrach, 
King of Breghmhuine. 

Kal. Gentiles still on Loch Echach. A fortress erected 
by Foreigners at Linn-duachaill, from which the terri- 
tories and churches of Teabhtha were spoiled. A fortress 
erected at Dubhlinn, from which Laighen and the Ui 
Neill were spoiled, both territories and churches, as 
far as Sliabh Bladhma. Plundering of Cluain-edhnech, 
and demolition of Cluain-Iraird and Cill-achaidh, by 
Gentiles. ? : 






























A.D. 
[837.] 


[838.] 


[839.] 


[840.] 


[841.] 


144 


Ict. Sence pop Omplind bedp. Opsain Cluana 
muc Noip o Sentib vo Linn ouachall. Opsain Dippa 
ocup Saépe o Fencib. Longer Nopmainnib pop boinn 
oc Linn poipp. Loingep ele occ Linn vuaécnll. Coeman 
CCbb Linve vuakaill vo Bon, ec vo Lorecad vo Fentib. 
Opsain “Oipipts Oriapmava vo Cael upque o Sencib. 
Oungal mac Lepsaile, Ri Opparge, mopisup. Cennenrs 
oapsain ocup 00 Lopecad Cluana muc Norp. 

t. Lepsup mac Pocmd, Ri Connacht, moprcup. 
Donnacan mac Maeilicuile, peprba et ancopita quires 
im icahia. Maelpuanmd Ri Mide, momicup. Con- 
salué mac Ipsgalongs, cancay Cbbad Cluana mue Nor, 
quiet. 

}ct. Ronan, Cbb Cluana muc Nop, quiews; vo 
Lactm® Roip cetpaé 0. Compppe mac Catal, Rr 
Langen, mopizup. Tolops mac CCLLaled, ploaré Pella, 
occipup eps o Fallois Locha Rib, ec Tepnum PLinnacan 
mac OCLLailed uacorp. 

Hct. Lopanoan, Ob OCipo Macha, ou epsabail 6 
Senaib a cCluain Comapoa, cona minoab ocup cona 
muintip, es ambpert a Longaib so Luimneé. Opsain 
Otin Mare o Fenab, of po mapbad Cod mac Owb 
va cpioc, Ob Tipe va Flapp ocup Cluana Grom, ocup 
Ceitepnac mac Conomaipe, recnab Cille vapa. Din 
la Tupser do sallenp pop Loch nib, 50 po Loitetop 
Connachta ocup Mive, es cop Loipepioc Clucin muc 
Noir cona veptighib, ec Clucan pepta Dpentinn, et Tip 
va slapp, et Locpa, et catpataromda Catpained pop 
Sentib pra Niall mac Coda a Mars ictha. Opgain 


CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 





1 Laighne of Ros-tethrach. ‘‘ Ros- | Echenach, now Donaghmore, near 


Temrach,” Four Mast. (842). There 
was a tribe called the Laighne of 
Ros-Temrach settled in Meath, in 
whose territory Colgan (Trip. Life of 
St. Patrick, lib. ii., c. 10) places the 
church of Domhnach-mor-Muighe- 





Navan. 

2 Fealla. This territory is also 
mentioned in the Four Mast.; but 
Dr. O’Donoyan, not knowing that it 
occurred in this Chronicle, thought it 
a mistake of those compilers. See his 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 145 


Kal. Gentiles on Dubhlinn still. Plundering of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, by Gentiles from Linn-duachaill. Plundering 
__ of Birr and Saigher by Gentiles. A fleet of Norsemen on 
the Boinn, at Linn-ross. Another fleet at Linn-duachaill. 
_ Caemhan, Abbot of Linn-duachaill, mortally wounded 
and burnt by Gentiles. Plundering of Disert-Diarmada, 
from Cael-uisce, by Gentiles. Dungal, son of Fergal, 
King of Osraighe, moritur. Cennetigh plundered, and 
Cluain-muc-Nois burnt by Gentiles. | 

Kal. Fergus, son of Fothadh, King of Connacht, 
_ moritur. Donnacan, son of Maeltuile, scribe and anchorite, 
_ quievit in Italy. Maelruanaidh, King of Midhe, moritur. 
_ Congalach, son of Irgalach, tanist-Abbot of Cluain-muc- 
 Nois, quievit. 

Kal. Ronan, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit; he 
was of the Laighne of Ros-tetrach.' Coirpre, son of 
Cathal, King of Laighen, moritur. Tolorg, son of Allai- 
ledh, Chief of Fealla,? slain by the Gentiles of Loch Ribh; 
and Finnacan, son of Allailedh, escaped from them. 
Kal. Forannan, Abbot of Ard-Macha, captured by 
Gentiles at Cluain-comardha, together with his reliquaries 
_ and people; and they were taken in ships to Luimnech. 
_ Plundering of Dun-Masc by Gentiles, on which occasion 
_ Aedh, son of Dubh-da-crich, Abbot of Tir-da-glass and 
_ Cluain-Eidhnech, and Ceithernach, son of Condmaise, 
vice-Abbot of Cill-dara, were slain. A fortress erected 
by Turges for the foreigners, on Loch Ribh, so that they 
spoiled Connacht and Midhe, and burned Cluain-muc- 
 Nois, with its oratories, and Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, and 
_ Tir-da-glass, and Lothra, and numerous cities. A battle- 
breach overt Gentiles gained by Niall, son of Aedh, in 































note (*), F. M., ad an. 842. The | probably meaning ecclesiastical es- 
 éituation of Fealla has not been as- | tablishments. ‘“Cealta,” churches, 
certained. or cells. —Four Mast. 

» * Cities. cacpaca, pl. of cacharp, 

a city, seat, or chief abode; and here 4 Over. op, A.; omitted in B. 
L 


[842.] 


[843.] 


[844] 


[845.] 


146 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Oonvchada me Pollathain octp Llainn me Maeil- 
fuanad, la Maelpeclain mac Malpuanad. Tupgep 
0 epgsabail La Maelpeélain mac Manlpuanard, ocup 
babad Tupgep 11 Loé Uap. 

}ct. Catal mac Cilitla, Ri N. Marne; PLepoomnaé, 
‘papienr Oipo Macha; Connmaé mop mac Copepargs 
Ri h. mOprtin, vopmepuns. Niall Carlle, mac eva, 
Ri Tempaé, v0 badad a cCallaind. Mdelotiin mac 
Conall, Ri Calacpoma, vo suin o LargniB. Caé por 
Connachta pe salloib, ubi Risan mac Lepsuya, ec 
Musp6n mac Orapmeva, et Cod mac Cacapnargs, ocup 
ali cecrdeptinc. “Oonnchad mac OCmalccada, Ri N. 
nééoaé, mopisup. Opsain Tepmainn Ciapdin 6 Led- 
limo mac Cpimthainn. Ciapan, ono, 00 tocho na 
miats a Mumain, ocup fopsom va bacalt [vo tabaipr] 
0 inn, copsab suin mecoddin 6. Maelpechlain pesnac. 

ct.  ferdtimd, Ri Muman, opsmup Scocopum 
repaba et ancopica, quietic. 

Ouppan a Dé oPerdtim19, ‘ 
Tonn bir bapom poobsrde ; 
Poveana bpdn vEipenncharb 
Nao map mac Cpamthaino Claife. 


Togail Innpr Mumpemarp La Maolpeclainn [pop 
pianlaé mop] 01 maccord bap Lurgn ec Farleng, po 
baccup oF innpao na cuat mone Fencilium. Raoined 
mop pé Ceapball mac “Oungarls pop gon, in quo 





1 King of Temhair. The letters 
“nn. oe.” (for pig Epenn, “ King of 
Erinn”) are added in the marg. in A. 

‘by the orig. hand. 

2 Termon of Ciaran; %.e. the ter- 
mon lands belonging to Cluain-muc- 
Nois. 

* Feidhlimidh. ‘‘ Rex] Momo- 
nie ;” marg. note by O'F, 

4 Followed him. The record of this 
event given by the Four Mast. (844) 





represents Feidhlimidh as only “ima- 
gining” that he was pursued and 
struck by St. Ciaran; and the , 
of Clonmacnoise (843) state that 
Ciaran appeared to him in a vision, 48 
he slept. 

5 Maelsechlain. ‘The orig. hand has 
added the letters p. ©. in the marg., _ 
in A., to signify that Maclsechlain 
was pug Epenn (King of Erinn). 

® King of Mumhan, Giraldus Gam. 


brensis (Top. Hib, Dist. HI, c 44) 





q “in Loch Uair. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 147 


_ MaghItha. Plundering of Donnchadh, son of Follamhan, 
j and of Flann, son of Maelruanaidh, by Maelsechlain, son 
of Maelruanaidh. Turges was taken prisoner by Mael- 
_ sechlain, son of Maelruanaidh ; and Turges was drowned 


q Kal. Cathal, son of Ailill, King of Ui Maine; Fer- 
4 -domhnach, “sapiens,” of Ard-Macha; and Connmach 
a -mér, son of Coserach, King of Ui mBriuin, dormierunt. 
Be pevall Caille, son of Aedh, King of Temhair,! was drowned 
_ inthe Callann. Maelduin, son of Conall, King of Cala- 
 truim, [mortally] wounded by the Lagenians. A battle 
4 gained over the Connachtmen by Foreigners, in which 
 Rigan, son of Fergus, Mughron, son of Diarmaid, and 
q Aedh, son of Catharnach, and others, fell. Donnchadh, 
son of Ambhalgaidh, King of Ui nEchdach, moritur. 
q " Plundering of the Termon of Ciaran? by Feidhlimidh,® 
_ son of Crimthann. Ciaran, however, followed him‘ to 

_ Mumbhan, and [gave] him a thrust of his crozier, so that 
he received an internal wound. Maelsechlain® reigns. 

_ Kal. Feidhlimidh, King of Mumhan,° the best of the 
_ Scoti, a scribe and anchorite, quievit. 

Alas! O God! for Feidhlimidh ; 

The cold wave of death has drowned him ; 

It is a cause of grief to the men of Erinn, 

That the son of Crimthann of Claire lives not. 


_ Demolition of Inis-Muinremhar by Maelsechlainn, [against 
_ a great multitude’ of “sons of death” of the Luighne and 
4 Pypelengs, who were plundering the territories after the 


| manner of Gentiles. A great victory gained by Cerbhall, 





etiielie Feidhlimidh among the 
4 Monarchs of Ireland, thus agreeing 
With the Bodleian Annals of Innis- 
y, oar but the Annalists of the 
_ forthern portion of Ireland deny him 








being plain that some words were 
omitted in the text, the clause in 
brackets has been added from tlie 
Ann. Ult. (846). For prantaé, a 
multitude, the Four Mast. (845) have 


giattaé, a word of identical signifi- 
cation. 


L2 


[846.] 


[847.] 


148 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


cecidepunt .m.ce. Céd opgain Imlicé 1ubaip 6 Fencrb. 
Cosan mac Eoacan, mic Topbars, ancopita, a cClucin 
muc Now quiews. 

Ict. Einvatoa mac Tomalcarcch, Sanecvup Lummis, 
ancopita port, et Rex Connacht ppiup, qureurc. 
Tuatcup mac Cobcmé, Ri Lurgne, moproup. Cat pe 
Maolpeélainn mac Maeilpuanad [pop Fencb] 1 
Lopors, 1n quo cecroepunt .u11. ced. Cat pe nOLcobup, 
Ri Muman ocup pe Lopedn mac Cellars co Largnib, 
fropn Senzwib 1c Scims Nechtain in quo cecrois Tompaip 
lapla, Tanaapy~ Ris Lochlann, ocup va céd Dec 1mm1. 
Raoined ps Tigepnaé, Ri Locha Fabap, pop Fencib, 1 
nOape Oipips Daconna, in quo cecrdepunt Da PICT 
rece. Raoined pe nEosanacht Carl pop Senub ag 
Oun Maorlecinle, 1n quo cecrdepunt curs céd. Dunas 
La hOLcobap vo cosail diiin Copcm¥e pop Fenzr. 

fet. Concang mac Llainn, Ri Dpek, moprcup. Niall 
mac Cinaeda, Ri Umall, mopitup. Clonsup mac 
Clgaile, Ppincepp "Oomnas Paoparc, ocup Pinnatca 
mac “Oropmaoa, Cb Oamliags, es Maolpucoas, Cb 
Cipro Dpeacéan qtuieuepunc.. Inpad Ourblinne La Maol- 
peclainn ec La Tigepnaé, Ri Locha Sapap. PLLlann mac 
Cuanaé, Ppincepp Marmpcpeé [quiewc]. Murppeachs 
reacht ppicit Longs 00 muintip Rig Fall vo ctraécain vo 





1 Over Agond. ~. Ogonn, A. B. 
Dr. O’Conor, in his ed. of the Ann, 
Ult. (846), translates this expression 
“de predonibus;” but there is no 
authority for such an interpretation. 
The word “QCgonv” is apparently 
the name of some Danish chieftain. 
“ Haconn” would probably be so 
written; and a chieftain of this name 
is mentioned in the ‘‘ Wars of the 
Gaedhil with the Gaill,” but his ar- 
rival in Ireland is referred to the year 
916. See Todd’s ed. of the work, 
p. 27. 

* Of Torbach. Topbarypg, of Tor- 





barg, A. B.; but the name is written — 
Torbach in all other authorities. 

3 Of Luimnech. Thisnameis written 
LIuibnigh, “of Luibnech,” in the Ann. 
Ult. (847) and Four Mast. (846). 
Dr. O’Donovan (Four Mast. loe. cit.) 
states that Luibnech was “a place 
on the borders of ancient Meath and 
Munster, where it is probable he © 
(Finnachda) was fostered ;” but in 
the Baile Finnachda, a tract preserved 
in the Yellow Book of Lecan (col. 
908), Finnachda is represented as 
having proceeded from Connaught to« 

Ui Cinnsealaigh, to the spot called 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 149 


son of Dunghal, over Agond,’ in which 1,200 were slain. 

First plundering of Imlech-Ibhair by Gentiles. Eoghan, 
-son of Edacan, son of Torbach,? anchorite, quievit at 
Cluain-muc-Nois. 

Kal. Finnachda, son of Tomaltach, the Saint of 
Luimnech,’ latterly an anchorite, and previously King of 
Connacht, quievit. Tuathchur, son of Cobhthach, King 
of Luighne, moritur. A battle gained by Maelsechlainn, 
son of Maelruanaidh, [over the Gentiles], at Forach, in 
which 700 fell. A battle gained by Olchobhar, King 
of Mumhan, and by Lorcan, son of Cellach,* with 
the Lagenians, over the Gentiles, at Sciagh Nechtain, in 
__ which Tomrair Earl, tanist of the King of Lochlann, was 
slain, and 1,200 along with him. A victory gained by 
Tigernach, King of Loch Gabhar, over Gentiles, at Daire- 
Disert-Dachonna, where twelve score perished. <A victory 
gained by the Eoghanacht-Chaisil over Gentiles, at Dan 
Maeiltuile, in which 500 were slain. A fort erected by 
Olchobhar, to demolish the fort of Corcach against the 
Gentiles. 

Kal. Conaing, son of Flann, King of Bregh, moritur. 
Niall, son of Cinaedh, King of Umall, moritur. Aengus, 
son of Alghail, Superior of Domhnach Padraig, and 
Finnachda, son of Diarmaid, Abbot of Daimhliag, and 
Maelfuadhaigh, Abbot of Ard-Brecain, quieverunt. The 
plundering of Dubhlinn by Maelsechlainn, and by Tiger- 

~ nach, King of Loch Gabhar. Flann, son of Cuana, Abbot 
_ of Mainister Bute, [quievit]. A naval expedition of seven 
score ships, of the people of the King of the Foreigners, 











Formael, at which place, according to 
Keating (Hist. Ir., reign of Cormac 
Mac Airt), was Luimnech Laighen, or 


y Limerick of Leinster. It is now 


called Limerick, and is situated in 


the parish of Kileavan, barony of 


Gorey, and county of Wexford. 





4 Of Cellach. Cattaré (“of Cath- 


lach”), A. B.; evidently a mistake 
for Cellaig (“of Cellach”), as in the 
other Annals, and in the ancient list 
of Kings preserved in the Book of 
Leinster. O’Flaherty has added the 
letters “‘R. L.,” for “ Rex Lagenie,” 
in the marg. in A. poeM 


A.D. 
[847.] 


[848.] 


[849.] 


150 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


cabaips Epeama for na sallenb baccup ap a ecinn, 
commepcpac hepinn tile rapum. Maolbpepail mae 
Cephans, Ri Musdopn sugulacup ept a Fennlibup rap 
wcect co clepcet. On cporp a prpaitte Slaine vo 
éumpabal spin aep et a combpuccad, es a@ povail, co 
soppacht ni via bapp Tallon ocup Pinnabaip abae. 

kct. Cévadaé OCb Cluana muc Norp, ve 1b Copmare 
Maen Marge, ec Tuatal mac Lepadmé, Cb Reepann 
et Depmaige, quieuepunc. Cinaod mac Conaing, Ri 
Ciannacoa, v0 pictarzect pe MaelpeélLaann mac Mael- 
puanad a nepc gall, sup poindep o Sronainn co mup, 
eitip cealla ocup thata, et Sup ops nny Loéa Babop ; 
ocit pa Loipeced Leip oupceé Tpeorce cum .ec.le 
hommbur, ec oupteé nuappaé cum le. hominibup. 
Mopp Cobchars mic Maorlicoba, Ri Crapparge Luatpa 
Reccappat, OCb Cluana pepca Dpencann, qureurs. Loch 
Lang hi epré Umaill La Connachta velon. 

Ict. Oleobup mac Cinaoda, Ri Carpl, moprcap. 
Cinaod mac Conains, Ri Ciannacoa, vemeppup eps in 
Lacu .. 1n Ong, cpuvel: mopte 6 Maorlpeclain ev 6 
Tisepnaé; 1 poermab vais vaoinb nEpeann, et 
comapba Paopaig ppecialicep. Teact Ompgentib vo 
CLE Cliaé sup palpas &p mop pop Lionn Falloib, ocup 
Eup invippios an Longpopet edip daornrb ocup maoinid. 
Slac ele 00 Ombsencib con &p mop pop Linngencib oc 
Linn Ouakall. Rig Sal anOpo Maka evorp Maolpec- 
Lain co maizib Lerte Cuinn, ocup Maouvan co mai’ 





1 Rechtabhrach. 
Recca-p, B. 

2 Loch Laigh. Loch Cong, A. B. 

8 King of Caisel. O’F. adds the 
letters ““R. M.” in the marg. in A., 
to signify that Olchobhar was “ Rex 
Momoniz,” or King of Munster. 

4 In the Anghi. “im OCng),” added 
as a gloss over the word “oemep- 


ry” in A, 


Reccapp, A. 





5 Province of Conchobhar; %.e. 
Uladh, or Ulidia, 

6 Fethgna. Over this name, in A., 
the orig. hand has written “Ceacht,” 
to signify that Fethgna should pro- 
bably be Feachtgna, or Fechtgna, as 
in the succeeding entry; but at the 
year 859, infra, the name is written 
etsna (Fethgna), the form in which 


| it appears in the several lists of Ab- 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 151 






























came to oppress the Foreigners who were im Erinn 
before them; and they disturbed all Erinn afterwards, 
Maelbresail, son of Cernach, King of Mughdhorn, was 
murdered by Gentiles, after having entered into the clerical 
state. The cross on theegreen of Slane was lifted up 
into the air; and broken, and scattered, so that fragments 
of its top reached Taillten and Finnabhair-abha. 
Kal. Cedadhach, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, of the 
Ui Cormaic of Maen-magh, and Tuathal, son of Feradhach, 
Abbot of Rechra and Dermhagh, quieverunt. Cinaedh, 
son of Conaing, King of Ciannachda, rebelled against 
Maelsechlainn, son of Maelruanaidh, through the influence 
of the Foreigners, so that he devastated from the Sionann 
to the sea, both churches and territories; and he spoiled 
the islands of Loch Gabhar; and the oratory of Treoit 
was burnt by him, with 260 men im it; and the oratory 
of Nuarrach, with 60 men im it. Death of Cobhthach, 
son of Maelcobha, King of Ciarraighe Luachra. Rech- 
tabhrach,! Abbot of Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, quievit. Loch 
Laigh,? in the territory of Umhall, in Connacht, stole away. 
Kal, Olchobhar, son of Cinaedh, King of Caisel,’ 
moritur. Cinaedh, son of Conaing, King of Ciannachda, 
was drowned in a lake (7.e, in the Anghi*)—a cruel death 
—by Maelsechlainn and Tigernach, to the satisfaction of 
all the good men of Erinn, and of the comarb of Patrick 
especially, The arrival of Dubh-Ghenti at Ath-cliath, 
and they inflicted great slaughter on the Finn-Gaill, and 
devasted the fortress, both people and property. Another 
depredation committed by Dubh-Ghenti on Finn-Ghenti, 
with great havoc, at Linn-duachaill. A royal meeting 
at Ard-Macha, including Maelsechlain, with the nobles of 
Leth Chuinn, and Madudhan, with the nobles of the 
Province of Conchobhar,® and Dermait and Fethgna,® 





dots of Armagh quoted by the Rev. | except that from the Book of Leinster 
‘Dr, Todd (St. Patrick, pp. 174-182), | in which it is written “Fechgna,” 


A.D. 
[849.] 


[850.] 


[851.] 


152 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


corcced Concubaip, ec Depmare, ocup LetEna co pamud 
Paopare, et Suaapleé co cleper} Mrovhe. . 

}ct. “Ouo hepevep Paopiic «1. Lopanvan pepba ev. 
Epipcopur, ocup ancoputa, et Diapmaro paprensippimup 
ommtum Doctopum Eupopae, queuepunt.  Uapcacio 
CLipo Macha o gallos Linne Ouacall ve Sarh Chaps. 
Lucz oct .xx. Léng vfinngentib vo pocccaccup D0 cat 
fma Ombgenub vo Snath Cigneé; 1. Larte ocup opi 
adée of catuccad vo1b, acht ap pe “Ombsenvib po 
meabaid, co papspac a cel: oa Longaib Leo. Scan 
pupimiuup euayiz; et lepene vecollacur ert. Posapcaé 
mac Maolbpepal, Ri Cipsiall, mopicup. Colum. 
mac O:pechtars, OCb Copcaige, quieus. PLetosna a 
ceomapburp Pacptie. . 

kct.  OCmtaib mac Ri Loglainne v0 tTo1szect anEpinn, 
sup siallpac saill Epeann 06, et ciop o Faoroealsb Do. 
Catcisepn mac Suape, Ri Largen Depsabarp, rugu- 
Lacup ert dolore 6 Dpuaccap mac Coda, ec 6 Cepbalt 
mac “Oungaile; ec Opuaccap, mac Cova, rugulacup 
ert dolore a pocur pup in .clun®. die pops 1up5uLla-. 
tionem Ctcuizepn. Catal mac Tomalomés, Leis Ri 
Ulad, a Nopmannip inceppectuy ert. 

}ct. Maolpeclain Ri Tempa vo Sul co peporb 
Muman coprse Indéin na nVem, ocup angialla vo 
cabaps. Inpachtat h. Linnachta, hepep Colum Cille, 
fapieny optimurp, 1111. 10. Mapcn apuo Saxonep map- 
apizacup. Muipgel Rigan Larsen mopcua ere. 

fet. Obbaxppa Cille oapa, 1. Cacpian, ques. 
Cpreé La Cod mac Nell co hULlcu, co papso1b Connecan 





1 Samh Chasg; lit. ‘‘ Summer Eas- 
ter.” This has been translated ‘the 


Clarend. tom. 49); but according to 
an ancient tract on Ecclesiastical - 


Sunday before Easter” by Dr. O’Do- 
novan (Four Mast., ad an. 850), and 
“Dies Pasche” by Dr. O’Conor (Ann. 
Ult. 851). The English translr. of 
the latter Chronicle also renders it 
by ‘“ Easter-day,” (MS. Brit. Mus., 





Seasons, preserved in the MS. Laud, — 
610, Bodleian Library, Samh Chase 
is the first Sunday after the seven- 
teenth of the July moon; and in the 
Leabhar Breac, fol. 35 b., it is stated 
to be the 40th day after Cengergip, - 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 153. 


with the congregation of Patrick, and Suairlech, with the 
clergy of Midhe. . 

Kal. Two successors of Patrick, viz., Forannan, scribe 
and Bishop, and anchorite, and Diarmaid, the wisest of 
all the doctors of Europe, quieverunt. The devastation 
of Ard-Macha by the Foreigners of Linn-duachaill, on 
the day of Samh Chasg.’ A fleet of eight score ships of 
Finn-Ghenti arrived to fight against Dubh-Ghenti, at 
Snamh-aignech. They fought during three days and 
three nights; but the Dubh-Ghenti were successful, so 
that their opponents abandoned their ships to them. 
Stain escaped fleeing; and Iercne? was beheaded. Fo- 
gartach, son of Maelbresail, King of Airghiall, moritur. 
Colum, son of Airechtach, Abbot of Corcach, quievit. 
Fechtgna* in the comarbship of Patrick. 

Kal. Amblaibh, son of the King of Lochlann, arrived 
in Erinn, so that the Foreigners of Erinn submitted to 
him, and tribute was paid to him by the’ Gaeidhel. 
Eachtigern,* son of Guaire, King of Laighen Desgabhair, 
was treacherously slain by Bruadar, son of Aedh, and by 
Cerbhall, son of Dungal; and Bruadar, son of Aedh, was 
treacherously slain by his companions on the 47th day 
after the murder of Echtigern. Cathal, son of Tomaltach, 
half-King of Uladh, was slain by the Norsemen. 

Kal. Maelsechlain, King of Temhair, went to the men 
of Mumhan, as far as Indéin-na-nDési, and he brought 
their hostages. Inrechtach Ua Finnachta, successor of 
Colum Cille, the best sage, is martyred’ among the 
Saxons, on the 4th of the Ides of March. Muirgel, 
Queen of Laighen, mortua est. 

Kal. The Abbess of Cill-dara, z.e. Catrian, quievit. 
A preying expedition by Aedh, son of Niall, into Ulidia, 





or Whitsunday, answering to the 5th 8 Fechtgna. See note %, p. 150. 
Sunday after Trinity. 4 Eachtigern. Caccargepn, A. B. 

2 Tercne. Crpene (Eirene), Ann, 5 Was martyred. maporuyoac, 
Vit. See note}, p. 170. A. B. 


[853.] 


[854.] 


[855.] 


154 CROMICUM SCOTORUM. 


mac Colmain ocup Llaitbepeat mac NLL, ocup pocarde 
apchena. OCLLl CCbb Ocharoh D6 mopcutip ere. 

Ket. Curpne mép ocup proce, sup bimvecoa ppim 
loéa; ocur prim abne Epenn vo coipigmb octip vo 
mapcachad a ax. fCt. Decembmp upque ad -u1. 19. 
lanuapy. Tempepcuorup annup. Maelpeclainn mae 
Maelpuannd a cCapl so cous sialla Muman. 
Coccad mop e1vip Fencib ec Maelpeclain co Fall 
Saorvelois Leip. Ocerpio Fopmaiti me Lonan, Ri 
pamna Cail, o Senzib, 1 Loé Ceanh OCnno-Domint 
neca.lin, “Ouipced Lupea v0 Lopecad a Nopmanosp. 
Nopm canpioé na nOmbsenmb rugulacup ero la 
Rucopas mac Mepmein, Ri Dpecon. Sovomna Epip- 
copup Slane mapopizacup a Nopmanoip. Moppp 
Nell mic Fillain rap mberé veé mbluaona piéed gan 
biad san D15. 

}ct. Raoined pen lomap ocup pen CCmlarb for 
Cachal Linn con Fall Faorealib a capib Muman. 
Maongal Ob Labap quence. Maouoan mac Mu- 
peomg, Ri Ulad, mopicup. Tap vo Lopecad a 
cTalcen pulgope. Opan mac Scanlan, Ri Sabpain, 
[mopacup.] 

}et.  Sluacced mop viap Loipeced Muma an aon L6 
la Maelpectain mac Maolpuanad, co pepo Epenn, 
co TTUEPAD Marom for peparbd Muman oc Capn Lugoaé, 
Sup paccbad ann Maelepdin mac Mupevhars, Leré Ri 
na nOépe. Tuce Maelpectoinn pralla Muman 6 
Comap cpi nupce co Innpr Tapbna tap nE€peann, © 
ocur 6 “Oin Cepmna co hOpainn nopep. Ceallaé 
mac Sucape, Ri Lengen Oepprabaip .. Ut Cinnprolang, 





1In Caisel. o coanpit, A. B. 
The expression “no out so Canyit,” 
“went to Caisel,” would be more 
correct. 

® Gall-Gaeidhel ; i.e. “Dano-Irish.” 

% Anno Domini 856. This event 


has been added in the marg. in A., | 





by the orig. hand, and not copied 
in B. 

4 Ruaidhrigh. Probably Rodhri 
the Great, whose death is recorded 
in the Annales Cambria, and Brut y 
Tywysogion, at the year 877. 

5 Mermen; ie. Mervyn. See Ann. 
































CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 155 


where he lost Connecan, son of Colman, and Flaith- 
bhertach, son of Niall, and a great many besides. Ailill, 
Abbot of Achadh-bé, mortuus est. 

Kal. Great ice and frost, so that the principal lakes 
and principal rivers of Erinn were passable to pedestrians 
and horse-riders, from the 9th of the Kalends of Decem- 
ber to the 7th of the Ides of January. A tempestuous 
year. Maelsechlainn, son of Maelruanaidh, in Caisel,' 
and he carried off the hostages of Mumhan. A great 
war between Gentiles and Maelsechlain, with whom 
were the Gall-Gaeidhel.? Occisio of Gorman, son of 
Lonan, Royal heir of Caisel, in Loch Ceann, Anno 
Domini 856. The oratory of Lusca was burnt by 
Norsemen. Horm, Chieftain of the Dubh-Ghenti, was 
slain by Ruaidhrigh,* son of Mermen,> King of Britain. 
Sodomna, Bishop of Slane, is martyred by the Norse- 
men. Death of Niall, son of Gillan, after having been 
thirty years without food or drink. 

Kal. A victory gained by Imhar and Amhlaibh over 
Cathal Finn, with the Gall-Gaeidhel, in the territories of 
Mumhan. Maenghal, Abbot of Fabhar, quievit. Madu- 
dan, son of Muiredhach,® King of Uladh, moritur. Three 
persons’ were burnt at Taillten by lightning, Bran, son 
of Scanlan, King of Gabhran, [moritur]. 

Kal. A great host, by which Mumhan was burnt in 
one day, was led by Maelsechlain, son of Maelruanaidh, 
- with the men of Erinn, so that they inflicted a defeat 
on the men of Mumhan at Carn Lughdach, where 
Maeleréin, son of Muiredhach, half-King of the Desi, 
was lost.* Maelsechlainn brought off the hostages of 
Mumhan from Comar-tri-nuisce to Inis Tarbhna, in the 
west of Erinn, and from Dan Cearmna to Arann-airther. 
Ceallach, son of Guaire, King of Laighen Desgabhair, é.¢. 
Cambr., and Brut y Tywis., ad an. 
Sad. | 
6 Of Muiredhach. Murpcepcous 
(of Muircertach), A, B, ® Lost, pacha, lit. “left,” A. B, 





7 Three persons. tap, for cpaap, 
A. tap, B. 


A.D. 
(855.] 


[856.] 


[857.] 


[858.] 


156 cRONICUM scOTORUM. 


mopitup., Marom yua Cepbarll ocup pra niomap 
accemé OCpad wipe pop [Cinel] Piachach so Fall 
Saorohealib Lerte Cuinn .1. cece. ap pe mile a Linprve. 

fet. Suapleé Clb Kcharoh b6 queue. PLaolsurp 
Cb Rump cpé qmewmst. Rig vail mate Cpeann oF 
Rat Cosa mic Opic, um Maelpeclain Ri Tempe, 
ocup um Letsna comapba Paopars, ocur 1m Suappleé 
comapba Linnein, as venah pte ew caoincompare pep. 
n€penn, coms and vo pao Cepball, Ri Opparge, oily 
rm Let Cuinn, ocup posaio Maolgudla mac Oonogals 
a Ri Miman, a dilp. Maolsguala, Ri Muman, a 
Nopmanoip occipup ert Laproibur. 

}ct.  Sloicched Largen et Mumhan et Connatz, ocur 
N. N&LL an verpseips spa Lotla La Maolpeclan, Ri 
Tempa, convemd as Mas Ouma accompocup Cipo 
Macha, co popbapc od mac Nell, ocup Llann mac 
Conaing, an Dunas anmdC1, cop mapbrac oaoIn1 Pop 
Lap an otinad, ocup po meabad pop Wed 50 PFrapsard 
ile. 

Hct. 1npad Mite dCod «1. Pinnliag, mac Neill 
Caille, con galloib. FSopmlart ingen “Oonnchada, 
pisan Faordeal 1ap naisprse vo héc. Cat Opoma va 
mage La Maolpeclain mac Maolpuanasd, ap gallos 
Ota Cliaé. 

fet. Domnall mac Elphin, Rex Precopum [obnz]. 
Sloicced La Cod mac NEL, La Ris CCE, es La Llann © 
mac Conaing, 00 inopad Mide. “Oalaé mac Maoil- 
paicce, Ob Cluana ipaipo, quiewmc. Maolpeclainn 
mac Maolpuanard, Ri Epend ule, .11. ]ct. Decembpiy, 


5 Obiit. Supplied by O’Flaherty, 





1 Ui Cennsealaigh. Added as a 


gloss over the preceding name, in A. 

2 The Cinel. Interpolated by 
O'Flaherty in A., and copied in B. 

8 Their number ; i.e. the number of 
the Cinel Fiachach and the Gall- 
Gaeidhel, or Dano-Irish. 

4 Alpin. CUphi, A. B., for “ El- 
phein,” or “ Elphin,” 





a ae 





who has also added a marg. note, 
now nearly destroyed, signifying that 
Domhnall Mac Alpin’s death is quoted 
by Ussher (Brit. Eccl. Antig., p. 719) 
from the Ann, Ult., under the year 
862. 
® Tuesday. O'Flaherty adds the 
marg. note “863, C. Litera Dom., 2°, 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 157 


~ Ui Cennsealaigh,' moritur. A victory by Cerbhall and 
Imhar, in the district of Aradh-tire, over [the Cinel?] 
Fiachach, with the Gall-Gaeidhel of Leth Chuinn, viz., 
their number’ was 6,400. 

Kal. Suarlech, Abbot of Achadh-bé, quievit. Faelghus, 
Abbot of Ros-eré, quievit. A royal meeting of the nobles 
of Erinn assembled at Rath Aedha-mic-Bric—including 
Maelsechlain, King of Temhair, and Fethgna, comarb 
of Patrick, and Suarlech, comarb of Finnen—to estab- 
lish peace and concord among the men of Erinn; at 
which Cerbhall, King of Osraighe, yielded allegiance to 
Leth Chuinn; and Maelguala, son of Donngal (i.e. King 
of Mumhan), tendered his allegiance. Maelguala, King 
of Mumhan, was killed by the Norsemen with stones. 

Kal. An army of Laighen, and Mumhan, and Con- 
nacht, and the Ui Neill of the south, was led into the 
Fochla by Maelsechlain, King of Temhair, until he rested 
at Magh Dumha, near Ard-Macha; and Aedh, son of 
Niall, and Flann, son of Conaing, attacked the fort at 
night, so that they slew men in the middle of the fort; 
and Aedh was defeated, and lost a great number. 

Kal. Devastation of Midhe by Aedh, 2.e. Finnliath, 
son of Niall Caille, with Foreigners. Gormlaith, daughter 
of Donnchadh, Queen of the Gaeidhel, died after penance. 
The battle of Druim-da-mhaighe gaimed by Maelsech- 
lain, son of Maelruanaidh, over the Foreigners of Ath- 
cliath. 

Kal. Domhnall Mac Alpin,‘ King of the Picts [obiit].* 
An army led by Aedh, son of Niall, King of Ailech, and 
by Flann, son of Conaing, to plunder Midhe. Dalach, 
son of Maelraitte, Abbot of Cluain-Iraird, quievit. Mael- 
sechlain, son of Maelruanaidh, King of all Erinn, died on 
the 2nd of the Kalends of December, on a Tuesday,*® in 








Kal. Dec., id est 30 Nov., feria 3°.” | seems, therefore, to have been the 
The 30th of November fell on a | year of Maelsechlain’s death. See 
Tuesday, in the year 863, which | Ogygia, pars IIL, p, 434. 


Ube 
egihenae, 


[860.] 


[861.] 


[862.] 


158 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


ANG PEPid, anno pesni put cut. DepuncsuPp ee. Ruapee 
mac Dpoin rugulacup ert 6 16 Nell. od Linnliaé 
mac Neill pesnape incipit. 

ct. Maolpaopare mac Lianéon, Eppop es abdbap 
Cbbads Oipo mata, ques. Muipecan mac Drap- 
maoa, Ri Nap eo Ciptip lige, a Nopmanoip incep- 
feccup ert. “Oanel h. Lumze, OCbb Copeaige es 
Lip méip v0 stin. Innpod Connacht La Cod mac NéUL. 

Ict. Lopcan mac Cacarl, Ri M101, 00 Dallas La Cob 
mac Néill, Ri Tempa. Concupap mac Donnchada, 
Leis Ri Mive, 00 muchad in huipert oc Clucin Iparpo 
la hOmlaoib Ri gall. Raoined mop pé nod mac 
Néill ocur pé Llann mac Conaing pop Cnproh mac 
nLeda co nUllcarb 1 Tip Conaille Cepo. Cogeo Opie, 
Eprcop Cille vapa, et penex .c.xt1. annopum, quiets. 
ber Cepmuva mic Catapnag, caorped Copea Darpeinn, 
a Sencibur. 

Ket. Eclipmyp polip tn ket. Enaip, et eclippp Lunaée 
im eovem mene. Ceallaé mac OLililla, Ob Cille vapa, 
et (bb tae, vopmitne. Tigepnaé mac Losapomé, Ri 
Locha Fabap, oct Lert Ri Opes, mopicup. Tabs 
mde Orapmaod, Ri Nh. Cinnprotarg, inveppectup eT a 
Tracpibup pup. Sun Colmain mic Ounlornge, Ri 
Locupoa cipe, va clainn paroeyin. 

Ict. Catpaoined pé nod mac Neill, ocup pe Cnet 





1 Ruare. O’F. adds the letters 4 Suffocated in water at. A. and 


“R. L.,” to signify that Ruare was 
King of Leinster, and also the date 
861,” which he considers the correct 
year according to the Four Mast., 
who record the slaying of Ruarc 
under the year 860—861. But the 
Ann. Ult. have it at 861—862. 

2 Abbot-elect. adbap Cbbad 
(adhbar Abbadh); lit. ‘‘materies Ab- 
batis.” O’F. translates it “ futurus 
Abbas,” in a miarg. note. 

® King of Nas. ‘“Nazie in Lagenia 
Rex.” Marg. note, O’F. 





B. corruptly read “oo mapbad 7 
huipep co.” The text is corrected 
from the Ann. Ult. (863864), which 
read “oo muchao 1n urperu” (“was 
suffocated in water”). The Book of 
Leinster, fol. 23 b., col. 2, has “a 
baoud in hurypee ;” “was drowned 
in water.” 

5 In the same month. 1n eooem 
oie, A.; the word “mense” being 
written over “oie” by O'F. In 
L’Art de verif. les Dates (toti. 1, p. 
68) an eclipse of the sun is stated té 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 159 


the 16th year of his reign. Ruare,' son of Bran; was slain 


by the Ui Neill. Aedh Finnliath, son of Niall, begins to 


reign. 

Kal. Maelpadraig, son of Finchu, Bishop and Abbot- 
elect? of Ard-Macha, quievit. Muirecan, son of Diarmaid, 
King of Nas* and Airther-Life, was slain by the Norse- 
men. Daniel Ua Luaithidhe; Abbot of Corcach and Lis- 
mér, mortally wounded. Plundering of Connacht by 
Aedh, son of Niall. 

Kal. Lorcan, son of Cathal, King of Midhe, was blinded 
by Aedh, son of Niall, King of Temhair. Conchobhar, 
son of Donnchadh, half-King of Midhe, was suffocated 
in water at* Cluain-Iraird, by Amhlaibh, King of the 
Foreigners. A great victory gaimed by Aedh, son of 
Niall; and Flann, son of Conaing, over Anfidh, son of 
Aedh, with the Ulidians, in Tir Conaille-Cerd. Edged 
Brit, Bishop of Cill-dara, and an old man of 116 years, 
quievit. Death of Cermad, son of Catharnach; Chief of 
Corca-Baiscinn, by Gentiles. 

Kal. An eclipse of the sun on the Ist of January, and 
an eclipse of the moon in the same month.’ Ceallach, 
son of Ailill, Abbot of Cill-dara, and Abbot of Hi, dor- 
mivit.6 Tigernach, son of Fogartach, King of Loch 
Gabhar; and half-King of Bregh, moritur, Tadhg, son of 
Diarmaid, King of Ui Cennsealaigh; was slain by his 
brethren. Mortal wounding of Colman, son of Dunlang,’ 
King of Fotharta-tire, by his own children. 

Kal. <A battle gained by Aedh; son of Niall, and the 





have occurred on the Ist of January, 


of Hi; but in the Ann Ult. (864) 
865, and an eclipse of the moon on 


Ceallach is said to Have been Abbot 





the 15th of the same month. 

6 Dormivit. ‘voopmieric, for vop- 
miefvunt (dormierunt), A.B. From 
this it would seem that Ceallach, 
Abbot of Cill-dara, was considered 
by the transcribers of A. and B. to 
be a different person from the Abbot 





of both places, and to have died in 
Pictland. See Reevés’s Adamnan, 
pp. 278, 390. 


7 Of Dunlang. “Duntonge, A. B.; 
seemingly @ tiistake for “Otin- 
Lange.” 


[864.] 


[865.] 


[866.] 


160 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Eoshain pop galloiB oc Loch Leabarl, so ceuccad va 
ficis vex ceann D106 an aon baile. Loch Lebinn v0 
76d appuil 50 ccaplas parpab cpo amal psumu inna 
imbecoaip. 

fet. Maélouin mac Cova, Ri OCLs, 1m cleprcacu 
mopcup. Rabapcaé Pinoslaipy, Eppcop, quieurc. 
Conall, Eppeop Cille Scipe, quiet. Copmac 
Latin, Eprcop, quiet. 

fet. Ceallach [mac] Cumapeemé, Cb Loboap [qure- 
wc]. Connmaé Ob Cluana muc Noip, quiewt; v0 
Cinel Cchach Fall 06. “Oamel Ob Flinne va Locha, 
quiews. Cannan mac Odlurs, Cb Daimliags, queue. 
Lepsup Roipp Oilicpe, peprba, qurewe. Cat Cilte h. 
nOaigpe pe nod Linnliaés mac Nell, Ri Teampach, 
ocup pe Concupap mac Tar0s, Ri Connacht .1. 111. 19. 
un.bip, oc Citt Nh. nOagpe, pop OCib Nell Dpes ocur 
Top Laismb, ocup for plias mép vo salloib (1. opi ced 
no ni ap mlLle; cos mile vo Llann mac Conaing, ocup 
cen mili v0led Linnliat), 1n quo bello cecrdepuns 
Llann mac Conaings, Ri Dpexy tile, es Orapmaid mac 
Eroippeels, Ri Loga Sabap, ec saill 1omba vo mapbad 
ann; ocup Pactna mac Maeilrouin, Rigoomna an 
[LJoélar vo pocmmp a pPrmtsuin an cata Epuptio 
iGHocae aquae De monte Cualann, cum piperculip acpip. 
Reccabpa mac Mupchada, Cb Copcaise, qureurs. 

}ct. Mapzan vo Dapcpargib Daaminny, CCb Cluana 
muc Noip ocup Ociminnm, qmemsc. “Ounluns mac 
Mupeohms, Ri vebu Laigen, mopicup. Llann mac 





1 All round its edge. The word 
mpnao, “wonder,” is written in the 
marg. of A., in the orig. hand, to 
signify that this event forms one of 
the “ Wonders of Erin,” for a list of 
which see Todd’s ed. of Jrish Nennius, 
p- 193, sq. 

* Of Finnglass. Linosaypy (an 
error for Pinogtarpy1), A. B. 





3 Three hundred or more; i.e. of 
Foreigners. O’Flaherty has added a 
note, now illegible, in the marg., in A. 

4 Of strange water. 15noTae aquae 
(ignote aque). The orig. hand has 
added the word ingsnad, “wonder,” 
in the marg. in A. The prodigy is 
not included in the ancient list of the 
“Wonders of Erin,” for which see 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 161 































Cinel Eoghain, over the Foreigners, at Loch Febhail; 
and twelve score of their heads were brought to one 
place. Loch Lebhinn was changed into blood, so that it 
became clots of gore, like the lights of animals, all round 
its edge." 

Kal. Maelduin, son of Aedh, King of Ailech, in cleri- 
catu moritur. Robhartach of Finnglass,’ Bishop, quievit. 
Conall, Bishop of Cill-Scire, quievit. Cormac Ua Liathain, 
Bishop, quievit. 

Kal. Ceallach, [son] of Cumasgach, Abbot of Fobhar, 
[quievit]. Connmach, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. 
He was of the Cinel-Echach-Gall. Daniel, Abbot of 
Glenn-da-locha, quievit. Cannan, son of Dalach, Abbot 
of Daimhliag, quievit. Fergus of Ros-Ailithre, Scribe, 
quievit. The battle of Cill-Ui-nDaighre gained by Aedh 
Finnliath, son of Niall, King of Temhair, and by Con- 
chobhar, son of Tadhg, King of Connacht, on the 8th of 
the Ides of September, at Cill-Ui-nDaighre, over the Ui 
Neill of Bregh and the Lagenians, and over a great host 
of Foreigners, (viz., 300 or more ;* Flann, son of Conaing, 
had 5,000 men, and Aedh Finnliath, 1,000); in which 
battle fell Flann, son of Conaing, King of all Bregh, and 
Diarmaid, son of Edirscel, King of Loch-Gabhar; and a 
great many Foreigners were slain there; and Fachtna, 
son of Maelduin, Royal heir of the [F ]ochla, fell in the 
heat of the battle. An eruption of strange water* from 
Sliabh Cualann, with little black fishes. Rechtabhra, 
son of Murchadh, Abbot of Corcach, quievit. 

Kal. Martan, of the Dartraighe of Daimhinis, Abbot 
of Cluain-muc-Nois and Daimhinis, quievit. Dunlaing, 
son of Muiredhach, King of Laighen,’® moritur. Flann, 





Todd’s ed. of the Irish Nennius, p. | in the Ann. Four Mast, (867); but, 
193, sq. instead of “‘son of Muiredhach,” he 
5 King of Laighen. a vebu Uai- | is described as “son of Murchadh,” 
shen (Ri debu Laighen), A.B. The | in the catalogue of the Kings of 
word vebu seems wrongly inserted. | Leinster preserved in the Book of 
Dunlaing is called King of Laighen | Leinster, fol. 20, sq. 

M 


A.D. 
[866.] 


[867.] 


[868.] 


[869. 


162 CRONICUM SCOTORUNY 


Lepceamp, Oeconomup Oipo Maca, moptup. Mael- 
ciapain mac Ronan pas ma captep hEpenn, f~ennrd 
pogla gall, iugulacup. Opgain OCipo Machao CmLaoib, 
Bup Loipeced cona veptaigib ; x. ced e1dip bparo et 
mapbad, ocup placc mop apchena. “Oonnacan mac 
Ceopada, Ri h. Cinopiolg, sugulacup eps volope a — 
pocio puo. 

}ct. Suapleé 1nveronen, Eppeop ocup Ob Cluana 
Ipaipo, pelisiopup conur Nibepmiae, quiewst. Inpad 
Lagen ta Cod Linnliaé mac Néill o ME Cliaé 50 
pabaan Maelpechlainn mac Néll, Les Ri veipgipe 

pes, inteppeccup ert volo 6 Luly “Oubgall. “Dalaé, 
mac Muipcepcars, vux Cinel Conall, a gente pua 
1uguLacur. Maongal Eppcop Cille vana, qureuic. 

kct. Catalan mac Inopecoms, Leré Ri Uled, ru5u- 
Lacur ert dolore a conmilio Cova. Omlaib ocup imap 
ro coickets api: 00 MS Cliat a Clbain vib cédo1b 
 Léng, ocur cpeat mop vane 2. 00 Saxanarb ocup vo 
Dpeacnachar’ 00 cabaipt Leo vocum hepinn. Oilall 
mac “Otinlaing, Ri Laigen a Nopmanoip inteppeccup 
ero. OCilill, Eprcop ocur Ob Lobonp, quire. 

Ict. Sma Ppincepp Oamliags ec Epipcopur, Laxaui’. 
anno aecacip pur fininc. Cennpaolad .h. Motchu-_ 
Sepn, Ri Caryl, excenpo volope quiet. PLeapoomnaé 
1.00 Musoopnab, Ppincepp Cluana muc Norp, qurewe. 
Cpogal, Rex Opizannopum Spata Cluarde, ve conprlio 





called the “Eidhnen” of Molaga, in 
the Book of Lismore, fol. 182, b. Dr. 


1 Economus. Equonmmup (Equo- 
nimus), A. B. 


2 Indeidhnen. This church was in 
Meath, near Slane. The name seems 
compounded of the art. “tino” (ind), 
“the,” and “eronen” (eidhnen), 
which would mean a small, ivy- 
covered building; lit. “the little 
ivy.” The place has not been iden- 
tified. St. Molaga’s church, now 
Temple-Molaga, in the parish of 
Temple-Molaga, barony of Condons 
and Clongibbons, and co. of Cork, is 





O’Conor translates Indeidhnen “sa- 
piens;” (Ann. Ult., ad an, 869), 

3 Aedh; i.e, Aedh Finnliath, King 
of Ireland. 

4 Oilill, O’Flaherty adds the note 
“A, 880, ut apud me, ‘de Regibus 
Lageniz.’ A°. 880, Domnaldus suc- 
cessor ccepit, ut infra.” There is no 
chapter “de Regibus Lagenie#” in 
his published works, and O’F. must 
therefore have referred to the Ogygia 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 163 





son of Fercar, @conomus! of Ard-Macha, moritur. Mael- 
ciarain, son of Ronan, royal champion of the east of 
Erinn, hero-plunderer of the Foreigners, murdered. 
Devastation of Ard-Macha by Ambhlaibh, so that it 
was burnt, with its oratories. The captives and slain 
amounted to 1,000.; and there was a great destruction 
besides. Donnacan, son of Cedfaidh, King of Ui Cenn- 
sealaigh, was treacherously slain by his companion. 

Kal. Suairlech of Indeidhnen,? Bishop and Abbot of 
Cluain-Iraird, the most religious of all Hibernia, quievit. 
The plundering of Laighen, from Ath-cliath to Gabhran, 
by Aedh Finnliath, son of Niall. Maelsechlainn, son of 
Niall, half-King of South Bregh, was treacherously slain 
by Fulf, a Dubh-gall. Dalach, son of Muircertach, Chief- 
_ tain of Cinel Conaill, slain by his own people. Maenghal, 
Bishop of Cill-dara, quievit. 

Kal. Cathalan, son of Indrechtach, half-King of 
Uladh, was treacherously murdered at the instigation of 
Aedh.? Ambhlaibh and Imhar came again to Ath-cliath 
from Alba, with 200 ships; and a great band of men, viz., 
of Saxons and Britons, was brought by them to Erinn. 
Oilill,* son of Dunlaing, King of Laighen, was slain by 
Norsemen. Ailill, Bishop and Abbot of Fobhar, quievit. 

Kal. Gnia, Abbot of Daimhliag, and a Bishop, in the 
88th year of his age, finivit. Cennfaeladh Ua Moch- 
tighern, King of Caisel, after long suffering, quievit. 
Feardomnach, i.e. of the Mughdorna, Abbot of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, quievit. Ardgal,> King of the Britons of 
Srath Cluaidhe, slain at the instigation of Constantine,® 








Christiana, which he is believed to 
have written, but which is not now 
known to exist. Oilill’s death seems 
misplaced above, as in the List of 
Kings of Leinster, preserved in the 
Book of Leinster, he is said to 
have reigned 8 years, and to have 
been the third in succession after 





Muiredhach, whose obit is entered 
under the year 869, supra; the two 
intervening sovereigns having en- 
joyed but brief reigns. 

5 Ardgal. ‘Rex Britonum.” Marg. 
note, O’F. 

8 Constantine. ‘‘Albe Rex, A°, 
876, infra.” Marg. note, O'F, 

M 2 


A.D. 
[869.] 


[870.] 


[871.] 


[872.] 


164 cRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Conptantin mic Cinaoda, occipur. Maolcmle he 
Ounan, Eppeop Tulen, quiets. Opé an Maolcwmls pr’ 
suc monoip cat eivip pepaib Teabtéa ocup Farlenga, 
ocup Lip Col 15 copnath Tulen, ocup po mecberd 
pon Falengab ocup pop Pipa Chl ocup po mapbaro 
an ap pop partce an baile; ocup Comop an cata ainm 
an ina a ccuccad opin alle. Muspon mac Maert- 
cotms, Let Ri Connacht, momitup. 

}ct. Ucémapan mac Dpocain, Ri N. Lpracpat OCrdne, 
qtnemt. ithop, Ri Nopmanoopum coup Nibepniae, | 
quent. Inpad Connacht La Ounchad Ri Caryl, ocup 
La Cepball 50 nOpparsib. Inpad Mumhan o gallos 
Ota Cliat. : 

kct. od mac Liangupa, Ppincepp ec Eppeop Ror” 
Comain, quem. PLetsna Epipcopup, hepep Pacpaie, 
ocur caput conup pelisiomp Nibepmae, queue. 
Sloicced La Cod mac NLL co Largnib, cop apse 
Ceall Cupaille, ocup apaile cealla. 

fet. Maongal cana Cluana muc Norp, quieure. 
Robapctaé mac Mic na Cepoa, Eppeop Cille vapa, 
quiet. 

}ct. Conpcancin mac Cinaoda, Rex Prctopum, mopr-- 
cup. Consalat mac Pinnacoa, Ri Cipsiall, mopuoup. 
Coipppe mac Oriapmoaoa, Ri h. Cinnpolang, a pracpibup 
pup occipup. “Oonngal Eprcop Concarse pubssa mopee - 
[pepnt]. Reccappa mac Linnbpan, Ri na n Oe, 
quiets. Cogan Topaip (va 1b Cprméainn vo), Ob 
Cluana muc Noy, quiet. 





1 Coinder-an-catha. “coinrop. an 
cata,” A. The first word seems cor- 
rupt. “Coinder,” which would mean 
“a meeting,” appears to be the nearest 
approximation to its correct form. 

2 King of Caisel. O’F. adds the 
letters ““R. M.,” to signify that 
“King of Caisel” means “King of 
Munster.” 

® Bishop. O’F. adds the marg. note 





“ Ardm. Prid. Nonas Octobris obiit;” 
signifying that Fethgna was Bishop 
of Armagh, and died on the 6th of 
October. The Martyrology of Done- * 
gal has Fethgna’s commemoration at — 
the 12th of February. 

‘ Kal. The date (876) has been” 
supplied by O’F. ' 

5 Constantine. Curcanctin (Cu-" 
stantin), A. B. O’F. adds the marg. © 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 165 


son of Cinaedh. Maeltuile Ua Dunan, Bishop of Tulen, 
quievit. It was this Maeltuile who gave the incitement 
to battle between the men of Teabhtha, and the Gailenga 
and Feara-Cil, defending Tulen, and the Gailenga and 
Feara-Ciil were defeated, and slaughtered on the green 
of the town; and Coinder-an-catha' is the name of the 
spot where the battle was fought, from that time to this. 
Mughron, son of Maelcothaigh, half-King of Connacht, 
- moritur. 

Kal. Uathmaran, son of Brocan, King of Ui Fiach- 
_ rach-Aidhne, quievit. Imhar, King of the Norsemen 
of all Hibernia, quievit. Plundering of Connacht by 
Dunchadh, King of Caisel,? and by Cerbhall, with the 
Osraighe. Plundering of Mumhan by the Foreigners of 
-Ath-cliath. 

Kal. Aedh, son of Fiangus, Abbot. and Bishop of 
Ros-Comain, quievit. Fethgna, Bishop,’ heir of Patrick, 
and head of all the religion of Hibernia, quievit. An 
army was led by Aedh, son of Niall, to Leinster, and Cill 
_‘Ausaille and other churches were plundered. 

. Kal. Maenghal, tanist-Abbot of Ciuain-muc-Nois, 
‘quievit. _Robhartach, son of Mac-na-Cerda, Bishop of 
Cill-dara, quievit. 

Kal‘ Constantine,® son of Cinaedh, King of the Picts, 
moritur. Congalach, son of Finnachda, King of Air- 
ghiall, moritur. Cairpre, son of Diarmaid, King of Ui 
Cennsealaigh, slain by his. brothers. Donnghal,® Bishop 
of Corcach, [died] suddenly. Rechtabhra, son of Finn- 

ran, King of the Deisi, quievit. Eoghan Tobair’ (who 
was of the Ui Crimthainn), Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
 quievit. 





note “R[ex] Pictorum. Usser, ex 6 Donnghal. The Ann, Ult. and 
Ult. Annal.,” implying that Ussher, | Four Mast. have ‘‘ Domhnall,” 
following the Ann. Ult., refers the 

death of Constantine to the year 7 Eoghan Tobair ; i.e, ‘“‘ Eoghan, of 
_ 876. | the Well,” 


AD. 
[872.] 


[873.] 


[874.] 


[875.] 


[876.] 


166 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


ket. Maolcmte -h. Chana, Cb Cluana muc Norp, 
quiet: vo LurgniB Connacht 06 4. 00 Specoparsib 
CQlpoa Rucopi mac Muipminn, Rex Dprzannopum, 
ro coigecht cum Epenn, pop ceithed pe Dup Fallard. 
Cat oc Loé Cuan eroip Linn Fen’ ocup Ourb Fenws, 
in quo ClLbann oux na nOu1b Senet, cecroie. 

ct. Lpor pola vo pilad 50 PEME na parpte cpo 
ocup pola popr na maigib a cCiannaéoa, oc Duma na 
nOe1~1 50 funpadach. Uenctup magnup ec fulgop. 
Cclipmp polip 1. non vopéa Scepin Colum Cille 
ocup a minna apchena [vo cabaipc] vo cum hEpinn 
for ceithed ua ngallaib. Llann mac Maoileclain 
pesnape inerprc. 

}ct. Cod Linnliaé mac Nell Caille, Ri Tempa 
in .ir. ICE. Decembpip, .n% pera, a nOpuim imap- 
sloinn hi cpié Conaille, vopmitic. Maélcoba mac 
Cpunnmaél, Ppincepr ipo Maca, vo epgabal, [vo 
sallarb], ocup an pepleiginn Mocha. 

}ct. Lepaoaé mac Copmaic, Cb tae, qureme. 
Maelciapdin mac Conang, Ri Teabtae, in clepicacu 
quiets. “Dorhnall mac Mmpigén bi Rige Longen. 
Inpad Mide La propa Muman go Loch nOCinoinn es 
50 Log Semoile. Inpocd Largen La Plann mac Maerlec- 
Lainn, ocup a narcips 00 tabarps Ler. 

fect. Cpunomaol Cluana Carn, Epipcopur, ques. 
Oupteé Cianain 00 bpipi0d vo galloib, ocup a Lén 
D0 maoinb vo bperé app, ec porcea Dapro mac 
imap, cenn Nopmanvip vo héc tpe miopbal Dé ocup 
Ciandin. } 

fet. Sloicched La Llann mac Maoileclaann co 





1 Murminn; i.e. Mervyn. according to L’Art de ver. les Dates. 
2 Kal. O’F. adds the year 878 in | The computation of this Chronicle is, 
the marg. See next note. therefore, in accord with the true 


8 Aneclipse of the sun. Thiseclipse | chronology at this period. 
occurred on the 5th of October, 878, 4 Begins to reign. This should ap- . 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 167 


Kal. Maeltuile Ua Cuana, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
quievit. He was of the Luighne of Connacht, viz., of 
the Grectraighe-Arda. Ruaidhri, son of Murminn,' King 
of the Britons, came to Erinn, fleeing from the Dubh- 
Gaill. A battle at Loch Cuan, between Fair-Gentiles 
and Black-Gentiles, in which Albann, Chief of the Black- 
Gentiles, fell. 

Kal.? It rained a shower of blood, which was found 
in lumps of gore and blood on the plains in Ciannachta, 
at Dumha-na-nDeisi especially. Great wind and light- 
ning. An eclipse of the sun,’ viz., a dark noon. The 
shrine of Colum Cille, and all his reliquaries, [were 
brought] to Erinn, to escape the Foreigners. Flann, son 
of Maelechlain, begins to reign.‘ 

Kal.° Aedh Finnliath, son of Niall Caille, King of 
Temhair, on the 12th of the Kalends of December, on the 
6th day of the week, at Druim-inasglainn, in the terri- 
tory of Conaille, dormivit. Maelcobha, son of Crunnmael, 
Abbot of Ard-Macha, and Mochta, the Lector, were 
captured [by the Foreigners]. 

Kal. Feradhach, son of Cormac, Abbot of Hi, quievit. 
Maelciarain, son of Conaing, King of Teabhtha, in clericatu 
quievit. Domhnall, son of Muirigen, in the Kingship of 
Laighen. The plundering of Midhe by the men of 
Mumhan, as far as Loch Ainninn and Loch Semhdile. 
Plundering of Laighen by Flann, son of Maelechlainn ; 
and he carried off their hostages with him. 

Kal. Crunnmael of Cluain-Cain, a Bishop, quievit. 
The oratory of Cianan was broken into by Foreigners, 
and its full of property taken out of it; and afterwards 
Barid, son of Imhar, Chief of the Norsemen, died through 
the miracle of God and Cianan. 

Kal. A hosting by Flann, son of Maelechlainn, with 





pear under the next entry, which 5 Kal. The correct year is 879, 
records the death of Flann’s prede- | according to O'F. See Ogygia, Pro- 
_ eessor, Aedh Finnliath. loquium, p. [42]. ; 


A.D. 
(87. 


[878.] 


[879.] 


[880.] 


[881.] 


[882.] 


168 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


nSalloib et co nFaoiveahsiB spa. Potlae, conveyd a 
Mags erdip vi slap, cop inpepcup OCpo Macha, ocup 
po sap sialla Conall ocup Cosain von cupup yin. 
Caé ervip. Conarlle Muipcemne ocup Ulleu, vu accop- 
éup Cn~md mac Coda, Ri Ulad, ec Conall mac 
Maeilrotin, Ri Coba, ec alu. Concupap mac Tarogz, 
Ri ceopa Connacht, mcam penilem piniuic. Inpod 
Mumhan la Llann mac Maoileclainn, ec a bpargoe 
[oo taboapt] Leip. 

}ct. Maolptian Eppeop Luca, quem. Cumapgaé 
mac “Oomnaill, Ri Cineoil Laogaipe, momtup. Moprr 
mic Oupile o Otp mac Cipgni, ocup 6 Mupsit ingen 
Maoileélainn. Eoéacan mac Coda, Leis Ri ULasd, 
wgulacup ert 6 maccoib Wings mic Covha. Catapaé 
mac Rabapcms, Ppincepr ocup Epipcopur OCipo Maca, 
quiete. ‘ 

fet. Domnéll mac Mupigen, Ri Largen, :ugulacup 
eptarpocup pup. Ssanlan Eppeop Cille vapa, quieurs. 

t. Maolpaopaic 1. vib Maine «1. oomsZ ingZine 
Lingarg, (Cb Cluana muc Noip, quieus. Maelfpaoparc] 
mac Maelcuapapoa, Ri Aipsiall vo sun o [a] 
muintep. Cclipmp polip, es wpae puns ptellae in 
coelo. Copmac, Eppcop “Oaimliag, extenro volope 
quiett. On mac oc Cparb Lappe v0 Labpad a ceinn 
oa mip ian na Zeinemain. Muipeoaé mac Dpain, Ri 

Wen, quiere. 

Ict. Erpethon mac Coda Leé Ri ULad o hELorp mac 





1 Three divisions. The characters 
“R. C.,” signifying Ri Connacht 
(King of Connacht), have been 
written in the marg. of A. by the 
orig. hand. The “three divisions” 
of Connacht meant, therefore, the 
entire province. 

2 Kal. O’F. considers 883 to be 
the correct vear. 

8 Eirgni. See note }, p. 170. 

‘Kal. The proper date is 884, 
according to O’F, 





5 From Tech - inghine - Lingaigh. 
oocig 7. Ligarg, A. B., which is ap- 
parently corrupt. It should pro- 
bably be “o tig inghine Lingag,” 
which would signify “from the house 
of Lingach’s daughter.” The clause 
in parenthesis is added as a gloss in 
A. O’F. considers the correct year 
to be 885. 

6 After his birth. The word ingnao 
(ingnadh), “wonder,” is written in 
the marg. in A., in the orig. hand. 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 169 


the Foreigners and Gaeidhel, into the Fochla, until he 
rested at Magh-edir-di-glais, and he ravaged Ard-Macha, 
and took the hostages of 7ir Conaill and Tir Eoghain 
on that expedition. A battle between the Conaille 
Muirthemne and the Ultonians, in which Anfidh, son of 
Aedh, King of Uladh, and Conall, son of Maelduin, King 
of Cobha, and others, were slain. Conchobhar, son of 
Tadhg, King of the three divisions' of Connacht, ended an 
aged life. The plundering of Mumhan by Flann, son of 
Maelechlainn ; and its hostages [were taken] by him. 

Kal.? Maelruan, Bishop of Lusca, quievit.. Cumasgach, 

son of Domhnall, King of Cinel Laeghaire, moritur. The 
son of Ausli was slain by Otir, son of Eirgni,? and by 
Muirgel, daughter of Maelechlainn. Eochacan, son of 
Aedh, half-King of Uladh, was slain by the sons of 
Anfidh, son of Aedh. Cathasach, son of Rabhartach, 
Abbot and Bishop of Ard-Macha, quievit. 

-Kal.* Dombhnall, son of Muirigen, King of Laighen, 
- jugulatus est a sociis suis. Sganlan, Bishop of Cill-dara, 
quievit. 
_ Kal. Maelpadraic (i.e. of the Ui-Maine, i.e. from Tech- 

inghine-Lingaigh’), Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. 
- Mael[padraic], son of Maelcuararda, King of Airghiall, 
mortally wounded by [his own] people. An eclipse of 
the sun, and stars were seen in the heavens. Cormac, 
Bishop of Daimhliag, after long suffering, quievit. A 
boy spoke at Craebh Laisre before the end of two 
months after his birth. Muiredhach,’ son of Bran, King 
of Laighen, quievit. 

Kal. Eiremhon,® son of Aedh, half-King of Uladh, 





The prodigy is included in the ancitnt | D.A.” The entry occurs in the Ann. 
list of the ‘‘ Wonders of Erinn.” See | Ult. at the year 885=886, and in the 
Todd’s Irish Nennius, p. 208. Annals of the Four Mast. under the 
_ 1% Muiredhach. ‘Qui A°. 872 Reg- | year 885, which O’F. thinks should 
num abdicavit.”” Marg. note, O'F. be 888, the chronology of the Four 

8 Kiremhon. O'F. adds the marg. | Mast. being three years antedated- at 
note ‘886, Ult.; 88§ rectius ut apud | this period, 





A.D. 
[882] 


[883.] 


(884. ] 


[885.] 


[886.] 


170 CRONICUM sSCOTORUM. 


lapsni ocapup. Lracna mac Cingrd, Ri Ulad, a 
rump focerpup ert]. Opsain Cille vapa 6 Fencib; 
ceitpe picit vécc Do bpert v0 Daoinb ete, im an 
recnad .1. Suibne [mac] “Ou boabaipenn. 

kct. Maolmupe an pile eolaé Faorvel, qtieurc. 
Inc alitip sup in omlles v0 pavaovh vo mith 90 
ciachtain 00 cum Erpinn co Cain Oomnars ocup 
popceclarb maiviB. Maolpuain Ob Oipips Orapmaoa 
ocup Cille Oiteo, ec Tige Telle, quiets. Cu cen 
macaip, Ob Imig lobarp, quieurs.  Clooan mac 
Recoada, Cb Roipp cpe, quiets. Op gall Larmnig 
La Connaccorb. 

}ct. Maolcoba, Cb Cipo Mata, quetiz. "Donn- 
chaoh mac Ourboabaipenn, Ri Carl, quiets. Caé- 
paoined pop Llann mac Maorleclainn pe galloib 
cha Clicé, v4 accopeaip CCod mac Concupaip, Ri 
Connacht, ec Lepsup mac Cpuinven, Epreop Citle 
papa, et Oonnchad mac Maorlroiin, Ppincepp Cille 
oelsa, ec ali mule. Sneogiup papienpr Oipips “Orap- 
mood, a101 Copmaic mic Cuilennain, qmuieuis. Cepball 
mac “Ounlainge, Ri Oppurde, pubita mopce [peprie]. 
Sept mac map, Ri Nopmanoip, a ppacpe puo pep 
olum occipup ert. Claoclod bepta La hogo Epenn. 

Sluaicced La Domnall mac Cova, et La tuaip- 
cept Epenn et co salloib, co huib [Neill] an verpceipe. 
Oenaé Tallcen cen aise. Oublacctna mac MaelEualen 
1 pishe Corl. Tuaocap Eppcop Cluana muc Noi, 
quiet. 





1 Jargni. This is probably the 
same name which is written “ Iercne” 
at the year 852, and “ Eirgni” under 
the year 882, supra. 

2 Kal. O’F. prefixes the date 887. 

8 With. Sup, A. Bar, B. 

# Abbot. OCb, A. Omitted in B. 

5 Kal. O'F. considers this to be 
the year 888, 


6 Son of Dunlaing. Mac Dun- 





tainge, A. B. The name is written - 
“Dunghal” in the Ann. Ult. and 
Four Mast., with which agrees the 
ancient list of the Kings of Osraighe, 
or Ossory, preserved in the Book of 
Leinster, fol. 20, sq. 

7 Sichfrith, O’Flaherty adds the 
marg. note “Godfredus rectius a 
fratre Ivaro cesus: War[eus],et Cod. — 
Cluanensis.” 































CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 171 


slain by Eloir, son of Iargni.' Fiachna, son of Anfidh, 
King of Uladh, [was slain] by his own people. Plundering 
of Cill-dara by Gentiles. Fourteen score men were taken 
out of it, together with the vice-Abbot, viz., Suibhne, 
[son] of Dubhdabhairenn. 

Kal.? Maelmuire, the learned poet of the Gaeidhel, 
quievit. The Pilgrim, with* the leaf which was given 
from Heaven, came to Erinn, with the Cain Domnaigh, 
and good precepts. Maelruain, Abbot of Disert-Diarmada 
and Cill-Aichedh, and Teach-Telle, quievit. Cu-cen- 
mathair, Abbot of Imlech-Ibhair, quievit. Aedhan, son 
of Rechtaidh, Abbot* of Ros-cre, quievit. A slaughter of 
the Foreigners of Luimnech by the Connachtmen. 

‘Kal.® Maelcobha, Abbot of Ard-Macha, quievit. 
Donnchadh, son of Dubhdabhairenn, King of Caisel, 
quievit. A battle-breach gained over Flann, son of 
Maelechlainn, by the Foreigners of Ath-cliath, in which 
were slain Aedh, son of Conchobhar, King of Connacht, 
and Lergus, son of Crunden, Bishop of Cill-dara, and 
Donnchadh, son of Maelduin, Abbot of Cill-delga, and 
many others. Snedgius, wise man of Disert-Diarmada, 
tutor of Cormac Mac Cuilennain, quievit. Cerbhall, son 
of Dunlaing,® King of Osraighe, died suddenly. Sichfrith,’ 
son of Imhar, King of the Norsemen, was treacherously 
slain by his own brother. Change of cutting the hair*® 
adopted by the virgins of Erinn. 

Kal. A hosting by Domhnall, son of Aedh, and the 
men of the north of Erinn, and with Foreigners, to the 
Ui [Neill] of the South. The fair of Taillten not cele- 
brated.° Dubhlachtna, son of Maelguala, in the Kingship 





8 Cutting the hair. This entry is | tice of cuttingit. Itis probable, how- 
not-found in any other chronicle, and | ever, that the commencement of the 
the phraseology is so ambiguous as | practice is implied. See Introduction. 
to leave it uncertain whether the 9 Not celebrated. cen arse; lit. 
“change” consisted in cutting off the | ‘“ without celebration.” “ Taltenii 
hair of nuns, or abandoning the prac- | ludi intermissi.””. Marg. note, O’F. ° 


of Caisel. Tuadhcar, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. - 


A.D. 
[886.] 


[887.] 


[888] 


[889.] 


172 CRONICUM scOoTORUM. 

}ct.  CoeLum apoepe wipum ert im nocte hi Ict. . 
Ena&ip. Maolovap, Cpreop Cluana muc Nop, quie- 
uit. 

Ict. Llann mac Maolrotin, Cb 1ae, quiewt. Cop- 
mac, Ppincepr Lobaip, ocup canary OCbbav Cluana 
muc Noi, quieus. Suibne mac Maoiluma, ancoprta 
Cluana muc Noip, quems. Opsain Cille vapa ec 
Cluana Ipapo vo Fenctib. Maolpabaill mac Cleprg, 
Ri CLrdne, quiewrs. OConach Taillcen vo aige La Plann 
mac Maorleclainn. Op sall La hub Cmalecard cop 
coopcaip Eloip mac baipro ann. 

}ct. Maolbprgoe na samnarde, o Fabap 1. Ceall 
Ula, opepab Umall v6, Wb Cluana muc Noiy, 
quiews. Uencup magnur a mi Mapca, cop tpapspaip 
piodbaid, et co pus na vepcarse ap a Latpacedb. 
Tigepnan mac Sellachain, Ri Dperrne, quiet. 

}ct.. Motca valca Lectgna Epreorp Clipo Macha, 
quieuis. Cumure cenzisip a nOpo Mata etip Cinel 
n€ogain ocup Ultcoib, 04 accopchaip pocharde .1. evoip 
CC10610 mac Largne ocup Llatbepcat mac Mupchada, 
cop reap Maolbpisgoe. Rian Maolbprgove iappin, ocup 
ems Paopaice o cuigenib hEpend, La sabanl a narsipe, 
tmicha pect ccumal et cetpap hi cpocarb o UlLcoib, 
cenmotan cealla ocup manchu. Riace&n mac Ecsigepn, 
Ri. cCinnprolag, moprcup. Dece mac Epmain, Ri 
ULad, oceipup eps La Wrcér0. 

fet. Lachcnan mac [Maeil]crapan, Ri Teabta, 





1 The Heavens. Ctm, A. B. 

2 Kal. OV’F. has prefixed the date 
891. 

3 Suibhne. O'Flaherty adds a marg. 
reference to Ussher, for whose obser- 
vations regarding Suibhne, see Brit. 
Eccles. Antiq. Dublin, 1639, p. 732. 
The name is written Swifneh in the 
Anglo-Saxon Chron., which has his 
obit at the year 891. 





4 From the Provincials of Erinn. 
o cuigevib Cpenn. The Four Mast. 
(889) have “6 coiccead Cpeann 
1. 6 Gorecead Utad,” “from the 
fifth of Erinn, viz. from the fifth 
(Province) of Uladh,” which seems 
more correct. The same Annals add 
that a similar reparation was exacted 
from the Cinel Eoghain. 

5 Cumhals... A ‘ Cumhal” mean’ 








Kal. The Heavens! appeared to be on fire at night on 
the Kalends of January. Maelodhar, Bishop of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, quievit. 

Kal? Flann, son of Maelduin, Abbot of Hi, quievit. 
Cormac, Abbot of Fobhar, and tanist-Abbot of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, quievit. Suibhne,® son of Maeluma, anchorite 
of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. Plundering of Cill-dara 
and Cluain-Iraird, by Gentiles. Maelfabhaill, son of 
Clerech, King of Aidhne, quievit. The fair of Taillten 
was celebrated by Flann, son of Maelechlainn. A 


slaughter of the Foreigners by the Ui Amhalgaidh, in. 


which Elair, son of Barid, was slain. 

Kal. Maelbrighde-na-gamhnaidhe, from Gabhar, 1.¢. 
Cill-Ula, who was of the men of Umhall, Abbot of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, quievit. Great wind in the month of March, 
_ which prostrated trees, and bore off the oratories from 
_ their sites. Tighernan, son of Sellachan, King of Breifne, 
 quievit. 

Kal. Mochta, foster-son of Fethgna Bishop of Ard- 
Macha, quievit. The contention of Whitsuntide at Ard- 
Macha, between the Cinel Eoghain and the Ultonians 
(i.e. between Aideid, son of Laighne, and Flaithbhertach, 
son of Murchadh), in which many were slain, but Mael- 
brighde separated them. The award of Maelbrighde 
afterwards, and the satisfaction for Patrick’s honour 
from the Provincials of Erinn,‘ besides receiving their 
hostages, was thirty times seven cumhals,’ and four of 


the Ultonians to be hanged, besides churches and gifts. 


Riagan, son of Echtighern, King of Ui Cennsealaigh,, 
moritur. Becc, son of Erman, King of Uladh, was slain 


by Aiteid. 
Kal. Lachtnan, son of [Mael]ciarain, King of Teabhtha, 
moritur. Niall, son of Laeghaire, King of the Desi, 





three cows, or the value of three cows. | 630, although Colgan understands 
The number of cows was, therefore, | ‘210 boves.” Trias Thaum., p. 296. 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 173° 


A.D. 
[890.] 


[891.] 


[892.] 


[898.] 


[894.] 


174 cRONICUM scOoTORUM. 


mopitup. Niall mac Laogaipe, Ri na n’Dére, mopitupe 
Laolan mac Fuarpe, Ri -N. cCinnprolarg, moprcup. 

ket. “Ouplactna mac Maoilguarpe, Ri Caryl, mopr- 
cup. Meaolpeoaip mac Cuan, Eppcop Tipe va slap, 
comapba Dpenand, quer. Ceallach mac Plenna- 
scan, Ri Opneg, occrpup eps 6 [Lo]sapcac mac ToLaips. 
Murperat mac Eochagdn, Lert Ri Ulead, occrpup eps o 
Orcéo mac Largne. Maolaéen, Eppcop Cipro Macha, 
quretc. 

}ct. Otatmac, Ppincepp Cluana muc Nop .1. mac 
Tapceoms vo Opekmaimb, queue. Op gall [la] 
Conaille [ocup] La Orcero mac Largne in quo cecidve- 
puns Cmte .N. imap ocup Flun cpoona mac Sléin 
1apdinn, cum .vece. Scolarse mac Macain, Ri Dealbna 
Detpa vo mapbad La muincip Cluana muc Nop, cond 
mMopse po mapbao [Maolataro]. Maolacard canary 
Cluana muc Noip, es Ppincepr Oamainys, (oo poo pp 
bap conad baoi cinta v0 immapbad Scolaige), D0 DOL 
mapcpa La Delbna Decpa anoigail Scolaige. Saop- 
bpetac mac Conard, Sapienr et Cpipcopur, ec Ppuncepr 
Copearse, qnieurs. PElann mac Lonain, Lipsil Saerveat 
2. ppm pile Saorveal, 00 mapbad ouib Cuippbure «1. 
o hin’ Locher, ag Loé va Caoé a nOemb Muman. 
Llatbepoaé mac Mupchada, Ri OCs, occrpup ert La 
hu Dpeapart. 

ket. Catpaoined pia Maotpinnomn mac PLlanvagain, | 
1¢ Rais cpo, for Ullcorb ocup pop Odl parse, ub 
multi cecidepunt, um Mupcepcat mac Eos, Ri Oda 
parse, ocur im mac Maoilmochepge me Inopeaccas 
+. Cinviappard, Ri Leice Cathal. Cr0e10 mac Larsne 
uulnepacup cua. Uctmupan mac Concupap, Ri -N. 





1 Maelguaire. ‘“‘Maelguala” inthe ,; year 891, which is the date given in 
other chronicles, and in the List of | the Four Mast. (890=891), where 
Patsy of Cashel in the Book of Mun- | the name is written Maelaithghin, 


“eh allie O’F. intimates in a 3 Slaughter. O’F. prefixes the date 
note that this ecclesiastic died in the | 896, and refers to Ware (Antig. Hib.). 


































CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 175 


moritur. Faelan, son of Guaire, King of Ui Cennsealaigh, 
moritur. 

Kal. Dubhlachtna, son of Maelguaire,' King of Caisel, 
moritur. Maelpedair, son of Cuan, Bishop of Tir-da-glas, 
comarb of Brenainn, quievit. Ceallach, son of Flannagan, 
King of Bregh, slain by [Folgartach, son of Tolarg. 
_ Muiredhach, son of Eochagan, half-King of Uladh, was 
Slain by Aiteid, son of Laighne. Maelaichen,’ Bishop of 
Ard-Macha, quievit. 

_ Kal. Blathmac, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 4.e. son of 
Taircedach, of the Breghmhaine, quievit. A slaughter* of 
the Foreigners[by]Conaille [and] by Aiteid,son of Laighne, 
in which Amhlaibh, grandson of Imhar, and Gluntradna, 
son of Gluniarainn, with 800 others, fell. Scolaighe, 
son of Macan, King of Dealbhna Bethra, was slain by the 
- eommunity of Cluain-muc-Nois, on account of which 
[Maelachaid] was killed. Maelachaid, tanist-Abbot of 
Cluain-muc-Nois, and Abbot of Daimhinis, (who declared 
when dying that he was not guilty of the slaying of 
Scolaighe), suffered martyrdom from the Dealbhna Bethra, 
in revenge for Scolaighe. Saerbrethach, son of Conadh, a 
sage, and Bishop, and Abbot of Corcach, quievit. Flann, 
_ son of Lonan, the Virgil‘ of the Gaeidhel, i.c. chief poet 
of the Gaeidhel, was slain by the Ui Cuirrbuidhe, viz., 
by the Ui Fothaidh, at Loch-Dacaech, in the Deisi of 
Mumban. Flaithbhertach, son of Murchadh, King of 
Ailech, was slain by the Ui Breasail. 

Kal.> A battle-breach gained by Maelfinnain, son of 
Flannagan, at Rath-cro, over the Ultonians and the Daél- 

Araidhe,in which many fell, with Muircertach,son of Edech, 

King of Dél-Araidhe, and with the son of Maelmocherghe, 

son of Indreachtach, i.e. Aindiarraidh, King of Leith- 

Cathail. Aideidh, son of Laighne, escaped with wounds. 





‘Virgil. Yipgit, A., the trans- | intimate that the letters p and u (f 
criber of which has added the charac- | and v) were of equal signification. 
ters “.1. u” over the letter p, to 5 Kal. O’F. prefixes the date 897. 


A.D. 


(894. ] 
[895.] 


[896.] 


[397.] 


176 cRONICUM SsCOTORUM. 
fRoilse a pump [occipur ert]. Inpad Connact La Plann 
mac Maoilpeclainn, ocur a Ze1Ll vo Tobach. 

ket. OQrveo mac Laméne, Ri Ulead, a poonp pep 
rolum f[oceipup ert]. Lpor pola vo ~iliud a nOpo 
Ciannachta. Onc mlictip vo vol a hE€pnn. Opo 
Maka vapgain 6 gallos Lochu LeaBarl, ec Cumupecaé 
20 Zabdil vip, ec a mac 1. Cos mac Cumurgaicé, vo 
mapbad. Ruane mac Tisepnain, Ri Dperpne, mopitup. 
Qevacan mac Concupaip, Ri Teabca, moprtup. Coccad 
eroip Llann mac Maoilpeclainn et a mac 1. Mael- 
puanais, ubi mule cecidepunt. 

fet. Cpsaoan bb Copcmgée, quiewus. Plumalir 
annup. “Oefectio pamp. Cpet La Connaccoi’ a 
niaptepn Mide. Sapuccad Inn Oingin, ets Duin Do 
Buin fon a Lap, ocur repin Ciapain ince, ocup penud 
rpms im Coaipppe Crom, Eppcop Cluana muc Nop. 
Marom pop Connachzorb oc CCE Luan pra mapcep 
M1%e 17 1n Lo cedna, co Frapspao Dpem. 

ct. Mac Eros mac Letlobap, Ri Ocul Cpare, 
moputup. Taovsg mac Concupaip, Ri ceopa Connacht, 
extenro doLone, quiewt. Opsain Cille Oana 6 Senn. 
Quer Maoilbmsoe mic Ppoilis, WCpoeappus Muman. 
Quer “Oomnaill mic Conrpcantin, Ri CLban. ben 
mop vo pala a mup a nOClbain 2. va cparss véce ap 
naoi ppicvib a fad; ur. Tpaicdid erdiIp a Da ci; wu. 
cpaicérs poo a puils; ur. foo medip a Lanthe; ui. appa 
appona Silicep 5ép no uan cuinne sac mip OH. 

Ict. Maolpuanad mac Llainn mic Maorleclainn, 





1 Aideidh. Although O’F. thinks 4 Mac-Edigh. ‘‘Muretigh,” Ann. 


898 the correct year, he refers the 
death of Aideidh to the year 899. 

2 The Pilgrim; te. the Pilgrim 
whose arrival is recorded above under 
the year 886, and whose name is 
given in the Four Mast. (886) as 
** Ananloen.” 

8 Ruarc. O’F. refers his obit to 
the year 899. 





Ult. (899=900). 

5 A large woman. Den mop. O'F. 
adds the word “ virago” in the marg. 
This prodigy is entered in the Ann. 
Ult. at the year 890=891, and in 
the Ann. Four Mast. under the year 
888=891, 

6 Kal. O°F. understands 901 to be 
the correct year. 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 177 


Uathmuran, son of Conchobhar, King of Ui-Failghe, 


_ [was slain] by his own people. Devastation of Connacht 


_ by Flann, son of Maelsechlainn; and its pledges were 
taken. 

Kal. Aideidh,' son of Laighne, King of Uladh, [was 
_ slain] in treachery, by his companion. A shower of blood 
_ was shed in Ard-Ciannachta. The Pilgrim? departed 
_ from Erinn. Ard-Macha was plundered by the Foreigners 
of Loch Feabhail, and Cumusgach was taken prisoner. by 
_ them, and his son, 7.e. Aedh, son of Cumusgach, was slain. 
 Ruare? son of Tighernan, King of Breifne, moritur. 
_ Aedhacan, son of Conchobhar, King of Teabhtha, moritur. 
_ A war between Flann, son of Maelsechlainn, and his son, 
4. Maelruanaidh, in which many fell. 

Kal. Argadan, Abbot of Corcach, quievit. A rainy 
year. Failure of bread. A preying expedition by the 
- Connachtmen into West of Midhe. The profanation 
_ of Inis Ainghin, and a man was wounded in the middle 
_ of it, and the shrine of Ciaran there, and a synod of seniors 


_ along with Cairbre Crom, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois. 
_ A victory was gained at Ath-Luain, on the same day, by 


_ the men of West Midhe over the Connachtmen, who lost 
 anumber of men. 

Kal. Mac-Edigh,‘ son of Lethlobhar, King of Dél- 
a Araidhe, moritur. Tadhg, son of Conchobhar, King of 
_ the three divisions of Connacht, after long suffering, 
quievit. Plundering of Cill-dara by Gentiles. Quies of 


_ Maelbrighde, son of Proilech, Archbishop of Mumhan. 


Bi. Quies of Domhnall, son of Constantine, King of Alba. 
_ A large woman’ was cast ashore by the sea in Alba, viz., 
her length was nine score and twelve feet; six feet 
_ between her two paps; the length of her hair was 15 
feet; the length of the fingers of her hands was 6 feet; 
_ the length of her nose was 7 feet ; whiter than a swan, 
 ! sa the foam of the wave, was every part of her. 

_» Kal.® Maelruanaidh, son of Flann, son of Maelechlainn, 

N 


A.D. 
[897] 


[898.] 


[899.] 


[900.] 


[901.] 


178 CRONICUM SscCOTORUM. 


o Lingnié Connacht ocerpup ert 1. a Lopecad a coms 
zined 1. 6 maccoib Cepnactin mic Tardg, es 6 mac 
Lopccan mic Catal, ub1 cevep: mule: cecroepunt, ex- 
cepuir tmbup 1. Maelcpdn mac Domnall, Ri Cineoil 

aogaine, ocup Ppincepr Roip e€ 1. “Oubeuilinn, et 
aliup. Claoélod Obbao a Cluain muc Nor «. lopep 
capiy “Oevimup. Claoclod Ris 1 Corl «1. Copmae 
mac Cuilendd&in an 1onad Cinngescin. Meaolbpeparl | 
mac Maoiloopmsd, Ri Cineoil Conall, v0 mapbad a 
ccat Sailcim: La Mupchad mac Maorilrouin, Ri Cineoit 
Coshain. 

}ct. Linogsumne Ri Cail a pup occipup ere. 
Inovapbad Fencae a hEipinn .1. [o] Lonspops Céa Cliaég, 
oc Cepball mac Mumpigén co Largnib, es Maolpnnian 
mac Llannagcin so f¢repoib Dpes, 50 EFapSpao Dpecs 
mop 00 Lonccib. 

]c. . Caoincompac Epipcopup et Pprncepy [Lusman, 
quiewmc]. Ceallaé mac Saopgura, [canape] Eppeop 
CCipo Macha, quiews. Maolfpinman, Ri Dpes, mopitup. 
Ompsilla mac Groippsedil, Ri -N. Cinnyilongs, moprcup. 

Ict. lorep .1. Loca Con, vurb Piacpaé an cuopsips, 
Qbb Cluana muc Nop, in pace quem. Sapuccad 
Cenannpa La Llann mac Maorleclain, por "Oonnchad 
1. a mac faverin, et alia mule dvecollac punt cipca 
opacopium. “Ounsal mac Denéine, Princepr opsur 
Eprcop Slinne va Locha, quiewt. Losapcaé mac 
Maoilpuanaro, Ri Cineoit Conall, moprtup. Carpppe 
Cam, Eppcop Cluana muc Nop, queuc. Op vo 
Tuapsaib ppipt Maoilpecloain mic Maoilpuanasd cenn. 





1 In a house set on fire. a coms 
tined; lit. “in a house of fire.” 

2 With the exception of three. ex- 
ceptip cyubup (exceptis tribus), 
A.B. The Four Mast. state that the 
three persons in question perished also. 

8 Kal. O’F. prefixes the date 902. 

4 OfLughmhagh. Added from Four 
Mast. (898, recté 903). 

‘Tanist. canare, interlined by O'F. 





6 North. The clause within the 
parenthesis is added as a gloss over 
the name of Joseph, in A. It is mis- 


placed in B., being added to the pre- 


ceding entry. 

7 Maelruanaidh. ‘* Maeldoraidh,” 
Four Mast., which is more correct. 

8 Cairbre Cam. This name is 
written “Cairbre Crom” under the 
year 898, supra, and in all other 











CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 179 


was slain by the Luighne of Connacht, 7.c. he was burnt 
in a house set on fire,' viz., by the sons of Cernachan, son of 
Tadhg, and by the son of Lorcan, son of Cathal ; in which 
the rest, who were many, perished, with the exception of 
three,’ viz, Maelcron, son of Domhnall, King of Cinel 
Laeghaire, and the Abbot of Ros-ech, namely, Dubhcuilinn, 
and another. A change of Abbots at Cluain-muc-Nois, viz., 
_ Joseph instead of Dedimus. A change of Kings at Caisel, 
viz., Cormac, son of Cuilennan, in the place of Cenngegain. 
Maelbresail, son of Maeldoraidh, King of Cinel Conaill, 
was killed in the battle of Sailtin, by Murchadh, son of 
Maelduin, King of Cinel Eoghain. 

Kal.* Finnguine, King of Caisel, was slain by his own 
people. Expulsion of the Gentiles from Erinn, #.c. [from] 
the fortress of Ath-cliath, by Cerbhall, son of Muirigen, 
with the Lagenians, and by Maelfinnian, son of Flannagan, 
with the men of Bregh; and they (the Gentiles) left a 
great number of ships. 

K. Caeincomrac, Bishop and Abbot [of Laghnshagh, 4 
quievit]. Ceallach, son of Saerghus, [tanist-°|Bishop of 
Ard-Macha, quievit. Maelfinnian, King of Bregh, moritur. 
_ Duibhgilla, son of Edirsgel, King of Ui Cennselaigh, 
— moritur. 

Kal. Joseph (i.e. of Loch Con, of the Ui Fiachrach 
of the North),® Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, in pace quievit. 
Profanation of Cenannus by Flann, son of Maelechlain, 

t Donnchadh, 4.e. his own son; and many others 
were beheaded around the oratory. Dungal, son of 
Baithin, Abbot and Bishop of Gleann-da-locha, quievit. 
Fogartach, son of Maelruanaidh,’ King of Cinel Conaill, 
moritur. Cairbre Cam,* Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
quievit. It was to him the spirit of Maelechlain, 
son of Maelruanaidh, showed itself? Ead, King of 





authorities. The words “Cam” and 9 Showed itself. Tuapgarb cenn; 
“Crom” are nearly synonymous, the | lit. “‘raised its head.” See a curious 
former meaning crooked, and the lat- | account of this apparition, in the 
ter, bent, or stooped. Mart. of Donegal, at 6 March. 

N2 


A.D. 


[901.] 


[902.] 


[903.] 


[904.] 


180 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Ea Ri Cpntencuarte vo curcim pps va .N. 1maap ocup 
Liu Cacol 50.0. ceoorb. Oileé vapsain vo sallarb. 

Ict. Llann mac Oomnaill, Rivamna an cuarpsipe, 
mopitup. CErsnecan mac alas, Ri Cinel Conaitt, 
mopicup. Sluaged La Llann mac Maorleclainn, ec 
La Cepball mac Muipeccéin, co pipu Murhan, co po 
npewoap 6 Sabpan so Lurmneé. 

fet. Colman Eppeop Darthlias ec Lupsa, queue. 
Lepsil Eppeop Einoabpaé quiews. Sluaiged fep 
Muman la Copmac mac Curlenné&in, ec La Llarc- 
bepcach, 50 Mak Lena, sup cinoilyis Leé Curnn doib 
annyin, um LLann mac MaorleaéLainn, 50 paomed por 
Le Cuinn. Onnup moptalicamp. SLuaicched ole La 
Copmac ocur La Llartbeptaé, pon Ua Nell, ocup for 
Connachta, co couspac sialla Connacht, ocup sup - 
optaccup my Loéa Rib appa coblaé. Cain La Cele 
Cleipeé pop Leé Cuimn. 

}ct. Sluarged La Cinel n€oghain «1. La Oomhnatt 
mac Qoda ocup la Niall mac Coda, sup Loipecy19 
Tlachtsa. bellum Deals Mugnar pe Largnib ocur 
pe Leré Cuinn pop repaid Muman, in quo Copmac 
mac Cuilennain, Ri Coarpil, Scpiba opmimup, acque 
Epipcopup, et ancopta, et papiencippimup FSaoroi0l, 
occipuy ert 1. Piach h. Usraoan o Oennlip ippe po 
thapnb Copmac. Logepcaé mac Suibne, Ri Crapparge 
Cuipcr, ocup Ceallaé mac Ceapbanll, Ri Oppmge, ocer 
rune. OCilill mac Eogain, Ppincepp Trin Copemge, 
ocup Maolmopda, Ri Raca Linne, ec Maolgopm Ri 





1 Ead, King of Cruithen-tuaith ; i.e. 
of Pictland. ‘There is no mention of 


® Kal. O’F. prefixes the date 906, 
implying thereby that the year 905 has 


this Ead in the usual lists of Pictish 
Kings, unless he is the Aedh, or Hugh, 
King of Scotland, who succeeded Con- 
stantine II. in 881, and who is stated 
by most authorities to have been killed 
after a reign of one year. If so, his 
obit is misplaced here. See Chalmers’ 
Caledonia, vol. i., pp. 375, 881, 





been omittedin A. See note 5, p. 184, 

8A Rule. Cam. This word is 
represented by “Lex,” under the year 
826, supra. It also means a Tribute. 
O’Flaherty understands this to be the 
year 907. 

4 Kal. This is the year 908, ac- 
cording to O’F. See note %, p. 182, 












































CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 181 


Cruithen-tuaith,' fell by the two grandsons of Imhar, 
and by Catel, along with 500 men. Ailech plundered by 
Foreigners. 
. Kal.? Flann, son of Domhnall, Royal heir of the North, 
_ moritur. Eignechan, son of Dalach, King of Cinel Conaill, 
moritur. A hosting by Flann, son of Maelechlainn, and 
by Cerbhall, son of Muiregen, to the men of Mumhan, 
when they ravaged from Gabhran to Luimnech. 
Kal. Colman, Bishop of Daimhliag and Lusca, quievit. 
Fergil, Bishop of Finnabhair, quievit. A hosting of the 
men of Mumhan, with Cormac, son of Cuilennan, and 
with Flaithbhertach, to Magh Lena; and the army of 
Leth Chuinn assembled there against them, under Flann, 
son of Maelechlainn; but the army of Leth Chuinn was 
defeated. A year of mortality. Another hosting by 
~ Cormac and by Flaithbhertach, against the Ui Neill and 
the men of Connacht; and they brought away the hostages 
_ of Connacht, and destroyed the islands of Loch Ribh from 
their fleet. A Rule® established by Cele-Cleirech over 
Leth Chuinn. 
_ Kal‘ A hosting by the Cinel Eoghain, i.e. by Domh- 
nall, son of Aedh, and by Niall, son of Aedh; and they 
burned Tlachtgha. The battle of Bealach Mughna gaimed 
by the Lagenians and by the army of Leth Chuinn, 
over the men of Mumhan, in which Cormac, son of 
 Guilennan, King of Caisel, a most excellent scribe, and 
Bishop and anchorite, and the wisest of the Gaeidhel, 
was slain: viz, Fiach Ua Ugfadan, from Dennlis, it was 
that slew Cormac. Fogartach, son of Suibhne, King of 
 Giarraighe-Chuirchi, and Ceallach, son of Cerbhall, King 
of Osraighe, were slain. Ailill, son of Eoghan, Abbot of 
 Trian Corcaighe,® and Maelmordha, King of Rath-linne, 
and Maelgorm, King of Ciarraighe-Luachra, with a mul- 
P 5 Trian Corcaighe; i.e. the “third | sometimes loses its relative quantity, 


of: Gorcach (or Cork).” The word | and simply means “district,” or “ di- 
“trian,” (“third”), like “quarter,” | vision.” 





[906.] 


[907.] 


182, cronicumM scOTORUM. 


Crapparse Luacpa, .u1. m.1b1 mule: cecrvepunc. Colman 
Princepp Cinn Erccié, ocup Ri Copca Ombne, ocup al 
mule nobiler qui non numepati Punt; UT DINIT -— 

Copmac Lermin, Posantach, 

Cotman, Ceattaé cpuaid nugpa, 

Cobatad con 14 miuub 

Occat beatarg muad Mugna. 

flann Tempra von Tailten mag, . 

Ceapbalt vo Capmain cronac, — 

1 repooecim Sepcembin 

Claoipiod cat cevoib Lac. 

In c€preop, an tanmcapa, 

On fui ba pocla popoape ; 

Ra Carpit con 12 marnib, 

C De vuppan v0 Copmac. — Copmac. 

{land mac Maoileclainn, Ri Tempaé, Cepball 
mac Muprsen, Ri Largen, Cacal mac Coneuparp, Ri 
Connakés, uctopepr epant. Meaologna mac Congalaicé, 
Ri Loéa Fabap, pep volum ocerpup ert o [Plosapcaé 
mac ToLaipe. 
fect. Ceapball mac Muipigen, Ri Larsen rvoLope 

mopouup ETT, UT DICITUP :— 

Mop tiaé lire tonogatach 

Ban Ceapbatt cprarbtec ceveé ; 

Fen fiat porpard popbapac, 


Dia posain Temaip, Tardlec. 


clini 





1 The poet. The stanzas which fol- 
low are attributed to Dallan, son of 
Mér, poet to Cerbhall, King of Lein- 
ster, one of the victors in the battle 
of Bealach Mughna. A few of 
Dallan’s compositions are preserved 
in the Book of Leinster. 

2 Seventeenth of September. rept 
mecim (sept decim), for septimo de- 
cimo, or decimo septimo, A. B. 
O'Flaherty adds the marg. note ‘17 
Septembris, i.e. 17 Kal. Sept., Au- 
gusti 16, et feria 3, ut in Dungal. 





Annal. Anno 908. Litera Domincal. 
CB.” But the Annals of 

(or Four Mast.), in which the battle 
is entered under the year 903—equal, 
however, to 908—do not mention 
the day of the week. In a subse- 
quent stanza of the foregoing poem, 
quoted in the Fragments of Irish 
Annals (Dublin ed. 1860), p. 217, 
the battle is stated to have been 
fought on a Tuesday. The 17th of 
September fell on a Tuesday in the 
year 905, at which date Caradoc of 





ee 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 183 


titude to the nwmber of 6,000 fell there. Colman, Abbot 
of Cenn-Kittigh, and the King of Corca-Duibhne, and 
many other nobles who are not enumerated, were slain, 
as said the poet! :— 

Cormac of Feimhin, Fogartach, 

Colman, Ceallach of the hard fights— 

They perished, with many thousands, 

In the battle of famous Bealach Mughna, 


Flann of Temhair, of the plain of Tailten, 
Cearbhall of lordly Carman, 

On the Seventeenth of September,? 

Gained a battle of which hundreds were joyful. 


The Bishop—the soul-friend— 

The renowned, illustrious sage— 

King of Caisel, of great riches— 

O God! Alas for Cormac. Cormac.® 


Flann, son of Maelechlainn, King of Temhair ; Cerbhall, 

son of Muirigen, King of Laighen; and Cathal, son of 

Conchobhar, King of Connacht, were victors. Maelogra, 

son of Congalach, King of Loch Gabhar, was treacherously 

slain by [F Jogartach, son of Tolarg. 

a Kal* Cerbhall, son of Muirigen, King of Laighen, 
dolore mortuus est, ut dicitur® :— 

Great grief that Life of fierce valour 

Is without the pious, friendly Cerbhall— 

A generous, stayed, prolific man, 

To whom Temhair® the splendid was obedient. 


Lancarvan (Brut y Tywysogion) has 5 Ut dicitur. ut op.,A. ut d10- 
the death of Cormac (Corvauc). The | tum, B. 






















___— year 908, and it seems likely, there- | the Four Mast. have Eriu, or Erin, 
fore, that O’Flaherty is right, and | But Cerbhall was never King of Tara, 
that the text should read “the 17th | i.e. of Erin; and Tara ceased to be 
of the Kalends of September.” the residence of the Irish monarchs 
-% Cormac. The first word of the | after the year 534, although the 
poem is here repeated, according to | practice of styling them “Kings of 
the usual practice of Irish scribes. Tara” was observed down to a late 
4 Kal. O’F. prefixes the date 909. | period. 





Irish Annals generally point to the 6 Temhair. For Temhair or Tara, 


A.D. 
[907.] 


[908.] 


184 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Mugpon mae Soélean, Ri. Marne, moprcup. bee 
A. Letlabap, Ri Ocal Cpérde, moprcup. Carcvell 
mac Ruadpaé, Ri Dpecan, mopitup. Oamliag Cluana 
muc Noir vo Denam La Llann mac Maorleclainn et La 
Colman ConailLeé. 

}ct. Catpaoined pe Llann mac Maorleclarnn cum 
rump plup for ipa Dperpne, ub: cecroepuns Plann 
mac Tizgepndin, Ri Opepne, ocup a mac, ec alia mule 
inteppects punt 1. Ta millia hominum. Olipd1 ingnad 
mo tcocup 1pin bliadain pI 4. na va Epéin vo puos 
imonlle in uno die 1n pprdie nonap Man. Coblaé La 
Domnall Ua Maorileclainn, ocup La Innpatoaét mac 
Concupap, fop Dens deine, sup pamyic for cablaé 
Mumhan, ocupr sup mapbrac daoine 1mda. 

Ict. ‘Ounlons mac Coipppe, proamna Largen, mop- 
cup. Oomnall mac Coda, Rig Oils, 00 sabail bachla. 
Limp Cicl. 

fect. Sapuccad Oipo Macha o Cepnacan mac 
Ouligen 1. cim1d D0 bpert ap in erll ocup a manbad 
1c Loé Cipp pria po Macha anap. Cepnachaén vo 
badad La Niall mac Coda Rig ind [L]oclar in eooem 
Lacu 1 ceinand papaigce Pooparce. 

}ct. Congalach mac Sapbit, Ri Conmlle Murp- 
cemne, occipup eft a Ppacpe puo. Catpaomed pia 
Niall mac Coda pop Connachtarb .». pop Maelclurée 
mac Concupaip, vu accopéuip Maolcluriée et vaoine 
1omba. Cat pra Maolmithid mac fLlannucain, ocup 
pe “Oonnchaoh -N. Maorleclainn, pop Lopcan mace 
Ounchada ocup pop fLosapcat, so LargniB led, ubr 
cecidepunt mule. 





1 Sochlan. ‘Sochlachan,” Ann. 
Ult., and Four Mast., which is more 
correct. 

2 Caittell. The death of Cadell, 
son of Rodhri, or Ruaidhri, is entered 
under the year 907 in the Brut y 
Tywysogion, and in the Annales Cam- 
brie at the year 909. 








8 Battle. The original hand has 
written “cat muige cuma,” “battle 
of Magh Cuma,” in the marg.,in A. — 
The place has not been identified. 
43,000 men. cypua 1m hominum, 
A. B. 
5 Endof the Cycle. Thiscorresponds 
to the year 911, which completed the 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 185 


Mughron, son of Sochlan,’ King of Ui Maine, moritur. 
Bec Ua Lethlabhair, King of Daél-Araidhe, moritur. 
Caittell,? son of Ruaidhri, King of Britain, moritur. The 
stone church of Cluain-muc-Nois was built by Flann, son 
of Maelechlainn, and Colman Conaillech. 

Kal. <A battle® gained by Flann, son of Maelechlainn, 
with his sons, over the men of Breifne, in which fell 
Flann, son of Tighernan, King of Breifne, and his son; 
and many more were slain, viz., 3,000 men. A wonderful 
sign appeared in this year, viz., two suns were seen to run 
together on one day, namely that preceding the nones of 
May. A fleet by Domhnall Ua Maeilechlainn, and by Inn- 
rachdach, son of Conchobhar, on Loch Dergdheirc; and 
they defeated the fleet of Mumhan, and killed many men. 
Kal. Dunlang, son of Cairbre, Royal heir of Laighen, 
moritur. Domhnall, son of Aedh, King of Ailech, assumed 
the pilgrim’s staff. End of the Cycle.® 

Kal. The 2_profanation_of Ard-Macha by Cernachan, 
son of Duligen, viz. a captive was taken out of the 
church, and killed at Loch Cirr, to the east® of Ard- 
Macha. Cernachan was drowned by Niall, son of Aedh, 
King of the [F]Jochla, in the same lake, for the offence of 
the profanation of Patrick. 

Kal? Congalach, son of Gairbhith, King of Conaille 
Muirthemne, was slain by his own brother. A battle 
gained by Niall, son of Aedh, over the Connachtmen, viz., 
over Maelcluiche, son of Conchobhar, in which Maelcluiche 
and numerous persons were slain. A. battle gained by 
Maelmithidh, son of Flannagan, and by Donnchadh Ua 
Maeilechlainn, over Lorcan, son of Dunchadh, and over 
Fogartach, with the Lagenians, in which many fell. 





































48th Lunar Cycle from the Birth of 6 To the east. The Four Mast. 
Christ. It would seem, therefore, | (907) have “to the west.” The cor- 
that O'Flaherty was right insupposing | rect year is 912. 

that a year had been omitted between 
904 and 905, which latter should be ? Kal. O’Flaherty prefixes the 
906. See note 2, p. 180. ‘| year 913, which is the correct date, 


eat 
ae Ardy. 


[908.] 


[909.] 


[910.] 


[911.] 


[912] 


186 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. ° 


Ict. |“ Llarcbepzad a pre Capit. Faall vo trachcarn 
a n€pinn a bpopc Lapse. Sluag and [P]oéla ocup 
Ulead, um Niall mac Coda, 1 Mive 50 Fpeallach 
n€illce. Catpaoined pé Llann mac Maorleclainn, 
cum pup plup, foppa ainnren, DU actTORCaIp Dpeam 
ni0b um Lepsal mac Consupa mc Maoilrvoun, ec um 
Maolmonda mac nEipemoin mic Coda vUlcab, ocup 
um h€puvan mac Faipbic, plac h. mDbpepail, ew um 
Diapmarod mac [Sealbm$s], Ri Oalpava, ocup um 
Maolmumpe mac [Llannagain] Ri Lepnmarge, ec ali, 
et “Domnall [mac] Sampbit, Ri Conalle, ec Conmican 
mac OCipeccans. 

}ct. Oengup mac LLainn mic MaeileéLainn, Rrvamna 

Eipenn in macupa peneccute peprt, lx no .lax. d16 
port bellum Speallig) quo rugulacup ers, unve pepus 
le. vie. SOomnall mac Coda, mec Nell, Ri Os, 
port penitentiam pepric. Meaolciapain mac Etucain, 
Ppincepp Cluana eoip, et Muccnama Eppeop ipo 
Mata, ocup valcta Letsna, vopmiuis. Ssannlan 
Eprcop TamLachta, quiet. Opgsain Copcarge ec lir 
méip, et ead bd, 6 Fencib. 
"fet. Cobplaé ingen “Ourboun, Cbbanppa Cille 
capa, qtneut. Maolbappionn, pagans Cluana muc 
Noy, qmeus. PLosupcaé mac ToLaipe, Ri veipyips 
Dpeg, quiews. Clann mac Maorleclainn, Ri Epeann 
tile, in .u1”. kct. lain, un. pepra xexun’. anno pesmi 
ru, vepunccur ert hi Cind e1¢ muinzipe Cluana :— 





1 Kal. The correct year is 914, as { on the 7th of the Ides of February, 


O’F. has noted in the marg., in A. 

2 70th. sxx.,a mistake for Uax., A. 
B. 
8 Received a mortal wound. 1ugu- 
tacur ec (jugulatus est). The 
corresponding expression in the Four 
Mast. (911=915) is vo gun (was 
mortally wounded). The Ann. Ult. 
(914 al, 915) state that Aengus died 





being the 3rd feria, or Tuesday, which 
answers to the year 915. 

4 Bishop of Ard-Macha. The name 
of Maelciarain is not found in any of 
the ancient lists of Bishops or Abbots 
of Armagh, and it is likely that the 
words in the text are transposed, and 
that the entry should read ‘“Mael- 
ciarain, son of Eochagan, Abbot of 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 187. 


Kal.' Flaithbhertach in the sovereignty of Caisel. 
Foreigners arrived in Erinn, at Port-Lairge. The army 
of the [F]Jochla and of Uladh, under Niall, son of Aedh, 
marched into Midhe, to Greallach-Eillte. A battle was 
there gained over them by Flann, son of Maelechlainn, 
with his sons, in which a number of them were slain, 
including Ferghal, son of Aengus, son of Maelduin ; 
_Maelmordha, son of Eremhon, son of Aedh, of the 
Ultonians; Erudhan, son of Gairbhith, chieftain of Ui- 
Breasail ; Diarmaid, son [of Sealbhach], King of Dal- 
Riada; and Maelmuire, son [of Flannagan], King of 
Fernmhagh, and others ; and Domhnall [son] of Gairbhith, 
- King of Conaille, and Connican, son of Airechtach. 

Kal. Oengus, son of Flann, son of Maelechlainn, 
Royal heir of Erinn, died in ripe old age, on the 60th or 
70th? day after the battle of Greallach, where he received 
a mortal wound,’? of which he died on the 60th day. 
Domhnall, son of Aedh, son of Niall, King of Ailech, died 
after penitence. Maelciarain, son of Eochagan, Abbot 
of Cluain-eois and Muccnamha, Bishop of Ard-Macha,* 
and foster-son of Fethghna, dormivit.’ Sgannlan, Bishop 
of Tamhlacht, quievit. Plundering of Corcach, and Lis- 
mér, and Achadh-bé, by Gentiles. 

Kal. Cobhflaith, daughter of Dubhduin, Abbess of 
Cill-dara, quievit. Maelbarrionn, Priest of Cluain-muc- 
Nois, quievit. Fogartach, son of Tolarg, King of the 
South of Bregh, quievit. Flann, son of Maelechlainn, 
King of all Erinn, died on the 8th of the Kalends of June, 
on Saturday,® in the 37th year of his reign, at Cenn-eich 
of the family of Cluain :— 





Cluain-eois and Muccnamh, and 6 Saturday. un. pepia (7th feria). 


foster-son of Fethgna Bishop of Ard- | The correct year was, therefore, 916, 


Macha, dormivit.” on which the 8th of the Kalends of 

5 Dormivit. This word is trans- | June, or 25th of May, fell on the 7th 
posed in A. and B., in both of which | feria, i.e. Saturday. O'Flaherty has 
it follows after ‘“ Cluain-eois.” added a marg. note, now illegible. 


A.D. 
[913.] 


[914.] 


[915.] 


188 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Tpuag pin a Crp todnac 
Ex do Daoine DOEpac, 

O cerca Plann. . . mapb 
Do Ri posopm pogstac. 


Cnopoit mac Ruapaé, Ri Dpecan, mopicup. Niall 
Slunoup, mac Coda, pesnape incipit. Oenaé Toarllcen 
pacnuasao La Niall. . 

kct. Sluccced prep n€penn La Niall mac Coda, 
50 salloi6 Locha va caet, sup mapbcoa Fall ocup 
Faorvoil ann, um Rr§ Carppse Dpaéare, ocur um conpeé 
M. Cepnas 1. Maolpinnén mac “Oonnagdain, ocup um 
caorpeé -N. Cremcainne «1. Lepsup mac Murpugén, ocup 
ali mule occ punt. Cacpaoined Cind fuais pop 
Lagm6 pe nla imap; pe ceo, uel ampliup, 1m an 
mspas et imon CCipopicé a. Usaipe mac Orililla, ocup 
im Rg Ciptip Lge +. Maolmopsa mac Murprsén, 
ocur um Muspon mac Cindevis, Ri na copi Comann 
ocup Latys, ocup Cinaod mac Tuacaal, Ri -h. Peneclarp, 
et ali mule, ec im an Opodo epreop. Opgain Cille 
capa v0 Zalloib Cinn fuaic. Fabail Uta cliaé vo 
Zalloib ap hécin pop peparb Epeann. Niall Slanoup 
50 rropsla prep nEpeann, ec co pepaib Opeak, ocup 
Mide, hi cpié Mumhan, co ppapccarb opém mop via 
munap ann a. um Ris Teabta 1. Oonncian mac 
Llannagcin, ocup um Ris Carppse Dpatarde. Coipne 
mop in hoc anno, ocup pnecoa cdbal, co capo ap for 
mnilib. 

ct. Mupenn ingen Sucaps, abbacippa Cille Daa, 
quien. Ceall vapa vapsain vo Sencib aproi~s 6 WE 





1 Anoroit; i.e. Anaraut, or Ana- 3 The Archbishop; i.e. Maelmaedhog, 
rawd, whose obit appears in Brut y | son of Diarmait, whom the Ann. Four 
Tywysogion at the year 913, and in | Mast. describe as “ Abbot of Gleann- 
the Annales Cambrie under 915. Uisean, a distinguished scribe, ancho- 

* Many others were slain, a.m.0. | rite, and an adept in the Latin learn- 
for ali mute occ punt (alii | ing and Scotic language.” 
multi occisi sunt), A. B. 4 Kal. O’F. has added a marg. 











CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 189 


Pity, this, O warlike Erinn, 
And thy anguished people ; 

For Flann is missing . . . dead, 
Thy noble, most valiant King. 


Anoroit,' son of Ruari, King of Britain, moritur. Niall 
Glundubh, son of Aedh, begins to reign. The fair of 
Taillten renewed by Niall. 

Kal. A hosting of the men of Erinn with Niall, 
son of Aedh, to the Foreigners of Loch-Dachaech, where 
Foreigners and Gaeidhel were slain, including the King 
of Carraic-Brachaidhe, and the chieftain of Ui-Cernaigh, 
viz., Maelfinnen, son of Donnagan, and the chief of Ui- 
Crimhthainn, viz., Fergus, son of Muirigen; and many 
others were slain.?_ The victory of Cenn-fuait was gained 

over the Lagenians by the grandson of Imhar, in which 
600, or more, were killed, together with the chief- 
tains and the chief-King, 7.e. Ugaire, son of Ailill; and 
the King of Airther Life, viz, Maelmordha, son of 
Muirigen ; and Mughron, son of Cennedigh, King of the 
three Comanns, and of Laighis; and Cinaedh,son of Tuathal, 
King of Ui-Fenechlais, and many others, together with 
the Archbishop.* Plundering of Cill-dara by the Foreigners 
of Cenn-fuait. Ath-cliath forcibly taken by the Foreigners 
from the men of Erinn. Niall Glundubh, with the choice 
part of the men of Erinn, and with the men of Bregh, 
and of Midhe, went into the territory of Mumhan, where 
he lost a great number of his people, together with the 
King of Teabhtha, 7.c. Donncuan, son of Flannagan, and 
the King of Carraic-Brachaidhe. Great frost in this year, 
and prodigious snow, which inflicted slaughter on cattle. 

Kal.4 Muirenn, daughter of Suart, Abbess of Cill-dara, 
quievit. Cill-dara was again plundered by Gentiles from 





note, now mutilated, but apparently | one year in advance of the true 
implying that the correct date is 918, | reckoning, owing to the omission 
‘the chronology of this period being | noticed in note %, p. 180. 


A.D. 
[915.] 


[916.] 


[917.] 


190 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


chat. €itne ingen Cova mic Nell, pigan prep mbnpeg, 
ocup Mop ingen Ceapbarll, mic Dungarle, prsan Laigen 
vepsabap, in pemitentia quieuepunc. Trgepnaté -h. 
Clem, Ri Crone, mopcuur ere. 

Hct. Dallad CCoda mic LLann -N. Maorleéloann La 
Donnchad mac Llainn. Cat Uta cliat pop Saorvvelarb 
pia ngalloib «1. pra nimap «1. Sitpiuc Farle, in quo 
cecrvepunt Niall Slanoup, mac Cooa, Ri Tempach, 
et Concupap A. MaoileéLann, Riovamna Eipenn av Ri 
Mive, ocup Cod mac Cotuccan, Ri UlLad, ec Maol- 
mithid mac Llannagén, Ri Dpeak, ocup Maolepaorde 
h. Dmbspineg, Ri Cipsiall, ec Maolepoib mac Ooligen, 
Ri Toptan, Ceallach mac Posapcms, Ri veipeeips 
Dpeg, Eipemon mac Cinnenig, plaré’ Cineoil Maine, 
ocur ali mule ducer qui non nominac punts cum 
Niall 1 ccat Ota cliat inteppects puns. Copmac 
mac Mocla, Ri na n Ve, mopicup. “Oubsilla mac 
Lachtnain, Ri Teabta, mopitup. “Donnchad pesnac. 
Loinspeé, Eprceop Cluana muc Nor, quieurs. Carpe 
pop .u1. <Ct. Man, ocup min Carpe a pampered. 

ct. Caépaoined pé Donnchad mac fLlann -h. 
Maorileclainn pop Fencib, 50 ccuccad ap poppa conap 
réoad caipem fap, sup md, umoppo, vo salloib vo 
mapbad ann inde v0 Faorveloih vo mapbad 1pin cat 


poime. 
rrMosuin = ann. 


Muipcepcaé mac Tigepnd&in vo cmTIM a 
Cenannur D0 innpad vo salloib 





1 From Ath-cliath. Cat cliat, A. 
B., for o at chiat. 

2 Of Dungal. Sungate (of Gun- 
gal), B. 

8 Kal. 
919. 

4 By Imhar; i.e. Sitric Gaile. “Ria 
nimup 1. Sicpiuc Garte,” A. B. 
This seems to be a mistake, as Imhar’s 
death is entered under the year 873, 
supra. Probably the text should 


O’F. has prefixed the date 





read “Ua nimap a. Sicpiue 
Baile,” “the grandson of Imhar, 
i.e. Sitric Gaile.” The Ann. Four 
Mast. (917) have “by Imhar and 
Sitric Gaile.” This Sitric Gaile is 
called “Sitpuuce caeé ua nlorhaip” 
(“Sitric the blind, grandson of Im- 
har”), in the Wars of the Gaeidhel 
with the Gaill, ed. Todd, p. 35. 

5 Dubhgilla. “Oubgatt(Dubhgall), 
A 


6 Donnchadh. The orig. hand has 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 191 


Ath-cliath.'| Eithne, daughter of Aedh, son of Niall, 
Queen of the men of Bregh, and Mér, daughter of 
Cerbhall, son of Dungal,? Queen of Laighen-Desgabhair, 
in posnitentia quieverunt. Tighernach Ua Clerigh, King 
of Aidhne, mortuus est. 

Kal.* Blinding of Aedh, son of Flann Ua Maeilechlainn, 
by Donnchadh, son of Flann. The battle of Ath-cliath 
was gained over the Gaeidhel, by Foreigners, viz., by 
Imhar, i.e. Sitric Gaile,* in which fell Niall Glundubh, son 
of Aedh, King of Temhair; Conchobhar Ua Maeilechlainn, 
Royal heir of Erinn, i.c. King of Midhe; Aedh, son of 
Eochagan, King of Uladh; Maelmithidh, son of Flannagan, 
King of Bregh; Maeleraeibhe Ua Duibhsinaigh, King of 
Airghiall; Maelcroibhe, son of Dolighen, King of Tortan; 
Ceallach, son of Fogartach, King of the South of Bregh ; 
Eiremhon, son of Cennedigh, lord of Cinel-Maine, and 
many other leaders who have not been named, were slain 
along with Niall, in the battle of Ath-cliath. Cormac, 
son of Mothla, King of the Deisi, moritur. Dubhgilla,® 
son of Lachtnan, King of Teabhtha, moritur. Donnchadh® 
reigns. Loingsech, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. 
Easter on the 7th of the Kalends of May,’ and Little 
Easter* in summer. 

Kal? A battle gained by Donnchadh, son of Flann Ua 
-Maeilechlainn, over the Gentiles, when such slaughter was 
inflicted on them as could not be estimated, so that the 
number of Foreigners killed there was greater than the 
number of Gaeidhel slain in the preceding battle.'° Muir- 
certach, son of Tighernan, fell there in the heat of battle. 
Cenannus was afterwards plundered by Foreigners, and 






























added the letters “R. ©.” in the 
marg. in A,, to signify that Donnchadh 
was Ris Cpenn, “ King of Erinn.” 

_ 1 The Tth of the Kalends of May; 
fe, the 25th of April. This indicates 
the year 919, in which Easter Sunday 










fell on that day. O’F. has added a. 


note on the subject, but it is now 
partly mutilated. 

8 Little Easter; i.e. Low Sunday. 

9 Kal. This is the year 920, ac- 
cording to O’Flaherty.. 

10 The preceding battle; i.e. the bat- 
tle recorded under the preceding year. 


A.D. 
(917.] 


(918.] 


[919.] 


192 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


1appurde, et bry1d an Domlias. Pinncap, Eppeop 
Daimliag, quieuit. 

fet. Domnall mac Plann -h. Maorleclaann, Ri- 
oatina Tempaé 1. Ri Mive, v0 mapbao La a bpatap 
4. La Donnchas, 15 Dpurdin va coca. Ciapdan, Eppeop 
Tulain, quieus. Magna perpoilentia im Nibepma. 
Ruman mac Cacupaicé, Eppeop Cluana pamper, 
[quiewc]. Sopppact Nh. tmap vo sabul a noe 
cliat. Meaolreclainn mac Maolpuanad, Rroamna 
Eneann, inmacupa mopte pepnic. Opsain ipo Mata 
m0 Soppaice 6 Mt chacth. Maonaé Cele 06 0 
TiachTain Don PaIpps1 aniap, v0 dvenam peacoa hEpenn. 

fet. Tadce mac Laolain, Ri Larsen [vepsaborp], 
mopitup. Meaolporil mac Cililla, epipcopur et oprumurp 
Lerte Cuind, ocup cenn indvonain, quieurs. Copmae, 
Epreop Cluana rpepta Dpenamnn, qtuieuc. Uatmapan, 
mac “Oobailen, Ri Lursne Connache, mopcuuy eft. 
Sluaicced La Donnchad, Ri Tempaé, co Connachta, sup 
mapbad opém mop Dia muiNTIP ann, a noubop Oca 
Luan, um Cinaed mac Concupap, Ra h. fPoilsge. 
Opsain Cluana muc Noir vo sZalloib Lammé, ocur 
cect D01b for Loé nib, sup opcaccap a inn: tLe. 
Opsain Eninm vo galloib La Locupcinb cipe, vf po 
mapbta Da ced ves 00 Faoivi0laib. Maelmicouaé, 
Ri Crone, 1ugulacup ert o Falloi’. Linnowne -h. 
Maoilmuard, Ri prep ccell, mopitup. 

Ict. Maelmopda mac Concuparp, Ri -h. pPortge, 





1 Kal. This is the year 921, ac- 
cording to O’Flaherty’s computation. 
* Inmatura. So in A. and B.; but 
as Maelsechlainn was the grandson of 


has translated it ‘‘westwards,” as if it 
had been written “ ana” (anair). 


4 Kal. O’F. prefixes the date “922.” 


King Flann, whose obit appears under 
the year 915, supra, the word “ im- 
matura” was certainly meant. 

8 From the west. aniap. The 
same word occurs in the Annals of the 
Four Mast.(919); and Dr. O’Donovan 





5 [Southern] Laighen. Largen, A. 
B. The name of Tadhg appears in 
the List of Kings of Ui-Cennsealaigh, 
or Southern Leinster, preserved in the 
ancient Book of Leinster. He is also 
called King of “ Laighen Desgabhair,” 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 193 


the stone church broken. Finnchar, Bishop of Daimhliag, 
quievit. 

Kal.'| Domhnall, son of Flann Ua Maeilechlainn, Royal 
_ heir of Temhair, i.e. King of Midhe, was slain by his 
__ brother, viz., by Donnchadh,at Bruidhen-da-choga. Ciaran, 
_ Bishop of Tulan, quievit. Great pestilence in Hibernia. 
_ Ruman, son of Cathusach, Bishop of Cluain-Iraird [qui- 
 evit]. Goffraigh, grandson of Imhar, occupies Ath-cliath. 
_ Maelsechlainn, son of Maelruanaidh, Royal heir of Erinn, 
_ immatura? morte periit. The plundering of Ard-Macha 
_ by Goffraigh, from Ath-cliath. Maenach, a Céle Dé, came 


across the sea, from the west,* to make the laws of Erinn. 


Kal‘ Tadhg, son of Faelan, King of [southern] Laighen,° 
- moritur. Maelpoil, son of Ailill, Bishop, and most excel- 
lent of Leth-Chuinn, and head of purity,® quievit. Cormac, 
Bishop of Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, quievit. Uathmaran, 


_ son of Dobhailen, King of Luighne of Connacht, mortuus. 


est. A hosting by Donnchadh, King of Temhair, into 
_ Connacht, and a great number of his people were slain 
_ there, in Dubhtir-Atha-Luain, along with Cinaedh, son 
_ of Conchobhar, King of Ui-Failghe. The plundering of 
_ Cluain-muc-Nois by the Foreigners of Luimnech; and they 
went upon Loch Ribh, and ravaged all its islands. The 
plundering of En-inis, in Fotharta-tire, by the Foreigners, 
_ where 1,200 of the Gaeidhel were slain. Maelmicduach, 
_ King of Aidhne, was slain by Foreigners. Finnguine 
_ Ua Maeilmhuaidh, King of Feara-Ceall, moritur. 

Kal? Maelmordha, son of Conchobhar, King of 








; or “Southern Leinster,” in the Annals 
of the Four Mast. (920). 


«8 Head of purity. cen Yyrona 
-: (cenn indhidnain), A. B, For “cenn 
_ indhidnain” the Four Mast. (920) 


have abb Invednen, ‘Abbot of In- 


‘ dedhnen,” an establishment believed 


__ to have been in Meath, which is prob- 


_ ably more correct. Colgan, also, calls 





Maelpoil ‘ Abbas Indenensis,” (Trias 
Thaum., p. 64); and Dr. O’Conor 
thinks him the same as the Paulinus 
to whom Probus dedicates his Life of 
St. Patrick. See O’Conor’s ed. of the 
Ann. Four Mast., p. 440, note 1. 


7 Kal. O’Flaherty prefixes the 


; date 923. 


0 


[921.] 


[922.] 


194 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


1usulacup eft. : ligaé ingen LLoaann mic Maerleclainn, 
ben Rig Opes 2. Maalmieré, mopcua eps, uc dar Fille 
Mocuou :— 


Ingen LLainn ip Maormuine, 
Maré an ben Ugaé pri a Uinn ; 
CC clann, Congataé caoth cputip, 
1p Cod mac M1Hd mins. 


Omblinp pagapc Cpoa Mata vo mapbad vo Fallorb 
a. Cille Slebe. Maolcuile mac Colmain, pepleipinn 
Cluana muc Noip, qmuieuc. “Oevemup ch. Porpbzen, 
cana Cluana muc Nop, qturews; occup LLann Pobaap 
uepo anno uNo inTepfFUIT eT OEM exppobpauepuNT. 9 

|ct.  Ceallach mac Cepbarll mec Mupigen, Rivamna 
Larccen, 1usulacup ert o Ounnchad mac “Oothnall. — 
“Oa céd vécc 00 Falloib v0 bavhad hic Loch Rudparge. 
onnchad mac Oomnaill, canapp: Cluana Ipaipo, — 
qioamna Tempach, r1ugulacup ero a PFpacpe uo. 
Spealan mac Congalas, Ri Conarlle a pup Loccrpur ert} 
SZaatl por Loé Rib 2. Colla mac Darpro, Ra rites 
a qubup Elomgepn mac Llannehada, Ri Dpegmarne, 
oceipup ert. Nacimcop Oprain mic Cinnéoié. ) 

fet. Lopean mac Ounnchada, Ri Opeacé, moprcup. 
Cachal mac Concupap, Ri ceopa Connaés, mopioup. 
Oubsall mac Coda, Rivarhna Ulead, 1ugulacup epo 6 
Cinel Maeiléae. “Oomnall mac Cachal, Rivamna 
Connacht, iugulacup ert a ppacpe puo, 6 Taos mac 





1 Of Cill-Sleibhe. The Four Mast. 


(921) state that Duibhlitir was of, or 
from, Cill-Sleibhe (Killevy, in the 
county of Armagh), and that he was 
slain by the Foreigners of Snamh 
Aighneach, or Carlingford Lough. 
Ann. Ult. also represent the Foreigners 
as being from Snamh Aighneach, and 
add that Duibhlitir was martyred by 
them at Cill-Sleibhe, on the occasion 
of their plundering the place. It is 





probable that the expression in the } 
text, “1. Cille Stebe” (ie. “of 
Cill-Sleibhe”), should follow after 


the name “ Duibhlitir.” » a 


2 Tanist ; i.e. tanist-Abbot, or vice- 
Abbot. This is apparently the De- — 


dimus whose deposition in favour of 


the Abbot Joseph is recorded under 
the year 901, supra. oe 

8 Exprobraverunt. The Latin clause _ 
stands thus in the MS., “.n®% aio uno 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 195 


Ui-Failghe, jugulatus est. Ligach, daughter of Flann, 
son of Maelechlainn, wife of the King of Bregh, i.e. Mael- 
mithidh, mortua est, ut dixit Gilla Mochuda :— 


The daughter of Flann and Maelmuire— 

A good woman was Ligach in her time; 

Her children were the mild, festive Conghalach, 
And Aedh, son of the noble Maelmithidh. 


q Duibbiitn, Priest of Ard-Macha, was slain by the Foreign- 
L ers, 1.¢. of Cill-Sleibhe.! Maeltuile, son of Colman, Lector 
of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. Dedimus Ua Foirbthen, 
 tanist? of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit; and Flann Fobhair 
vero anno uno interfuit, et omnes exprobraverunt.* 
Kal. Ceallach, son of Cerbhall, son of Muirigen, Royal 
__ heir of Laighen, was slain by Donnchadh, son of Domhnall. 
Twelve hundred‘ Foreigners were drowned in Loch Rudh- 
_ raighe. Donnchadh, son of Domhnall, tanist-Abbot of 
 Oluain-Iraird, and Royal heir of Temhair, was slain by 
__ his brother.. Spéalan, son of Congalach, King of Conaille, 
[was slain] by his own people. Foreigners on Loch Ribh, 
_ 4&e. Colla, son of Barid, King of Luimnech, by whom 
_ KEchtighern, son of Flannchadh, King of Breghmhaine, 
_ wasslain. Birth of Brian,’ son of Cennedigh. 
Kal. Lorcan, son of Donnchadh, King of Bregh, moritur. 
_ Cathal, son of Conchobhar, King of the three divisions’ of 
_ Connacht, moritur. Dubhgall, son of Aedh, Royal heir of 
_ Uladh, was slain by the Cinel Maeilche. Domhnall, son of 
- Cathal, Royal heir of Connacht, was slain by his own 
_ brother, by Tadhg,son of Cathal). Faelan, son of Muiredhach, 





 interft. et om expbravert.” 





-.. The 
__ abbrev. “‘ogm” is probably a mistake 
for “omnes.”’? But in either case the 


entry appears unintelligible. 


4 4 Twelve hundred. Mageoghegan’s 


translation of the Annals of Clonmac- 
noise has ‘200;” but the Ann. Ult. 
have “900, aut amplius.” 





5 Brian; 7.¢. Brian Borumha, 
O’Flaherty prefixes the date 924, 

6 Kal. This is the year 925, ac- 
cording to O’F. 

7 Divisions. The characters “R. 
Q..” for “Rig Connacht,” “King 
of Connacht,” are added in the marg. 
in the orig. hand. 


0 2. 


AD. 
[922.} 





[923.] . 


[924. ] 


196 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Catal. fLaolan mac Mumpevha¥, Ri Larcéen, vo 
sabenl vo salloib Ota cliaé [con]a maccard. 

}ct. Colman mac OCililla (4. 00 Conmllib Mup- 
cemne ; 1p Lei Do prned Oaimliags Cluana muc Nop), 
Princepr Cluana muc Noir et Cluana Ipaipo, qiureturs. 
Opsain Duin Suobaipge do gallos Locha Cuan. Op- 
sain Cille vapa vo gallo’ Pups Lapse. OC hapgoan 
qmdin 6 CE cliaé spin bliavain ceona. Cp na nFalt. 
D0 cup La hULlcorb, ou po mapbta ofc ccéo La Murp- 
cepoat mac Neill, um ah Ri «a. Clbovan mac Fooppe, 
ocup Cupep ocup Rorle. 

}ct. Maelbpigoe mac Topndin, comapba Paopare 
ocur Colum Cille, cénod cpavbad enn, tcam 
remilem pimitit, (uel quiet). Sitpiuc .N. Imaip, Ri 
Einngall es Oubgall, mopitup. Fall Wéa cliaé vo 
dol a h€ipinn. Oenaé Tarllcen vo cumupee 0 
[Muipcepcaé] mac Nell, um Oonnchad, membpum 
mquum imobenienr captiuo (uel capo) smiquo. 
Cainvealban mac Maorlcpoin, Ri Laosaipe, mopicup. 
Losapcaé mac Lachcnann, Ri Teabéa, mopucup. 

ct. Mumnpgeal, ingen Llaann mic MaorleéLann, in 
penectute DiTIppima, qmemct a cCluain muc Norp. 
Caineé ingen Canavan, Rigan Rig Tempach. fPin- 
nachcta OCbb Copcuige, quiewut. “Oonnchaovh mac Oom- 
nall, Rrvamna an Tumpsgeips, a Nopmanoip imecep- 





1[ Together with] hissons. amcab, 
A.B.; apparently a mistake for cona 
mecaib (cona maccaib). The Ann, 
Four Mast. (923) have “cona mac 
«a. Lopcan,” “with his son, ie. 
Lorcan.” 

2 Quievit ; i.e. died. This word is 
transposed in the text, being placed 
between the names “ Cluain-muc- 
Nois” and “Cluain-Iraird.” O’F, 
prefixes the date 926. 

8 Slaughter. O’Flaherty has added 
a marg. note, now partially mutilated, 
[28] Decembris, feria 5, ut ha[bent] 





Dungall: Annal: [Liter]a Dominic: 
[A], 926.” The Annals of the Four 
Mast. have the event under the year 
924; but they state that the battle 
took place ‘ton the 28th of December, 
being Thursday,” which would agree 
with the year 926. 

* Maelbrighde. O’F. has added a 
marg. note, which is now mutilated 
and illegible. 

5 Capiti. A. and B. incorrectly read 

t 
captiuo, the characters “1” (“vel 
i”) over the word, signifying that it 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 197 


King of Laighen, was captured by the Foreigners of Ath- 
cliath, [together with] his sons." 

Kal. Colman, son of Ailill, (ze. of the Conaille Muir- 
themne; it was by him the stone church of Cluain-muc- 
Nois was made), Superior of Cluain-muc-Nois and of 
Cluain-Iraird, quievit.? Plundering of Dun-Suobhairce by 
the Foreigners of Loch Cuan, Plundering of Cill-dara by 
the Foreigners of Port-Lairge. It was again plundered 
from Ath-cliath in the same year. A slaughter*® of the 
Foreigners was committed by the Ultonians, in which 
800 were slain by Muircertach, son of Niall, including the 
_ King ie. Albdan, son of Gothfrith, and Aufer, and Roilt. 
Kal. Maelbrighde,* son of Tornan, successor of Patrick 
and Colum Cille, head of devotion of Erinn, vitam 
senilem finivit, (vel quievit). Sitric, grandson of Imhar, 
King of the Finn-Gaill and Dubh-Gaill, moritur. The 
Foreigners of Ath-cliath left Erinn. The Fair of Taillten 
was interrupted by [Muircertach], son of Niall, against 
Donnchadh ; membrum iniquum inobediens capiti> iniquo. 
Caindelbhan, son of Maelcroin, King of Laeghaire, moritur, 
Fogartach, son of Lachtnan, King of Teabhtha, moritur. 

Kal. Muirgheal, daughter of Flann, son of Maelech- 
lainn, in senectute ditissima,’ quievit at Cluain-muc-Nois, 
Cainech, daughter of Canadan, Queen of the King of 
Temhair.*’ Finnachta, Abbot of Corcach, quievit. Donn- 


~ chadh, son of Domhnall, Royal heir of the North, was 





noise (923= 928), Muirgheal is stated 


should probably be captivi. This 
to have died ‘‘an old and rich woman.” 


curious testimony appears to have 





_ been borne of Muircertach, regarding 
whom the translator of the Annals of 
Clonmacnoise, at the year 922 = 927, 
Says, ‘‘my author sayeth of Mortaugh 
that he was ‘Membrum iniquum 
inobediens capiti iniquo.’” 


6 Kal. O’F. prefixes the date 
“928.” 


7 In senectute ditissima. In the 
translation of the Annals of Clonmac- 





The death of her father, Flann, King 
of Ireland, is entered under the year 
915,. supra. 

8 Temhair. After this word the 
orig. scribe adds, “a Legtémp m 
funna fit a hi;” te. “Reader, 
her place is not here;” implying that 
the entry is out of place. He also adds 
the word vepman, “forgetfulness,” 
in the marg. The obit of Cainech is 
entered under the next year. 


[926] 


[927.] 


198 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


reccup ec. Opsain Cille vapa vo mac Cocpprt 6 
Pups Lapse. 

fet. Tuatal O Enecain, Eppeop Darmlag ocur 
Lupea, quiet. Camet, ingen Canavan, Ragan Ris 
Tempach, in penitentia quiets; ben Donnchada mic 
Llann. Orapmaio mac Cepbaill, Ri Oppargse, mopcuup 
ert. Cele mac Scannail, comapba Dennewp, osu 
Eprcop, qnemc. Sabal pop Log Oipbren vo salloib 
Lirmm%, ocup mnnp an Locha vapsain o016. 

Ict. Obpeppo Depce fepna ocup a cogail, ub mille 
hominep mopuuntup. Op na nF5all pobaccup pop Loé 
Oipbren vo Cup La Connachtorb. Fartl Lamm v0 | 
sabal a Mars Rargne. Topolb vo sabdal pop Log 
eéaé. Nuada Epreop Flinne va Loca, qureure. 

}ct. Fatt Larmmg vo sabeat pop Log Rib. Tipparoe 
mac Cinnpine ve aib Dpruin, Princepp Cluana muc 
Nop, quem. Dacall Crapain vo bavhad a Loé Teéer, 
et va fep .x. maille pia, ocup a pagbarl pr po cedoip. 
Cpunomaol, Eppeop Cille vapa, qmems. Cepnaéén 
mac Tizepnarg, Ri Opepne, moprcup. 

fet. Plann mac Maoilpinna, R1 Opes, v0 mapbad 
vals Céaé. Lomsreé -N. Leélabaip, Ri “Ocal Cparse, 
mopitup. Cotta A. Daaproa, Ri Laimm¥, moprcup. 

fect. Raoined pra Lepgal mac Domnall, ocup pia 
[Sispr1d] mac Uacmapdin, pop Muipcepcaé mac Nell, 
oii accopcaip Mdolsapb mac Farpbit, Ri Deplaryr 
ocur Conmal mac Opuaccupdn, ec ali. Raoimed pra 
Dang mac NEéLl, co galloit Locha Céaé, pop coced 





1 Gothfrith; i.e. Godfrey. Coptyut 
(Cofthrith), for Cotppit, A.; Cort- 


(moriuntur), A.; aires Bye (mor- 
tui sunt), B. 


rr, B. esa 6 Kal. O’F. prefixes the date 931. 
2 Kal. This is the year , ac- Ts . ; 
E ; Tighernach. ‘‘ Tighernan,” Ann. 
cording to O'Flaherty. Ult fe Four Mast 
8 Canadan. ‘Canannan,” Four ’ 


Mast. (927= 929). 8 Maelsinna. ‘Maelfinnia,” Four 


4 Kal. The correct year is 930, 
according to O’F. 
5 Perisked. m., for mopuuntup 





Mast. (930). This is the year 932, 
according to O’Flaherty’s computa- 
tion. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 199 


























slain by the Norsemen. Plundering of Cill-dara by the 
son of Gothfrith,’ from Port Lairge. ° 

_ Kal? Tuathal O’Enecain, Bishop of Daimhliag and 
Lusea, quievit. Cainech, daughter of Canadan,> Queen 
of the King of Temhair, in pcenitentia quievit: she was 
the wife of Donnchadh, son of Flann. Diarmaid, son of 
Cerbhall, King of Osraighe, mortuus est. Cele, son of 
Scannal, comarb of Bennchar, and Bishop, quievit. The 
_ Foreigners of Luimnech settled upon Loch Oirbsen, and 
_ the islands of the lake were plundered by them. 

_ Kal* The siege and demolition of Derc-Ferna, where 
1,000 men perished. A slaughter of the Foreigners 
who were on Loch Oirbsen was committed by the 


Magh Raighne. Torolb established himself upon Loch 
Echach. Nuadha, Bishop of Glenn-da-locha, quievit. 
_  -Kal® The Foreigners of Luimnech took up their 
station on Loch Ribh. Tipraide, son of Ainnsen, of the 
Ui Briuin, Superior of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. The 
crozier of Ciaran was drowned in Loch Teched, and twelve 
men along with it ; but it was found immediately. Crunn- 
mael, Bishop of Cill-dara; quievit. Cernachan, son of 
Tighernach,’ King of Breifne, moritur. 
7 Kal. Flann, son of Maelsinna,* King of Bregh, was 
slain by the Ui-Echach. Loingsech Ua Lethlabhair, 
King of Dal-Araidhe, moritur. Colla, grandson? of Barid, 
King of Luimnech, moritur. 
Kal. A victory by Fergal, son of Domhnall, and by 
[Sigfridh], son of Uathmaran, over Muircertach, son of 


Derlas, and Conmal, son of Bruadaran, and others, 
were slain.. A defeat by Daigh,'® son of Niall, with the 





9 Grandson. Colla is called “son | quently written Qorng, the reversed 
of Barid” at the year 923, supra. C [9] being an abbrev. for Con ; and 

10 Daigh. “Conaing,” Ann. Ult. | as when written in a loose and careless 
‘and Four Mast., which is the correct | manner it resembles a “OD, the mistake 
name, Conaing (Conaing) is fre- ' may have so arisen. 


Connachtmen. The Foreigners of Luimnech settled in 


Niall, in which Maelgarbh, son of Gairbhith, King of. 


[929.] 


[930.} 


[931.] 


[932.] 


200 cRONICUM sSCOTORUM. 


n€pend, Du po mapbea va ced vecc uel ampliup. 
Saill vo saben pop Lot hEpne cop Lorwevap il cuata 
agur ecalpa, co Loé samna. Cpo Mata vapsain vo 
mac Fomus o Loé Cian. Maouvan mac Coda co 
ctricced Epenn, ocur Clmlab mac Focbmé 50 ngallord, 
Eup optaccap 50 Sliab beta, conup cappard Murp- 
ceptach mac Néll, sup faspao va xx. DEH ocuy 
angabail. Cuilén mac Ospain, Ri Oppose, momoup- 
bapo bone, prim pile Erpenn, 00 mapbad vo 16 Copmare 
ch. neéaé. 

}ct. Sait i Connacht 50 Mak Luips” 
fo thiiard, ocur 50 Oavsna pap. Fotbpus Ri gall 6 
salon po vocpard vo héc. . 

kt. Cinaoé mac Coipbpe, Ri -h. cCinnpileré, 00 
mapbad vo sallorb Loga Sapman. 

}ct. “Duo hepevep Pacpicii 1. lopeph, pepiba ec 
Epipcopuy, ec Maolpactpaic mac Maoilcuile, Gpreop 
qmieuepunc. Cluain muc Noip vapgain 6 WE cha. 
Ceallatan Carl ocup pip Muthan va plao api. 
Ball Locha E:pne v0 cect pop Loé Rib. Lopecad Cea 
cliaé o Donnchad mac LLainn, 6 Ris Tempach. 

}ct. Saatt Locha Rib vo oul vLE cliaé. Opuarcap 
mac “Oubgille, Ri -N. Cinnprolarg, moprcup. CLerpeen 
mac Tizgepnain, Ri Dperpne, mopuTup. 

}ct. Lepsal mac Domnall, Ri an TuMipReipr, 
mopitup. M«aelpacpaic Eppcop - Lusmag, quiet. 





1 Fifth of Erinn. O’F. writes U2, 
for ULaoh, over the word penn, to 
signify that the “fifth,” or “‘ Province” 
of Ulidia was intended. The Ann. 
Ult. and the Four Mast. have “Uladh,” 
or Ulidia, which was one of the 
five provinces into which Erinn was 
anciently divided. It is occasionally 
referred to in this Chronicle as coiced 
€Epenn (coiced Erenn), “ the fifth of 
Erinn.” ; 

2 Twelve score. OM .xu. 065, A. B. 





This is also the expression in the Ann. 
Ult. (932=933); but Dr. O’Conor 
erroneously renders it by ‘* 1200.” 

8 Son of Oghran. O’F. corrects 
this to “son of Ceallach.” Cuilen is 
called “son of Ceallach” in the Ann. 
Ult. and Ann. Four Mast., and also 
in the ancient List of the Kings of 
Osraighe, or Ossory, preserved in the 
Book of Leinster. 

4 Kal. O’F. considers 934 to be 
the correct year. 






















CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 201 


Foreigners of Loch-Echach, over the Fifth of Erinn,' in 
which 1,200, or more, were slain. The Foreigners 
established themselves on Loch Erne, so that they des- 
_ troyed many territories and churches, as far as Loch 
_ Gamhna. Ard-Macha was plundered by the son of Goth- 
 frith, from Loch-Cuan. Madudhan, son of Aedh, with the 

Fifth of Erinn,’ and Amhlaibh, son of Gothfrith, with the 


certach, son of Niall, overtook them, and they lost twelve 
_ seore? men and their spoils. Cuilen, son of Oghran,? King 
_ of Osraighe, moritur. Bard Bone, chief poet of Erinn, 
__was killed by the Ui-Cormaic of Ui-Echach. 

Kal.* The Foreigners of Luimnech ravaged Connacht 
as far as Magh Luirg northwards, and eastwards to 
Badhghna. Gothfrith, King of the Foreigners, died of a 
most grievous disease. 

Kal.° Cinaeth, son of Cairbre, King of Ui Cennsel- 
aigh, was slain by the Foreigners of Loch Garman.. 

Kal. Two heirs of Patrick, viz, Joseph, a scribe 
and Bishop, and Maelpatraic, son of Maeltuile, Bishop, 
quieverunt. Cluain-muc-Nois was pillaged from Ath- 
cliath. Ceallachan Caisil’ and the men of Mumhain 
pillaged it again. The Foreigners of Loch-Erne went upon 
Loch-Ribh. Burning of Ath-cliath by Donnchadh, son 
of Flann, King of Temhair. 

Kal. The Foreigners of Loch-Ribh went to Ath- 
cliath. Bruadar, son of Dubhgilla, King of Ui-Cennsel- 
_ aigh, moritur. Cleircen, son of Tighernan, King of 
_ Breifne, moritur. 


moritur. Maelpatraic, Bishop of Lughmhagh, quievit. 





5 Kal. O’F. prefixes the date 935. | Momoniz,” have been added in the 
marg. by O’F. 
* Kal. The year 936 has been noted | 5 444 -cliath. OC¢, B. O’F. makes 


‘in the marg. by O’F. this the year 937, 


7 Ceallachan Caisil, or Callaghan of 9 Kal. The correct year is 938, 
Cashel. The letters R.M., for “Rex | according to O'F. 


Kal® Fergal, son of Domhnall, King of the North, — 


[932.] 


Foreigners, ravaged as far as Sliabh-Beatha, but Muir- — 


[933.] 


[984.] 


[985.] 


[986.] 


[937.] 


202 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Concupap mac Maorléen, Ri .N. porlge, ec a Sa mac, 
0 mapbad La Lopeén mac Paolain. Ceall Curlinn 
vapsain La hOCrhloab mac Cotpmg, et veé céd vo bparo 
00 bpet erpte. 
ket. Oat pola fopran ngpéin o copach Laoi 50 ~ 
medén Laoi ap na mapaé. Tosonl Olis pop Mup- 
cepoach mac NEL, 6 Fencib, ec a ipgab&l vo1b, sup 
fuaplaice Ora uacanb. Pip Muman es, t um, Ceallaéan 
co ngalloid vapsain Mive ocup Cluana evdneé, ocur 
Cille aéeo [ec] 50 Clumin Ipaipo. Pinaéoa mac 
Ceallas, comapba Oarpe, [qtuieumc]. Marom pra Con- 
salach mac Maoilmimsd pop Sailengmb, of accopcaip 
Tpi .xx, D10b. “Domnall mac Lopedin, Ra Crone, quiets 
a cClicin muc Néip. Canom Paopaic vo cumoaé La 
“onnchad mac NéLL. . 

fet. Slum¥ed La Donnchad h. Maorlectann, ocur 
la Mupceptach mac Nell, co Largmb py co Pipa 
Muman, sup sabpoo angialla. Cpale mac .h. 1marp 
a. mac Sicpic, Ri gall Luimms, v0 mapbad ta Con- 
nachtoib. Niall mac Pepsaile, Rivamna Cilis, vo 
mapbad La Mmpcepcat mac NéLL. Lann, ingen 
“onnchada, Ragan Ri Oils, mopcua ert. Corbvenaé, 
@b Cille aéard, 00 bavhad a mup Oelsinny. 

}ct. Saall 1 nimip Modca rap Lec esa, sup OIPET100 
hi. Murpcepcat mac NéLL, co pepmmb an [L]ocla ec 
Dpek, v0 dul accip nOppmée. OCmlaas mac Sovppc, 
Ri Pinngall ocup “Oupgsall, mopcuup ero. Cp na 
nVére v0 cup La Ceallchan ec La pepo’ Mumhan, v4 
acoopcpaccup da mile. Mupcablac La Muipceptach 





1 Kal. O’F, prefixes the date 939. 

2 Canoin Padraig; ‘Canon of 
Patrick ;” i.¢. the ancient MS. now 
known as the Book of Armagh, about 
ito be edited by the Rev. Dr. Reeves. 

* Covered. “Do qmoaé, for vo 
cumoach, A. Do apmoaé, B. 

4 Son of Niall. *The Four Mast. 





(937 = 939) state that the person who 
had the Canoin-Phadraig covered was 
“Donnchadh, son of Flann, Kirig of 
Treland,” which is probably correct. 

5 O’F. supplies the date 940,” 

6 Lann. She is called ‘* Flann” in the 
Ann. Ult. (989), and Four Mast. (938); 
but ‘“Flann” is more frequently used 
as a man’s name, whereas “Lann” is 








q 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM, 203 


Conchobhar, son of Maelchen, King of Ui-Failghe, and his 


two sons, were slain by Lorcan, son of Faelan. Cill- 
Cuilinn was plundered by Amhlaibh, son of Gothfrith, 
and 1,000 captives were taken out of it, 

_ Kal! The sun was of the colour of blood from the 
beginning of one day to the middle of the day following. 


_ The demolition of Ailech against Muircertach, son of Niall, 
__ by the Gentiles, and he was captured by them, but God 
_ released him from them. The men of Mumhain, and (or, 

_ along with) Ceallachan, with the Foreigners, plundered 


Midhe, and Cluain-eidhnech, and Cill-aichedh, [and] as 
far as Cluain-Iraird. Finnachda, son of Ceallach, comarb 
of Daire, [quievit]. A victory gained by Congalach, son 
of Maelmithidh, over the Gailenga, in which three score 
of them were slain. Domhnall, son of Lorcan, King of 
Aidhne, quievit at; Cluain-muc-Nois, The Canoin Padraig? 


‘ was covered’ by Donnchadh, son of Niall.‘ 


Kal.’ A hosting by Donnchadh Ua Maeilechlainn, and 
by Muircertach, son of Niall, to the Lagenians and to the 
men of Mumhain, and they received their pledges. Aralt, 
son of the grandson of Imhar, 2.e. son of Sitric, King of 


q the Foreigners of Luimnech, was killed by the Connacht- 


men, Niall, son of Fergal, Royal heir of Ailech, was 
killed by Muircertach, son of Niall. Lann,® daughter of 
Donnchadh, the King of Ailech’s Queen, mortua est. 
Coibhdenach, Abbot of Cill-achaidh, was drowned in the 
sea of Delg-inis. 

- Kal? Foreigners went into Inis-Mochta, over the i ice, 
so that they plundered it. Muircertach, son of Niall, with 


_ the men of the [F]ochla, and of Bregh, went into the 
territory of Osraighe. Amhlaibh, son of Gothfrith, King 


of the Finn-Gaill and Dubh-Gaill, mortuus est. A slaughter 
of the Deise was committed by Ceallachan and the men 


_ of Mumhain, when 2,000 were slain. A fleet was 





always found in the Annals as the 7 Kal. O’F. considers this the year 
name of a woman. 941. 


A.D. 
[987.] 


[988.] 


[939.] 


[940.] 


204 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


mac Néll go cous opgain a hin~b Clban. Ap salt 
vo up ta -N. pPorlge 2. La hOCmpgin mac Cinaoda, 
ocup La Cinel Liachaé, ocup va ced dvéce 00 mapbad 
and a Mags Cerys. Oplaré ingen Cinnéi01d mic Lopcain 
00 bap La Donnchad mac Plann, Ri Erpenn, rap na 
Lind pop Consuy, pop a mac. Muuipcepraé mac Net 
0 dul 50 Carol, v0 tmp pactasip pop Ceallatan 
Ri Cail, 50 cous Ceallaéan Leip so codpo a Lah 
Oonnchalda] mic LLainn, Ri Eipenn é. 

ct. Ounchad Eppeop Cluana muc Norp, quiet. 
Laolan mac Muipeohas, Ri Larghen, véce vergop. 
Oa mac Lopcan mic Ounchada v0 mapbad La Con- 
salach mac Maowlmichd. Cluain muc Nop vapsain 
20 Sallorb Ocha cliaé ocup v0 OLacarpe mac FSovpprc. 
Dunplais ingen Maoilmithid, moprtup. Opgain “Odin 
Leé glans La mac Ragnaill, ec mac Ragsnaill vo mapbao 
la Mavuvan, la Ri§ Ulad, pe cenn pecomuine, py 
enec Pcopaice. 

kct. Murpceptach mac Nell, Rivamna hEpenn, vo 
mapbad ac Mt Lipdia v0 Falloib Céa cliaé; ocup 
opsain Cipo Maka o Fenab. Catpaomeds pe -h 
Canannain, La Ruciops, pop Cinel n€ogain co ngalloib 
Loga Leabanl, ub mule cecrdepunc, um Maelpuanad 
mac LLainn, Risdvomna an cuaipsepc. “Oublena ingen 
Tisepnain Rig Dperpne, ben Ris Tempach .. Oonnchada 
mic LLainn, mopitup. 





1 Orlaith. Latinised “Aurelia” by 
O’F. in the marg. This entry is rather 
obscure, owing to an apparent corrup- 
tion of the text. The word “ bap” 
seems intended for “bapugeo,” 
“putting to death,” the sign of 
abbrev. being omitted. Orlaith was 
the wife of Donnchadh. 

2 Pledges; i.e. for his submission to 
the Monarch of Ireland, against whose 
supremacy Ceallachan had offended 
by the devastation of Midhe, or Meath, 
two years before. 





8 Kal. O’Flaherty has prefixedthe — , 
date ‘' 942.” ‘ 
4A fall. The Ann. Four Mast. 
(940) add that the accident happened 
to Faelan at “ Aenach-Colmain,” or 
*‘Colman’s Pair,” which was anciently 
celebrated on the Curragh of Kildare. 

5 Blacaire. Carpe (Caire), B. 

6 The son of Raghnall. B. adds 
“osup a mac” (‘and his son”). 
The words “et mac” (“and son”) 
are also repeated in A., but a line is 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 205 


fitted out by Muircertach, son of Niall, and he brought 
plunder from the islands of Alba. A slaughter of the 
Foreigners was committed by the Ui-Failghe, i.e. by 
Aimhirgin, son of Cinaedh, and by the Cinel Fiachach, 
and 1,200 were slain therein, in Magh Ceisi. Orlaith,' 
daughter of Cennedigh, son of Lorcan, was put to 
_ death by Donnchadh, son of Flann, King of Erinn, after 
- having intrigued with Aengus, his son. Muircertach, 
son of Niall, went to Caisel, to exact pledges? from 
Ceallachan, King of Caisel, and he brought Ceallachan 
with him, and delivered him into the hands of Donn- 
_ chafdh], son of Flann, King of Erinn. 
_ Kal* Dunchadh, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. 
_ Faelan, son of Muiredhach, King of Laighen, died of a fall.‘ 
_ Two sons of Lorcan, son of Dunchadh, were killed by 
~Congalach, son of Maelmithidh. Cluain-muc-Nois was 
plundered by the Foreigners of Ath-cliath, and by 
Blacaire,> son of Gothfrith. Dunflaith, daughter of Mael- 
_mithidh, moritur. Plundering of Dun-leth-glaise by the 
son of Raghnall; and the son of Raghnall® was killed by 
_ Madudhan, King of Uladh, before the end of a week, in 
revenge of Patrick.’ 
Kal. Muircertach, son of Niall, Royal heir of Erinn, 
was killed® at Ath-Firdhia by the Foreigners of Ath-cliath ; 
and the plundering of Ard-Macha by Gentiles. A battle 
gained by Ua Canannain, i.e. Ruaidhri, over the Cinel 
Eoghain, together with the Foreigners of Loch Feabhail, 
in which many fell, including Maelruanaidh, Royal heir 
of the North. Dubhlena, daughter of Tighernan, King 
_ of Breifne, wife of the King of Temhair, 2.c. of Donnchadh, 
son of Flann, moritur. 
drawn under them, to signify that | 943, and adds the marg. note (in A.) 
they are to be omitted. _ | “26 Feb., War. Ant., p. 182,” to sig- 
7 In revenge of Patrick. ‘yp. enec | nify that Ware (Antig. ed. 1658, p. 
cc (fri enech Padraicc); lit. | 132) refers the killing of Muircertach, 
“towards the honour of Patrick.” or Murtough, to the year and day in- 
8 Killed. O’F. prefixes the date | dicated. 
























[940.] 


[941.] 


[942.] 


206 cromIcumMm SCOTORUM. 


Hct. Catpaoined pe Ceallatan Carprl pop Cinneorg 
mac ain 1 Mus ouine, ub mule cecivepunt. 
LElatbepcat mac Imanain, Ri Capit, qineus. Fucnpe 
mac Mailacain, pasapc Cluanu [muc Nor], qureurc. 
Opsain Oca cliaé vo Congalaé mac Maowlmithid co 
rreparb Dpes, eT Dpaén mac Mailmopoa go Larsmb, 
oti accopcpaccapn cetpa ced vo salloib as sabm&l an 
oinne, sup Loipecpit 6, ocup co puspac ap a peood 
ocup @ maine ocur a bpaca. -Conn mac “Oonnchada, 
Rigoamna Tempach, 00 mapbao opepai’ Lepnmarge 
a aeé D1a Sun. “Oonnchad mac LLainn mic Maorlec- 
Lainn, Ri Epenn port anhor .xxu. in pesno, moputup. 
Consalaé mac Maoilmich1d pesnac. 

fect. Sartl Locha E&at vo mapbad simon Ris, 
mmbperm, La Domnall mac Muipcepcms Ui NélL 
Oensur mac “Oonnchada me LLainn, Ri Mive, moprcup. 
Dia colamain tcentide Dpaigpin pecomain pra Samain, 
sup pollpspie an bis wile. Féll Connacht ta Con- 
salach mac Maoilmithrs. 

}ct. Cimepsin mac Cinaeva, Ri h. ELorlse, mopa- 
sup. “Domnall mac Maoilmuad, Ri Luisne Connacht, 
[occipupr ert] o mac Uatmapain mic Dobarlén, ocup o 

co [Li ]pop. 

t. Cacpaoimned pe Oonnchaodh mac Ceallms, Ri 
Orparge, pop Lorgmd, of accopcarp Opaon mac Maorl- 
mopoa, Ri Larsen, cum mulay, ec Ceallach mac 
Cinaoda, Ri -h. cCinnpealargh. Cnnup mipabilium, 





1 Kal. The correct year is 944, ac- 
cording to O’F. 

® With the men. co prep, for co 
frepaib, A. co prean, B. 

8 He died. et, A. B., for a éc. 


‘ Kal. O’F, has prefixed the date 
945, 


5 Ua Neill. This is the first men- 





tion of Ua Neill, or O'Neill, as a 
hereditary surname, in the Irish 
Annals. 

6 Was slain. There being a slight 
omission in the text, and the entry 
manifestly implying the death of 
Domhnall, by violence, the words 
“occisus est” have been supplied, 
The Annals of the Four Masters (944) 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 207 


Kal! A battle was gained by Ceallachan Caisil 
over Cennedigh, son of Lorcan, at Magh-duine, where 
many fell. Flaithbhertach, son of Imhanan, King of 
Caisel, quievit. Guaire, son of Maelacain, Priest of 
Cluain[-muc-Nois], quievit. Plundering of Ath-cliath by 
Congalach, son of Maelmithidh, with the men? of Bregh, 
and Braen, son of Maelmordha, with the Lagenians ; when 
_ 400 Foreigners were slain at the taking of the fort, 
_ which they (the assailants) burned, and they took 
_ therefrom its precious things, and its goods and spoils. 
Conn, son of Donnchadh, Royal heir of Temhair, was 
slain by the men of Fernmhagh, 7.¢. he died* of his wounds. 
_ Donnchadh, son of Flann, son of Maelechlainn, King of 
_ Erinn, after having been 25 years in the sovereignty, 
_ moritur, Congalach, son of Maelmithidh, reigns. 

Kal.* The Foreigners of Loch-Echach were slain, along 
with their King, in a battle, by Domhnall, son of Muir- 
certach Ua Neill.® Oengus, son of Donnchadh, son of 
Flann, King of Midhe, moritur. Two fiery columns were 
seen a week before Allhallowtide, which illuminated the 
whole world. The pledges of Connacht weve taken by 
Congalach, son of Maelmithidh. 

Kal. Aimbhirgin, son of Cinaedh, King of Ui Failghe, 
moritur. Domhnall, son of Maelmhuaidh, King of Luighne 
of Connacht, [was slain®] by the son of Uathmaran, son 
of Dobhailen, and by the Corco-[Fi]rtri. 

Kal. A battle was gained by Donnchadh, son of 
Ceallach, King of Osraighe, over the Lagenians, in which 


_were slain Braen, son of Maelmordha, King of Laighen, and 


Ceallach, son of Cinaedh, King of Ui Cennsealaigh, with 
many more. A year of prodigies, i.e. in which the Leaf? 





state that he died a natural death. , altar of Imlech-Ibhair, now Emly, in 
O’F. prefixes the date “946.” the co. Tipperary. But Dr. O’Conor 
7 The Leaf. “Owttenn. In the | translates the word “owttenn,” 
Bodleian Annals of Inisfallen this Leaf | ‘pluvia.” See his ed. of the Ann. 
is stated to have descended on the | Inisfal., ad an. 931, recté 947. 





A.D. 
(948.] 


[944.] 


[945.] 


[946. } 


208 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


10 eft accapla an dtuillenn vo nith ec accunéad on 
Cele D6 Don pauippse anode 00 procept v0 Faorvelarb. 

}ct. Dlacarpe A. imap, Ri Nopmanovopum, 00 
mapbad ctpe cels, Fo Daoinb imohab «a. mile, la 
Consalat mac Maolmehsd. Cinmipe -h. Caclarn 
oui mic Ump Mide, Ppincepp Cluana muc Nop, 
quemc. FSopmplat ingen Llainn mic Maoileclamnn, 
im pemtentia excenra obit. Cpeat Lap na gallos 
Dan Opium parte, Fup Loipsyr0 an vepted, ocup vecnepap 
ap peachs .xx. ann. 

fect. Llarcbepcaé mac Murpcepoas mie Nett, 
Rivamna Tempach, 1ugulacup ert o Crnel Conall. 
‘Domnall mac Linn Rrvamna Larsen, mopitup. PLoxap- 
cach mac Oonnagan, Ri Cipsiall, mopitup. Oenagan 
mac Exsepcans, Oipeinnech Egailps bige, qui puis sep- 
manup acai Cuinn na mboct, Eppeop Cluana muc 
Nop, [quiet]. 

fet. Oonnchad mac Domnall -h. Maorleclamnn, 
Rigoamna Tempac, ugulacup eps 6 Lepsal Foo mac 
Qonsura. Cloigceé Slaine vo Lopsad v0 Senzib, cona 
Lan vo vaoimb ann «2. 1m Conecan peplesinn Slane. 
Meouvan mac Coda, Ri Ulad, a pup oceipup ere. 
Caé Mune Opdcan ernip Falloi’ ec Faervelsb, v4 
accopcaip Rucvop: 6 Canannain appmtsuin an cata, 
et di accopchaip ile vo Salloib. Fooppic fugic. 
Consalach mac Maoilmith1d wiecop furs. “Donnchad 
mac “Oomnaill, Let pi Mive, moprsup. Cpeé La Con- — 
salach mac Maolmichd pin Mumarn, sup caps lap- 
Mumhan ocup sup mapp va mac Cinnedis .1. Eearsepn 





1To instruct. do ppopcet, for 
D0 ppocept, or 00 ppocect, A. B. 
O’F. adds the date 947. 

2 Gormflaith. O’Flaherty has added 
the words “Regina Hibernie ” in the 
marg.in A, She was thrice widowed, 
having been first married to Cormac 
Mac Cuilennain, King of Munster, who 
was killed in 907; and, secondly, to 





Cerbhall, King of Leinster, slain in _ 
909; her third husband being her 
cousin, King Niall Glundubh, killed 
in 919, ‘After all which royall mar- 
riadges,” observes the translator of the 
Annals of Clonmacnois (905, recté 913), 
‘shee begged from doore to doore, 
forsaken of all her freinds and allies, 
and glad to bee relieved by her in~ 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 209 


eame from Heaven, and the Cele-Dé was wont to come 
across the sea, from the south, to instruct! the Gaeidhel. 
Kal. Blacaire, grandson of Imhar, King of the Norse- 
a men, was treacherously slain, together with many men, 
__viz., 1,000, by Congalach, son of Maelmithidh. Ainmire 
_ Ua Cathalain, of the Ui-mic-Uais of Midhe, Superior 
of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. Gormflaith,? daughter of 
_ Flann, son of Maelechlainn, died in great penitence. 
A preying expedition by the Foreigners through Druim- 
 raithe, so that they burned the oratory and seven score 
and ten persons in it. 

Kal? Flaithbhertach, son of Muircertach, son of Niall, 
Royal heir of Temhair, was slain by the Cinel Conaill. 
_ Domhnall, son of Finn, Royal heir of Laighen, moritur. 
_ Fogartach, son of Donnagan, King of Airghiall, moritur. 
_ Oenagan, son of Egertach, Airchinnech of Eglais-beg, 
who was “germanus atavi” of Conn-na-mbocht, Bishop of 
 Cluain-muc-Nois, [quievit]. 

Kal. Donnchadh, son of Domhnall Ua Maeilechlainn, 
Royal heir of Temhair,‘ was slain by Fergal Got, son of 
_ Aengus. The belfry of Slane was burned by Gentiles, 
_ with its full of people in it, including Conecan, Lector of 
_ Slane. Madudhan, son of Aedh, King of Uladh, was slain 
__ by his own people. The battle of Muine-Brocan between 
_ Foreigners and Gaeidhel, in which Ruaidhri O Canannain 
was slain in the heat of the battle, and in which many 
Foreigners perished. Gothfrith fled. Congalach, son of 
_ Maelmithidh, was the victor. Donnchadh, son of Domh- 
_ nall,half-Kingof Midhe,moritur. An expedition by Conga- 
lach, son of Maelmithidh, into Mumhain, and he plundered 
Iar-Mumhain, and killed two sons of Cennedigh, viz., 





feriours.” O’F, makes this the year | heir apparent to the sovereignty of 
948. Temhair, or Tara (ie. of Ireland), 
3 Kal. O'Flaherty prefixes thedate | when of the southern branch of the 


949, Ui Neill, or Hy Neill, seems to have 


4 Royal heir of Temhair. ‘‘R[ex] | been regarded as ex officio King of 
Midie;” marg. note by O’F. The | Meath, 
P 


A.D. 


[946.] 
[947.] 


[948.] 


[949.] 


210 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


ocup “Oonnacan. Ruapce -h. Laegatan, Ri pLep Cul 
Teabta, mopitup. 

kct. Cod mac Maoilpuanard, prsyoamna Tempach, 
wsulacup ero 6 “Oomnall mac “Oonnchaoha. bece 
mac “Oumnncuainn, Ri Teabta, mopisup.  Cinnedis 
mac Lopcain, Ri Oil cCarp, mopicup. Fotppré mac 
Sitprucca vo Fabdal ta cliac, ocup vapsain Cenannpa 
asur Oomnas Paopars, ocup Clipo Dpeacain, ocup 
Tuilén, ocup “Oipips Ciapain, ocur Cille Scipe, peo 
Oeup windicatit; mopcuup ert in dpe cTempope ; 
ubi capta punt cma millia hominum cum manma 
aupi ec apgenti. Saoipe Cluana ipapo 6 Congalach 
mac Maoiwlmichio. ; 
“fet. Plann -h. Deccan, Cipchinech Opoma cliab, 
mopitup. Conctupap mac “Oomnarll ch. Maorleclainn 
[vo thapbad ta a cenel reippin]. PLepoomnach h. 
Maonms, Cbb Cluana muc Nop, quiews 2. 1 nSlinn 
oa Loca moptuur 1. 00 Copca Moga. "Oomnall “Donn 
mac Oonnchada, Rigoamna Tempach, moprtup; actoarp 
Maoilpeclainn Morp. 

fet. Cluan muc Nop vapgsain ovpepo’ Muman 
50 nSallois Lumnish. @réne, ben Congalars mic 
Maolmthd «1. ingen Lepsaile, Cipopig Cpeann, 
mopitup. M«aolcoluim mac Oomnaill, Ri Alban, a 
rump occipup eft. 

fet. Ceallaéan, Ri Capil, moprcup. Cod mac 
Bapbit, Ri Capbpe moipe ocup Oapcoparge, a pup 
[ocerpup ert]. Celecarp mac Robaptars vo 16 mic 
Uap Mide, comopba Linnain ocup Ciaporn, quieuc. 
Robapcach comapba Coluim Cille, queue. Niall hh. 





1 Donnacan. “Donnchuan,” Four | ar’s death being omitted in A. and B., 
Mast. “Donchwan,” Ann. Clonmac- | the liberty has beentaken of supplying, 


nois, (Mageoghegan’s transl. ). in the text, the clause in brackets from 
2 Kal. The correct yearis 951, ac- | the Ann. Four Mast. (950=952). 
cording to O’F. 4 Corca-Mogha. The portion of 


8 Tribe. The natureof Conchobh- | this entry from “i.e.” to the end is 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 211 


Echtighern and Donnacan.' Ruare Ua Laeghachan, 
King of Feara-Cul-Teabhtha, moritur. 

‘Kal? Aedh, son of Maelruanaidh, Royal heir of Tem- 

hair, was slain by Domhnall, son of Donnchadh. Bece, 
son of Donncuan, King of Teabhtha, moritur. Cenne- 
 digh, son of Lorcan, King of Dal-Cais, moritur. Gothfrith, 
son of Sitric, took possession of’ Ath-cliath, and plundered 
_ Cenannus, and Domhnach-Padraig, and Ard-Brecain, and 
 Tulen, and Disert-Ciarain, and Cill-Scire, (but God took 
vengeance, for he died shortly after), on which occasion 
_ $8,000 men were taken prisoners, together with an enor- 
_ mous quantity of gold and silver. The freedom of Cluain- 
_ Traird was granted by Congalach, son of Maelmithidh. 
_ Kal. Flann Ua Beccan, Airchinech of Druim-cliabh, 
_ moritur. Conchobhar, son of Domhnall Ua Maelechlainn, 
[was killed by his own tribe*]. Ferdomhnach Ua Maen- 
_ aigh, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit; é.c. in Glenn-da- 
 locha he died; viz., he was of the Corca-Mogha.* Domhnall 
_ Donn, son of Donnchadh, Royal heir of Temhair, father of 
Maelsechlainn Mér, moritur. 

Kal. Cluain-muc-Nois was plundered by the men of 
Mumbhain, with the Foreigners of Luimnech. Eithne, 7. 
daughter of Fergal,’ wife of Congalach, son of Maelmithidh, 
chief King of Erinn, moritur. Maelcoluim, son of Domh- 
nall, King of Alba, a suis occisus est. 

‘Kal.® Ceallachan, King of Caisel,’ moritur. Aedh, 
son of Gairbhith, King of Cairbre-mér and Dartraighe, a 
suis [oecisus est]. Celechair, son of Robhartach, of the 
- Ui-mic-Uais of Midhe, comarb of Finnan and Ciaran, 
quievit. Robhartach, comarb of Colum Cille, quievit. 





_ added as a gloss in A., over the name | O'Flaherty considers this the year 
_ of Ferdomhnach. It is transposed in | 953. 
a B., in which it is placed after the @ Kal. O'F. has prefixed the yeat 


entry immediately preceding. O'F. | 954 2. the correct date. 


prefixes the date 952. ’ 
__-& Daughter of Fergal. These words 7 King of Caisel. ‘‘Rex Momoniz,” 
are slightly misplaced in the text. | marg. note, O’F. 

| P2 





A.D. 


[949.] 
[950.] 


[951.] 


[952.] 


[958.] 


212 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Tolapce, plaré Cuipene, mopicup, a quo Capn -h. 
cTolaipee pop bpu Loéu Rib. 

Ict.  Slumged La Domnall mac Mupcepcaré, 50 
Lonsaib, pop Loch Erpne. “Ounadaé mac Cgepcais 
Epreop Cluana muc Nop, quiere. 

ket. Congalué mac Maoilmichid, Ri Erpenn, vo 
mapbad cona prospard vo Zalloib Cléa chat, ocup La 
Lasmb, ocup Coo [mac] Oiccve, Ri Teabta, ocup - 
Maouvan mac Cova me Maoilmithrd, ocup Copmac 
mac Catalan Ri pLep nOpoa. Maonac comapba 
Finnén, ques. 
mMopisup. 

fet. Caéupach mac Doiligén, comapba Paoparg, 
Sao Eppeop Faorvveal, quieuc. Me«aolpocapcms, Ri 


Tavs mac Cacal, Ri Connacht, — 


Carl, mopitup. Meaelcoluim ch. Canannaan, Ri Cinél ay 


Conall, mopitup. Plann mac Movagain, comapba 
Buinne va Loca, quent. Muipeoach sh. Lachtnaan, 
Ri Tebsta, moputup. 

Ict. Tanapm mac hthop, comapba Comsat, vo 
mapbad vo gallo’. Thachal mac Usape, Ri Largen, 
mopitup. 

fect. Cluain muc Nop vapsain opepait Mumhan. 
Oubdouin comopba Coloam Cille, quiet. “Oupoa- 
baipenn mac Domnall, Ri Const, a pup oceipup ep. 
Sluaicéed La Domnall mac Mupcepcms so Oal 
nQparde, 50 cous sialla ap. Catmos Ppincepp Lip — 

moip et Eppeop Copcarge, [queue]. 
ek. Plas mop pop inmlib La pneachca ‘ocur 





1 Kal. The correct year is 955, 
according to O’F. 


2 Comarb of Patrick; i.e. successor 
of Patrick, and consequently Abbot, 
or Bishop, of Armagh. O’F. prefixes 
the date “957.” 


8 King of Caisel. The letters “p. 
M.” are written in the marg. in the 





orig. hand, to signify that Maelfo- 
thartaigh was “pi Mumhan,” @.e. 
“King of Mumhain,” or Munster, the 
Kings of Caisel, or Cashel a 
always so accounted. 

4 Son of Odhar. “Mac Uidhir.” 


This is the first appearance in the 


Annals of the name of Mac Uidhir, 
now written MacGuire, or Maguire. 































’ CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 213 


Niall Ua Tolairg, Chief of Cuirene, (a quo Carn-Ui- 
_ Tolairg on the brink of Loch Ribh), moritur. 

Kal! An expedition by Domhnall, son of Muircertach, 
with ships, on Loch Erne. Dunadhach, son of Egertach, 
Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. 

- Kal. Congalach, son of Maelmithidh, King of Erinn, 
was slain, together with his chieftains, by the Foreigners 
_ of Ath-cliath and by the Lagenians; and Aedh, [son] of 
Aichtidhe, King of Teabhtha, and Madudhan, son of Aedh, 
son of Maelmithidh, and Cormac, son of Cathalan, King of 
_ Feara-Arda, were slain. Maenach, comarb of Finnen, 
 quievit. Tadhg, son of Cathal, King of Connacht, 
 moritur. 

Kal. Cathusach, son of Doilgen, comarb of Patrick,’ 
sage-Bishop of the Gaeidhel, quievit. Maelfothartaigh, 
King of Caisel,? moritur. Maelcoluim Ua Canannain, 
King of Cinel Conaill, moritur. Flann, son of Aedhagan, 
comarb of Glenn-da-locha, quievit. | Muiredhach Ua 
Lachtnain, King of Teabhtha, moritur. 

Kal. Tanaise, son of Odhar,‘ comarb of Comgall, was 
slain by Foreigners. Tuathal, son of Ugaire, King of 
 Laighen, moritur.> 

Kal. Cluain-muc-Nois was plundered by the men of 
~Mumhain. Dubhduin, comarb of Colum Cille, quievit. 
_ Dubhdabhairenn, son of Domhnall, King of Caisel,® a suis 
_ oecisus est. A hosting by Domhnall, son of Muircertach, 
. _ to Dal-Araidhe, from which he carried off hostages. 
- Cathmogh, Superior of Lis-mor and Bishop of Coreach, 
 [quievit]. 

9 it Kal. A great mortality brought upon cattle, by snow 





The Christian name of this ecclesiastic 5 Moritur. Omitted in B. 
is written “Tanaidhe” in the Ann. | 

__‘—Ult. and Four Mast., and “Taney” 
___ in Mageoghegan’s translation of the 
___ Annals of Clonmacnoise. O’F. adds  marg., and added the year “959” as 
pS ‘the date “958” in the margin. | the correct date. 


6 King of Caisel. O’F. has written 
“R. M.” for Rex Momonie,” in the 





A.D. 
[958.] 
[954.] 


[955.] 


[956.] 


[957.] 


[958.] 


[959.] 


214 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


salpa. Pepspard mac Clems, Rig Carl, a pur 
occipuyp eft. 

Ict. Cpeé ta Llmébepcaé mac Concupap, La Ris 
nOilig, an Dal nOpade, sup inoip Convepe, Fo ccappad 
UlLad foppa, sup mapbad ann, ocup a va Depbbpacaip 
1. Taos ocup Conn. 1lUlulb, Ri CALban, mopitup. 
Oénsup -N. Maoiloopard, Ri Cinel Conall, :uguLacup. 
Muspon -h. Maoilmuad, Ri pLep cCeall, moprcup. 

fet. Socppis mac CCmlond, moprcup. Caomncompace 
mac mac Cupain, Ppincepp Tigepnaigh Cluana hEoap, 
fui Eppeop, qureurc. Longa La Domnall mac Mup- 
ceptais ve Daball cap Sliab Lucas co Loé nOCinnin, 
quod non factum ert ante. Crsneé mac Oalars, Ri 
Cipsiall, ocup a mac, v0 mapbaod va bpachaip, do 
Mupchaodh, ocup a mapbad fen fo cédvdiip 6 Ua 
Canannd&in. Sun “Oonnchaoa mic Ceallachain, Ri 
Cail. fLepgal .-h. Ruarpe a prge Connacht, ocur 
marom na Caitince Lear ap Muimnechb, ocup Oat 
cCaip Dapsain 06. 

Hct. Ceall vapa vapgain vo gsalloib Méa cliat, 
ocup 00mlaib mac Sitpiucca. Muipenn ingen mic 
Colman, Wbbacippa Cille vapa, quem. Appeals 
mop ocup uacht ocup cepca eta. Muipcepctaé mac 
(t -N.) Canannain, Ri Cinel Conall, a pup 1usgulacur. 
Oubrsuile mac Cinaoda, comapba Colum Cille, 
quemc. Mupcepcach mac Consalars mic Maoil- 
mithid, occipup ert a Ppacpe uo «1. La Domnall, 
inpelicitep. Maolpuanmd -N. Egsneéan, Ri Cinel 





1 Occisus est. O’F. intimates,in a | A.B.; but the word comapba, “heir 


note, that this event occurred in the 
year 961, though he prefixes the date 
960 to the preceding record. 

2 Illulbh; i.e. Tidulf, or Indulph, son 
of Constantine. 

3 Son of Mac-Curain. “Son of 
Curan,” Ann. Four Mast. (961). 


* Successor. Ppuncepy (Princeps), 





or successor,” would have been more 
correct. O’F. prefixes the date 962. 
5 King of Caisel. O’F. adds the 
letters “ R. M.,” for ‘Rex Momoniz,” 
in the marg. in A., to signify that 
Donnchadh was King of Munster, to 
which the title ‘‘ King of Caisel,” or 
Cashel, was equivalent. But Dr. 
Todd has proved that Donnchadh 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 215 


_and distempers. Fergraidh, son of Clerech, King of Caisel, 
a suis occisus est.! 

Kal. A preying expedition by Flaithbhertach, son of 
q Conchobhar, King of Ailech, into Dal-Araidhe, and he 
_ plundered Connor; but the Ulidians overtook him, and 


7 _ he was slain there, together with his two brothers, viz., 


Tadhg and Conn. Illulbh,? King of Alba, moritur. 
Oengus Ua Maeildoraidh, King of Cinel Conaill, jugulatus. 
Mughron Ua Maeilmhuaidh, King of Feara-Ceall, moritur. 
_ Kal. Gothfrith, son of Amhlaibh, moritur. Caein- 
eomhrac, son of Mac-Curain,’ successor’ of Tighernach 
of Cluain-eois, a sage-Bishop, quievit. Vessels were 
_ transported by Domhnall, son of Muircertach, from the 
_ Dabhall, across Sliabh Fuaid, to Loch Ainnin, which 
__was not done before. Eignech, son of Dalach, King of 
_ Airghiall, and his son, were slain by his brother Murchadh, 
and Murchadh was himself immediately after killed by 
Ua Canannain. Mortal wounding of Donnchadh, son of 
Ceallachan, King of Caisel.° Fergal Ua Ruaire in the 
sovereignty of Connacht, and the victory of the Catinche 
was gained by him over the men of Mumhain, and Dal- 
Cais was plundered by him. 

Kal. Cill-dara was plundered by the Foreigners of 
Ath-cliath, and by Ambhlaibh, son of Sitric. Muirenn, 
daughter of Mac-Colmain, Abbess of Cill-dara, quievit. 
Great famine, and cold, and scarcity of corn. Muircer- 
tach, Mac (or O°) Canannain, King of Cinel Conaill, a 
suis jugulatus. Dubhsgaile, son of Cinaedh, comarb of 

~ Colum Cille,? quievit. Muircertach, son of Congalach, 
son of Maelmithidh, was slain by his brother, 7.e. Domh- 
nall, unluckily. Maelruanaidh Ua Egnechain, King of 





was never King of Munster. Wars O’Canannain, or descendant of Canan- 
of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, p. 239. nan. 
6 Or 0. The characters “T. h.,” 7 Cille, C., abbrev. for Citte, A. 
for no ua (“or 0”), are added tothe | Ctua, for Cluana (of Cluain), B., 
word. The Four Mast. | which is incorrect. O'Flaherty con- 
(963) have htla Canannain, ie, | siders the real year to be 963. 


A.D. 


[959.] 
[960.] 


[961.] 


[962.] 


216 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Conall, a pup [ocerpup ec]. “Domnall mac Decce,. 
Ri Teabra, inceppectuy ert. 

Ket. § God mac Maolmichd 1M pepespnacione 
mopitup 1. hi Cind prmonad. Slucicced La Domnall 
mac Muipceptas, Ri Tempach, 50 cous sralla h. 
Rooaps 1. Lepsarl, Ri Connacht. Claoél6d Obbao a 
nCpo Macha 1. Oubvalete aninao Mumpeoais. . 

ct. Muipevach mac Lepsupa, comapba Paopars 
un. anmp im ppincipacu, quieus. Marom fop -N. 
Ruaps a mbaipann Copeumpuad pe Comalcan h. 
Clems, ocur pe Maelpeclainn mac WCpcoa, vi accop- 
chaccup va .xx. ceo, um Tartleé -h. nScbpa a. Rig 
Luigne. Cacupach mac Mupchadain, Epreop ipo 
Macha, queuit. LPinsin, Cpreop muincipe ae, 
quieut. “Oonnchad mac Tuachail, prsoamna Lorgen, 
mopitup. Ceallach mac Laeldin, Ri Larsen, mopitup. 
Copmac -h. Cillin v0 Urb pLiacpat CCrdne, comopba 
Ciapdin ocup Comdin, ocup comapba Tuama spéne, et ap 
age D0 ponad tempul mop Tuama Fspene et a clargcec, 
Sapienr et penex, et Epipcopup, quiewus in Chpipco. 
Lepsal -N. Ruarpec, Nabcovdn na nS5aorvoi0l 1. Ra 
Connacht, port inumepabilia mala, vo cutm La 
Domnall mac [Congalais] Ris Cnosba. 

ket. Cat eroip. Cinel n€ogain ocup Cinel Conall, 
Du accopcap ile um Maeilipa -N. Canannéin, eo um 
Mupcepcaé mac Concupap, es um mac Ris Connacc. 





1 Cinn-rimonaidh. Thisname, which 
is also written Cill-righmonaidh, was 
the ancient name of St. Andrew’s, in 
Scotland. See Reeves’s Adamnan, 
p- 385, n. 1. O’F. has prefixed the 
date 964. 

2 Of Muiredach. lupe, A. 
Muipe, B., in which the sign of ab- 
breviation is omitted. 

34,000. “Da .xx. c., for Dam «xa. 
ced, ‘two score hundred,” A. B. 

4 Its Cloigtech; i.e. its “* Bell-house,” 
or Round Tower. This is the earliest 





record extant of the erection of a 
Round Tower. See Petrie’s Essay, 
Trans. R. I, Acad., vol. xx., p. 377. 
The following orig. note, referring to 
Cormac Ua Cillin, is written in the 
marg. in A., but omitted in B., viz.: 
“4. Uicé na copi temenn, va 
bliwoan .x. ocup cetpe ced o &F 
Crapain go Liaé na cxpu Lemend;” 
“qe. Liath-na-ttri-lemenn: twelve 
years and four hundred from the 
death of Ciaran to Liath-na-ttri- 
lemend.” But the death of St. 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 217 


Cinel Conaill, a suis [occisus est]. Domhnall, son of 
Bece, King of Teabhtha, interfectus est. 
4 Kal. Aedh, son of Maelmithidh, dies in pilgrimage, 
_ viz., at Cinn-rimonaidh.' A hosting by Domhnall, son of 
_ Muircertach, King of Temhair, and he carried off the 
_ pledges of Ua Ruaire, i.c. Fergal, King of Connacht. A 
_ change of Abbots at Ard-Macha, viz, Dubhdalethe in 
_ place of Muiredhach.? 
Kal. Muiredhach, son of Fergus, comarb of Patrick, 
who was seven years in the government, quievit. A vic- 
_ tory was gained over Ua Ruaire, in Boirinn of Corcom- 
_ ruaidh, by Comaltan Ua Clerigh, and by Maelsechlainn, 
_ son of Arcda, in which 4,000* were slain, including 
_ Taithlech Ua Gadhra, i.e. King of Luighne. Cathusach, 
_ son of Murchadhan, Bishop of Ard-Macha, quievit. 
_ Finghin, Bishop of the family of Hi, quievit. Donnchadh, 
son of Tuathal, Royal heir of Laighen, moritur. Ceallach, 
gon of Faelan, King of Laighen, moritur. Cormac Ua 
_ Cillin, of the Ui Fiachrach Aidhne, comarb of Ciaran and 


 Coman, and comarb of Tuaim-greine, by whom the great 


church of Tuaim-greine, and its Cloigtech,t were con- 
structed, sapiens et senex, et Episcopus, quievit in Christo. 
Fergal Ua Ruaire, the Nabcodon’ of the Gaeidhel, 7.e. King 
of Connacht, after innumerable evils, fell by Domhnall, 
son [of Congalach®], King of Cnoghbha. 
Kal. A battle between the Cinel Eoghain and Cinel 
~ Conaill, in which many were slain, together with Maelisa 
Ua Canannain and Muircertach, son of Conchobhar, the 
_ son of the King’ of Connacht. Cerbhall, son of Lorcan, 





Ciaran is recorded under the year 544, | “ocup um mac Rig Connacht,” 


supra. “ Liath na ttri lemenn” means | “and along with the son of the King 
“the man of the three leaps.” of Connacht ;” the person referred to 
Be gray Pp 


5 Nabcodon; i.e. Nabuchodonosor, | being Muircertach, son of Conchobhar. 
‘as some annotator has noted over the | It is not unusual to find in Irish MSS. 
name in A. such an expression as “and Muircer- 
Of Congalch.  Interlined by | tach, the King,” written “and Muir- 





O'Flaherty in A. certach, and the King.” O'F. con- 


4 Son of the King. The text reads | siders the correct date to be 966. 


A.D. 


[962.] 
[963.] 


[964.] 


[965.] 


218 CRONICUM sCOTORUM. 


Cepball mac Lopecain, Rroamna Lergen, 00 mapbad vo 
Domnall mac Congalarg, Ri Opes. 

Hct. Sloreced La Domnall .h. Nell so Leagmb, sup 
invip o Depba parp co paippse, 50 cCUc bopuma mop 


Lerp, ocup 50 coapo popbap pop sullu Céa cliaé, ocup 


por Langmib, prra pé v4 thip. 

ict. Cosan mac Cle1s, Cprcop Connacht, queues. 
Maelpinman mac Cuchcain, Eppeop Cenannpa, ocup 
comopba Ulcoain, queue. Deollan mac Crapmaie, Ri 
Loéu Sabap, moprcup. Cappaé calma «1. Oonnchadh, 
ch. MaerLeclann, pisovamna Mive, pep volum oceipup 
ert 0 Opt mac Cappchaigh. 

}ct. Cenannup vapsain o0lmLlab Capan 50 ngal- 
Loi’ ocur 50 Larsmib, so pus bopuma médp Lep, ocup 
co prapccant pocharde via muincip, um yal mac 
nQCilellen, ocup sup bpiy marom pop O16 Nell og Apo- 
maolcon. Cat Cille mona pe Domnall mac Congalang, 
50 ngalloib ta cliac, pop Domnall mac Mupeeptars, 
for ws Tempach, vf accopcaip ile, um CCposaip mae 
Meaouvain, Ri ULad, um Donnagan mac Mearlmupe, 
Ri Aipsiall, ocup im Lepsup Pial, Ri Cuaitgne, ocup 
um .N. Curlennan, Ri Conalle, ec aln nobiler. 
Ppoinnceé Lanne Lerpe v0 Lopecad La Domnall mac 
Mupcepcams, Ri Tempach, ocup cetpa ced vo dul 
mapopa ann, eroip pipa ocup mna. Lugbad ocup 
Opium inapglainn vapgain [La Slujn hilaip .». Mup- 
chad. 

fet. Cirlen mac 1lulb, Ri CCLban, v0 mapbad vo 
DpecnaB acn¥ cened. Domnall mac Muipcepoays 
0 innapbao a yise M1de v0 maccorb Coda Tuatal 





1 Borumha; i.e. a prey of cows. "4 Battle of Cill-mona. O'F. adds 


O’F. adds the date 967. the note “970, rectius,” in the margin; 
2 Kal. This is the year 968, ac- | thus implying that another year has 
cording to O’F. been here omitted, or that the events 


3 Lost. 50 prapccaib, lit. “he | of two years have been mixed up in 
left.” the one entry. See note %, p. 180, 








i 
CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 219 


Royal heir of Laighen, was slain by Domhnall, son of 
Congalach, King of Bregh. 

Kal. A hosting by Domhnall Ua Neill to the Lage- 
_ mians, so that he ravaged from Berbha eastwards to the 
_ sea, and he brought with him a great borumha,! and 
besieged the Foreigners of Ath-cliath, and the Lagenians, 
_ for the space of two months. 
| Kal. Eoghan, son of Clerech, Bishop of Connacht, 
_ quievit. Maelfinnian, son of Uchtan, Bishop of Cenannus, 
_ and comarb of Ultan, quievit. Beolldn, son of Ciarmhac, 
_ King of Loch Gabhar, moritur. Carrach-calma, ie. 
_ Donnchadh Ua Maeilechlainn, Royal heir of Midhe, was 
Slain through treachery by. Art, son of Carthach. 
Kal. Cenannus was plundered by Amhlaibh Cuaran, 
_ with Foreigners and Lagenians, and he carried off a great 
_ prey of cows, and lost? a great number of his people, 
including Bresal, son of Ailillen; but he gained a victory 
over the Ui Neill, at ‘Aataslonm. The battle of Cill- 
_ mona‘ gained by Domhnall, son of Congalach, with 
_ the Foreigners of Ath-cliath, over Domhnall, son of 
_ Muircertach, King of Temhair, in which a great many 
_ were slain, including Ardgar, son of Madudhan, King of 
Uladh, and Donnagan, son of Maelmuire, King of Airghiall, 
_ and Fergus Fial, King of Cuailgne, and Ua Cuilennain, 
_ King of Conaille, and other nobles. The refectory of 
Lann-leire was burned by Domhnall, son of Muircertach, 
King of Temhair, and 400 persons suffered martyrdom 
there, between men and women. Lughbhadh and Druim- 
 inasglainn were plundered [by Glu]n blair,’ ¢.e. Murchadh. 
| Kal. Cuilen, son of Ilulb, King of Alba, was killed 
__ by Britons, in a house on fire. Domhnall, son of Muir- 
 _certach, was expelled from the sovereignty of Midhe, 





5 Glun-hllair. The letters enclosed ; also omitted in B.; in which the 
within brackets are supplied from the | concluding words, “ hiloap.1. Mup- 
Ann. Four Mast., a blank space | chad,” are incorrectly placed after 


_. being left for them in A. They are | the word “ (CUban” in the next line. 


A.D. 


(965. ] 
[966.] 


[967.] 


[968.] 


[969.} 


220 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


comapba Ciapain, ocup Eprcop, pubrta mopte port 
1e1umumM Tpeouanum obnc. Maolpatina, comopba 
Comms, qnemt. Domnall mac Muipcepcars rcepum 

1 Mive, sup Lois eroip cealla ocup Dane, do “neot 
plop ap a cénn. Maonaé mac Maerlmerl, Eppeop 
Cluana muc Nop [quiemc] Niall mac Woda, Ri 
ULad, mopicup. ; 

ct. Caé ercip UlemB ocup Dal nOCparde, ou 
accopcaip OCod mac Loinsms, Ri an corcced, es alin. 
Cochard wiccop puis. Cluain Ipaipd, ocup Pobap, ocuy 
Lann ela, ocup Dipipt Tola do Lopecad ocup dapgarn Lot 
Domnall mac Mumpceptms. Mupchad mac Ln, 
apopi Laigen, v0 mapbad La Domnall Claén, spe 
cangnacht. 

Ict. Concupap mac Tag, apo us Connache, - 
motup. Cac Cer Copann ervip Flun Milap es 
Connactorb, vf accopcaip ile, um Catal mac Tarog, Ri 
Connacht, ocup Tads mac Mupcepoas, Ri sh. n° Orap- 
maoa, ocup [M]upchad mac Llainn mic Fletnecain, 
caoipech Clainne Mupchada, ocup um Febennat mac 
Coda, Ri -N. Manne, ocup um Sepprd -h. pLLaaebeptan¥ 
1 ELMesuin, es alu. Inpad Connachc la Flun hilaip 
4. Mupchaoh, rappin. Deccan comopba Linnén, Eppeop, 
quem. Orlitl mac an Lagms, comapba Caormsin, 
quiet. 

kct. Marom pop Domnall mac Congalms pe 
nDonnchad Lionn mac Cova, ou accopchap Congalach 
mac Lavdsnén, ocup Cachal mac Llanagein, ocup abn. 
Muipceptaé a. Ri Mie, 1. mac Cova me LLainn -h. 
Maorleclainn, 00 mapbad La Domnall mac Congaloangs. 





1 Sons of Aedh. The Four Mast. 
(969) and the Ann, Ult. (970=971) 
have “Clann Colmain,” ie. the 
O’Melaghlin’s of Westmeath. By 
“Meaccoib Coda,” “sons of Aedh,” 
are meant the descendants of Aedh 
Slaine, who were situated in East 





Meath, or the present county of Meath. 
O’Flaherty thinks 971 the correct 
year. ; 
2 Kal. 
date 972. 
8 The Province ; i.e. the Province of 
Uladh, or Ultonia. Some hand has 


O’Flaherty prefixes the 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 221 


by the sons of Aedh.! Tuathal, comarb of Ciaran, and a 
Bishop, died a sudden death after a three days’ fast. 
Maelsamhna, comarb of Cainnech, quievit. Domhnall, 
son of Muircertach, again in Midhe; and he destroyed 
whatever he found in his march, both churches and 
_ people. Maenach, son of Maelmichil, Bishop of Cluain- 
_ muc-Nois, [quievit], Niall, son of Aedh, King of Uladh, 


_ moritur. 


Kal’ A battle between the Ultonians and Dél-Araidhe, 
in which Aedh, son of Loingsech, King of the Province,’ 


4 and others, were slain. Eochaidh was the victor. Cluain- 


_ Traird and Fobhar, and Lann-ela, and Disert-Tola were 
_ burned and plundered by Domhnall, son of Muircertach. 
Murchadh, son of Finn, chief-King of Laighen, was slain 
by Domhnall Claen, through malice. 

Kal* Conchobhar, son of Tadhg, chief-King of 
— Connacht, moritur. The battle of Ceis-Corainn between 

Glun-hilair and the Connachtmen, in which a great 
number were slain, including Cathal, son of Tadhg, King 
of Connacht ; and Tadhg, son of Muircertach, King of Ui- 
Diarmada; and [MJurchadh, son of Flann, son of Gleth- 
nechan, chieftain of Clann-Murchadha; and Gebhennach, 
son of Aedh, King of Ui Maine; and Serridh Ua 
Flaithbhertaigh, who fell in the ie of battle, and 
others. The plundering of Connacht afterwards by 
Glun-hilair, i.e. Murchadh. Beccan, comarb of Finnen, 
a Bishop, quievit. Ailill Mac-an-Laighnigh,® comarb of 
Caemhghen, quievit. 

Kal. A victory was gained over Domhnall, son of 
Congalach, by Donnchadh Finn, son of Aedh, in which 
_ were slain Congalach, son of Ladhgnen, and Cathal, son 
of Flannagan, and others. Muircertach, i.e. King of 
_ Midhe, son of Aedh, son of Flann Ua Maeilechlainn, was 
added the year “979” inthe marg., | ‘4 Kal. This is the year 978, ac- 
that being the date under which this | cording to O’F. 


battle is recorded in the Ann. Four | 5 Mac-an-Laighnigh; i.e. “son of 
Mast. the Laighnech (or Leinsterman).” 





[969.] 


[970.] 


[971.] 


[972.] 


222 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


‘Oonnchad Linn mac Cova, mic Llainn, vo mapbad 
la Wed fop faopum bepnain Ciapain tpe meabal. 
Mupchaoh Flun itlap, apo pi Cilis, 00 mapbad La 
Cinel Conall. Marom fop h. cCinnpolars pia 
nOpparsib, of accopchap ile um “Oonnchad mac 
Ceallong, Ri -h. cCinnprolang, ec als nobiler. 

ket. Gosap Ri Saxan, pelisiopup pex, mopicup. 
posal mac Coppacan, comapba Compal ocup Linnen, 
quiets. Cinaod -N. Cpcaccan Prrmhésiup Lege Curnn, 
mopitup. “Oomnall mac Eogain, Ri Dpecan, in clepi- 
cacu qmeuict. Ceona feacht Maolpechlainn mic 
Domnall o HE cliaé vap bmp corp an sal. 

fet. Oonnchavh mac Ceallang, Ri Oppmée, mMopiTup. 
Mactsathoin mac Cinnedis, Ri Mumhan, v0 mapbad 
20 Mael[muaro] mac Dpain, vo Ris -N. neéaé, 1a. na 
crénacail 00 “Oundubé&in mac Cathal, v0 Rig -h. 
rLridsente appl. Scpin Colum Cille vapgain do mac 
Domnall mic Murpcepcms. “Ounchad mac Opain, 
00 Sil Mupeohars 1. Trbup Lliuc, comapba Criapdin 
Cluana muc Nop, 00 vol a nalitpe v0po Macha, 


50 paid pnia pé tpi mbliaona deg a scpaobao ann. 





1 Aedh, The Ann, Ult. (973) say 
that Donnchadh Finn was killed “‘by 
Aghda, son of Dubhcenn;” and the 
Four Mast. (972) have ‘“‘ Aghda, son 
of Dubhcenn, son of Tadhgan, Lord 
of Teathbha;” but neither of these 
authorities contains any reference to 
the Bernan Ciarain. - 

2 Bernan Ciarain; i.e. the ‘gapped 
bell of Ciaran.” In the Irish Life 
of St. Ciaran or Kieran, of Saigher 
(MS. 28, M. 50, R. I. Acad., p. 63), 
this bell, which is there called ‘ Bar- 
can Ciarain,” is stated to have been 
given to St. Ciaran by St. Patrick, 
and to have been used as a swearing 
relic in the district surrounding Seir- 
kieran, in the King’s County. In 
Colgan’s Latin version of the Irish 
Life, the bell is called “‘ Bardan Ciar- 





ain;” and the translator adds: “forte 
Bodhran ; i.e. mutum, potius legendum 
videtur; cum hic legatur illud cym- 
balum nullum sonum edidisse, donee 
venerit ad locum 4 Deo Monasterio 
Sagirensi extruendo destinatum.” AA. 
SS., p. 458. It is also referred to 
under the year 1041—1043, infra. 
The bell is not now known to be in 
existence. 


3 Donnchadh. The Ann, Ult., the 
Four Mast., and the Ancient List of 
Kings of Ui-Cennsealaigh in the 
Book of Leinster, have ‘‘ Domhnall.” 
O’F. also substitutes ‘‘ Domhnall,” 
and prefixes the date 974 to the 
entries under this year. 


4 Kal. O’F. prefixes the year 975, 


which is the correct date. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 223 
_ killed by Domhnall, son of Congalach. Donnchadh Finn, 
son of Aedh, son of Flann, was slain by Aedh,' against 
__ the protection of the Bernan Ciarain,’ through treachery. 
_ Maurchadh Glun-ilair, chief-King of Ailech, was killed by 
the Cinel Conaill. A victory was gained over the Ui- 
_ Cennsealaigh by the Osraighe, in which a great many 
_ were slain, along with Donnchadh,* son of Ceallach, King 
_ of Ui-Cennsealaigh, and other nobles. 

_ Kal* Edgar, King of the Saxons, religiosus Rex, 
-moritur. Ardgal, son of Cosrachan, comarb of Comgall 
_ and Finnen, quievit. Cinaedh Ua Artagan, chief poet® 
_ of Leth-Chuinn, moritur. Domhnall, son of Eoghan, King 
_ of Britain,’ in clericatu’ quievit. First expedition of 
- Maelsechlainn, son of Domhnall, from® Ath-cliath, on 
_ which occasion he broke the Foreigner’s leg. 

Kal? Donnchadh, son of Ceallach, King of Osraighe, 
_ moritur. Mathghamhain, son of Cennedigh, King of 
_ Mumbhain, was slain by Mael[mhuaidh], son of Bran, King 
of Ui-Echach, after having been treacherously surrendered 
to him by Donnabhan, son of Cathal, King of Ui-'° 
_ Fidhghente. Scrin of Colum Cille was plundered by the 
son of Domhnall, son of Muircertach. Dunnchadh, son 
_ of Bran, of the Sil Muiredhaigh, 7.¢. “ Tribhus Fliuch,”" 
 eomarb of Ciaran of Cluain-muc-Nois, went in pilgrimage 
_ to Ard-Macha, and he was there during the space of 
_ thirteen years, in devotion. 





5 Chief Poet. Ppamhiup, for | Ult. is “a nanticpe,” “in pilgrim- 


” 





4 eyehéycr (prim hégius), A. 
— Pprimtnar, B. 

6 King of Britain. Ri OP., for Ri 
 Dpecan, A. B. Probably King of 
_ the Britons of Strath Clyde. The 


% Brut y Tywysogion, under the year 


_ 974, records the departure to Rome of 


_ Dunwallon, King of Strath Clyde. 


Ae ydaeth Dunwallaun  brenhin 


strat Clut y Rufein.” 


4 7 In clericatu. The corresponding 
4 expression in Tighernach and the Ann. 





age. 
8 From. o, MSS. A. and B. It 
should probably be vo or co, “to.” 


9 Kal. O’Flaherty prefixes the 
date “976.” 

10 Ui. Omitted in B. 

11 Tribhus Fliuch ; i.e. “*Wet trouse,” 
or trowsers. In the Ann. Four Mast. 
(974) this sobriquet is applied to 
Domhnall, son of Congalach, whose 
death is recorded in the next entry. 


A.D. 
(972.] 


[973.] 


[974.] 


224 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


‘Domnall mac Consalans, Rigoarhna hpenn, momi- 


cu 

Ick inp Cacthms vo papuccad vo Dpian mac 
Cinneoié pop gallos Luimmegh «1. 1map ec a va mac «1. 
CCmlab ocup “Oubcenn. Omlanb mac 1linlb, Ri 
QlLban, vo mapbad La Cinaod mac Maoilcolum. 
Maolpuanars Foc -h. Maorleclann, Rigoamna Tem- 
pach, pep volum occipur. . 

}ct. Scpin Coamnan vapgain vo “omnall -h. 
NéLL Caé evip Opian et Maolmuad, 50 ccopchap 
Maolmiad ann, Ri -N. nechaé. Caé Oicleanne pop 
Largsmib pe gallo’ Cléa cliaé, vf accopchap Ri Laagen 
a. Usmpe mac Tuacharil, ocur Mupevhach mac Rian, 
Ri Nh. Cenpelarg, ocup Congalaé mac Plann Ri Lege 
ocup Reées, et alu. Cacpaoimned pra nOippialla pop — 
Cinel Conall, vf accopchaip ile um Niall ch. Canan- 
nan, ocup um .N. Consalarg, ocup mac Mupchada 
Slun ilarp, ec alu. Comatcan -h. Clems Ri -h. 
ERiacpach Crone, mopitup. 

ket. Llann mac Maoiwlmieil, peplesinn Cluana muc 
Noip, ocup Eprpeop, ocur Cipcinneé Cluana “Oeoepa, 
giiemt. Muipenn, ingen Conzaloné, comapba Oprgoe, 
quem. Concupap mac Linn, Ri h. fLoilse, mopitup. 
‘Oomnall Claen, Ri Loarshen vepsabdil vo sZalloib 
Cléa cliaé. Leclopap -h. finn, Ri Dal Cpme, ocut 
Gsepnan, Ri Cinel Conall, oceip punt. 

ket. Oomnatt -h. Nell, Ri Tempach, port peniten- 
ciam obit. Maolpechlainn pesnape incipit pop Epinn. 
Cat Tempach ma Maolpechlainn mac Oomnall, La 





1 Domhnall. Seen. U, p. 223. 

2 Kal. O’F. prefixes the date 977. 
A blank space of four lines precedes 
the first entry, “ Inis Cathaigh,” &., 
in A, 

3 Profaned. The meaning is, that 
theright of sanctuary of InisCathaigh, 
or Scattery Island, was violated, or 
profaned, 





4A battle. O’F. notes that this 
battle was fought in 977, but he pre- 
fixes 978 as the date of the other 
entries under this year. 


5 Cluain-Deochra. * Cluain-Deora,” 
B. Archdall (Monast. Hib.) places 
Cluain-Deochra in Westmeath; but 
in O’Clery’s Irish Calendar, at 11th. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 225 



























~ Domhnall,’ son of ios ere Royal heir of Erinn, 
 moritur. 

Kal? Inis Cathaigh was profaned® by Brian, son of 
 Oennedigh, against the Foreigners of Luimnech, i.e. 
_ Inhar and his two sons, viz., Amhlaibh and Dubhcenn. 
_ Amblaibh, son of Illulbh, King of Alba, was slain by 
 Cinaedh, son of Maelcoluim. Maelruanaidh Got Ua 
_ Maeilechlainn, Royal heir of Temhair, per dolum occisus. 
Kal. Scrin of Adamnan was plundered by Domhnall 
Ua Neill. A battle* between Brian and Maelmhuaidh, in 
_ which Maelmhuaidh, King of Ui-Echach, was slain. The 
battle of Bithlann was gained over the Lagenians by the 
4 Foreigners of Ath-cliath, in which were slain the King of 
 Laighen, i.e. Ugaire, son of Tuathal, and Muiredhach, son 
_ of Rian, King of Ui-Cennsealaigh, and Congalach, son of 
i Flann, King of Leghe and Rechet, and others. A victory 
was, gained by the Airghialla over the Cinel Conaill, in 
_ which a great many were slain, along with Niall Ua 
- Canannain, and Ua Conghalaigh, and the son of Murchadh 
_ Glun-ilair, and others. Comaltan Ua Clerigh, King of 
_ Ui-Fiachrach-Aidhne, moritur. 

Kal. Flann, son of Maelmichil, Lector of Cluain-muc- 
 Nois, and Bishop, and Airchinnech of Cluain-Deochra,* 
a quievit. Muirenn, daughter of Congalach, comarb of 
_ Brigid, quievit. Conchobhar, son of Finn, King of Ui- 
_ Failghe, moritur. Domhnall Claen, King of Laighen, 
was taken prisoner by the Foreigners of Ath-cliath. 
_ Lethlobhar Ua Finn, King of Dal-Araidhe, and Tighernan, 
_ King of Cinel Conaill, occisi sunt. 

_ Kal. Domhnall Ua Neill, King of Temhair, died 


Erinn. The battle of Temhair gained by Maelsechlainn, 
4 fon of Domhnall, King of Erinn, over the Foreigners of 





- Longford. It is probably the place | This is the year 979, according to 
now called Clondara, in the parish of | O’F. 


Q 


after penitence. Maelsechlainn begins to reign over. 


a -Jany. ., it is stated to be in the county | Killashee, barony and co. of Longford. | 


A.D. 


[974] 
[975.] 


[976.] 


[977.] 


[978.] 


226 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Rig hEpenn, pop Fallorb ta cliaé, ocup pop maccorb 
Cmlaoib an conus, of accopcharp tle um Ragnall 
mac OCmlaob, Rigoamna Fall, ocup um Conamarl mac 
Bille Cippe (tOippr), ocup Cplabparo Ata cliat ocup 
rocaive. Opaon mac Mupch[aola, Risoamna Langen, 
ocup Congalaé mac Plann, Ri [Sarleng], ocup a mac 
41. Maolan, ocup fracpa ocup Cuomlish, [oa mac] 
Oublené, va Ris Lep Tulat, ocup Lachcnan Ri Mug- 
copn Margen, 00 THITIM appThsuin an cata. Mop- 
plumged la Maeleclann mac “Oomnall, la Rig 
Tempach, ocup La ECochard mac Cpogal, Ri ULad, Fo 
Salloib Wéa cliat, 50 cougpac popbarp cpi La ocup op 
noroce foppa, Fo couspac sialla hEpenn app, um 
Domnall Claon, R1 Larsen, ec um ape -h. NéLL 
apcena, a nogperp o FallorG, piée ced [bo] co pevoib ec 
maoimb apchena, 50 paorpe .N. Néill o Sinan go 
muip, Fan cain san cabaé. Cp annypin cpa popuagaap. 
Maolpeclainn, sae aon vo Faorvelarb paul acepré Fall 
anvaoipe, ocur a ndocparde, ted app DG Tip Pen ap 
cenn pre ocup pubacup. ba 7 bpao Darbiléin. now 
hEpenn an plunged pin. Mupchad mac Riaco, Cb 
Rup Comain, ec canary: Cluana muc Noip, quiews.. 
Mugpon Cb 1ae, pepiba es epipcopur, queue. OCmlanb 
mac Sitpiucea, apo pi Fall Cléa cliaé [v0 oul] go hi 
anveopmdace 14 panct, 14p nortprse, mopcuup ere. 





1(Or Airri). The word OCinpe is 
written in an abbreviated form in A., 
the characters “C1” (“ori”) being 
written over the last letter (e), te 
signify that the word should probably 
be written “ Airri.” The transcriber 
of B. incorrectly reads ‘‘peg,” the 
abbreviation being a rather unusual 
form. 

2 The Orator. OCptabpan, A. B. 
Saeptabparo, Four Mast. 1pta- 
bparo, Tighernach, It has not been 
ascertained who “the Orator” was. 
Instead of aptabparo, the Wars of 





the Gaedhil with the Gaill (Todd’s ed., 
p- 46), has “mati salt,” “the 
nobles of the Foreigners,” which is 
probably more correct. 


® 2,000 [cows]. pide .c. (twenty 
hundred), A. née ceo, B. The 
Four Mast. (979) state that this was 
the number of the Irish hostages 
released from the Foreigners; but 
Tighernach(980) makes it the number 
of cows which the latter were obliged . 
to deliver, along with other consider- 
ations, to the victors. 





q deliver the Irish, who were under the 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 227 


_ Ath-cliath, and over the sons of Amhlaibh, particularly, 
in which a great many were slain, together with Raghnall, 
son of Amhlaibh, Royal heir of the Foreigners, and with 
— Conamhail, son of Gille-Airre (or Airri'), and the Orator* 
_ of Ath-cliath, and a multitude besides. Braen, son of 
_ Marchafdh], Royal heir of Laighen; and Congalach, son 
of Flann, King [of Gaileng], and his son, i.e. Maelan; 
and Fiachra and Cuduiligh [two sons] of Dubhlaith, two 
_ Kings of Fera-tulach, and Lachtnan, King of Mughdhorn- 
_ Maighen, fell in the heat of battle. A great hosting by 
Maelechlainn, son of Domhnall, King of Temhair, and 
_ by Eochaidh, son of Ardgal, King of Uladh, to the 
_ Foreigners of Ath-cliath, whom they besieged for three 
_ days and three nights; and they carried off thence the 
hostages of Erinn, together with Domhnall Claen, King 
of Laighen, and the pledges of the Ui-Neill likewise. 
They obtained their demand from the Foreigners, viz., 
2,000 [cows*], with jewels and goods besides, and the 
freedom of the Ui-Neill from the Sinainn to the sea, 
_ without tribute or exaction. It was then, moreover, 
_ Maelechlainn proclaimed “let every‘ one of the Gaeidhel 
_ who is in the territory of the Foreigners, in servitude 
_ and bondage, depart thence to his own country, to 
_ enjoy peace and happiness.” That hosting was the 
_ Babylonian captivity’ of Erinn. Murchadh, son of Riada, 
Abbot of Ros-Comain, and vice-Abbot of Cluain-muc- 
 Nois, quievit. Mughron, Abbot of Hi,a scribe and Bishop, 
 quievit. Amblaibh, son of Sitric, chief King of the 
_ Foreigners of Ath-cliath, [went] to Hi, on a pilgrimage, 
_ amd died after holiness® and penance. Aghda,’ son of 





4 ed 5 a cen 6 After holiness. ep rane, for 
‘a am B i “gy ? lay. panccitacem, “post sanctita- 
a But Ta epeabably ites miptineg) tem,” A. B. O’F., in a marg. note, 
‘a ) oe ? | refers the death of Amhlaibh to the 
as the effect of the expedition was to year 981. 





4 subjection of the Foreigners, from 7 Aghda. OCs2,A. Osa (Agad), 
such subjection. iB. 
} Q 2 


A.D, 
[978.] 


ae 


228. - CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Cyva mac Oubeinn, Ri Teabta, rap naropss, mopouup BS 
eye. eS 
Hct. Coshan -h. Catan, comutyilie Dpencaann Cluana 
fepra, mopitup. OCnmchad, eppeop Cille Dafa, quiere. 
‘Domnall -h. Cicero, Ri -N. n€chaé, dcup Loingpé, 
cane N. Niallaan, v0 comturcim oiblimb. ‘Clepeén,. 
mac bi Nah comapba Lectin, queue. * 

Ict. Dpuacup, mac Ecursepm, Ri h. Cron nolan 
mopitup. Opsain Cille vapa 6 Iman Pups Lapge. 
QCpéu mac Nell, Rigsovamna Ulead, a pup pep volum 
occipup ert. “Oal cCap vapsgain vo Maolpeclainn 
mac “Oomnall, ocup tile Mase aoap vo cepead. 
Muipevach mac Rucopaé, comapba Letin, qureurs. 

}ct. Catpaoined pe Maolpeclainn mac "Oomnaill, 
ocup pe Slin rapainn mac Cmlab, pop Oomnall — 
Claen, ocup pop Imap Puipc Lapse, v4 accopchaip ile — 
ecip, baoud ocur mapbao, um Filla Paopais, mac 
Imaip, et ali. Slenn va locha vapsain vo Falloib 
ta chaé. inpad Largen, ocup a opgain la Maol- 
peclainn 50 muip. 

}ct. Domnall Claon, Ri Langen, 00 mapbao La Cod 
mac Ecaigepn, vthb Cenprolaré. Cod -h. OuBoa, Ri 
cuapsepc Connacht, mopitup. Tu meric Ceapbalt, 
mic Lopcain, dapecaan cepmainn Caoimgen, ocup a 
mapbao accpiup pe narvoce. “Oomnall mac Lopearn, Ri 
Lagsen, ocerpup eps 6 16 CenpiLong. 

fect. Maolpeclainn mac Domnall, Hie Con- 
nacht, ocup vo coshail a hinny1b, ocup vo ree “4 





1 Mortuus est. So in A. ‘ves | augurated as Chieftains of Dal-Cais, i 
(“died”), B. or Thomond. Dr. O’Conor, in hised. — 
* Kal. O'Flaherty has prefixed | of Tighernach(982),incorrectly trans- _ 
the date “981.” lates Magh-Adhair “campus Adora- 
8 The tree of Magh-Adhair. This | tionis.” O’F. has prefixed the date 
was a celebrated tree which stood in | ‘982’ to these entries. See under 
the plain of Magh-Adhair(now Moyre, | the year 1049, infra. 
near Tullagh, in the county of Clare), 4 Fechin. Le, A., the signof abbre- 
under which the O’Briens were in- | viation being omitted. 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 229 


























-est.! 

Kal? Eoghan Ua Cathain, comarb of Brenainn of 
~ Cluain-ferta, moritur. Anmchadh, Bishop of Cill-dara, 
"quievit. Domhnall Ua Aiteidh, King of Ui-Echach, and 
Loingsech, chieftain of Ui-Niallain, fell by one another. 
a econ, son of Donngall, comarb of Fechin, quievit. 

_ Kal. Bruadar, son of Echtighern, King of Ui- 
-Cennsealaigh, moritur. Plundering of Cill-dara, by Imhar 
_ of Port-Lairge. Archu, son of Niall, Royal heir of Uladh, 
a suis per dolum occisus est. Dal-Cais was plundered by 
- Maelsechlainn, son of Domhnall, and the tree of Magh- 
 Adhair? was cut down. Muiredhach, son of Ruaidhri, 
- eomarb of Fechin,* quievit. 

_ Kal® A victory was gained by Maelsechlainn, son of 


a great number perished, between drowning and killing, 
together with Gilla-~Padraig, son of Imhar,~and others. 
- Glenn-da-locha was plundered by the Foreigners of Ath- 
cliath. Laighen was wasted and plundered by Maelsech- 
lainn, as far as the sea. 

~ Kal.§ Domhnall Claen, King of Laighen, was slain by 
_ Aedh, son of Echtighern, of the Ui-Cennsealaigh. Aedh 
Ua Dubhda, King of the North of Connacht, moritur. 
_ The three sons of Cearbhall, son of Lorcan, plundered the 
_termon of Caemhghen, and the three were killed before 
‘night. Domhnall,’ son of Lorcan, King of Laighen, was 
‘slain by the Ui-Cennsealaigh. 

Kal. Maelsechlainn, son of Domhnall, ravaged Con- 
nacht, and demolished its islands,® and killed its chief- 





B 8 Kal. The correct date, 983, has 7 Domhnall. This is a repetition of 
_ been prefixed by O’F. the first entry under this year. 2 
oe, 8 Jts islands; i.e. its island fortifi- 
6 Kal. The correct date is 984, as | cations, or residences. The correct 
_ OF. has noted in the margin. _ | year is 985, 


*Domhnall, and by Glun-iarainn, son of Amhlaibh,.over 
- Domhnall Claen, and over Imhar of Port-Lairge, in which | 


A.D. 


[978] 
[979.] 


[980.] 


[981.] 


[982.] 


[983.] 


230 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


canpechhb. Orapmaro mac Ucémupon, Ri Lurgne, 
mopitup. 3 

ket. Mop ingen Oonnchava mic Ceallang, — 7 
h€penn, mopitup. Meaolerandin h. Magne; comapba — 
Colum Cille, v0 oul veps mapcpa Lap na Oanapoib a — 
nOé cliaé. PLuaovaé Scpine Paopars La Maolpeclainn — 
o HE Lipoiao 50 Oc Sige cpa cosa’d mic Carpellain. 
Sit vo venam vob rapfum], ocup map Paopag 6 
Maolrpeélainn «2. cumpo fep Mive ecip eill, ocup 
Tims; epsnam saé ouine 6 Maolpeclainn erin, La 
caob peacht ccumal, et oppiapa apcena. Muipsiup 
mac Domnall, Ri -N. Marne, rugulacup eps. Cluain 
muc Noir 00 lorecad avoce coine pia Carpe méip. 

Ict. Tpeagao ptnaays o Demnanb a naiptip Epenn, 
sup la ap daoinb, sombidip ap puriliB oaoinb 1 porlps. 
Sancta uipso Cellach in Chpipto qmems. Topaé an 
bé6 Gp a. an Marlgaipb, an cetnaa na cudchad pram. 

ket. Op Muman es Fall Pups Lapse La Con- 
nachtarb, of accopchaip “Ounlangs mac Ourboabaipenn, 
Rigoamna Muman, ec ali. Marppiap mac Concupaip, 
Risgoamna Connacht, vo tuiam apppitsuin. “Ounpcan, 
apo Eppeop Saxan wile, quieuc. “Ounchad h. Dpan, 
comapba Ciapain mic an tpaoip, vhéc a nalitpe a 
n&po Maca Scpin Coluim Cille vo papucead vo ~ 
Maoilpechlainn. a 

fet. Slun iapainn, mac mln’, Rix Fall, v0 
mapbad va mogaohas ferpin 1. Colbain. Fotpms — 
mac OCpalc, Ri Inn Fall, vo cutm la Dal Riava — 





1 Red martyrdom. “Deps map- | meant three cows, or their value in — 
cpa. ‘Red martyrdom” involved | money or other property. a 
the shedding of blood. O’F. has 5 They; te. the Demons, The — 


prefixed 986 as the correct date. correct year is 987. P 
2 Rebellion. Cog-, for cogen, lit. 6 The same. OCn cecna, A. B. — 
“war,” A. B. OCn aicenca, “ unusual,” Tiphernant 
* Of Patrick; i.e. of the successor | and Four Mast. i 
of Patrick. 7 Dunstan. << Demntailaeataal 00 





4 Seven cwmhals. The “cumhal” | marg. note, O'F. This entry is "4 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 231 


tains. Diarmaid, son of Uathmuran, King of Luighne, 
moritur. 

Kal. Mor, daughter of Donnchadh, son of Ceallach, 
Queen of Erinn, moritur. Maelciarain Ua Maighne, 
- comarb of Colum Cille, suffered red martyrdom! from 


ie the Danes at Ath-cliath. The abduction of the shrine of 
_ Patrick, by Maelsechlainn, from Ath-Firdiadh to Ath- 


& Sighe, in eonsequence of the rebellion? of the sons of 


D Osirellan.” They made peace after[wards], and the award 


of Patrick? was submitted to by Maelsechlainn, viz., the 

visitation of the Feara-Midhe, both church and state, a 

banquet for every fort from Maelsechlainn himself, 

_ together with seven cumhals,‘ and complete obedience 

besides. Muirghius, son of Domhnall, King of Ui Maine, 

_ jugulatusest. Cluain-muc-Nois was burned on the night 

of Friday before great Easter. 

Kal. A magical colic was brought on by Demons in the 
east of Erinn, which caused a great mortality of people ; 
and they’ were plainly before men’seyes. The holy virgin 
Cellach in Christo quievit. Commencement of the cow 
mortality, i.e. the Maelgarbh, the same*® which had not. 
come before. 

Kal. A slaughter of the men of Mumhain, and of the 
Foreigners of Port-Lairge, by Connachtmen, in which fell 
Dunlang, son of Dubhdabhairenn, Royal heir of Mumhain, 
and others. Muirghius, son of Conchobhar, Royal heir of 
Connacht, fell in the heat of the battle. Dunstan,’ 
chief Bishop of all the Saxons, quievit. Donnchadh Ua 

Brain, comarb of Ciaran Mac-an-tsair, died in pilgrimage 

at Ard-Macha. Scrin of Colum Cille was profaned by 

Kal’ Glun-iarainn, son of Amhlaibh, King of the 
Foreigners, was killed by his own slave, «¢. Colbain. 
Gothfrith, son of Aralt, King of Insi-Gall, fell by the 





slightly misplaced in A., and omitted 8 Kal, OF. has prefixed the year 
in B. 989. 


A.D. 


[983.] 
[984.] 


F985.3 © 


[986.] 


[987.] 


232 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Caé Ota cliaé pop Falloib pe Maolpeclainn mac 
“Oomnaill, ub: mule occi~ punt, ocup fopbair an 
otine foppa rappin fFpr ficis aroce, conap rbpros 
upce ppipen atc pal, 50 coapopat a oFpap fen 06 
cén ba Ri, ocup winge dip sata sapda sae avdce 
Noclac moip tu bis prop. Concupap mac Domnall, 
Ri Lursne, mopitup. Murpeoat .N. Clepr¥é, Ri OCrdne, 
mopitup. 

}ct. Epapo mac Corps, ppimhésep Faorvel 1n pent- 
centia as Cluain muc Now [mlopictup. Mod h. 
Maoloopads, Ri Cinel Conall, mopitup. Marom, 
no cat, Capn fpopopoma, ubi mule ocei~ punt, oo 
accopcaip Domnall mace Lopcain, Ri Mupeparde cine, 
ocur h. Popsa, et ap si apcena, La Maolpeclainn 
mac “OomnanLl. 

}ct. “Oonchad -h. Congaleng, Rigoamna Tempaé, 
pep volum oceipup ert La Concubap mac CepbartL 
(Cn Sionnaé -h. Leocan, Ra Bailens, mopitup. 

}ct. Sluacéed La Maolpeclaann a sConnachz6, so 
cous bopumu mop Leip app. Cp rappin canis Dpian 
50 frepaib Muman et Connachta 1m Mive conuige 
Loé CCinninde, ocup mp sab bar na vaomne condecard 
hi cop nelooa. “Oond [mac] Oonngatons, mic Ouinn- 
cuan, Ri Tebsta, pep volum a pup pacellinibur occipup 
ert. Meaolpetoaip comapba Dpenainn Cluana pepta, 
quiewit. Maolpinnia, vo 1b becon, mac Spelain, 
comapba Ciapain mic an tpaoip, qtneuit. Médp ingen 
Taos, mic Cachail, mic Concubaip, Rishan Epenn, 
mopcup. Filla Colman, mac Nell, Ri A. nDiap- 
maoa, ocur Cucenann mac Ta1ds, comttitim 9016 inna 





Tip. 
1 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the year 4 The Sionnach; i.e. “the Fox.” 
990 as the correct date, The correct year is 991, as O’F. has 
P noted in the margin. 
hi Ae Os cluain, A. OO 5 Satellitibus. Sacitibuy, A. B. 
aa dune 6 Of the Ui-Becon. Added as a 
3 Of Lorcan. Clopcain, “of Clor- | gloss over the name of Maelfinnia, in 
can,” B, A., and omitted in B. This is cor- 



































CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 233 


Dal-Riada. The battle of Ath-cliath was gained over 
Foreigners by Maelsechlainn, son of Domhnall, where a 
great many were slain; and the siege of the fort was 
maintained against them afterwards during twenty 
nights, so that they drank no water during that time but 
_ salt-water; and they gave him his own demand while he 
might be King, and an ounce of gold for every garden, 
_ to be paid each Christmas night, for ever. Conchobhar, 
son of Domhnall, King of Luighne, moritur. Muiredhach 
‘Ua Clerigh, King of Aidhne, moritur. 
Kal.' Erard Mac Coisi, chief poet of the Gaeidhel, 
dies in penance at Cluain?-muc-Nois. Aedh Ua Maeil- 
doraidh, King of Cinel Conaill, moritur. The victory, or 
battle, of Carn-fordroma, where many were slain, in which 
_ fell Domhnall, son of Lorcan,? King of Muscraidhe-tire 
_ and Ui-Forga, and a great multitude besides, was gained 
by Maelsechlainn, son of Domhnall. 
Kal. Donnchadh Ua Conghalaigh, Royal heir of 
Temhair, was treacherously slain by Conchobhar, son of 
Cerbhall. The Sionnach* Ua Leochain, King of Gaileng, 
- moritur. 
Kal. A hosting by Maelsechlainn into Connacht; and 
he brought with him from thence a great prey of cows, 
It was after this that Brian, with the men of Mumhain and 
Connacht, came into Midhe, as far as Loch Aininne ; and 
he took neither cows nor men, but went off stealthily. 
_ Donn [son] of Donngalach, son of Donncuan, King of 
Teabhtha, per dolum a suis satellitibus’ occisus est. 
Maelpetair, comarb of Brenainn of Cluain-ferta, quievit. 
Maelfinnia, son of Spelan, of the Ui-Becon,® comarb of 
Ciaran Mac-an-tsair, quievit. Mor, daughter of Tadhg, 
son of Cathal, son of Conchobhar, Queen of Erinn, moritur. 
Gillacolmain, son of Niall, King of Ui-Diarmada, and 
Cucennan, son of Tadhg, fell by each other.’ 


rectly the year 992, as O’F. has | their land”), A. B.; probably in mis- 
remarked in the margin. take for manetip, or imanecap, 
¥ By each other. inna tip (“in | “invicem.” 





AD. 
(987.] 


[988.] 


[989.] 


[990.] 


234 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


fet. Magna mopcalicay 1 Cluain muc Nop. Maol- 
pianas .N. Crappda, Ri Carpbpe, v0 mapbao La 
repab Teabcta. Rucop: mac Copcpms, Ri vepsempo 
Connacht, v0 mapbad La Concubap mae Maorleclainn, 
ocup La mac Comatcan [-N. Clem]. 

ket. Maolcapepoa, Ri -N. mbpruin, moprcup. 
Maolmupe mac Scannlamn, Eppeop Aipo Macha, 
quiewt. Maolpeclainn vo Lopecad Clonas Tete, ocup 
vinnpad Muman, es mavom pop Oprian ocup pop pepurb 
Muman. 

fet. Cinaod mac Maorlcoluim a pup ocerpup ere. 
Domnach Paopac vapzain po Falloib ta cliaé, ocup 
20 Muipeepcat .N. Consaleny, peo Oeur umoicaie im 
fine menpip e1upoem. 
Caplupa v0 bpeé v0 Maoilpeclaann mac “Oomnaill op a 
hécin 6 Satloib Oca cliaé. 

tect. Cipzialla vapgain po Maka, so puspac pee 
ced bé6 epte- Apo Maka vo Lopcecad, cagib, cemplarB, 
ocup a Eloigtec. Filla Paopme mac Oonnchada, Ri 

Oppaise, D0 mapbed vo “Oonnoubah mac Imaip. 
Donnoubdén mac Imaip oecipup eps 6 Largmi6. Billa 
Poropatic A. Planagan, Ri Tebca, occaipup ero 6 
Liaé[pa] mac Roowb 1. caorpeé Muintipe Maolpinna. 
Domnall mac Laold&in, Ri na nOe~m, mopitup. Teé 
naorohed Opoma paite v0 Lopecad vpeporb Mumhan, 
octit TP ced 00 Dao1n1b ann. : 

fet. Caé evoip CCLbanchorb, sup mapbao Conpcancin, 
Ri Clban 1. mac Curlen ann, ocup alu. Maolcoluim — 
mac “Oomnall, Ri Opeacan cuarpgepct, moprcup. — 





Lal Tomap ocup clarvoeb — 


1 Kal. This is properly the year 
993, according to O’F. 

2 Ard-Macha. Oyo.M., A. 
Cyoan, B. The correct year is 994. 

8 Domhnach. “Oomi., A. “Oom- 
natt, B. The year 995 is the correct 
date. 


veg athe . 
7s a we 


. e 
* 


i 
ere 

vee 
ahead 





4 Out of tt. 2e., for ete, A. Y 
‘Dae, B. The date 996 has been 
prefixed by O’F. 


5 Gilla-Padraig. Thedeathof this 


_ person is also entered under the year } 


996 (recté 998), infra. 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 235 


Kal.’ A great mortality at Cluain-muc-Nois. Mael- 
ruanaidh Ua Ciardha, King of Cairbre, was killed by the 
men of Teabhtha. Ruaidhri, son of Coscrach, King of 


a _ the South of Connacht, was killed by Conchobhar, son of 
__ Maelechlainn, and by the son of Comaltan [Ua Clerigh]. 


ei Kal. Maelcairerda, King of Ui-Briuin, moritur. 
_ Maelmuire, son of Scannlan, Bishop of Ard-Macha,? 
_ quievit. Maelsechlainn burned Aenach-Tete, and plun- 
dered Mumhain, and gained a victory over Brian and the 
men of Mumhain. 
Kal. Cinaedh, son of Maelcoluim, a suis occisus est. 
Domhnach-*Padraig was plundered by the Foreigners of 
Ath-cliath, and by Muircertach Ua Conghalaigh ; sed Deus 
vindicavit in fine mensis ejusdem. The ring of Tomar, 
___ and the sword of Carlus, were forcibly taken by Mael- 
ql sechlainn, son of Domhnall, from the Foreigners of Ath- 
Kal. The Airghialla plundered Ard-Macha, and took 
2,000 cows out of it* Ard-Macha was burned—houses, 
churches, and its belfry. Gilla-Padraig,® son of Donn- 


- chadh, King of Osraighe, was slain by Donnabhan, 


son of Imhar. Donnabhan, son of Imhar, was slain by 
the Lagenians. Gilla-Padraig Ua Flanagain, King of 
Teabhtha, was slain by Fiach[ra], son of Radubh, ie. 
chieftain of Muinter-Maecilsinna.© Domhnall, son of 
--Faelan, King of the Deisi, moritur. The guests’ house of 
Druim-raithe was burned by the men of Mumhain, and 
300 men’ therein. 

Kal. A battle among the men of Alba, and Constantin, 
King of Alba, i.e. son of Cuilen, and others, were slain in 
it. Maelcoluim, son of Domhnall, King of North Britain,* 





6 Maeilsinna. Maotpinna, 8 North Britain. “ Britonum 
“Maoilfinna,” Four Mast. 
7 Men. “Do vaoimid; lit. “of 


men,” A. “Ooi, B. 





O'F. The correct year is 997. 


_ afte 
hind % 
| ie % 
Kaeigei 
e piel @ 


agian: 


Bor(ealium) Rex.” Marg. note, by 


A.D. 
[991.] 


[992.] 


[993.] 


[994.] 


[995.} 





236 CRONICUM sSCOTORUM. 


Rucvopr mac Nelt -h. Canannain, Ri Cineoit Conailt, 
mopitup. 

fet. Sluarcied La Maolpeclainn ec La Upian, go 
couspac sialla Salt. Dpian 50 preporb Mumhan, 
ocur Maolpeclainn 50 preporb Me, 50 Connachcanb, 
50 couspac a nzialla. “Oubdalece, comapba Paoparg 
ocup Colum Cille, quiews. Conaing .N. Copspan$, Sur 
Cprcop Cluana muc Noip, qmeus. Orapmais mac 
Domnall, Ri .N. cCenpilargh, moprcup. Filla Paopare 
mac “Oonnchaoha, Ri Oppaise, mopitup. Filla Cnain 
mac OCsoa, Ri Teabsa, occipup ert o Sil Ronan. 

fet. Donnchad mac Domnaitt, Ri Largen, v0 sabail 
D0 Siepaus mac mila. Lia Cilbe v0 cuicim. Cell 
napa vapsain vo Salloib Cta cliaé. SlLuaieced mop 
La Maolpechlainn mac Domnall, ocup La Dpran mace 
Cinnenig, 50 Slen mama, go ccancuccap Fall Weta 
cliaé Da probaips, Sup paoined pop Sallorb ocup sup 
Loo and&p, 1m OCpale mac Cmiarb, ocup um Culen mac 
Exigen, ocup um matib Ota cliaé, et 50 noechad 
Maolpeclainn ocup Opian rappin a nClé cliak, so 
papaccup peachtmainn ann, 50 puspac a op ocup a 
aipsed ocup a bpait, ocup sup innapbrac an Ris «1. 
Sivpuug mac OCmlab. Niall mac goa, prpoamna 
Teabta, 00 mapnbad vo Calparsib a cCluain muc Nop 
um pel Ciapan. Orapmaid mac Ounaohms, Ri Sil 
n&nmchada, v0 mapbad vo mac Comalcain «1. Ri 


ee a,” nee 
KT = 


ZT 


See Sy ae: 


Fi ad Sal 





—_ 
a 


4 





1 Cille. CU., for Citle, A. 
Ctuana, B. O’F. has prefixed the 
date 998 to the entries for this year., 

2 Gilla- Padraig. See under the year 
994 (recté 996), where Gilla-Padraig 
is said to have been slain. The pre- 
sent entry seems to be a mistake. 
The record in Tighernach (996) repre- 
sents Gillapadraig as having been 
slain ‘‘by Donnabhan, son of Imhar, 
and by Domhnall, son of Faelan, King 
of the Deisi.” 





8 Moritur. See last note. 

4 Aghda. Ogoro (Agad), B. 

5 Kal. This is correctly the year 
999, as O’F. has noted in the margin, 

6 Lia-Ailbhe; i.e. “the stone of 
Ailbhe,” or ‘of the plain of Ailbhe.” 
The name of Magh-Ailbhe, is pro-— 
bably still preserved in that of Moy- — 
nalvyy, a townland in the parish 
of Kilmore, barony of Lower Deece, 
and co. of Meath. The Four Mast. 
(998) state that Magh-Ailbhe was: 





nq 
cd 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 237 


moritur. Ruaidhri, son of Niall Ua Canannain, King of 
Cinel Conaill, moritur. 

Kal. A hosting by Maelsechlainn and Brian, fee: 
they carried off the hostages of the Foreigners. Brian, 


Eo with the men of Mumhain, and Maelsechlainn, with the 


ea 


men of Midhe, went to the Connachtmen, and brought off 


¢ 


i 


a 
o 
‘ 





, Colum Cille,! quievit. 


ia 


2 ; Vay Mapbypac (“they killed’), B. 


Dubhdhalethe, comarb of Patrick and 
Conaing Ua Cosgraigh, learned 
Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. Diarmait, son of 
Domhnall, King of Ui-Cennsealaigh, moritur.  Gilla- 
Padraig,” son of Donnchadh, King of Osraighe, moritur.’ 
Gilla-Enain, son of Aghda,* King of Teabhtha, was slain 
by the Sil-Ronain. 

Kal Donnchadh, son of Domhnall, King of Laighen, 
was taken prisoner by Sitric, son of Amhlaibh. The 
-Lia-Ailbhe® fell. Cill-dara was plundered by thé For- 
_eigners of Ath-cliath. A great hosting by Maelsechlainn, 
‘son of Domhnall, and by Brian, son of Cennedigh, to 
Glen-mama; and the Foreigners of Ath-cliath came to 
attack them; but the Foreigners were defeated and 
slaughtered, together with Aralt, son of Amhlaibh, and 
Culen, son of Etigen, and the nobles of Ath-cliath; and 
Maelsechlainn and Brian went afterwards to Ath-cliath, 
and remained a week there, and they carried off its gold, 
its silver, and its booty, and expelled’ the King, viz, 
Sitric, son of Amhlaibh. Niall, son of Aghda, Royal 
heir of Teabhtha, was killed by the Calraighe at Cluain- 


their hostages. 


a muc-Nois, on the festival of Ciaran. Diarmaid,® son of 


Dunadhach, King of Sil-Anmchadha, was slain by the son 
of Comaltan, i.e. the King of Aidhne. A battle between 





“the chief fort of all Bregh,” or 
Bregia. 
7 Expelled. mbpac 


” or probably “innap 


., for “ mapb- 


mi 


“Jonnopb,” Tighernach (999). 
“Jonnapbaic,” Four Mast, — 





. 8 Diarmaid. The transcriber of A, 

writes “"Qiapmapro & Diapmaro,” 

‘“‘Diarmarid or Diarmaid,” as if in 

doubt as to the correct form. The 

latter is the form in which it occurs. 
in other authorities, 


[997.] 


238 cronIcCUuUmM SCOTORUM. 


Crone. Cat eroip Cipsiallarb ocup Cinel Conall, v6 
accopncap Silla Crips, Ri Conaille, et ali. Maol- 
peclainn .N. Maoilpuanard [Ri] Cpemcainn, ocerpup 
ert va 16 Ceallars 1. Cucartle. 

fet. Cuceatle .N. Domnall, Ri Ouplup, v0 mapbad 
spe meabal vo .N. Nell 1. v0 Mod. Imap Pups 
Lapse mopitup. Na Fall a nOé cliaé .c. rwepum, 
ocup ansell vo Upian. Lletbepcaé -N. Canannan, pi 
Cinel Conall, occipup ert a pup. Ceallaé A. Maoit- 
copsur prim hésep Connacht, mopitup. Céo impud 
Dpican ect Connache ap Maoilpeclainn. SluarFed la 
Upian mac Cinnen1s 50 Plog’ vepgerpc Connacht, et 
50 nOppasib, ocuy Laigmb, ocup Saill ta cliat, v0 
coppachtain Tempais, acht vo coccap na Fall epeé 
mapcaé pempa a Mags mbpeg, conup cappad Maol- 
reclainn ocup co cous andp. Oo veachad Dpran 
1appin so Lepca Nime im Mags Opes gan cat gan 
mnpad. | 

}ct. fepsal mac Conaings, Ri Oils, moproup. 
Maolpoil, Epreop Cluana muc Noip, et comapba 
Leéin, quien. Totop Céa Luan vo venum La Maol- 
reclainn mac “Oomnanll, et le Catal mac Concuparp. 
‘Orapmaro .N. Lachcnan, Ri Teabca, ocerpup eye a 
ruip. Totop Ata cliaé v0 venum la Maolpeclamn 
5O purge Let na habann. Opian resnape incipis. 

fet. Llano mac Cogan, apo bperteth Lerée Curnn, 
[moprcup]. Sluaecéed La Opian so hecé Laan, 5O pus 





1 Maelsechlainn. This entry is 
omitted in B. 

2 Kal. The correct date is 1000, 
as has been noted in the margin by 
OF. 

8 Ath-cliath. After this word the 
letter .c. follows in A. and B. The 
word which it represents (if any) is 
not evident, and its presence there 
seems a mistake. 

4 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the year 
1001 as the correct date. 





5 Comarb of Fechin; i.e. successor 
of Fechin, or Abbot of Fobhar (Fore, 
in Westmeath), or of Cong. 

6 Ath-cliath. The translator of the 
Annals of Clonmacnois (994, recté 
1001), states that Maelsechlainn 
“made a bridge at Ath-Lyag to the 
one-halfe of the river.” The Four 
Mast. (1000) also specify Ath-liag 
(now Lanesborough, in the county 
Longford), as the place where the 
causeway, or artificial ford, was made 





a and effected their slaughter. 
_ Ferta-Nimhe in Magh-Bregh, without battle or plundering. 


239 


the Airghialla and the Cinel Conaill, in which Gilla- 
Christ, King of the Conaille, and others, were slain. 
Ri Maelsechlainn! Ua Maeilruanaidh, [King] of Crimhthann, 
was slain by the Ui-Ceallaigh, #.e. by Cucaille. 
Kal? Cucaille Ua Domhnaill, King of Durlus, was 
_ treacherously slain by Ua Neill, i.e. Aedh. Imhar of 
my Port-Lairge moritur. The Foreigners again at Ath-cliath,? 
_ and their hostages were given to Brian. Flaithbheartach 
Ua Canannain, King of Cinel Conaill, occisus est a suis. 
 Ceallach Ua Maeilcorghus, chief poet of Connacht, 
_ moritur. The first turning of Brian, and of Connacht, 
against Maelsechlainn. A hosting by Brian, son of Cen- 
 nedigh, with the armies of the south of Connacht, and 
_ with the Osraighe, and the Lagenians, and the Foreigners 
_ of Ath-cliath, to proceed to Temhair ; but the Foreigners 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


went before them, with a Siaedecina party of cavalry, 


into Magh-Bregh, until Maelsechlainn encountered them, 
Brian afterwards went to 


_  Kal.t Fergal, son of Conaing, King of Ailech, moritur. 
- Maelpoil, Bishop of’ Cluain-muc-Nois, and comarb of 
_ Fechin,° quievit. The causeway of Ath-Luain was made 
by Maelsechlainn, son of Domhnall, and by Cathal, son of 
_ Conchobhar. Diarmaid Ua Lachtnain, King of Teabhtha, 
_ occisus est a suis. The causeway of Ath-cliath® was made 
by Maelsechlainn, as far as the middle of the river. Brian 
___ begins to reign. 

_ Kal. Flann, son of Eoghan, chief judge of Leth- 
~ Chuinn,[moritur]. A hosting by Brian to Ath-Luain,’ so 








by Maelsechlainn, These authori- 


a ties are probably correct, as Ath- 


cliath, or Dublin, was at this period 
subject to Brian, and neither that 
Monarch nor his Danish subjects of 
Dublin would tolerate such an as- 

sumption of authority on the part of 





Maelsechlainn, who had recently been 
forced to resign the supremacy in fa- 
vour of his more powerful rival. 

7 Ath-Luain; i.e. Athlone. The 
F. M. and Tighernach have “ Ath-. 
cliath,” or Dublin, which is certainly 
wrong. The correct date is 1002. 


[999] 


[1000.] 





—_ 


240 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


pialla Mive ocup Connacht. Meplecan mac Cuinn, 
Ris Sailens, vo mapbad la Maolpeclainn. Maol- 
muad mac “Ombsille, Ri Oealbna becpa, mopisup. 
Cumpsusad -h. Desularn 1 cCLucan muc Noip. Sluaeéed 
La Dpian et La Maolpeclainn, 50 frepuib Epenn umpu, 
eitip Connachtarb ocup Murmnecharb, ocup Largneéu, 
ocup Sullu, 50 prse “Ofin “Oealga 1 sConalleb. Cod 
mac “Oomnatl .N. NéLL, apopi Cilig, es Eocharoh 
mac Cposail, Ri ULad co ntillcab, ocup Cinél ECogain 
et Conall, ocup Oippialla, conap Lerspec peta fen, 
Sup peappaccup fo opad, san siall Fan avoipe. 
ct. flannchad -h. Ruaoan, vo Copca Moka, 
comopba Ciapdin Cluana muc Nop, ques. “Ounchad 
A. Mangan, comapba Caoimsin, quiews. Ceallach 
mac Niapmaoa, Ri Oppaige, 00 mapbao v0 mac bpétap 
a acap 1. onnchad mac Filla Paopme. Moo ch. 
Conpracla 1. Ri Teabta, v0 mapbad vo 1b ConéiLLe. 
Dpian mac Maoilpuanard, Ri 1apcap Connacht, 
0 mapbad Da muintip tre celg. Eochmd Ti Llan- 
oucain, OCipehinnech lpr aged Cipo Mata, ocup pur 
rencupa Saorvel, quieurs. Cat Cpaoibe celcu eroip 
Ultco1b oc el n€osain, sup marvd pop ULtcorb, 
50 ccopcup ann Eochand mac Cpcgal, Ri Ulad, ex 
Oupcuinne a bpataip, ocup va mac ECochada 1. Cuouilis 
ocup “Oomnall, ec Sapbit, Ri -N. neéach, ec Filla 
Paopaie mac Tomalcms, et Cumupecaé mac Llatp, 
et “Oupplanga mac Moda, et Catalan mac Expoé, 
ec Conene mac Muipcepoas, ocup fopsla Ulao ~ 








1 Bethra. ECcpa, A., in which the 


characters “tb” (“ or b”) are written - 


over the first letter, to signify that 
the word may be written Ethra, or 
Bethra, as at p. 138, supra. It is 
more frequently written “ Eathra.” 
The territory of Dealbhna-Eathra 
comprised the entire of the present 
barony of Garrycastle, King’s county, 
except the parish of Lusmagh, which, 





although situated at’ the eastern side 
of the Shannon, belonged to the Sil- 
Anmchadha, or O’Maddens, who were 
seated at the western side of that 
river, 

® Kal. The correct year, 1008, 
has been prefixed by O’F. 

3 King of Teabhtha. Ri Teabra. 
These words, which occur as a gloss 
over the name of Aedh, in A., are 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 241 





























_ that he carried off the hostages of Midhe and Connacht. 
| Merlechan, son of Conn, King of Gaileng, was killed by 
_ Maelsechlainn. Maelmhuaidh, son of Dubhgilla, King 
4 of Dealbhna Bethra,' moritur. The deposing of Ua 
_ Begulain at Cluain-muc-Nois. A hosting by Brian and 
_ Maelsechlainn, accompanied by the men of Erinn, both 
- Connachtmen, and Momonians, and Lagenians, and For- 
eigners, as far as Dun-Dealga in Conaille. Aedh, son 
_ of Domhnall Ua Neill, chief King of Ailech, and Eochaidh, 
son of Ardgal, King of Uladh, with the Ulidians, and the 
_ Cinel Eoghain, and Cinel Conaill, and Airghialla, came to 
_ meet them, so that they did not let them proceed further ; 
_ and they separated in peace, without pledge or hostage. 

_ Kal? Flannchadh Ua Ruadhain, of the Corca-Mogha, 
_ comarb of Ciaran of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. Donnchadh 
Ua Manchain, comarb of Caemhghen, quievit. Ceallach, 
_ son of Diarmaid, King of Osraighe, was killed by the son 
_ of his father’s brother, i.e. by Donnchadh, son of Gilla- 
_ Padraic. Aedh Ua Confiacla, i.e. King of Teabhtha,? 
_ was slain by the Ui-Conchille. 

_ Kal. Brian, son of Maelruanaidh, King of the West of 
- Connacht, was killed by his own people, through deceit. 
_Eochaidh Ua Flannacain, Airchinnech of the Lis-aiged‘ 
_ of Ard-Macha, and a distinguished professor of history of 
the Gaeidhel, quievit. The battle of Craebh-telcha be- 
tween the Ulidians and the Cinel Eoghain, and the 
“Ulidians were defeated, and there were slain there 
 Eochaidh, son of Ardgal, King of Uladh, and his brother 
_Dubhtuinne ; and Eochaidh’s two sons, viz., Cuduiligh and 
‘Domhnall; and Gairbhith, King of Ui-Echach ; and Gilla- 
_ Padraic, son of Tomaltach; and Cumusgach, son of Flaithri; 

_ and Dubhslanga, son of Aedh; and Cathalan, son of Etroch; 

and Conene, son of Muircertach, and the most of the Uli 





"misplaced in B., in which they appear 4 Lis-aiged; i.e. “Fort of the 
before the name “ Donnchadh” in the | guests.” This is properly the year 
preceding entry. 1004, 
q R 


AD. 
[1000.} 


[1001.] 


[1002.] 


242 cronIcUmM SCOTORUM. 


apchena; ocup pa pats amomsguin 50 Dain Ecaé, et 
50 Opuim b6. Cod mac Domnall .h. Nell, Ri CLs, 
et Risoamna Epenn, do cuiITIM apptsuin an cava 
Oonnchad -h. Loinsmé, Ri Ocal Crore, ocup prg- 
mamna Ulad, v0 mapbad ap na mapach vo Cinel 
Eogain. Naoman mac Maoilciapain, ppim cepo Epenn, 
mopitup. 

}ct. Reagnall, mac Focpms, mic Cpals, Ri na 
Inop1, mopitup. Fiolla Comsall mac Wpogail, ec 
a Da Mac, ET DA ced UMpt, DO mapbad vo Maol- 
puanad mac Cpogail, of copnam pige lad spe — 
meabaal. Slucicted ta Opian so ppeptib Epeann, co 
Cinel n€ogain, ocup so hULlcoib, vo cumngd Fall, 
ap fuo Mise Fombaccap avoce a cTarlcin; apprde 
50 Cro Mata, sombaccap peésmann ann, 50 prapsard 
Drian .xx. unga vép pop alcdip Cipo Maka 
apprde 50 Oal Opamde, 50 couspac aistipe Donl 
Cparvde, es mope Ulad. ME cliaé vo Lopeead vo 
veipsepe Opes 1 meple. Cinaod mac Ou mic Maoil- 
coluim, Ri Olban, v0 mapbaod La Maolcoluim mace 
Cinaoda. od, Eppus Tpeorve, queurs. “Domnall, 
Epreop Maimypopeé, qmeus. Meurpiccan Docs, co- 
mapba Paopare 111. anmp, quieurt. 

fet. 1mpod p14, ocurp poininne, ocur bro 1p sempiuD 
ra Eup far an vuille et an cpim ann. Maolpuanad — 
mac Coda -h. Oupoa, Ri -N. ppPracpaé Murprps ocup 
amac [.1. Maolpeélainn, ocup a bpachaip 1. Febennach, — 
mopour punt}. Moppluarged prep nepenn ta Opian 
mac Cinnéoig, La RF Muman, 50 Cinel Conall ocup — 








1 Kal. The correct date (1005) 5 Kal. This is properly the year 
has been prefixed by O’Flaherty. 1006, as O’F. has noted in the margin. 
® King of the Islands; i.e. of the ° Food. The Anglo-Saxon Chron, 
western Islands of Scotland. states that a great famine prevailed 
* Muirigan Bocht; i.e. Muirigan in England during the year 1005; if 
“the poor.” and Florence of Worcester adds that — 
a Svein, King of the Danes, returned 
4 Patrick. P., A. Papa, B, to Denmark on account of it. Itmay — 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 243 





-dians in like manner; and the battle extended to Din- 
Echach and to Druim-bé. Aedh, son of Domhnall Ua Neill, 
King of Ailech, and Royal heir of Erinn, fell in the heat 
of the battle. Donnchadh Ua Loingsigh, King of Dal- 

Araidhe, and Royal heir of Uladh, was slain on the morrow 
by the Cinel Eoghain. Naemhan, son of Maelciarain, chief 

artificer of Erinn, moritur. 

Kal." Raghnall, son of Gothfrith, son of Aralt, King of 
the Islands,’ moritur. Gillacomgaill, son of Ardgal, and 
his two sons, and 200 along with them, were slain by 
Maelruanaidh, son of Ardgal, contending for the sove- 
reignty of Uladh, through treachery. A hosting by Brian, 
with the men of Erinn, to the Cinel Eoghain and to the 
Ulidians, to demand hostages. They went through Midhe, 
so that they were a night at Taillten; from thence to 
Ard-Macha, where they remained a week, and Brian left 
twenty ounces of gold on the altar of Ard-Macha. They 
proceeded from thence to Dal-Araidhe, and they carried 
off the hostages of Dal-Araidhe, and the hostages of 
Uladh. Ath-cliath was burned by the men of the south 
of Bregh, by stealth. Cinaedh, son of Dubh, son of 
Maelcoluim, King of Alba, was killed by Maelcoluim, son 
of Cinaedh. Aedh, Bishop of Treoid, quievit. Domhnall, 
Bishop of Mainister-Buite, quievit. Muirigan Bocht,* 
comarb of Patrick* during three years, quievit. 

Kal.’ Return of peace and fair weather, and of food,® 
in this winter, in which the foliage and wild garlic grew. 
Maelruanaidh, son of Aedh Ua Dubhda, King of Ui- 
Fiachrach-Muirisge, and his son [7.e. Maelsechlainn,’ and 
his brother, 7.e. Gebhennach, mortui sunt]. A great 
hosting of the men of Erinn by Brian, son of Cennedigh, 
King of Mumhain, to the Cinel Conaill and Ovel Eoghain, 





be inferred from the above entry that | has been taken of supplying the clause 

the famine prevailed in Ireland also. within brackets from the Annals of 
7 Maelsechlainn. This entry being | Ulster. 

incomplete in A. and B., the liberty 

R 2 


A.D. 
[1002.] 


[1003.] 


‘[1004.] 


244 crRoNICcCUmM SCOTORUM. 


Cogan, 00 ctinnged srall, cpe Lap Connacht, pop — 
Epptiard, ap Lap Conall, cpr Cinél Eogain co Delaé — 
Duin, ocup po Ziallpac, smoppo, ULad von peacht pin, 
et ni cuspac sialla 6 Conall no o Eogan. Maol na 
mbo, Ri -N. Cenproleé, a pup occipup eps. On 
“meoat, Eppeop CCipo Maéa, quieurs. 

fet. Maolpuancad mac Cposail, Ri ULed, ocerpup 
eyt o Maouvan mac Domnall. Maouoan mac “Oom- — 
nall, ona, 00 mapbaod von Dope fop Lap Oume 
Lechslory: vap epteé naom Epenn. Cuconnacht mac — 
Ounaomés, taoipeé Sil CCnmeada, 00 mapbao cpecelg — 
La Mupchaodh mac Drain. Ccnucdad aonms Talon — 
La Maolpeclainn. Eneclap alcoipe moipe Cluana muc 
Noip v0 cennac La Maolpeclainn mac “Oomnanll, ocup 
rece ceé Lip a Mide va cinn. Soipsela mop Colum 
Cille vo Dubsait 1pin aIDCe aP in DepPDUM an DaIM-— 
Lliag méip Cenannra. Qn Soipsela mop Colaim Cille 
opazail accin paite, 1ap nZars a dip de, OcuP a apZais, 


ocup POIT TAPP. 
nept “Oe ocup Paopaie. 


1n Tope, Ri ULud, ocerpup ert spe 
Oomnull mac "Ombeuinne, 


Ri Ulad, v0 mapbad vo Muipevat mac Maouoain, 





1 Conall; i.e. the Cinel Conaill, for 
whom is here substituted the name of 
their ancestor, Conall, son of Niall of 
the Nine Hostages. 

2 Eoghan. By this name is signi- 
fied the Cinel Eoghain, who were 

‘descended from Eoghan, another son 
of Niall of the Nine Hostages. _ The 
account of this expedition given by 
the Four Masters, at A.D. 1005, pur- 
ports to be an extract from the ‘‘ Book 
of Cluain-muc-Nois” and the “ Book 
of the Island.” The entry is not 
in Mageoghegan’s translation of the 
Annals of Clonmacnoise, the original 
of which is not forthcoming; and 
there is little doubt that, had Mageo- 
ghegan found such a record in the 





volume which he professed to trans- 

late, he would not have omitted it, as 
the authority of his version is in 
many places affected by his extreme 
partiality for his hero, Brian. It is 
most likely that the “ Book of Cluain- 
muc-Nois” referred to was the ancient — 


original of the present chronicle. See B. 


Tntroduction. 


8 The Torc; i.e. “the Boar,” an — 
epithet of Dubhtuinne, King of Uladh, — 
or Ulidia. See note %, next tie 4 
The correct date is 1007. ‘ 


4 In the middle of Dun-leth-glaise. 


lap ow, A. B., which is corrupt. — 
The text has been corrected from the 


Four Mast. 























slain by his own people. 
_ Macha, quievit. 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


245 


_ todemand hostages. They marched through the middle 
_ of Connacht, over Eas-Ruaidh, through the middle of 
Cine Conaill, through Cinel Eoghain, to Belach-duin ; 
_ and the Ulidians, moreover, gave hostages on that occa- 
q ‘sion, but they brought no hostages from Conall,’ nor from 
"Eoghan? Mael-na-mbo, King of Ui-Cennsealaigh, was 
Airmedhach, Bishop of Ard- 


~ Kal. Maelruanaidh, son of Ardgal, King of Uladh, was 
slain by Madudhan, son of Domhnall. Madudhan, son of 
~ Domhnall, was slain, however, by the Tore,’ in the middle 
_ of Dun-leth-glaise,* against the protection of the saints of 
Erinn. Cuconnacht, son of Dunadhach, chieftain of Sfl- 
2 Anmchadha, was treacherously killed by Murchadh, son 
4 of Brian. Renewal of the fair of Taillten, by Maelsechlainn. 
_ The Eneclar® of the great altar of Cluain-muc-Nois was 
q purchased by Maelsechlainn, son of Domhnall, and a hide 
was given from each fort in Midhe on account thereof. 
q The great Gospel® of Colum Cille was wickedly stolen,? 
in the night, out of the Erdamh’ of the great Stone-church 
of Cenannus. The great Gospel of Colum Cille was found 
’ before the end of a quarter, after its gold and silver had 
_ been stolen off it, and sods over it. The Tore,® King of 
_ Uladh, was slain through the power of God and Patrick.!® 
-Domhnall, son of Dubhtuinne, King of Uladh, was killed 
by Muiredhach, son of Madudhan, and by Uargaeth" of 
D4 





es 
_ & Eneclar. The exact nature of 
_ this article has not been discovered. 
The last syllable of the name, clar, 
_ ‘means a board. It is called the 
_*“Carrachan of Solomon’s Temple,” at 
_ the year 1125, infra. 

tal. 









aa Gospel. Sovpgeta. This splendid 
‘manuscript of the Gospels, known as 
the “Book of Kells,” is now pre- 


din the library of Trinity College, 





7 Was wickedly stolen. “Oo oub- 
pat, lit. “was black-stolen,” 

8 Erdamh. See note 7, p. 133. 

9 The Torc; i.e. “the Boar.” See 
note 8, last page. 


sd p. A. Papa, B. 

ll Uargaeth. This, if the name of 
a person, is not elsewhere mentioned 
in this chronicle. It signifies lit. 
“the cold wind,” and possibly may 
not be a proper name at all, 


AD. 
[1004.] 


[1005.] 


246 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


et Do Uapgact Slebe Cums. Tuacal .N. Mailmata, — 
comapba Paoparc 1m Mumhain [quieurs]. q 

}ct. Lepvomnach, comapba Colum Cille, qureurs. 
Sicc mop, ocup pnecoa o .ui1. 10. Enaip so Carpe. 
Mupervaé pur Eppcop, mac bpacap CCinmipe Dorchs, | 
vo michad a nuam a n5arlengai6 Copan 6 1. 
Rucnps- q 

fect. “OuBcabLaé, ingen Rig Connacht, ben Dprcan 
mic Cinneois, mopucup. Maouoan, Ri pil Cnmehada, 
occipup eft a Ppacpe puo. Clotna mac Congupa, ppm — . 
pile Eipenn, moprcup. Tavs “Oubpmnited, mac Rigs 
Connacht, oceipup eps 6 Conmacnarb. 

}ct. Catal mac Concupmp, Ri Connacht, v0 és a 
nailitpe. Mapcan mac Cinnecié, conn Muman illers — | 
o clepcib, quent. Conains mac Covacain, Eppcop — 
Cluana muc Noir, 00 Musgoopnaib Morgen, quieuic. 
Sluarged ta Opian so Claonloéa Slébe Lucado, 50 pus 
aoipe Cinel Cogan ec Ulad. “Oepbarl ingen Tag — 
mic Cacail, mopitup. Cpunnmaol, Epreop, quretic. j 

ct. Lleébepcaé -h. Cecnen, comapba Tisepnarg, — 
et Epreop, vo sun opepord Dpepne, ocup a és rapTcaan. 
Slumged La Opian 50 Mag Copainn, 50 pus Lep Ris 
Cineorl Conall 1. Maolpuanard -N. Maoloopars pra — 
pép 50 Cenn Copad. Llann -N. Oonnchada, comopba — 
Oena, quiet. | ; 

}ct. Teom mop .. cnoc ocup cpeagais, a nOCpo — 
Macha, o Satiuin g0 Vealcane, sup mapp ppurte 
















1 Comarb of Patrick; ie. “Suc- | 4 Dubhsuilech; ie. “the black- 
cessor of Patrick.” O’F. adds “Ar- | eyed.” O’F. has added a marginal — 
chiepiscopus Momonie” in the margin. | note, now illegible. a 
The name of Patrick is represented by 5 Kal. O'Flaherty has prefixed the — 
a year 1010 as the correct date, ; 
Pp. in A. B. reads “ Papa.” 6 Derbhail. A marginal note, now 

2 Ainmire Bockt; i.e. Ainmire “the | mutilated, has been added by O'F., _ 
poor.” The correct year is 1008, as | intimating that Derbhail was the ~ 
O’F. has noted in the margin. mother of Aedh Ua Neill, Lord of - 

3 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the date | Ailech, for the particulars of whose — 
“1009,” death he refers to the Annals of the — 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 247 


Sliabh Fuaid. Tuathal Ua Maeilmacha, comarb of Patrick! 
in Mumhain, [quievit]. 

Kal. Ferdomhnach, comarb of Colum Cille, quievit. 
Great frost and snow from the eighth of the Ides of 
January to Easter. Muiredhach, a sage Bishop, brother's 
son of Ainmire Bocht,? was suffocated in a cave, in 
Gailenga of Corann, by Ua Ruaire. 

- Kal? Dubheabhlaigh, daughter of the King of Con- 
nacht, wife of Brian, son of Cennedigh, moritur. 
Madudhan, King of Sil-Anmchadha, was'slain by his 
own brother. Clothna, son of Aengus, chief poet of 
_ Erinn, moritur. Tadhg Dubhsuilech,‘ son of the King 
__ of Connacht, was slain by the Conmaicne. 

Kal.’ Cathal, son of Conchobhar, King of Connacht, 
died on a pilgrimage. Marcan, son of Cennedigh, head of 
Mumhain, as regards its clerics, quievit. Conaing, son 
of Aedhacan, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, (of the Mugh- 
dhorna-Maighen), quievit. A hosting by Brian to 
Claenlocha of Sliabh Fuaid ; and he carried off the hos- 
tages of Cinel Eoghain, and of Uladh. Derbhail,® daughter 
of Tadhg, son of Cathal, moritur. Crunnmael, a Bishop, 
quievit. 

Kal. Flaithbhertach Ua Cethnen, comarb of Tighernach,’ 
and Bishop, was wounded by the men of Breifne, and 
died afterwards. A hosting by Brian to Magh-Corainn, 
and he took with him the King of Cinel Conaill, ie. 
Maelruanaidh Ua Maeldoraidh, in submission, to Cenn- 
coradh. Flann Ua Donnchadha, comarb of Oena,* quievit. 
Kal.® A great malady, viz., boils and colic, in Ard- 
Macha, from Allhallowtide till May, so that it killed a 
Four Masters, at the year A.D. 1033, | Abbot of Cluain-eois, or Clones, in the 
where Aedh, “Lord of Ailech, and | co. of Monaghan. The correct date 
heir to the agp of re 8 .. is 1011. 

Ee steed, cher laudable ne eer i.e. successor of 
penance and mortification.” 


7 Comarb of Tighernach ; i.e. suc- 9 Kal. The date 1012 has been 
cessor of Tighernach, andconsequently | prefixed by O'Flaherty. 








































‘a 
“f 


[1007.] 


[1008.] 


[1009.] 


[1010.] 


248 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


ocup meic Leréinn ima, ocup a Eppeop .1. Cenopaolad 
an cabor ll. 

Ict. ‘Depbail ingen Congalas mic Maolmichrs, 
ingen Ris Epenn, ohéc. Cpeé mop La hUlalaps Ae 
Ciapda, La Ris§ Compbpe, et La mac Neill ch. Ruaape, 
ec La peptib Teabta hi nFaalengab, co cappad Luchs 
wise Maoileclainn 1ap nol sppin uaip Pin, Fo coapopac 
cat doib tpe DiUMUTP, 50 TCOpcaip ann “Donnchad mac 
Maorleclainn, ocup Oubcaélrs h. MaorlcalLain, 
caoipi0é “Delbna bice, es Donnchad mac Oonnéada 
Linn, Risvamna Tempach, ocup Cepnaé mac Plann, 
Ri Lusne, ocup Senan -h. Leo[é]ain, Ri Faileng, ev 
ali. MeaolpeéLainn vo toppachtain Fo papsoa acca 
na sabdla, ec 50 coopcaip Ler Ualaps h. Ciapoa. 
Cosad mop ervip Fallorb ocup Faorvealsb. Cpeé mop 
La Mupchad mac Opran hr Lars, sup aps an up 
50 Slénn va Locha, ocur so Cill Margnenn, sup Lops 
an wip ocup sup cpeéd Longap mop v0 cect o na 
Sallorb spin Mumain, sup Loipspt Copcach, peo Oeup 
uinDdicatns PTATIM, appo mapbad CCmlaib mac Sicpr- 
ucca 1. mac prs Fall, ocup Macsamain mac Oupsgarll 
mic Omlab, o Catal mac “Oomnall mic Omboa- 
baipenn, dolore. Cpreé mop La Maolpeclainn acepich 
Sall, sup Loipee an wip co Ecap, 50 cappad Sispiee 
et Maolmopda cpeé va cpechab, sup mapbpac va 
ced 011m Llann mac Maoileclainn, ocur Lopcan mac 





-1The Sabhall. On cabenrtt, for 
an cpabartt, A. B. The Sabhall, 
lit. “the Barn,” was a small church, 
or oratory, which formerly existed at 
Armagh, for an account of which see 
the Rey. Dr. Reeves’s Essay on the 
“ Ancient Churches of Armagh,” p. 15. 

2 Derbhail. O’F., who prefixes the 
date “1013,” adds the marginal note 
“Mater Congalii filii Conquovari, 
Offalie Domini: Cod. Lec.,” inti- 
mating that in the Book of Lecan 





(Tract on Celebrated Women, ff. 184° 
to 189), Derbhail is described as 
the mother of Congalach, son of 
Conchobhar, Lord of Ui-Failghe, or 
Offaly. 

8 Ualarg. “ Ualgharg,” Four Mast. 
“Ualgarc,” Ann. Ult. The name. 
“Ualgharg” signifies lit. “fierce. 
shout.” (oie 

4 Leo[ch]ain. Leoain, A. B. Cor- 
rected from the Ann. Four Mast. and 
the Ann. Ult. The name Ua Leo- 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 249 

































great number of seniors and students, and their Bishop, 
i.e. Cennfaeladh of the Sabhall.' 

Kal. Derbhail,? daughter of Congalach, son of Mael- 
mithidh, i.e. daughter of the King of Erinn, died. -A 
great depredation was committed by Ualarg® Ua Ciardha, 
King of Cairbre, and by the son of Niall Ua Ruaire, and 
by the men of Teabhtha, in Gaileng; and the household 
of Maelechlainn met them, and being then after drinking, 
they gave them battle, through pride, and Donnchadh, son 
of Maelechlainn, and Dubhtaichligh Ua Maeilcallain, chief 
of Delbhna-bec, and Donnchadh, son of Donnchadh Finn, 
Royal heir of Temhair, and Cernach, son of Flann, King 
of Luighne, and Senan Ua Leo{ch]ain,* King of Gaileng, 
and others, were slain there. Maelsechlainn pursued 
them, so that the spoils were left with him ; and Ualarg’® 
Ua Ciardha was slain by him. Great war between the 
Foreigners and the Gaeidhel. A great depredation by 
Murchadh, son of Brian, in Laighen, and he plundered 
the country to Glenn-da-locha, and to Cill-Maighnenn, so 
that he burned and pillaged the territory. A great fleet 
from the Foreigners arrived in Mumhain, and they burned 
Corcach; but God avenged the deed immediately, for 
Ambhlaibh, son of Sitric, i.e. son of the King of the For- 
eigners, and Mathghamhain, son of Dubhgall, son of 
Amhlaibh, were treacherously slain by Cathal, son of 
Domhnall, son of Dubhdabhairenn. A great depredation 
by Maelsechlainn in the territory of the Foreigners,® and 
he burned the country as far as Etar; but Sitric and 
Maelmordha overtook one of his preying parties, and slew 
200 thereof, together with Flann, son of Maelechlainn, 





chain, or O’Leochain, is now angli- 
cised ‘“Loughan,” and incorrectly 
translated ‘“ Duck.” 

5 Ualarg. See note 5, last page. 

_ § The territory of the Foreigners; 
i.e. the district occupied by the For- 
eigners to the north of Dublin, the 










exact limits of which have not yet 
been ascertained. The name ‘“ Fine- 
Gall” (“territory of the Foreigners”), 
anglicised Fingal, is now applied to a 
district in the county of Dublin, ex- 
tending about 15 miles to the north 
of the city. 


A.D. 


[1010.] 
[011.] 


250 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 

Etcisepn, Ri Cinedil Metaip, et cetepor. “Oomnall 
mac Cachal, Rigoamna Connacht, v0 mapbad La -h. 
Maoloopms, ec Mas ne wile vo Lorecad es 
oapsain. 

t. el Fpisomp pra ninrd 1pin bliaoain p41, es min 
Capee a pampad, quod non auoicum ert. Sluased 
La Opian mac Cinnené, mic Lopcain, La Ri¥ Epenn, ex 
la Maolpecloainn, la ph Tempach, so hOlE cliaé. 
Sall an vomain vo neot baoi v106 o Lochlain piap, 
po tionoilt an agar Opican ocup Maorlecloinn ; .x. 
ced Luiped Led. Cuipcep cat cpoda amnup ecuppa, 
20 na pus péo na pamanl ip na harmpropa’ peo, 50 
ccopchap ano Oman mac Cinneoié, apo pr Epenn 
et Salt, ec Vpecan lxex’uin®. anno aecanp puae, 
et Mupchad mac Opran, Rigoamna hEpenn -Lam. 
anno aetacip puae, ec Toippdelbach mac Mupchada, 
mic Dpiain, ec Conains mac Oumnncuan, mac bpacap 
Dpiain, osup Motla mac Domnall, mie Laeléan, Ri 
na nOe1~ Muman, ocup ECocu mac Ounadans, es Niall 
ch. Cumnn, ocup Cuoulis mac Cinnenié, opi caoimét 
Dpiain, et Tans h. Ceallonsé, Ri A. Mane, ec 
Maolpuanas -h. Edin, Ri Clrdne, ec Febennaé mac 
“Oubucan, Ri Lep Mange, ec Mac becad me Muip- 
eohas Claoin, Ri Ciappmge Luacpa, ocup Domnall 





1 Domhnall. “ Hoc infra post Cluain 
Tarbh prelium.” Marg. note, O’F. 
The killing of Domhnall, which, as 
O’F. has remarked, is also entered 
under the next year, is likewise twice 
recorded in the Ann. Ult., and the 
Ann. Four Mast., viz., under the 
years 1012 and 1013, equal to 1013 
and 1014, respectively. 

2 Little Easter; i.e. Low Sunday. 
O'Flaherty has added the criteria for 
the year in the margin, viz. :—“ Lit. 
Dom. C. Aureus Numerus, 8. Octava 
Pasche, 2° Maii, sed 50™* (Quinqn- 





gesima) 7° Martii.”. The Ann. Four 

Mast., which have the battle of Clon- 

tarf under the year 1018, state that 

it was fought on Good Friday; and 

in the Chronicle of Marianus Scotus, 

that day is said to have been the 9th 

of the Kalends of May, i.e, the 23rd 

of April. The correct year, therefore, 

was 1014. See O’Flaherty’s Ogygia, 
p. 435. 

8 Battle. The orig. hand has added 
the words “cach Cluana tapb,” 
“battle of Cluain Tairbh (Clontarf),” 
in the marg, ; 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 251 


and Lorcan, son of Echtighern, King of Cinel-Mechair, A.D. 
and others. Domhnall,' son of Cathal, Royal heir of [i011 
Connacht, was killed by Ua Maeildoraidh, and all Magh- 
nAei was burned and plundered. 

Kal. The feast of Gregory before Shrovetide in this [1012.] 
year, and Little Easter? in summer, which was not heard 
before. A hosting by Brian, son of Cennedigh, son of 
Lorean, King of Erinn, and by Maelsechlainn, King 
of Temhair, to Ath-cliath. The Foreigners of the World 
—such as were of them from Lochlann westwards— ia 
assembled against Brian and Maelechlainn. The For- 
eigners had with them 1,000 coats of mail. A spirited, 
fierce battle* was fought between them, for which no equal, 
or likeness, has been found in these times, and Brian, # 
son of Cennedigh, chief King of Erinn, and of the For- q 
eigners, and of Britain, was slain there, in the 88th‘ ie 
year of his age ; and Murchadh, son of Brian, Royal heir ; 
of Erinn, in the 63rd year of his age ; and Toirdhealbhach, ; 
son of Murchadh, son of Brian ; and Conaing, son of Donn- 
cuan, the son of Brian’s brother;> and Mothla, son of 
Domhnall, son of Faelan, King of the Deisi-Mumhan ; 
and Eochu, son of Dunadhach, and Niall, Ua Cuinn, and 
Cuduiligh, son of Cennedigh—the three companions® of 
Brian ; and Tadhg Ua Ceallaigh, King of Ui Maine; and 
Maelruanaidh Ua Edhin, King of Aidhne ; and Gebhen- 
nach, son of Dubhagan, King of Feara-Maighe; and the 
son of Betadh, son of Muiredhach Claen, King of Ciar- 
raighe-Luachra; and Domhnall, son of Diarmaid, King 








4 The 88th. The birth of Brian is | statement that his son, Murchadh, a 
entered under the year 922 (recté | was 63 years old when he was slain. 
923), supra. He was, therefore, in ee oy 
the he year of his age. But the 5 106 son 9. Deke Soe 
Ann. Ult. have the “Nativity of 
Brian” at the year 941—942, accord- 
ing to which he was only 72 years 8 Companions. Caoimts, A. B. 
old at the time of his death. This, | Comectio1, “guards.” Wars of the 
however, is inconsistent with the | Gaedhil with the Gaill, p. 166. 


Conaing was the son of Donncuan, 
who was Brian’s brother. 











252 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


mac Orapmaoa, Ri Copea barpeinn, ocur Scanlan mac 
[Cachal] Ri Cosanacoa Logu Lén, es Domnall mac 
Emim, mic Cainnis, ew ala ww et Jt Se 
Tulcea 50 OE cliat, sup paoined pop  Zatlors ocup 
pop Lagnit, cpa nept cachagce, et imbualea, ec 
cpovachta, 50 ccopchaip ann Maolmdopoa mac Mup- 
chada, mic finn, Ri Legen, ec Tuatal -h. [U]sape, 
pigoamna Larsen, ec mac Dposapbéan, mic Concuparp 
qisoamna h. tRalse, et mula, osup 50 coopcmp 
ann “Oupgall mac Cmtarb, es Fitla crapdin mac Fluin 
1aqpainn, da pusoamna Salt, ocup Siepput mac Loovap, 
lapla Inny: Ope, es Opuaoap caorpi0é na nDanap, 
ocur ap 6 po mapb Dian, ocur Luéc na nvec ced Luipec 
uile, nap Luga ve DO pocpnaccop tpica ced D0 Falloib 
ann. Cat eroip 1b Ecaé mare, evorp Cian mac Maorit- 
mua et Oomnall mac Ouibdabaipenn, 50 ccopchaizt 
ann Cian et Cachal, ocup Rogallach, cpr meric 
Maoilmhtiasd, ocup Gpimpu. Sluarcéed La Donnchad 
mac Dpican a noepsept nEpenn, sup mapp Cachal mac 
Domnall, et 50 cous siall o “Oomnatl. 1Imaipes 
e1dIp~. DA Mac Dpiain .1. Donnchad ec Tavs. Maorohed 
pop ‘Oonnchad. “Oo cus ann Rua -h. “Oonnagain, 
Ri pao, ec al. Ounlang mac Tuachal, Ri Larsen, 
mopistup. Sluagsged la h. Maoloopas, ec ta -h. 
Ruaipee a Mas naoi. sup mapprac Domnall mac 
Cachanl, ocup puccpac sialla Connacht. Llaitbeptaé 
mac “Oomnaill .1. 08 Clainn Colmdin 26, comapba 





1 Of Cathal. Supplied from the 8 Grandson. N. for Nua, or Ua, 


Ann. Ult. and the Four Mast., a blank 
being left for the name in A., as if 
the transcriber found it illegible in 
his original. It is also omitted in B. 

2 Domhnall. In the Ann, Ult., 
and Ann. Four Mast., he is called 
“Mop maep Map 1 nOCbain,” 
“great steward of Mar, in Alba” 
(Scotland). See O’Flaherty’s Ogygia, 
part III., cap. 81. 





A. B. The Four Masters state that 
Tuathal was the son of Ugaire, on 
which Dr. O’Donovan remarks, “ this 
is a mistake, because Tuathal, son of 
Ugaire, died in 956. It should be, 
as in the Annals of Inisfallen, ‘Mac 
Tuathail, i.e. son of Tuathal, son of 
Ugaire, or Dunlaing, son of Tuathal, 
son of Ugaire.” Ann. F. M. ad an. 
777, n. %. But the death of this 



































CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 253 


of Corca-Bhaiscinn; and Scanlan, son [of Cathal], 
King of Eoghanacht-locha-Léin ; and Domhnall,? son of 
Emhin, son of Cainnech, and others. The battle raged, 
viz., from the Tulcadh to Ath-cliath, and the victory 
‘was gained over the Foreigners and the Lagenians, 
through dint of battling, striking, and bravery ; and there 
fell Maelmordha, son of Murchadh, son of Finn, King of 
‘Laighen ; and Tuathal, grandson* of [U]gaire, Royal heir 
of Laighen ; and the son of Brogarbhan, son of Conchobhar, 
Royal heir of Ui-Failghe; and many others. And there were 
slain there Dubhgall, son of Amhlaibh, and Gillaciarain, 
son of Glun-iarainn, two Royal heirs of the Foreigners ; 
and Sichfrith, son of Lodar, Earl of Innsi-Ore ;* and 
Bruadar, chief of the Danars—and it was he that killed 
Brian ;—and the entire band of 1,000 men in armour ; so 
that not less than 3,000 Foreigners fell there. A battle 
between the Ui-Echach themselves, 7.e. between Cian, son 
of Maelmhuaidh, and Domhnall, son of Dubhdhabhairenn, 
in which Cian, and Cathal, and Raghallach, three sons of 
Maelmhuaidh, were slain, and a multitude’ about them. 
A hosting by Donnchadh, son of Brian, to the south of 
Erinn; and he killed Cathal, son of Domhnall, and re- 
ceived hostages from Domhnall. A conflict between the 
two sons of Brian, viz., Donnchadh and Tadhg. Donnchadh 
was defeated. Ruaidhri Ua Donnagain, King of Aradh, 
and others, fell there. Dunlaing,® son of Tuathal, King of 
Laighen, moritur. <A hosting by Ua Maeildoraidh and 
by Ua Ruaire, to Magh-nAei; and they killed Domhnall,’ 
son of Cathal,.and carried off the hostages of Connacht, 
Flaithbhertach, son of Domhnall (ie. he was of the 





Dunlaing appears a little further 5 A multitude. dp, lit. “a 
on under this year, where he is said | slaughter.” 

to have been “ King of Laighen,” not 
* Royal heir.” 

4 Innsi-Orc. Opec, B. By “ Innsi- 7 Domhnall. This entry, , slightly 
Ore” are meant the Orcades, orOrkney | varied, is also found under the year 
- Islands, 1011. See note}, p. 250. 


5 Dunlaing. See note 3, last page. 





AD. 
[1012.] 


ee ee ee ee ee oa ae 


SR Tl i ot ale ll Ali aa 


254 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 

Crapdan, ocup Linniain, quiews in Chpipco. Conn h. 
Diuspas, comapbad Caommpin, quieure. “Oomnall Uf 
hdlips, Ri Teabta, moprtup. 

}ct. Sluaged La Domnall mac Omboabarpénn go 
Lumnech. "Oa mac Dpiain «a. Donnchad et Tavs ZO 
pluagad Tuco Mumhan [ap a cino]. Fnivep cas 
ecoppa. Meaorvhed for verpceipt nEpenn, ocup vo 
cuit ann Domnall. Sluaged [La Maelpechlainn ocup 
‘La .h.] Melt, ocup ta -N. Maolooparoh [s0 Os clas, 
sup] Loipsproc in oun [ocur saé aparte 6 oun amaé vo 
catib], ec conveaéaoap Lrapom in thB Cinnprolard] 
sup Loipspit an cip [ule ocup cucpac 1] mile v0 
bpmd ocup innilib, co [ccappupec] cpeé va cpechanb 
ann, Fup mapbad opem vib 1m mac prs Connacht, et 
aln, et sup Zabad ann Congalaé mac Concubarp, Ra 

. pLorlse, ec Filla Colum -h. Csva, pi Teabta. 
SLuaiged La Maolpeclann, ev La -N. Nell, ec ta -N. 
Maoiloopasd alleangnib, 50 cousgpac sialla Largen, et 
50 coUZpas puse Lagen v0 Ounnefan mac OtinLaing, 
Sup inmipyis Oppose. Mac Ragnall, mic map, Ri 
Purpc Lapse, vo mapbad 6 hb Liaéain. (Cod -h. 
Ruaipe, Ri Opepne, ocup Rigoamna Connacht, vo 
mapbad La Taos mac Cachal, mec Concupmp, La Ris 
Connacht, dolore. Cpe mop La hUltooib, sup aapsps 
Cro Maka o pmt imac, 50 puspac sabala ima ete. 





1 Clann-Colmain. The words in 
parenthesis are added by way of gloss 
over the name of Flaithbhertach, in A. 
.They are misplaced in B., where they 
precede the name. The Clann-Colmain 
were a branch of the O’Melaghlins of 
Meath, descended from Colman Mor, 
son of Diarmaid Mac Cerbhaill, King 
of Ireland, whose death is recorded 
under the year 565, supra. 

* Comarb of Ciaran and Finnian ; 
t.e. successor of St. Ciaran and St. 
Finnian, and consequently Abbot of 
Cluain-muc-Nois and Cluain-Iraird. 





. 8% Kal. The correct year is 1015, 
as O’Flaherty has noted in the mar- 
gin, in A. 

4 To meet them. Opacino. Sup- 
plied from the Ann. Four Mast. 

5 A hosting. This entry stands 
thus in A., viz. :— 


Sta ; nett, ocup ba -h, 
Maotoop Loipspi0t- 
moun et Qoeaé 
croc. Sup Lops an 
Tip mite v0 bparo ocup in 


wubeco cpeé va cpecharb ann sup 
mbad 









































CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 255 


Clann-Colmain'), comarb of Ciaran and Finnian,? quievit 
in Christo. Conn Ua Diugraidh, comarb of Caemhghen, 
quievit. Domhnall Ua hAirt, King of Teabhtha, 
moritur. 

Kal? A hosting by Domhnall, son of Dubhdabhairenn, 
toLuimnech. Brian’s two sons, viz., Donnchadh and Tadhg, 
with the army of Tuadh-Mumhain [were there to meet 
them‘]. A battle was fought between them. The men of 
the South of Erinn were defeated, and Domhnall fell there. 
A hosting’? [by Maelsechlainn, and Ua] Neill, and Ua 
Maeildoraidh [to Ath-cliath, so that] they burned the 
fortress [and all the houses that were from the fortress 
outwards]; and they went [afterwards unto Ui Cennsea- 
laigh], and burned the country [entirely, and carried off 
many] thousands of captives and cattle; but one of 
their plundering parties [was overtaken] there, and a 
number of them were killed, along with the son of the 
King of Connacht, and others; and Congalach, son of 
Conchobhar, King of Ui-Failghe, and Gillacoluim Ua 
Aghda,® King of Teabhtha, were there taken prisoners. 
A hosting by Maelsechlainn, and by Ua Neill and Ua 
Maeildoraidh, into Laighen; and they took the hostages 
of Laighen, and gave the kingdom of Laighen to Donn- 
cuan, son of Dunlaing, and ravaged Osraighe. The son 
of Raghnall, son of Imhar, King of Port-Lairge, was slain 
by the Ui-Liathain. Aedh Ua Ruairc, King of Breifne, 
and Royal heir of Connacht, was treacherously killed by 
Tadhg, son of Cathal, son of Conchobhar, King of Con- 
nacht. <A great depredation was committed by the 
Ultonians, so that they plundered Ard-Macha from the 





It would therefore appear that the | fidelity. The liberty has now been 
transcriber had copiedfroma damaged | taken of completing the entry, which 
MS.; and the omission to fill up the | is also imperfect in B., by supplying 
blanks, which he might easily have | from the Ann. Four Mast. the clauses 
done from other authorities, may be | enclosed within brackets. 

taken as an indication of Mac Firbis’s 
desire to reproduce his original with 6 Aghda. OCsao (Agad), B. 





AD. 
[1012.] 


[1013.] 


EN a ee a 
a ee | ee ee 


256 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 
Saot mop spin popsmap vo na pd péd na pamarl pin 
aampp y, df accopcaip dap mop Reglepa Pingin ha 
cCluain muc Nop. Cop salop 1c Falloib, ocup plag 
Loéad 1¢ Falloib ocur 15 Larsnip. | 
}ct. Slucéed La Maolpecloann 1 ntillcoib go cous 

pialla Ulad. Fiolla Colaim cn. OCsoa, Ri Teabta, vo 
mapbad o mac “Ounn mic Oonngarls 1 nOpurm parce. 
Oonnagan mac “Ounlains, ws Larsen, D0 mapbad, ocur 
Taos -. Riaain, Ri -h. n°Opona, La “Oonnchad mac 
Bille Paopaic, pop Lap Leéslinne. Clucin muc Nop 
oan, Clucan pepta Opencann, ec Cenannup v0 Lopeead. 
Mac Lag «1. Mupcepraé, apo ollath penn, opemur 
homo, mopitup 1 nimp sall omp pop Sinainn. Ceo 
pann Mic lias — 

Muipcentac bes mac Marlcentargs, 

bir ag inZzaipe na mbo, 

Cre an cinnpoaic naé cami Lo1T ; 

Tabaipn PZeanad finnparp do. 


Connacoa vapsain Cille Oalua. Cac ervoip Dal Opoade 
et Ulcoib. Maorvhed ap Oal Cprarde, ocup vo cut 
ann Oomnatl -h. Loing$, Ri Oat Cparde, ec Niall 
mac “Ombcuinne, me Aposal, apo Ri Ulad, ocup 
Concupap -h. Domnall, Ri -N. cTupope, ec alin. Pip 
Muman ovapgain Inn: Clocthpan, et Inny: bo pinne. 





1 Out of it. 20, for epce, A. In | fying,” the letters é and ¢ being fre- 


this curious form of abbreviation the 
character ‘*2,” the contraction for 
the Latin est, by the addition of the 
letter e is made to represent the Irish 
word “ eyte,” ‘from it,” or ‘out of 
it.” B, reads “mae,” the transcriber 
having understood the character 2 as 
simply representing the figure 2, which 
in Irish is written ‘ da.” 

2 And a plague of putrefaction. 
Ocur plag Locao (ocus plag lochad). 
Omitted in B. soo is probably 
the same as Logad, “rotting, putre- 





quently used, the one for the other, in 
the text of this Chronicle, as well as 
in all Irish MSS. See O’Donovan’s 
Irish Grammar, p.2. The expression 
plas Loca is rendered “a plague of 
rats (or mice),” as if the word Lo¢ao 
were intended for Uuch, in Sir W. R. 
Wilde’s valuable Zable of Cosmical 
Phenomena, &c. Census of Ireland 
Sor 1851, part v., vol. i., p. 65); but 
it would seem from the context that 
the plague was one affecting a people, 
not a district of country. Moreover, 


























CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 257 


Rath outwards, and took numerous spoils out of it.’ 
Great wind in the autumn, the like or equal of which 
has not been witnessed in these times, by which the great 
oak of Regles-Finghin at Cluain-muc-Nois was prostrated. 
_ Adisease of the legs among the Foreigners, and a plague 
__ of putrefaction? among the Foreigners and Lagenians. 
Kal? A hosting by Maelsechlainn to the Ultonians, 
_ and he brought off the hostages of Uladh. Gillacoluim 
_ Ua Aghda,* King of Teabhtha, was slain by the son of 
Donn, son of Donngal, in Druim-raithe. Donnagan, son 
of Dunlaing, King of Laighen, and Tadhg Ua Riain, 
_ King of Ui-Drona, were slain by Donnchadh, son of 
_ Gillapadraig, in the middle of Lethghlinn.’ Cluain-muc- 
 Nois, also Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, and Cenannus were 
burned. Mac-Liag, i.e. Muircertach, chief poet of Erinn, 
a most excellent man, died in Inis-Gaill-duibh® on the 
Sinainn. Mac-Liag’s first quatrain was :— 


Little Muircertach, son of Maelcertach,’ 

Who is wont to be herding the cows— 

He is the innocent who attempts not to wound ; 
Give him a handful of finnraip.*® 


The Connachtmen pillaged Cill-Dalua. <A battle between 
the Dal-Araidhe and the Ultonians. The Dal-Araidhe 
_ were defeated, and Domhnall Ua Loingsigh, King of 
Dal-Araidhe, and Niall, son of Dubhtuinne, son of Ardgal, 
_ chief King of Uladh, and Conchobhar Ua Domhnaill, 
King of Ui-Tuirtre, and others, fell there. The men of 
Mumhain- plundered Inis-Clothran, and Inis-bo-finne. 





_ the Foreigners, or Danes, were widely 6 Inis-Gaill-duibh, More correctly 
_ scattered throughout Ireland in the | ‘“ Inis-an-Gaill-duibh,” i.e. ‘‘the Is- 
year 1015, so that a “plague of mice” | land of the black Foreigner,” now pro- 
 eould hardly reach their several bands | bably the King’s Island, at Limerick. 
without infesting the whole island. 7 Of Maelcertach. Meaurtcepcac, 
4 2 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the date | A. B.; Muipcepcaig is the correct 
1016,” which is the correct year. gen. form of the name. 

4 Aghda, (sav (Agad), B. 8 Finnraip. This is probably the 
5 Man. fio, A. homo, B. - name of some precious metal. 

Ss 





[1013.] | 


[1014.] 


258 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 

ket. Orapmars -h. Maoilcelcha, Eppeop, quieurs. 
Oengup mac Capptms Calma, prsoamna Tempa, ocup 
TUIP OpDdain Epenn, mopicup. Lepsup mac “Oomnanlt, 
mic Concupaip, prsoamna OCilis, 00 mapbad 6 Cinel 
Eosain paden. “Oonnchad mac Oonnchada ch. Con- 
saleng, Rigoamna hEpenn, 00 mapbad o Pepuib Dpes 
pep dvoLum. 

t. Fopmsal ino Apo ailean, pram anchaped 
Erpenn, in Cpipto quieurt. n mac Maolmopda, 
me Mupchata, Ri Largen, vo vallad 1 nClé cliaé ta 
Sitpiuce mac Amlanb ctpe meabail. Congalué mac 
Concupaip, mic Linn, Ri ch. pLortse, moprcup. 

}ct. Opgain Cenannpa vo Situs mac OCmlab, co 
nZallor Léa cliaé, [50 pucpac bparc diarypm1] ec sup 
mapbad vaoine ap a Lap. Mac Catapnars mic Coda, 


vo 16 Cappin, D0 ceagmail vo cum “Oonnchad mac 


Upiain, 50 ccapd béim da clerdi0m na cenn, ev Dap a 
Lam noeip, sup ben de. Tepna r14qpum mac Dprain, 
ocup po mapbad mac Catapnars. 

ct. Maolmuao A. Maolmtians, Ri tPep eCeall, 
no tabaips ap hécin a vamliag “Ourpmurigse, La Murp- 
cepcaé -N. Ca&ppms, ocup a mapbad im Maré Lena 
Sluases La Maolpechlainn, et La A. Nell, et la 
“‘Donnchad mac mbUpiain, ocup La hOCips -h. Ruarpe, 
50 Sinainn, 50 couspac sialla Connacht vo Maoilpec- 
Lainn. Culuacpa mac Concubarp, Ri Crapponge Luaépa, 





1 Kal. This is: properly the year 
1017, as O'Flaherty has noted in the 
margin, in A. 

* Kal. The correct date is 1018, 
as O’F. has noted in the marg. 

8 Anchorite. OCnch., for OCncha- 
pod, A.B. Onmchapa (ze. ‘ soul- 
friend”), Four Mast. ,The Ann. Ult. 
(1018) have “annchapa,” which 
Dr. O’Conor renders by ‘“ Anacho- 
reta.” But his translation of the 





word seems to have been owing to 
his conception of the meaning of 
“ Ard-ailean,” which he did not con- 
sider the name of a place, but simply 
signifying “alta rupes.” Ard-ailean, — 


or High Island, is a steep island off 


the coast of the barony of Ballyna- 
hinch, in the county of Galway, con- 
taining the ruins of a primitive build- 
ing erected by St. Fechin, in the 
seventh century. It was a more suit- 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 259 



































Kal! Diarmaid Ua Maeiltelcha, Bishop, quievit. 
Oengus, son of Carthach Calma, Royal heir of Temhair, 
and pillar of dignity of Erinn, moritur. Fergus, son of 
_ Dombhnall, son of Conchobhar, Royal heir of Ailech, was 
_ slain by the Cinel Eoghain themselves. Donnchadh, son 
_ of Donnchadh Ua Conghalaigh, Royal heir of Erinn, was 
slain by the men of Bregh, through treachery. 

Kal.? Gormgal of the High-Island, chief anchorite® of 
Erinn, in Christo quievit. Braen, son of Maelmordha, son 
_ of Murchadh, King of Laighen, was blinded in Ath-cliath, 
by Sitric, son of Amblaibh, through treachery. Conga- 
lach, son of Conchobhar, son of Finn, King of Ui-Failghe, 
moritur. 

Kal.  Plundering of Cenannus by Sitric, son of 
Amblaibh, with the Foreigners of Ath-cliath, [so that they 
carried off innumerable spoils*], and men were slain in the 
middle of it. The son of Catharnach, son of Aedh, of the 
Ui-Caissin, approached Donnchadh, son of Brian, and gave 
him a stroke of his sword on his head and across his right 
hand, so that he cut off the hand. The son of Brian 
escaped afterwards, and the son of Catharnach was slain. 
Kal® Maelmhuaidh Ua Maeilmhuaidh, King of Feara- 
Ceall, was forcibly taken out of the Stone-church of 
Duirmagh, by Muircertach Ua Carraigh, and slain in 
Magh-Lena. <A hosting by Maelsechlainn, and Ua Neill, 
and Donnchadh, son of Brian, and Art’ Ua Ruaire, to the 
Sinainn; and they gave the hostages of Connacht to 
Maelsechlainn. Culuachra, son* of Conchobhar, King of 





able residence for an anchorite than for | that’) which follow imply the omis- 
a “soul-friend,” or confessor. See | sion of such a clause. 

Hardiman’s ed. of O’Flaherty’s Jar 6 Kal. ‘The correct date (1020), 
Crenoaght, pp. 114, 115. has been prefixed by O’F. 

4 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the date 
1019, 7 Art. hops, A. beupe, B. 

5 Spoils. The clause enclosed within 8 Son. mac, A. B. “Ua,” ‘‘grand- 
brackets is supplied from Tighernach, | son,’’ or “ descendant,” in all the other 
as the words (“ect sup—and so | Annals. 





$2 


AD. 
[1015.] 


[1016.] 


[1017.] 


[1018.] 


260 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


mopcup. Lopcecad Clucna muc Nop. OCpo Macha 
vo Lopecad sur an Rart, senmota an ceac pepeabopa, - 
ocup po Loipeced an vamliag mop, et an clarscec, ets an 
capbao, ocup imao dip ocup aps. Maolmuipe, 
comapba Paoparc, cenn clepeé Epenn, quieurs. 

ket. Lpap cptntnecoa opepcain 1 nOppasib. Opan-- 
acan N. Maoiluop, apo petcaipe Mive, v0 bardard La 
beallcaine illoé Cinninne. Cod mac Llamn, mic 
Maorlpeclainn, pasdamna Epenn, v0 mapbad va U16 
Magsceacain opeporb Dile. Longaps +h. Maoilrourn, 
recnab Cluana muc Nop, quiewms. Ua Feueannaé, 
Rigoamna -h. Marne, oce1pur ef. 

Ict. Ob Incapnacione “Oomim .M°. ac .xxn°.; anno 
‘Decennouenalip Cipculs .cur. Sitpruce mac Imaap Pups 
Lapse v0 mapbad Le Rig Oppmge. Mac Legsnn mac 
Carpall, Ri Cipsiall, penisenr quieurs. Meaolpeclainn 
mae “Oomnall, mic “Oonnchada, apo Ri Epenn tte, 
cuile opdain 1aptaip Domain, vo héc 1 sCpo Inip Lota 
Cinninne, in .xlin®. anno pesmi pur, in 111% nonap 
Septembyp, Die woelicets “Oominico, Luna .1% 53 mil- 
Lepimo, uepo, ac .xx11°. port Incapnacionem “Oominicam 
anno, pracpentibup ac pibi apcancibup uenepabslium 
Sancvopum, Pacpcn, perlicet, et Columbae ac Crapoin 
hepeoibup peniteny in pace paupauie. 

TMi cet pont 15 an Rig, 

Ima cobain bros ip bid; 
Clizpom o Rig na nourte 
CC medon sac vine diob. 





1 Teach-screabtra; i.e. the library ; 
lit. “house of writings.” 

2 The Carbad; i.e. “the chariot.” 
“cappac nanOCbbad,” “the chariot 
of the Abbots.” Four Mast. 


4 Kal. The correct date is 1021. 

5 The 43rd; i.e. counting the 12 
years which intervened between the 
period of his deposition by Brian, in 
1002, and the death of Brian in 1014, 


3 Comarb of Patrick. O’F, adds 
the marg. note “ Ardm. 8°. Junii 9 ,” 
to intimate that Maelmuire was Abbot, 
or Bishop of Armagh, and died on the 
third of June, being Friday. 





after which Maelsechlainn resumed 


_the sovereignty. O'Flaherty has 


added a marginal note recapitulating 
the criteria, and indicating 1022 as the 
correct year, but it is now mutilated. 





-CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 261 
































Ciarraighe-Luachra, moritur. Burning of Cluain-muc- 
Nois. Ard-Macha was burned, together with the Rath, 
except the Teach-screabtra;' and the great Stone-church 
was burned, and the belfry, and the Carbad,? and a great 
deal of gold and silver. Maelmuire, comarb of Patrick,’ 
head of the clergy of Erinn, quievit. 

Kal.* A shower of wheat fell in Osraighe. Branagan 
Ua Maeiluidhir, chief law-giver of Midhe, was drowned on 
May-day, in Loch Ainninn. Aedh, son of Flann, son of 
Maelsechlainn, Royal heir of Erinn, was slain by the Ui- 
Maighteachain, of the Feara-Bile. Longarg Ua Maeili- 
duin, vice-Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. Ua 
Gebheannach, Royal heir of Ui Maine, occisus est. 

Kal. From the Incarnation of the Lord, 1022; the 16th 
year of the cycle of 19. Sitrie, son of Imhar of Port- 
Lairge, was slain by the King of Osraighe. Macleghinn, 
son of Cairell, King of Airghiall, pcenitens quievit. 
Maelsechlainn, son of Domhnall, son of Donnchadh, chief 
King of all Erinn, flood of dignity of the west of the 
world, died in Cro-Inis of Loch Ainninn, in the 43rd° 
year of his reign, the 4th of the nones of September, viz., 
on Sunday, the 2nd of the moon’s age, and in the 
thousand and twenty-second year after the Lord’s Incar- 
nation; the successors of the venerable saints, that is 
to say, of Patrick,® Columba, and Ciaran, being present 
and standing beside him, pcenitens in pace pausavit. 
Three hundred’ forts has the King, 

From which he gives clothes and food ; 

There are guests from the King of the elements 

In the middle of each fort of them. 





6 Patrick. ppacn, A. pranci,B. | the same as that which he gives in 
7 Three hundred. O'Flaherty has | Ogygia, p. 436, viz.:— 
rendered the first quatrain of this “Prebuit é castris vestes, victumque 
eulogy on Maelsechlainn, which he trecentis : 
_ ealls an “epitaph,” into Latin, in the Quarum quéque inopum sedes pene- 
‘margin, but it is now mutilated. The tralibus altrix.” 
paraphrase seems to have been literally 





A.D. 
[1018.] 


[1019.] 


[1020.] 


262 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Dabaé pip, na Turca Gian, 
Méangeba Ri M1de mian 
Dia Domnarg, ibup 015 01 
Oia Lucin 1 marvean Mie. 


Minpceptaé mac Cappchars Calma v0 mapbad on Fue, 
pep volum. “Oomnall A. Mupchada Flun rlap, Ri 
an cuMpsepeT, D0 mapbad o Crannacht Slinne Fershin. 
fct. Epcpa speine 1mmedon Laor, ocup epepa eps 
rn mip ceona “Oomnall mac Coda big +h. Maoit- 
pechLainn, Lert pr Mrde, v0 mapbad o mac Seandin 
ch. Leotain, ocup 6 Lurgmb. Tass mac Dpiain v0 
mapbad vEilid ippill, rap na epdal v0 Donnehad mac 
Dpiain.  Concupap mac Clongupa, me Cappchas — 
Calma, vo mapbad Lap na Foca cpe celg. Maél- 
muipe Nh. Caannén Eppeop Supd, qureurs. Leobelin 
ms Opecan, moprcup. Sluarged La -N. Concupmp, la 
pis Connacht in Uib Dprtin, sup mapbad ann Domnall 
A. Espa, Ri Lingne Connacht. Oenpre Ri an voman 
mM pace qtiems. Cuant pa sab vap a 171 purse. . 
}ct. Uscpe mac “Ounlaing, Ri Laigen, es Maol- 
mopoa mac Lopcain, Ri sh. Cenproleng, es a mac, tec 
ro sabail foppa os “Oubloé, vo Oumnnplebe, sup 
mapbad ann. lopep mac Ouncand, anmeapa Cluana 
muc Noi, quem: atarp Cuinn na mboge. Sluagzed 
la mac n€ochada Zo Fallorb, sup Lows iad, ocup so 





Tighernach the corresponding word is | Re 
“umount” (umail), i.e. “submitting,” 
which makes the passage to signify 
that “Tadhg was murdered by the 
Eile, after submitting to his brother 
Donnchadh;” but in the Bodleian — 


1 Man of the Tulach. pip na 
tutca. An allusion is probably here 
contained to the Peapa-cutach, a 
district in the county of Westmeath, 
comprising the present barony of Far- 
tullagh, in that county. The sense of 


this quatrain is very obscure. 

2 Kal. O'Flaherty has prefixed the 
date 1023, which is the correct year, 
and added a chronol. note in the mar- 
gin, which is now nearly destroyed. 

3 Desire. Epent, A. B., for upat, 
or pupoit. In O'Conor’s edition of 





copy of Tighernach (Rawlinson, 488), 
the word is written “upont,” in an 
abbreviated form, 

4 The Gots; i.e. the Stammerers, a 
nickname of a family of the O'Melagh- 


lins of Meath. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 263 


The vat of the man of the Tulach' in the west— 
If the King of Midhe feels any desire 

On Sunday, he quaffs a drink of it 

On Monday morning in Midhe. 






















_ Muircertach, son of Carthach Calma, was slain by the 
_ Got, through treachery. Dombnall, grandson of Mur- 
 chadh Glun-ilair, King of the North, was slain by the 
Ciannacht of Glenn-Geimhin. 

Kal? An eclipse of the sun at mid-day, and an 
_ eclipse of the moon in the same month. Domhnall, 
son of Aedh Beg Ua Maeilseachlainn, half-King of Midhe, 
was killed by the son of Seanan Ua Leochain, and the 
Luighne. Tadhg, son of Brian, was treacherously slain 
by the Eile, at the desire* of Donnchadh, son of Brian. 
Conchobhar, son of Aengus, son of Carthach Calma, was 
slain by the Gots,‘ through treachery. Maelmuire Ua 
Cainnén, Bishop of Sord, quievit. Leobhelin,> King of 
Britain, moritur. A hosting by Ua Conchobhair, King 
of Connacht, into Ui-Briuin, where Domhnall Ua Eghra, 
King of Luighne of Connacht, was slain. Oecenrie,® King 
of the world, in pace quievit. Cuana’ it was who assumed 
the sovereignty after him. 

Kal.* Ugaire, son of Dunlaing, King of Laighen, and 
Maelmordha, son of Lorean, King of Ui-Cennselaigh, and 
his son, had a house taken against them at Dubhloch, by 
Donnsleibhe ; and they were slain there. Joseph, son of 
Donnchadh, anmchara® of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit: he 
was the father of Conn-na-mbocht. <A hosting by the son 
of Eochaidh to the Foreigners, so that he burned them,!° 





_ Seisil, whose death is entered in the 7 Cuana; i.e. Conrad. See last 
Bruty Tywisogionat the year1021,and | note. 
in the Annales Cambrie under 1023. 8 Kal. O’f. has prefixed the date 
1024. 
8 Oenric. “ Henricus II., Imperator, 9 Anmchara. Confessor, or spiritual 
obiit 1024; Conradus II. successit.” | director; lit. “‘soul-friend.” 
Marg. note, O’F. 10 Burned them ; i.e. their territory. 





AD. 
[1020.} 


[1021.] 


[1022.] 


264 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


cous sialla Faordeat ucatb. Cuan -h. Loécan, ppm 
héciup Epenn, ocup pao Senéupa, 00 mapbad 1 cCeabta, 
ocup bpencas a naon ump an Lucht pa mapp, ocup ap 
popt piled pin. “Domnall .h. Espa Ri an Copaimn, 
mopitup. . 
fet. Niatt -h. Concupaip, Rigoamna Connaés, es 
Maolpeclaann Sot Ri Mrve vo héc. Saopbpeacac 
CCb ImLeé lobmp, opoan hEpenn, quiews.  Muipeohat 
mac Mugpdin vo muintip ImLis popveopms, comapba 
Ciapain, quieurs. Comaltan, Ri h. rhage QCvéne, 
oceipuy eye. ee 


ket. Sluarged La mac Dprain 50 ccus a Mrbe, ~ 


€T Dpes, ocup Sall, ocurp Laigen, ocup Oppaige. 
Sluamgzed La Llartbeptaé A. NIL, ocup La mac 
Maoilpeclainn mic Maoilpuanard 1m M1ve go couspas 
pialla, ocup sonvecacup pop Lie apps, Fup mmpps 
Imp Mochta. Maolptanasd -h. Maoloopurs, Ri 
Cinel Conall, vo oul cap mump va ailitpe. Conall 
DN. Cillin, comapba Cponéin Tuama Breimne, queues. 
Qn clocan o Fapoa an bainb co 1lard Cilavd na cop 
ccpor 0 venam La Dpepal Conatteé. Gi cata put 
Roén 2. Raon «1. cat pop ~ipu Mive ec cat pop bi. 
Dpeé, et cat pop Falloib Ota cliaé. 

fet. Sluarged La mac Upicnn 1 nOppméis, sup 
paoined fop Dpem Dia muinTip, Sup mapbaod ann 
Saopa mac Ounaoamgs, et “Oomnall mac Sencdin mie 





1 And professor. ocup aor, A. 
Omitted in B. 


2 In one hour. a naonmap, 
Ganaonap, “ together,” A. B. 


3 A poet’s miracle. This event is 
thus given in the Annals of Loch- 
Cé, at the year 1024:—“Cuan .N. 
Loéain 1. ppm eiserr Epenn, v0 
mapbao ta Tetpa. Do pugne 
Oia pins filed co pollu ap an 
Lucht po hand, ap po bappargeo 





a nopoé oighed 100, ocup m no 


haonuiceo a cumpp, sup pogsuid — 4 


feos ocup potuamain 100,” ie. 
“Cuan Ua Lochain, chief poet of 
Erinn, was killed in Tethfa. God 
performed a ‘poet’s miracle,’ mani- 
festly, on the party who killed him, 


for they died an evil death, and their 


bodies were not buried, but beasts and 
birds devoured them.” 

4 Kal. The correct year is 1025, 
according to O’F, 

































CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 265 


and carried away the hostages of the Gaeidhel from them. 
‘Cuan Ua Lothchain, chief poet of Erinn, and professor’ 
of history, was killed in Teabhtha; and the party that 
_ killed him became foul in one hour;? and that is a 
“poet's miracle.” Domhnall Ua Eghra, King of the 
— Corann, moritur. 

___- Kal.* Niall Ua Conchobhair, Royal heir of Connacht,and 
_ Maelsechlainn Got, King of Midhe, died. Saerbreathach, 
_ Abbot of Imlech-Ibhair, the dignity of Erinn, quievit. 
_ Muiredhach, son of Mughron, of the family of Imlech- 
_ fordeoraigh, comarb of Ciaran, quievit. Comaltan, King 
__ of Ui-Fiachrach-Aidhne, occisus est. 

_ Kal. .A hosting by the son of Brian,’ who carried off 
the hostages of Midhe and Bregh, and of the Foreigners, 
and Lagenians, and Osraighe. A hosting by Flaithbhert- 
ach Ua Neill, and by the son of Maelsechlainn, son of 
Maelruanaidh, into Midhe, and they took hostages, and 
went on the ice, so that they plundered Inis-Mochta. 
Maelruanaidh Ua Maeildoraidh, King of Cinel Conaill, 


comarb of Cronan of Tuaim-greine, quievit. The paved 
way from Gardha-an-bhainbh to Ilaid-Chilaid-na-ttri- 
cros was constructed by Bresal Conaillech.® Three 
battles were gained by Roen, 4.e. Raen, viz., a battle over 
_ the men of Midhe, and a battle over the men of Bregh, 
__ and a battle over the Foreigners of Ath-cliath, 

Kal. A hosting by the son of Brian into Osraighe; but 
a division of his people was defeated, and Gadhra, son of 
-Dunadhach, and Domhnall, son of Senchan, son of 





_. 5 The son of Brian; i.e. Donnchadh, | heap) of the three crosses.” The trans- 
son of Brian Borumha. O’F. has | lator ofthe AnnalsofClonmacnoisalso, 
prefixed the date “1026.” at the year 1026, calls the place “ the 
6 Ilaid-Chilaid-na-ttri-cros; i.e.the | heap of stones of the Three Crosses.” 
monument, or mound, of ‘‘Cilaid of | The word “¢itcrvo” in the text is 
the three crosses.” The Four Mast. | therefore probably a repetition of “co 
(1026), write this name “1la1d na | Ita.” 

«Be ecpop,” “the monument (or 





went across the sea on his pilgrimage. Conall Ua Cillin, 


A.D. 


[1022.} 


[ 1028. } 


[1024.] 


[1025.] 


266 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Llacbepoms, pisoamna Muman, ocup Maolpechlainn 
-h. Concuparp, Ri Copcumptiard, et va mac Curlin mie 
-Concupharp, Ri ocup Risoamna -h. Conall, es va mac 
Exsepoms, Ri ocup prsvamna cuapreips Coxganaéoa, 
ocuyr Osan h. Curpc, me OCnluain, mic Cennenis, et 
ali. Daéatt lopa vo bppiod. Maolpianasd -h. 
Maoloopas odhéc 1 nalitpe. Ricapo Ri PLparnge, 
mopcup. Sluagsed La Sitpice mac Omi, ocup La 
“Donnchad, Ri Dpeak 1m Mrde so Lec mblada ocup so 
Muna milan, 50 scompansaccup pid pip Mide, Fo 
coopchaip Raon Ri rapcap Mise, ocup Ounnchad Ri 
Dpes, ocur Ri h. mOpruin Cualanod et aln. 

ket. Tucéal -N. Oubanné, Eppeop Cluana 1porpr, 
qnemc. Onc Eprcop a. Sumplisg quiewst. Sicpiuce 
mac Omlabt v0 oul 00 Rom, ocup Llannugan h. 
Ceallans Ri Dpeé. [Sicprucc] mac Cmlarb [vo tiac- 
can] o Rowh. Opian mac Catt -h. Concupaip, 
~ipoamna Connacht, v0 mapbad La Maolreclainn Ah. 
Maolpuanard. a 

fet. mtb mac Sizpice v0 sabail v0 Maktsamain 
by Riagain, Ri vepceipt Opes, 50 Frapsaib va ced 
réce bd, ocur re -xx. e€ Opecnad, et tT .xxe. unsa Ddp, 
ocup claortiom Caplupa, ocup mape 1nd ip poonepsarb. — 
Mopclord mop 1 nimp naloanne hi sCarpbpe mop ou 
in po Loipscea Da .xx. DES DUINe Do maizib Conpbpe, 
ocur Ri Daptparse, ocup pi Coipbpe, ec aipchinnech 





1Ua. .N., for Ua, or 0’, A. B. 
“Mac,” “son,” Tighernach and 
Four Mast. The correct year is 1027. 

2 Bachall Iosa. The Baculus Jesu, 
for an interesting account of which 
see Obits and Martyrology of Christ 
Church, by the Rev. J. H. Todd, 
D.D., pp. viii-xxii., and O’Curry’s 
Lectures, pp. 600-605. 

8 Richard. There is no such name 
in the list of the Kings of France. 
The personage referred to was pro- 





bably Richard III., Duke of Nor- 
mandy, who died in the year 1028. 


‘ King of Ui-Briuin-Cualann, Thane 


Four Masters call him Gillausaille, ‘a 


son of Gillacaeimghin. 


5 Sitric—returned. Supplied from 


Tighernach, A.D. 1028, which is the — 3 
correct date. ’ ; 


6 A mark for the man who captured 


Cc j 
him. M ind 1p poonensorb, for 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 267 






























Flaithbhertach, Royal heir of Mumhain; and Maelsech- 
lainn Ua' Conchobhair, King of Corcumruaidh; and the 
two sons of Cuilen, son of Conchobhar—the King and 
Royal heir of Ui-Conaill; and the two sons of Egartach, 
the King and Royal heir of the Northern Eoghanacht ; 
and Ogan, grandson of Core, son of Anluan, son of Cenne- 
digh, and others, were slain there. The Bachall Iosa? was 
broken. Maelruanaidh Ua Maeildoraidh died in pil- 
grimage. Richard,* King of France, moritur. A hosting 
by Sitric, son of Amhlaibh, and by Donnchadh, King of 
_Bregh, into Midhe, to Lec-mbladha, and to Muna-Milain, 
until the men of Midhe encountered them, when Raen, 
King of the West of Midhe, and Donnchadh, King of 
Bregh, and the King of Ui-Briuin-Cualann,* and others, 
were slain. 
Kal. Tuathal Ua Dubhanaigh, Bishop of Cluain-Iraird, 
quievit. The Bishop Ua Suairligh quievit. Sitric, son 
of Amhlaibh went to Rome, and Flannagan Ua Ceallaigh, 
King of Bregh. [Sitric’], son of Amhlaibh [returned*] 
from Rome. Brian, son of Cathal Ua Conchobhair, Royal 
heir of Connacht, was killed by Maelsechlainn Ua Maeil- 
ruanaidh. 
Kal. Ambhlaibh, son of Sitric, was captured by Math- 
ghamhain Ua Riagain, King of the South of Bregh, and 
detained until he delivered 1,200 cows, and six score British 
horses, and three score ounces of gold, and the sword of 
Carlus, and a mark for the man who captured him. A 
great loss of life in Inis-na-lainne, in Cairbre-mér, in which 
were burned twelve score men of the nobles of Cairbre, 
and the King of Dartraighe, and the King of Cairbre, and 





mayc 1nd pp eoonepsand, A. B. he has totally misunderstood the 
“ meaning of the word poonepsmb, 

The abbrev. m may stand for mayc, | which is simply the verb po-epgarb 

a mark, and also a horse, or for mac, | (he captured), with the infixed pro- 

a son. Dr. O’Conor (Tighernach, | noun >. See Zeuss’s Gram. Celt., 

ad an. 1029), translates this clause | yo, ;,, p. 834. 

“filium Anfiri Rot, captivum.” But 





A.D. 
[1025.] 


[1026.] 


[1027.] 


ot a ee 


268 oRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


“Opoma cliat. Mupcepraé .N. Maoiloopard, Ri 
Cinedil Conall, v0 mapbad vo U1b Canannain, oc Ras 
Canannain. 

ct. Dpepal Conaitleé, v0 Conallib Murpcemne, 
comapba Ciapdn, quien. LLarcbepcaé -N. Nell vo 
ceacht vo Roh. Dacall lopa vo papuccad um op | 
caiplib, ocup po mapbao pé cenn tm La an pep po 
papas. Ror Comain ocup Orlpin ocup Mag ne mle 
v0 papicéad. Lapusad Mrde vo A. Maorlpectainn. 
Rucom .N. Canannarn vo mapbad os Movopn La Cod 
A. Nall. Rise Mive vo Fabml vo ch. Maoilpeclainn 
1ap. na mapba vap Loc Rib. Clod ch. Maoloopas vo 
mapbad La Cpc -N. Rumpe. Taos mac Cachail mie 
—Concupaip, Ri Connacht, v0 mapbad o Maolpeclamn 
A. Maolpianard, Ri Cpurthcainn, ocup o Clann Cop- 
cpard imecparo: .N. Caclucin. “Oomnall Fos, pi 
Mive, 00 mapbad ctpe meabaal 6 Concaipo +h. Maat- 
callann, 6 a amup fén. Taos mac Lopcain, ri he 
Cenmolais vhéc 1 namcpise. Maolovop Oall h. 
OCneapattl, pep Lériginn [Cille acharo], quieuit. FSopm- 
Lath ingen Mupchada mec Linn, matanp pif Fall ..r. 
Sicpice, ocup ps Muman «a. Oonnchada mic Opiarn, 
mopicup. Concupap mac Tarog -h. Ceallars, Ri -h. 
Maine, v0 mapbad vpepuib Teabsa. 

fet. Llacbepcaé N. Nell vo crachcain 6 Rorh. 
po mDpeacdain vapsain 00 Salloib Oca cliac, et va 
ced Dine DO Lopccad 171n DUMLiags, OcuT Da ced ele 
Do bperé smbpavs. .N. Oonnagan, Ri Cpad Tipe DO 
mapbao ov pian. Catapaé comapba Caoimsin v0 





1 Canannain. Instead of thisname | tocht v0 Rom,” which Dr. O’Conor 


O'Flaherty would write Cathain, or 
Cane; but ‘“‘Canannain” is the name 
in the other Annals, The correct 
year is 1029. 

2 Went to Rome. “Oo ceacht 00 
Roh. Tighernach (1030), has “Do 





incorrectly translates “‘rediita Roma.” 
“Oo dul v0 Roth,” “Went to 
Rome.” Four Mast. 

3 Bachall Iosa; i.e. “‘ Baculus Jesu.” 
See note %, p. 266. 

4 Canannain. O'F, corrects this 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 269 

































the Airchinnech of Druim-cliabh. Muircertach Ua Maeil- 
doraidh, King of Cinell Conaill, was slain by the Ui 
Canannain,' at Rath-Canannain. 

Kal. Bresal Conaillech, of the Conaille Muirthemne, 
_ comarb of Ciaran, quievit. Flaithbhertach Ua Neill went 
_ to Rome.’ The Bachall Iosa* was profaned regarding 
_ three horses, and the man who profaned it was killed 
before the end of three days. Ros-Comain and Ailfin, 
and all Magh-nAei, were spoiled. Wasting of Midhe by 
_ Ua Maeilsechlainn. Ruaidhri Ua Canannainn‘ was slain, 
_ at Modhorn, by Aedh Ua Neill. The sovereignty of 
_ Midhe was assumed by Ua Maeilsechlainn, after he had 
_ been expelled beyond Loch-Ribh. Aedh Ua Maeildoraidh 
_ wasslain by Art Ua Ruaire. Tadhg, son of Cathal, son of 
_ Conchobhar, King of Connacht, was slain by Maelsech- 
lainn Ua Maeilruanaidh, King of Crimhthann, and by 
the Clann Cosgraidh, together with Echsaidi Ua Cath- 


slain by Cucairid Ua Maeilcallann, his own servant. 
Tadhg, son of Lorcan, King of Ui-Cennselaigh, died in 
penitence. Maelodar Dall'Ua Ancapaill, lector [of Cill- 
achaidh*], quievit. Gormlaith, daughter of Murchadh, 
- son of Finn, mother of the King of the Foreigners, i.e. 
_ Sitric, and of the King of Mumbhain, i.e. Donnchadh, son 
_ of Brian, moritur. Conchobhar, son of Tadhg Ua Ceal- 
- laigh, King of Ui Maine, was slain by the men of 
Teabhtha. 

. Kal. Flaithbhertach Ua Neill returned from Rome.. 
_ Ard-Breacain was plundered by the Foreigners of Ath- 
cliath, and 200 men were burned in the Stone-church, 
_ and 200 more carried off in captivity. Ua Donnagain, 
_ King of Aradh-tire was slain by Ua Briain.’ Cathasach, 
name to Cathain (Cane), in which 6 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the year 
__ he is followed by the transcriber of B. | 1031, which is the correct date, 

_ But the name in the text is right. 7 Ua Briain; i.e. O’Brien. The 


5 Of Cill-achaidh. Supplied from | Four Mast. call him Toirrdhealbhach, 
Four Mast. (1030). or Turlough. 





-luain. Domhnall Got, King of Midhe, was treacherously. 


[1029.] 


270 cronicum scotToRUmM. 


oallad vo “Oomnall mac “Ounlains, et ap sniom 
nanaitnd yin. Ua Cpoa, Ri Teabta, oceipup ert a 
rracpibup pup. 

fet. Oomnall mac Maolpianad -h. Maorloopare, 
Ri Cinél Conall, v0 mapbad vo Claann Piangupa. 
Maolcule Eppeop ipo Macha, quietc. Romanup 
Papa Romae, quiewst. Tene selain 1 Saxain Fup 
Loipee Daoine moa et Caep CCbpoc. 

ket. Mupchad -N. Maorlpeclann 0 mopbab spe 
meabail 00 mac lapnan caorpeé Curpem. Maolora, 
Eprcop OLlban, quiews. Cod mac Llmtbepoms hh. 
Néll, Ri lis, penrsenp mopicup. Posapcaé. 1. 
Leda, Ri pLep Lurps ocur -. pPiacpaé CCpoa pane 
00 mapbad oLepaib Manaé. Murpervac A. Manacarn, 
uapal Epreop, quieurt. 

ct. Maelcoluim mac Cinaova, Ri ‘Clban, opoan 
1apcaip Coppa, obit. OCmlab mac Sitproga v0 mapbad 
00 Saxanoib os dul vo Rowh. Lip Muman vo sabdtl 


cate pop opem vo Teatbachors 1 cClucan mue Novy, 


ub: mule cecroepunc, im mac mbéc sh. goa. “Oubd- 
oansen 1. mac Oonnchada, Ri Connacht, a pup 
occipup ert 1. ve C16 Marne 1. o Srepic . h. Ets. ee 
Silla Poopais h. Llannagain, Ri Teabta, mopitup. 
Murpeovhaé. h. Llartbepcaé, Ri -N. mbpruin [S]eola, 
pep dolum occipur ert. 

}ct. Cnuc mac Scain, Ri Saxan, mopitup. +h. 
Ruane 1. Cp, vapsain Cluana pepoa Dpenainn, ocurt 





1 Caemhghen. The Four Mast. say | gelain). O’F. translates this “ful- 


“ Finghin ;” but the Annals of Loch 

Cé have ‘‘Caemhghen,” as in the text. 
2 Unprecedented. ancacnyd (anaith- 

nidh); lit, “‘ unknown.” : 

8 Kal. The correct year is 1032, 
as O'F. has noted in the marg. 

4 Romanus. O’F. has added the 
marg. note “1032: 6. Id. Nov., 
Joannes 19 obiit.” 

5 Lightning. Tene selean (Tene- 





men,” in the marg. The name is at a 


present applied to the light known as 
“Will o’ the wisp.” nal 

6 Caer-Abroc, “Eboracum.” Marg. — 
note, O'F. 

7 Cuirene. Curpem (Cuirem), B. 
The correct year is 1033, as O’F. has” 
noted in the margin. 

8 Kal. The correct year (1034), 
has been prefixed by O’F. 



































CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 271 


comarb of Caemhghen,' was blinded by Domhnall, son of 
Dunlaing; and that was an unprecedented® deed. Ua 
Aghda, King of Teabhtha, was slain by his brothers. 
Kal. Dombhnall, son of Maelruanaidh Ua Maeildoraidh, 
King of Cinel Conaill, was slain by the Clann Fianghusa. 
Maeltuile, Bishop of Ard-Macha, quievit. Romanus,‘ 
Pope of Rome, quievit. Lightning’ in Saxonland, and it 
burned many men, and Caer-Abroc.® 
Kal. Murchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn was treacherously 
slain by Mac Iarnan, chief of Cuircne.’ Maeliosa, Bishop 
of Alba, quievit. Aedh, son of Flaithbhertach Ua Neill, 
King of Ailech, pcenitens moritur. Fogartach Ua Aedha, 
__. King of Feara-Luirg and Ui-Fiachrach of Ard-sratha, was 
- slain by the Feara-Manach. Muiredhach Ua Manachain, 
a distinguished Bishop, quievit. 
’ Kal.® Maelcoluim, son of Cinaedh, King of Alba, the 
dignity of the West of Europe, obiit. Amblaibh, son 
of Sitric, was slain by the Saxons, on his way to Rome. 
The men of Mumhain captured a house against a party 
of the men of Teabhtha, at Cluain-muc-Nois, where 
many fell along with the son of Béec Ua Aghda. Dubh- 
daingen, 7.e. son of Donnchadh, King of Connacht, was 
slain by his own people, i.e. of the Ui Maine,’ viz, by 
Sitric OF... .. 10 Gillapadraig Ua Flannagain, King of 
Teabhtha, moritur. Muiredhach Ua Flaithbhertaigh, 
King of Ui-Briuin [S]eola, was slain through treachery. 
Kal. Cnut,"' son of Stain,'? King of the Saxons, moritur. 
Ua Ruaire, 7.c. Art, plundered Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, and 





9 Of the Ui Maine. “Oe CCib | lation, renders it O’Flanagan, without 
Maine. This clause is probably | any apparent authority except that 
transposedin thetext. InTighernach | the name O’Flanagan occurs in the 
it comes after the name of ‘‘Dubh- | entry immediately succeeding. 
daingen, son of Donnchadh,” who does 11 Cnut. His death is entered in 
not appear in any of the authentic | the Anglo-Saxon Chron. at the year 
lists of the Kings of Connacht. 1036. 

10 Sitric O'F. . . . Thenameis also 12 Stain. O’Flaherty corrects. this 
incomplete in the text of Tighernach | to ‘‘Sweno,” and prefixes the date 
(1034) ; but Dr. O’Conor, in histrans- | 1035. 





AD. 
[1029.] 


[1080.] 


[1031.] 


[1032.] 


[1033.] 


272 crRoNIcCUM scoTORUM. 
mebpain pop ipin Lo ceona pia mac mUprmn co 
frrapsab ap occoind. 

ket. Donnchad mac “Ounlains, R1 Larsen, v0 vallad 
la “Oonnchad mac Filla Paopars, sup mapb ve. 
Maolpechlann .h. Maolpuanaid Ri Cprmcainn, vo 
mapbad La CCod -h. Concupap hr cemvarb Tardg ocup 
Dian. Scoloc 1. Niall .N. Llannagan, Ri Teabsa, a 
rump oceipup ert. Llatbepctaé mac Muipcepoms h. 
Nell, Ri Cilis, moprcup. Oengur -h. Plann, comapba 
Dpencann Cluana pepoa, quien. 

ket. Catal mac Ruaop, Ri r1apcaip Connacht, vo 
ceacht va calitpe 00 Cpo Macha. Scpin Colum Citle 
et Oamlias vapsgain 00 Falloib Wta chat. Muppup - 
Oua Concennain, Ri -N. n° Diapmava, moprtup. PLlaacbep- 
cach mac Loinsmé, Eppoop Cluana muc Norp, quretre. 

Ict. Cunnend Convene, Eppeop, obnc. Cac eroip 
Oealbna ec -h. Marne ippel Crapdin, 1n quo mule 
oceips punt, acht “Oealbna uictopep epanc. Cac e1dip 
Cuana Ri Saxan ocup Oca Ri PLpange, of accopchaip — 
mile um Oca. 

Hct. 1aco Ri Dpecan a pump occur ert. “Oonnchad 
Beps mac Hips h. Ruaipe, Ri aaptep Connacht, vo 
mapbao ta (Cod -h. Concubap. Macnia comapba 
Dinze et Eppcop, quiet. “Donnchad mac Filla- 
Paopare, apo Ri Larsen ocur Opparse, qureurc. 

Hct. Corspaté mac Ongeva, comopba LLannain ocup 

penainn, qtneus. Maolmupe -h. ticcan, comapba 
Colum Cille, ques. “Oonnchad mac Cprtain apo pi 
Clban inmacupa aevacve a pup occipup eft. 





1 Lost a multitude. So prapsarb 
ap (go ffargaib ar); lit. “left a 
slaughter.” 

2 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the date 
1037. 

3 Cunnenn. Cunneno, A. B. 
“Cuinven (Cuinden),” Four Mast. 
The correct year is 1038. 





4 Cuana; i.e. Conrad II., Emperor of 


Germany. Heis also called “Cuana” 
under the year 1021=1023, supra, 


where he is recorded as having suc- 


ceeded ‘‘ Oenric,” or Henry II. ~ 
5 Jaco. Rico (Rico), B. 
6 Donnchadh, son of Critan. Mac 





































CHRONICUM SCOTORUM,  - Fs 


a victory was gained over him on the same day, by the 
gon of Brian, when he lost a multitude! of men. 
Kal. Donnchadh, son of Dunlaing, King of Laighen, 
_ was blinded by Donnchadh Mac Gillapadraig, of which 
he died. Maelsechlainn Ua Maeilruanaidh, King of 
_ Crimhthann, was slain by Aedh Ua Conchobhair, in 
_ revenge for Tadhg and Brian. Scolog, ie. Niall Ua 
_ Flannagain, King of Teabhtha, was slain by his own 
_ people. Flaithbhertach, son of Muircertach Ua Neill, 
King of Ailech, moritur. Oengus Ua Flainn, comarb of 
Brenainn of Cluain-ferta, quievit. 
Kal? Cathal, son of Ruaidhri, King of the West of 
~ Connacht, went on his pilgrimage to Ard-Macha. Scrin 
of Colum Cille, and Dambhliag, were pillaged by the 
_ Foreigners of Ath-cliath. Muirghius Ua Concennain, 
_ King of Ui-Diarmada, moritur. Flaithbhertach, son of 
Loingsech, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. 
Kal. Cunnenn’ of Condere, Bishop, obiit. A battle 
_ between the Dealbhna and Ui Maine, on the festival of 
Ciaran, in which battle many were slain, but the Dealbhna 
were victors. A battle between Cuana,* King of the 
_ Saxons, and Ota, King of the Franks, in which 1,000 were 
_ slain, together with Ota. 
Kal. Iaco,> King of Britain, was slain by his own 
_ people. Donnchadh Derg, son of Art Ua Ruaire, King of 
the East of Connacht, was slain by Aedh Ua Conchobhair. 
_Macnia, comarb of Buite, and a Bishop, quievit. Donn- 
_chadh Mac Gillapadraig, chief King of Laighen and 
_ Osraighe, quievit. 
Kal. Cosgrach, son of Angidh, comarb of Flannan and 
Brenainn, quievit. Maelmuire Ua Uchtan, comarb of 
Colum Cille, quievit. Donnchadh, son of Critan,® chief 
_ King of Alba, was slain by his own people at an unripe’ age. 





— Cpinain, “son of Crinan,” Tigher- 7 At an unripe. Inmacupa (in~ 
_ nach and Ann. Ult., more correctly. | matura), A. B., which O’F. corrects 

The true year is 1040. to immatura, in A, 
7 = 


A.D. 


[1033.] 
[1084.] 


[1035.] 


[1086.} 


[1037.] 


[1038.] 


274 cromicum scoTORUM. 

























}ct.  Slenn Urpnenn oapszain Do mac Maorl na iby 
ocup an ouipteé do bpiped, ocup céd D0 daoinib DO 
mapbad ann, ocup pect céd 00 bere eipte .1. anoigarl 
Pepna vapsain vo mac Dpican. 

t. Maolbprsve CEpreop Cille vapa, qmeuit. — 
Lomnspet -h. LlaEncan, v0 Cuipemb, comapba Crapéin : 
ocup Cponain, quiemc. Mupchad mac Ounlurng, Ri — 
Laagen, et Donnchad mac Cosa Ri -h. mbarppée 20 
cmcm la Filla Paopars mac Oonnchada, la rig 
nOppage, ocup Macpmé .N. Donnchada, Ri oF 
achta, ag tabeaps cpece atlarsms. - q 

kct. Lletbepzaé, Eppoop OwunletslLaips, mbpechnll 
Oomnatt -h. Lepsaile, Ri Lopchuach Larsen, D0 Map- Fs 
bad v0 mac Tuacail. Tpopeccs v0 pamhads Crapdin — 
9 cTulems Fapba pop Woo h. Conpracla, opps Toba, 
sup benud Leapnan Craparn porp so Lop Dacla Ipa 
ann. Qn tinad 1apum pa impard a opm pup na 
clepearb, spin nad pin callad a cenn de jua cenn ie 
0 fepoib Me. 

kt. Maolmochza, Cppeop Lusbad, qttetre. Ctuaitd | 
muc Nor vapsain vo Conmaicmb, 50 ccoapd “Dia ocup 
Crandén vigal foppa mn «a. an cath anarénrd, calle 
mapbad ipmop a noaoimb ocup a ninnilb. 

fet. Llarcbepcaé -h. Canannan, Ri Cinel Conca, 9 
mopcip. Cluain pepca Dpencann v0 Lopges v0 thd 


Mame, es Cuconnacht mac Faopa h. Petionnes 20 
‘ . ’ : i ve "U 


a 





1 Glenn-Uisnenn.  Rectd Gienn- 4 Bearnan Ciarain; i.e. the <i gapiaal q 
Uissen. This is properly the year | bell of Ciaran.” Dr, O'Conor (Tigh- 
1041, as O’F. has noted in the marg. | ern., ad an. 1043) incorrectly trans-_ 

2 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the date | lates the name “ Cithara S, Ciarani.” ; 
1042. Dr. O'Donovan (Four Mast., J AD. 

8 Community of Ciaran. An inter- | 1043, note») implies that the “B 
linear Latin gloss has been written | nan Ciarain’” was the bell of St. Ciaran 
over this entry, in A., by a more | of Cluain-muc-Nois; but it was more 
recent hand than O’Flaherty’s; but | probably that alleged to have been 
as the phraseology of the entry pre- || given by St. Patrick to St. Ciarain 
sents no difficulty, it has not been | of Saigher, or Seir-Kieran. See note 
considered necessary to copy the gloss. || %, p. 222, supra, The correct 





~ 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 275 


Kal. Glenn-Uisnenn! was plundered by the son of 
Mael-na-mbo, and the oratory broken, and 100 persons 
_ were slain therein, and 700 taken out of it; 7.e. in revenge 
_ for the plundering of Ferna by the son of Briat 
Kal? Maelbrighde, Bishop of Cill-dara, quievit. 
 Loingsech Ua Flaithnain, of the Cuirene, comarb of 
_ Ciaran and Cronan, quievit. Murchadh, son of Dunlaing, 
_ King of Laighen, and Donnchadh, son of Aedh, King of 
_ Ui-mBairche, fell by Gillapadraig, son of Donnchadh, King 
of Osraighe, and by Macraith Ua Donnchadha, King of 
_ Eoghanacht, whilst the latter were plundering in Laighen. 
Kal.‘ Flaithbhertach, Bishop of Dun-leth-glaise, 
 moritur. Domhnall Ua Ferghaile, King of the Fortuatha 
of Laighen, was slain by the son of Tuathal. The 
community of Ciaran’ fasted at Tulach-Garbha, against 
_ Aedh Ua Confiacla, dynast of Teabhtha, and the Bearnan 
_ Ciarain* was rung against him there with the end of the 
_ Bachal-Isa; and the place, moreover, where he turned 
his back upon the clergy—in that place his head was cut 
_ off, before the end of a month, by the men of Midhe. 

Kal.5 Maelmochta, Bishop of Lughbhadh, quievit. 
y Cluain-muc-Nois was plundered by the Conmaicne ; but 
- God and Ciaran inflicted vengeance on them therefor, 
viz. the unknown plague, so that the greater part of their 
} people and cattle were killed. 
Kal. Flaithbhertach Ua Canannain, King of Cinel 
 Conaill, moritur. Cluain-ferta-Brenainn was burned by 


4 the Ui Maine, and Cuconnacht, son of Gadhra® Ua Dun- 





(1048), has been prefixed by O’Fla- 
a) kak OF. has prefixed the date 
1044, 

6 Cuconnacht, son of Gadhra, This 


i entry is confusedly written in A. and 
 B., which read “acu .N. ‘Ounaoh- 








amg 00 mapbad Cuconnacht mac 
Baopa,” “and Ua Dunadhaigh 
killed Cuconnacht, son of Gadhra.” 
The text has been corrected from 
Tighernach and the Ann. Four Mast. 
O’F. has supplied the proper year, 
1045, in the marg. 


T 2 


AD. 
[1089.] 


[1040.] 


[1041.] 


[1042.] 


[1043.] 


276 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


mapbad. Omalecad mac Llainn, Ri Calpage, vo hée 
20 Falop anmtnid pe cenn tp cops 1ap ccoinnmed — 
esne 1 cCliain muc Nop. ; 
ct. Cpz -N. Ruaipe, Ri Connachz, v0 mapbad vo 
Cinel Conall, in pecundo anno 1ap napsain Cluana — 
muc Nop. PLeapsal a Ciapoa, Ri Coipppe, 00 map- 


bad vpepap Teabca Fopmlanrt ingen Maoilpeclarnn, : 


quent. Mdolpfianad Foc oceipur ere. 1 

}ct. Snecoda mop 1pin blicdain vona pms pamanl. — 
Fopcta mop vo tiachtoarn 1 nUllcoib, sup paspac a ovip § 
convecaccup 1 tLunsmid ; et ap tha milled cacars 
cams an Fopca pin +. peall pop Sa mac Opain me 
Maoilmopda do mac Eochada et Do mart1B ULas, 14p- 
na mbet 1 ccumarpque ppiu, ec ap ap [ule pp] mac — 
Maoilnambo vo ponpac Ulead an peall pin. Niall hee 
Ruaipe vo mapbad vo Mod h. Concupamp ipin Copann. — 
Cetepnat Eppeop o TE Collainn vo ece. .h. Darlten — 
Epreop Rinp cpe, quemc. Mac Oonnchada Furs, — 
pigoomna Tempach, qmemc. Ua Crdin, Ri -N. fice — 
ecpach Crone, quieurc. | 

Hct. Cele, Eppeop (poached, queue. Slumgéed la 
‘Oonnchad mac mOpicin oop Mirvde, ect dap Dpeaka, 50 
Salloib 1p 50 Laigsm, 50 pus sialla 6 mac Moailnambo, — 
ecapépo Falloib. Lepsal -h. Maoilmhums, Ri pLep — 
sCeall vécc. Cennpaolad .N. Cull, ollam Muman, — 
mopicup. Fillacoluim ch. Esnis, capo pi Olipsiall, 
quent. Maolpaball -h. edi, Ri-N. FRiacpaé Crone, — 
quem. Sluaged la mac nochada ec la mac | 





1 Kal. The correct year is 1046, | two Leinster princes, out of hatred 
as O’F. has noted in the marg. to their relative (Diarmaid), son of 3 

2 Iuighne. luig., A. B. The | Maelnambo, then King of Leinster, it 
Ann. Four Mast. and Tighernach | is unlikely that the Ultonians would — 
have Ucign., for Lorgnit, “into | have sought an asylum in that pro- 
Laighen (Leinster) ;” but as the | vince, cite 
alleged cause of the famine was the 8 Of Brain, Dpacan, A. Oper, 
treachery committed by them against | B. 











CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 277 


adhaigh, was slain there. Amhalghaidh, son of Flann, 
_ King of Calraighe, died of an unknown disease, before the 
end of three days after a forcible refection at Cluain- 
 muc-Nois. 

Kal!’ Art Ua Ruaire, King of Connacht, was slain by 
_ the Cinel Conaill, in the second year after the plundering 
_ of Cluain-muc-Nois. Fergal Ua Ciardha, King of Cairbre, 
_ was killed by the men of Teabhtha. Gormlaith, daughter 
_ of Maelsechlainn, quievit. Maelruanaidh Got occisus est. 
_- Kal. Great snow in this year, for which no equal has 
_ been found. A great famine came amongst the Ultonians, 
_ so that they left their country and went into Luighne.? 
_ And it was through the violation of a covenant that the 
_ famine occurred, viz., treachery was practised against two 
_ sons of Bran,* son of Maelmordha, by the son of Eochaidh, 
_ and by the nobles of Uladh, after they had been placed 
_ under their protection; and it was through [enmity to*] the 
son of Mael-na-mbo the Ulidians committed that treachery. 
Niall Ua Ruaire was slain by Aedh Ua Conchobhair, in 
the Corann. Cethernach, Bishop, from Tech-Collainn, 
_ died. Ua Baillen, Bishop of Ros-cre, quievit. The son 
_ of Donnchadh Got, Royal heir of Temhair, quievit. Ua 
_ Eidhin, King of Ui-Fiachrach-Aidhne, quievit. 

_ Kal. Cele, Bishop of Ard-achadh, quievit. A hosting 
_ by Donnchadh, son of Brian, across Midhe, and across 
_ Breagh, to the Foreigners’ and the Lagenians, so that he 
_ carried off hostages from the son of Mael-na-mbo, and 
obtained his demands from the Foreigners. Fergal Ua 





















_ Ua Cuill, chief poet of Mumhain, moritur. Gillacoluim 
_ UaEghnigh, chief King of Airghiall, quievit. Maelfabhaill 
_ Ua Eidhin, King of Ui-Fiachrach-Aidhne, quievit. A 
hosting by the son of Eochaidh, and by the son of Mael- 





_ £ Enmity to. “Ute pps.” Supplied | Dublin. The date “1048” has been 
_ from Ann. Four Mast. noted in the marg. by O’F. 
\ +5 Foreigners; i.e. the Foreigners of 


Maeilmhuaidh, King of Feara-Ceall, died. Cennfaeladh 


AD. 
[1043.] 


[1044.] 


[1045.] 


[1046.] 


278 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Maorlnambd 1m Mise, sup Loipspt cealla prep Mive 
acht bes. Nic eye annup pimp .u. mLuum pecunoum 
Ebpeicam uepitacem. 3 
t. Omalsad comapba Paopams, qnems. Cnepup 

mac Domnall, Ri Copca Daipsinn, v0 mapbad vo mac 
Caps mac Domnall. Sluaged La mac Opian go 
Mas napb, so puce séll Largen ocup Oppose. Ropp 
Comain tile v0 Lopecad eroip vamliag ocup peslep, 
opepaib Dpeipne. 

fet. Cluain muc Nop vapgain pa cops a naon porte 
a. peacht 6 Siol Cnmchada, ocur pa 66 6 Calparshib, 
sur na Sinnchab. “Oonnchad mac Fillapaoliain, Ri 
sh. pLalse, 00 mapbao oll Concubmp, vo Rig -h. 
fELoilge. Cluain muc Noip et Imp Clochpann vapsain 
ro Conmacmb. Nacimcap Mmpchepoars h. 101n, 
ms hEpenn. 
det. Ni. Concuphap, Ri -. pfortge, ocerpup eps a 
rup. OUmalgad mac Catal mic Rumopr, Ri 1apchoarp 
Connacht v0 valled La hCCod -h. Concuparp, la ms 
aiptip Connacht, sup Zapproe 1appin apup a mapcap 
Connacht. Madm Slebe Lopmail pop Conmaiemb 
pia nClod ch. Concuparp, 04 accopcharp op Conmarene. 
Domnall ban -h. Dpraan ocerpup eps 6 .N. Concudaap, 
6 pré Connacht. Dile Mage comp vo cparspad La 
CCod .N. Concuparp. 

Hct. Cpeaé La mac Maoilnambo 1 fine Fall, sup 
Loirs an tip o OE cliac go CLbene, acc noco, cappard bu 





1 Hebrewverity. The Christian Era 
coincides with A.M. 3952, according 
to the Hebrew Chronology, as under- 
stood by the Irish Annalists. (See 
Ogygia, Proloquium, pp. 6-8.) The 
year A.M. 5000 agrees, therefore, 
with A.D. 1048, and the reckoning 
of this Chronicle is two years ante- 
dated at this period. 

? Damhliag; i.e. “theStone-church.” 

8 Regles. This name is supposed 





to mean an “abbey church.” See 


Reeves’s Adamnan, p. 276. The cor- q 


rect year is 1049, as O’F. has noted 

in the marg. q 
4 Quarter ; i.e. of ayear. O’F. has — 

prefixed the date 1050. 
5 Sinnacha. Lit. “the Foxes;” the " 

family of O’Caharneys, or O’Kearnys, 

of Teffia, in Westmeath, . 
6 Ruaidhri. Ruard, A. 1 puaro, 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 279 


na-mbo, into Midhe, and they burned the churches of 
Feara-Midhe, except a few. Thisis the last year of 5,000 
according to the Hebrew verity.’ 

Kal. Ambalghaidh, comarb of Patrick, quievit. 
Aneslis, son of Domhnall, King of Corca-Bhaisginn, was 
killed by the son of Aisith, son of Domhnall. A hosting 
by the son of Brian, to Magh-nAirbh, and he carried off 
the hostages of Laighen and Osraighe. Ross-Comain 
was entirely burned, both Damhliag? and Regles,? by the 
men of Breifne. 

Kal, Cluain-muc-Nois was plundered thrice in one 
quarter,* viz., once by the Sil-Anmchadha, and twice by 
the Calraighe, conjointly with the Sinnacha.® Donnchadh, 
son of Gillafaelain, King of Ui-Failghe, was slain by Ua 
_ Conchobhair, King of Ui-Failghe. Cluain-muc-Nois and 
Inis-Clothrann were plundered by the Conmaicne. Birth 
of Muirchertach Ua Briain, King of Erinn. 

Kal. Ua Conchobhair, King of Ui-Failghe, was slain 
by his own people. Ambhalghaidh, son of Cathal, son of 
Ruaidhri,® King of the West of Connacht, was blinded by 
Aedh Ua Conchobhair, King of the East of Connacht, and 
he (Aedh) afterwards fixed his residence in the West of 
Connacht. The victory of Sliabh-Formail was gaimed 
over the Conmaicne, by Aedh Ua Conchobhair, where a 
multitude’? of the Conmaicne fell. Domhnall Bén Ua 
Briain was slain by Ua Conchobhair, King of Connacht. 
The tree of Magh-Adhair* was thrown down by Aedh Ua 
Conchobhair. 

Kal. A preying expedition by the son of Mael-na- 
_ mbo into Fine-Gall, and he burned the country from 
_ Ath-cliath to Albene, but he did not seize cows until they 





_ B. The correct year (1051) has | brated tree is referred to under the 


been added in the marg. by O’F. year 980, supra, where it is said to 
7 A multitude. Op, lit. “a | have been cut down by King Mael- 
slaughter,” A. B, sechlainn, or Malachy II. See note 


8 Tree of Magh-Adhair. Thiscele- | %, p. 228, 





A.D. 
[1046.] 


[1047.] 


[1048,] 


[1049.] 


[1050.] 


280 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


condepnpac peanopeca mopa 1mon dun, DU rocopchaip = 
ile, condeachard Ri Fall 1. Cémapcaé mac Ragnatl, 
Tap. MUP, ocuP po sap mac Mailnambo yrge Fall vap 
a épe. Creat La Cod .h. Concuparp 1 Conmarcne, sup 
mop Fo mop. CCcrsepn sh. Espain, v0 Sogon. h. 
Maine, comapba Ciapan Cluana muc Nop ocup 
Comain, vhéc a narlitpr 1 sCliain Iparpo. Op Calt- 
pate im a ps, um mac Cipechtars, La Conmaiensb, 
pep twipoucem Ciapam.  "“Oubearpa, ingen Dprcain, 
mops. , 

fet. Malt -h. coms, Ri Lepmanac, et abpatarp, 
Do mapbad oPepard Lurpe. Sluar¥ed La mac mOpiaan, 
ocup La A. Maoilpechtainn, 1 Line Fall, so cougpac 
aoipe 6 mac Maoilnambo. Coélan, Ri Oealbna 
becpa, a purp pep volum occipup ere. . 

{ct. Cloicteé tcened opaicpin 1 Ropp Oeala via 
Domnas fele Fiupsi pra pe cus niaip. Eoin oupa 
DiaIpMidce inn ocuP app, ocuP aoin en mdp ina medon ; 
ocup tesnip fo a cluimprve na hén besa an can cesoip 
pin cloicteé. Tancutcup amac sup cosbaccup an com 
baoi pop Lap an barle inaipoe spin aiep, et caplarspis 
é pup conveapbails fo cedoip, et TUaPEZapaccup cpr 
bpmis vilend inaipoe, ocup pa Lespros piu DopiDi7;1. 
Qn call iapum fopran vepeccup na hedin va pocaip 
pots, ocup an vaipbe poppan veproccup na heoin, po 
baoi pop cproé cona ppemais hi calmain. Loch Sure 





——— 


1 Fortress. A. and B. incorrectly 4 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the date 
read “pcanopeca monimou” for | 1054. See next note. 
“reanopeca mopa imon oun,” as 5 Sunday of the festival of George. 
in Tighernach and the Four Mast. | In a note to the entry of this event 
The liberty has been taken of correct- | in the Ann. Four Mast. (1054), Dr. 
ing the text, in accordance with these | O'Donovan observes:—“In the year 
authorities. The correct date, 1052, | 1054 the feast of St. George wason 
has been prefixed by O’F. Saturday; the annalist must, there- 
A . fore, mean the year 1055, unless by 
# into, 1, 2, Omen ne ‘the Sunday of the festival’ he meant 
8 Kal. The correct year is 1053, | ‘the Sunday next after the festival,’ 
as O’F, has noted in the marg.,in A. | which looks very probable, as the 






















CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 281 


fought great skirmishes around the fortress,’ in which 
many persons were slain ; and the King of the Foreigners, 
viz., Echmarcach, son of Raghnall, went across the sea, 
and the son of Mael-na-mbo assumed the sovereignty of 
_ the Foreigners after him. A preying expedition by Aedh 
Ua Conchobhair into? Conmaicne, which he ravaged very 
much. Echtighern Ua Eghrain, of the Soghan of Ui 
Maine, comarb of Ciaran of Cluain-muc-Nois, and of 
Coman, died in pilgrimage at Cluain-Iraird. <A slaughter 
of the Calraighe, together with their King, Mac-Airech- 
taigh, by the Conmaicne, through the power of Ciaran. 
Dubheassa, daughter of Brian, moritur. 

-Kal*® Niall Ua Eghnigh, King of Feara-Manach, and 
his brother, were slain by the Feara-Luirg. A hosting 
by the son of Brian, and by Ua Maeilsechlainn, into 
Fine-Gall, so that they took hostages from the son of 
Mael-na-mbo. Cochlan, King of Dealbhna-Bethra, was 
slain, through treachery, by his own people. 

- Kal* <A tower of fire was seen at Ross-Deala, on the 
Sunday of the-festival of George, during the space of 
five hours; black birds innumerable going into and out 
of it; and one large bird in the middle of it ; and the little 
birds used to go under its wings when they went into 
the tower, They came out and lifted up, into the air, the 
greyhound which was in the middle of the town, and let 
it fall down again, so that it died immediately ; and they 
lifted up three garments,® and let them down again. The 
wood, moreover, on which the birds perched fell under 
them, and the oak whereon the birds alighted was shak- 
ing, together with its roots in the ground. Loch Suidhe- 





chronology of the Four Masters is at | the “Mirabilia Hibernie,” for a list 
this period perfectly correct.” An | of which see Todd’s Irish Nennius, p. 
interlinear Latin gloss, agreeing with | 193. 
the above translation, has been added 6 Garments. Dpurc oitend; which 
by some hand more recent than | the glossarist explains by “velamina,” 
O'Flaherty’s. The event forms one of | in A, 


abe FF 


Getta cha, 


A.D. 
[1050.] 


[1051.] 


[1052.] 


282 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Oopain 1 Sleb Sumpe a elod a nveped avoce fele 
Merl condeachand 1~1n Leabaal. Caccingen Ragnarlt, 
psan Epenn, moprcup. Cpeaé La Cod -h. Concubarp, 
La pus Connacht, 50 Copcubapeinn, et 50 Oapopaicce, 
Sup sab sabdla mopa, ocur sup mapbaro don cup pin 
lay God mac Cenvelms mupe, ocup opoan Oat 
eCaypp. -N. Seprtrp, Eppeop Cille Oalua, qureurc. 

fet. Cpeé La Cod -h. Concuparp, pr$ Connachs, vap 
rapoap Move, 50 pus sabala imda, ocup bpars mop 
arp: Maolouin mac Fille Cnoprap, Eppeop CCLban, et 
opoan Faorvel, queus. Fillapaopms, Ri Opparge, 
mopitup. 

Ict. Llenn pep Lersinn Maamyspec, ocup TUE paot 
na nSaordeal exp Leigenn ocup pencup, queurs. Ovop 
mae Plann, Ri Calpargse, 1us5ulacurp ert. 

}ct. “Ounced -h. Donnchava, Rr Carppl, moproup. 
Mop epeé Lursne La Cod -h. Concupap. Muspon -h. 
Mucain, comapba Darppe, et uapal Eprcop, ocup pep 
Leizinn, 00 mapbad va muintep Pérn 14p TccoIZecht 6n 
1apmepse. 

Ict. Lulaé Ri CClban v0 mapbad vo Maolcolum 
mac “Donnchaoa, pep volum. Cpeat La OCod -h. Con- 
cuphaip ec Lap na Sinneharb sup eapspioo Locpa. Cac 
Slebe Crocs ta Diapmain mac Maoilnambd, eo La 
Tapoealbaé -h. mDpran, por Donnchaoh -h. mb 





Deanery of Tradry, in the diocese 


1 Odhrain. Ori, for Oopamn, 
A. B. The glossarist interprets it 
“ex dorso,” as if it had represented 
“o opium.” 

2 Dartraighe. “Dapcpaicce, A. 
B. Tpocopuuge (Tradraighe), Four 
Mast. Tpetige (Trelighe), Tigher- 
nach (Dublin copy). The name in 
the Four Mast. is the correct one, as 
Dartraighe (now Dartry), is in the 
co. Monaghan, whereas Tradraighe 
is at present represented by the Rural 





of Killaloe, and co. of Clare, adjoining Be 


the barony of Clonderlaw, anciently- 
called Corca-Bhaiscinn. 


3 Steward. ue, A. B. The word 
is incomplete, a letter, or letters, being 
omitted at the beginning. The Ann. 
Ult., and Annals of Loch-Cé, have 
‘““murpe,” which signifies “lord,” or 
“ steward.” 

4 Kal. The correct date, L055, has 
been prefixed by O’F. : 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 283 


Odhrain' in Sliabh-Guaire stole off in the end of the night 
of the festival of Michael, and went into the Feabhail. 
Cacht, daughter of Raghnall, Queen of Erinn, moritur. 
A predatory expedition by Aedh Ua Conchobhair, King 
of Connacht, to Corea-Bhaiscinn, and to Dartraighe,? and 
he obtained great spoils, and Aedh, son of Cenne[digh], 
the steward® and glory of Dal-Cais, was slain by him 
on that expedition. Ua Gerithir, Bishop of Cill-Dalua, 
quievit. 

Kal.‘ A preying expedition by Aedh Ua Conchobhair, 
King of Connacht, across the West of Midhe, and he 
carried ‘numerous spoils, and many captives, therefrom. 
Maelduin, son of Gilla-Andrias, Bishop of Alba, and the 
glory of the Gaeidhel, quievit. Gillapadraig, King of 
Osraighe, moritur. 

Kal.® Flann, Lector of Mainistir, and the last® sage of 
the Gaeidhel, both in reading and history, quievit. Odhor, 
son of Flann, King of Calraighe, jugulatus est. 

Kal. Donnchadh Ua Donnchadha, King of Caisel, 
moritur. A great preying of Luighne, by Aedh Ua 
Conchobhair. Mughron Ua Mutain, comarb of Bairre, 
and an eminent Bishop, and lector, was slain by his own 
people, after returning from nocturns.” 

Kal® Lulach, King of Alba, was slain by Maeleoluim, 
son of Donnchadh, through treachery. A preying expe- 
dition by Aedh Ua Conchobhair, and by the Sinnacha,° 
and they pillaged Lothra. The battle of Sliabh Crot was 
gaimed by Diarmaid, son of Mael-na-mbo, and by Toir- 
dhealbhach Ua Briain, over Donnchadh Ua Briain, in 



























5 Kal. O°F. has supplied 1056 as | some hand more recent than O’Fla- 
the correct date. herty’s. The correct year is 1057. 

6 The last. wiug, A. ‘ding, B. 8 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the date 
7 From nocturns. 6n lanmeinge 1058. : 

(6n iarmeirge). This expression is 9 The Sinnacha; i.e. “the Foxes.” 
glossed ‘‘noctu surgens,” in A., by | See note 5, p. 278, supra, 


AD. 
[1052.] 


[1053.] 


[1054.] 


[1055.] 


[1056.] 





284 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


ou iccopchaip ligoa, comapba Clilbe, ocup Rigbapoan 
mac Concoipne, pi Ele. Mac becad mac Linnlané 
aapopi CLban, v0 mapbad v0 Maolcoluim mac “onn- 
chata. Falbpac -h. Cepbatt, prsoamna Tempach, vo 
mapbad La Concobap -h. Maorlpeclainn, spe meabarl. 
Clarvdeb Capplopa ocup mop apcena vo bpers vo mac 
Maoilnambo na incopin, ap pobor 1 ccomaipce Pp. 

ket. Nialt -h. Maoiloopard, Ri Cinel Conall, mop- 
scuup ert 1 nailitpe. Catal mac Tisepndin, Ri aapop 
Connacht, 00 mapbad v0Cod -N. Ruape. Conn na 
mboct [Eprpcop] Cluana muc No, qmemc. Mae 

joan D0 dul 1 cet CCoba -h. Concuparp, Ri Connache, 
HO Tous a pian do. 

ket. Claoélod Cbbad 1 nOpo Maka 1. Cumupecaé 
ch. Copcoan 1 ninaod Ourboalete. Meap mop po 
€ipinn in hoc anno. Mac Opiain v0 dul 1 coed mic 
Maoilnambd, 50 cous feooa ets maoine 10Mda apf. 
Cpeach La h€li ex La -h. pLogapca o Clucan muc Norp, 
ocur pa mapbad Diap ocon lL ..'0 Croip na Scpepopa. 
Do puachtaccup na ba spe rept Ciapain crac empse 
apn na mapaé. 

fet. Cnaap. Teomanna mopa 1 LLargniB 1. an Dolgaé 
ocup an Tpeagais, sup Lad ap daoimb recndin 
Larsen. Sapbié -h. Cacupaé, Ri Opes, mopitup. 





1 Lighda. Tighernach (1058) calls 
him Ua Lighda, i.e. O'Lighda. The 
Four Mast. and the Ann. Ult. have 
“Cairbre Ua Lighda;” and the two 
latter authorities add that he was 
Airchinnech, or “ Herenach,” of Im- 
lech-Ibhair, now Emly, in the co. 
Tipperary. : 

2 Mac-Bethadh. ‘‘ Macbeth; Rex 
Albanie.” Marg. note, O’F, 

8 Security. 1 ccomap, for 1 ccom- 
cance, A. B. 


4 [Bishop.] In the Four Mast. 
(1059), Conn-na-mbocht, or “Conn 





of the poor,” is called “ opvoan ocup 
apeachup Cluana muc Nor,” 
“the glory and-dignity of Cluain- 
muc-Nois,” or Clonmacnois. He is 
described as *' Bishop of Cluain-muc- 
Nois,” at the year 948, supra, The 
correct date, 1059, has been prefixed — 
by O'Flaherty. 

5 Went into the house. An idiomatic 
way of saying “ he submitted.” 

6 Out of it. The meaning of this 
entry is, that the son of Brian made 
his submission to the son of Mael- 
na-mbé, and received many valuables 
by way of gratuity. See last note. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 285 


which were slain Lighda,' comarb of Ailbhe, and Righ- 
bhardan, son of Cucoirne, King of Ele. Mac-Bethadh,? 
son of Finnlach, chief King of Alba, was slain by Mael- 
-coluim, son of Donnchadh. Galbrat Ua Cerbhaill, Royal 
_ heir of Temhair, was slain by Conchobhar Ua Maeilsech- 
lainn, through treachery. The sword of Carlus, and 
great. considerations besides, were taken therefor by the 
son of Mael-na-mbo, for he was security* for him. 

Kal. Niall Ua Maeildoraidh, King of Cinel Conaill, 
died in pilgrimage. Cathal, son Tighernan, King of the 
East of Connacht, was killed by Aedh Ua Ruaire. . Conn- 
na-mbocht, [Bishop*] of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. The 
son of Brian went into the house® of Aedh Ua Conchobh- 
air, King of Connacht, and gave him his submission. 

Kal. A change of Abbots at Ard-Macha, viz., Cumus- 
gach Ua Eradain in the place of Dubhdalethe. Great 
fruit throughout Erinn in this year. The son of Brian 
went into the house of the son of Mael-na-mbd, and 
brought many jewels and valuables out of it.6 A prey 
was. taken by the Eli, and by the Ui-Fogharta, from 
Cluain-muc-Nois, i.e. from Cros-na-screaptra, and they 
killed two persons at the church. The cows came back, 
through the miracle of Ciaran, at the time of getting up 
on the morrow. 

Kal. of January.’ Great diseases in Laighen, viz., the 
Bolgach® and the Treaghait,? which caused a great de- 
struction of people throughout Laighen. Gairbhith Ua 
Cathusaigh, King of Bregh, moritur. A hosting by Aedh 





O’F. has prefixed the date 1060 to 8 The Bolgach. Omitted in B. 
the entries under this year. “Bolgach” is the name at present 
7 January. @€n., for Eno, A. | applied to “small-pox” by the Irish- 
B. The orig. compiler appears to | speaking population. 
have intended adding the criteria for 9 Treaghait; i.e. “the colic.” Refer- 
the year, which is 1059, reckoning | ring to “Bolgach” and ‘“Treaghait,” 
the number of *‘ Kal ;” but the correct | O’F. observes in a marg. note, “hee 
year is 1061, as O’F. has noted in | apud Dungal. [Annal.] ad an. 1063; 
the marg., in A. 1061 Tighernach,” 








A.D. 
[1056.] 


[1057.] 


[1058.] 


[1059.] 


286 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Sluarges La Cod -h. Concuparp, La Ri¥ Connache, spin 
Mumain, sup Lorpec Cill Vala, ec Fup Peaoil cacpars 
Cinncopad, et Fondiad na va bpavan pobaccap 1 
coippaio Cinnéopad, et Fup mupad aige in cippa 
rappin. = Ruaopr -N. Llatbeapcom} v0 mapbao olla 
Concubarp. 

Kt. Mac Cochada, Ri tiled, mopcuup eps. Tavs 
mac [Cebda] .h. Concuparp, 00 mapbao vo mac Covha 
mic Rucopi spe Pell. 

ket. Ine eps annurp popcpemur cicli magn. “Oub- 
oalerte, comapba Paopaic, quent. “Oonnchad mac 
Dprcin sartprsed, ocup a vol vo Rom va ailicpi, 
conveapbarts 1 nantpige 1. 1 Meamprep Zeepain. 

Ict. Opsean Cluana muc Nop v0 Conmarenid ex 00 
Wb Maine. Clhcin pepca vapgain va ap na mapac 
a. 200d -h: Ruaipe, Ri Opepne, ec mac Tarog -N. 
Ceallng, et t mac. Tuce Cod -h. Concuparp mavom 
foppa ap na mapat copra pat Criapdin, 50 tii a 
mtuincep ocup a Longa. “Oiapmaio mac Tarng 
Ceallaig, oct a mac, 00 mapbad ta .h. 
pia cenn mbliaona -N. Ruaipe vhéc cpr poe Craparn. 
h. Macgamna, Ri Ulead, pep volum occipup ers. 

fet. Reovla ingantac 00 aépucced ipin bliadain 7, 
ocup po be a méo, ocur a poill~ convebpaccap na 
pane pab ersa hi. Fillabpave -N. Raape, Ri 
Dperne, moprcup. Tuplaé veé nuinge .2x. D6p DO 


ves) 





pointing out that the year 1063 is 


1 Kal. O’Flaherty has added the 
date 1063, thus indicating that a year | here indicated:—“...... [Ci}eli 
has been omitted between this entry | Dece[nnove]nalis est, sed non... . 
and the last, to which he prefixed the | cujus est litera Dominic. ... Verum 
year 1061. hic Mag ..... Paschalis Dionissii 


2 [Of Aedh.} Supplied from the 
Four Mast., which have the killing 
of Aedh at the year 1062, as O’F. 
has observed in a note at the end 
of the entry in A. 

3 The great Cycle, O'’F. has added 
a marg. note, now partly mutilated, 





Exigui 532 annos complexus; quot 
ab Anno Christi 582, quo. .... 
tus est, ad hune 1064 annum lapsi 
sunt, cujus annus ultimus 1088; ut 
supra apud [Tigernachum].” He 
has, however, prefixed the date 1064. 
See note 1, 











CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 287 


Ua Conchobhair, King of Connacht, into Mumhain, and 
he burned Cill-Dalua, and demolished the fortress of 
Cenn-coradh, and ate the two salmon that were in the 


_well of Cenn-coradh, and the well was afterwards closed 


up by him. Ruaidhri Ua Flaithbheartaigh was slain by 
Ua Conchobhair. 

Kal.'! . The son of Eochaidh, King of Uladh, mortuus 
est. Tadhg, son [of Aedh]? Ua Conchobhair, was killed 


by the son of Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, through treachery. 


Kal. This is the last year of the great Cycle.* Dubh- 
dalethe, comarb of Patrick, quievit. Donnchadh, son of 
Brian, was dethroned, and he went to Rome on his pil- 
grimage, and died in penitence, viz. in the monastery of 
Stephen. . 

Kal.* Plundering of Cluain-muc-Nois, by the Con- 
maicne, and by the Ui Maine. Cluain-ferta was plundered 
by them on the morrow, ae. by Aedh Ua Ruaire, King of 
Breifne, ahd by the son of Tadhg Ua Ceallaigh, and his 
son. Aedh Ua Conchobhair defeated them next day, 
through the grace of Ciaran, so that they lost their people, 
and their vessels. Diarmaid, son of Tadhg Ua Ceallaigh, 
and his son, were slain by Ua Conchobhair before the end 


of a year. Ua Ruaire died through the power of Ciaran. 


Ua Mathghamhna, King of Uladh, was slain through 
treachery. 

Kal. A wonderful star appeared? in this year, and its 
magnitude and brightness were such that the people said 
it was a moon. Gillabraide Ua Ruaire, King of Breifne, 
moritur. The value® of 30 ounces of gold was given by 





4 Kal. O’F. has added the date 
“1065” in the margin, 

5 Appeared. “Do atjwuée, A. B., 
for “oo atpucced,” or “00 apt- 
qeuccherd,” asin the Four Mast. The 
more recent hand already referred to 
(see note 3, p. 274), has added a Latin 





gloss over the entry, in which the 
word acpucced is incorrectly inter- 
preted “luxit.”. O’F. has prefixed 
the date 1066. 


6 The value. tat, A. Tupitad 
B. Lua, “ value,” Tighern. 


AD. 
[1059.] 


[1060.] 


[1061.} 


[1062.] 


(1063. 


288 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


cabaps 6 Tapoealbaé -h. Dpican, ocup 6 mac Maort- 
nambé (Coo .N. Concupap, ap consnum ppiu, ocup 
an coimméo ceona 6 6 Mupchad -h. pian, ap 
consnum pip. 

}ct. Munpcepcaé -N. Capchangs, prim ugoap ocup 
prim ollath Connacht vo bavhad 1 Loé Calgaé. 
Celecanp ECprcop Cluana muc Noip, queust. Taos 
ch. Muryugean, Ri Teabca, v0 mapbad 6 Muincvep 
Tlamain. Slunsted La Orapmaro mac Maolnambo 
co nSalloib ec Laagmb, ec La Tapoealbaé Nh. mOprain 
50 repos Mumhan tile, go hoo -h. Concupaip, sup 
mapby10e h. Concupmp, Ri Crapparse Luacpa. Tan- 
cuccap pip Dperpne, um Ced mac CCips -h. Ruarpe, 
oinnpad Connacht bedp. Ti -xx. ced a Lin. PLepoup 
cat amnup peocaip evip Connachtard ocup pip Dperne, 
50 coopchaip ann ooh h. Concupaip, cartmiled 
1aptaip vomain, Cuculain na nFaorvel, cule opoain 
ocup aipechaip na hEpenn, ouine ap mé vo berped DO 
biud, et vevoe, Dd6p ocur vo bump ap a anmain a 
n&ipann. 

fet. Mupchad -h. Opican Rigdamna Epenn, Spraé 
Feapp, 00 mapbad opepord Teabta. “Domnall -h. 
Maoilpechlainn, Ri Cinél Coshain, a pPpacpe puo 
occipup eft. 

fct. Cnap.  Slumged La Mupchad mac Driapmava 
im Mrde, sup Loipce Spanapo ocup Labap, et po 
Dpeacann. Ro mapb ono Lecin eipiom inn, Entip Do 
Enup, ocup ap Fall ec Laigen. Mac Saopa mic Ouna- 
oars, Ri Sil Cnmchada, [vo thaptad olla Maoudain]. - 





1 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the year 
1067, which he considers to be the 
correct date, 

2 Battle. The orig. hand has added 
the note cat Tuplasg Cldnag, 
“battle of Turlach-Adhnaigh,” in the 
marg. Dr. O'Donovan conjectures 
that “Turlach-Adhnaigh” may haye 





been the name of the place now called 
Turlach-Airt, in the territory of 
Aidhne, in the co. Galway. See 
Four Mast., ad an. 1067, note ¥. 

8“ Sgiath gearr;” i.e. “the short 
shield,” a sobriquet of Murchadh. 
The year 1068 has been prefixed to 
this entry by O’Flaherty. 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 289 


 Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain, and by the son of Mael-na- 
_ mbo, to. Aedh Ua Conchobhair, for assisting them; and 
_ the same amount was given to him by Murchadh Ua 
_ Briain, for assisting him. 

Kal’ Muircertach Ua Carthaigh, chief author and 
_ chief poet of Connacht, was drowned in Loch Calgaigh. 
- Celechair, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. Tadhg 
Ua Muirigen, King of Teabhtha was slain by Muinter- 
- Tlamain. A hosting by Diarmaid, son of Mael-na-mbo, 
_ with Foreigners and Lagenians, and by Toirdhealbhach 
_ Ua Briain, with all the men of Mumhain, to Aedh Ua 
5 Conchobhair, and he (A edh) killed Ua Conchobhair, King 
_ of Ciarraighe-Luachra. The men of Breifne, with Aedh, son. 
_ of Art Ua Ruaire, went still to plunder Connacht. Their 
_ number was 6,000. A sharp, valorous battle? was fought 
_ between the Connachtmen and the men of Breifne, in 
_ which was slain Aedh Ua Conchobhair, the champion of 
_ the west of the world, the Cuchulain of the Gaeidhel, the 
flood of dignity and nobility of Erinn, and the man who 
_ was wont to give the most of food and clothing, of gold 
and cows, for his soul, in Erinn. 

_ Kal. Murchadh Ua Briain, Royal heir of Erinn, called 
_ “Sgiath gearr,”? was killed by the men of Teabhtha. 
~ Domhnall Ua Maeilsechlainn, King of Cinel Eoghain, 
was slain by his brother. 

Kal. of January.* A hosting by Murchadh, son of 
_ Diarmaid, into Midhe, so that he burned Granard, and 
_ Fobhar,and Ard-Breacain. Fechin slew him therefor, how- 
ever, face to face; and a slaughter of Foreigners and La- 
 genians took place. The son of Gadhra, son of Dunadhach, 
_ King of Sil-Anmchadha, [was killed by Ua Madudhain.*] 






















_ 4 Kal. of January. The annalist | occurs from this year, which is cor- 
seems to have intended adding the | rectly 1069, to the end. j 
_ ordinary criteria for the year, i.e. the 5 Madudhain. The words in brackets 
_ day of the week on which the Ist of | have been added from the Ann. Four 
_ January occurred; but omitted to do | Mast., the entry being left incomplete 
so. The same omission frequently | in A. and B. 
’ U 


A.D. 
[1063.] 


[1064.] 


[1065.] 


[1066.] 


290 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Hct. Crit -h. Clipechoms, v0 Copea Rarde 60, — 
comapba Crapain, quien. Mupchad Liatanaé, pre 
‘amna Connacht, vo mapbad vo Conmaicmb cpe — 
meabail. “Oonngal mac Fopmaimn, canary Cbbad — 
Cluana muc Nop, quiews. 

fet. Enaap. Rucvopr -N. Canannarn, Ri Cinél Conall, 
do mapbad. -N. Maorlptianard, Ri Ulead, ocerpup eps. 

ct. Orapmaro mac Maoilnambo, Ri Fall, ocap 
Lasgen, et Leize Moga, 00 mapbad La Concupap h. 
Malpeclaann 1 scat Ovba, ocup ap ume. Nh. Plas, — 
Ri ULad, ocup mac Ciprta, Ri Sabla, vo Lopecad a ba 2 
wined La peapai’ Mise. 

}ct. Encap. Concupap JH. Maorlpeclaann, Ri Centjiels 
20 mapbad D0 mac a venbpatap 4.00 Mupchao mac | 
Llainn, tea meabarl. CC éenn v0 bperé a habnacal 6 
Clucin muc Nop co Cenn copad la Tapoealbaé -h. 
Dmiain, aoe carga; via vomnas po ceodip cugad 
pum anverp con Dib pauls dip malle ppp. 

Ict. Cnap. “Ounan Epreop Ota clas quem. - 
‘Oonnchad .N. Ceallon$, Ri Ae rheedes occipup ec a 
Pracpe puo, pep DoLum. 

}ct. Enaap. -N. Canannamn, Ri Cinel Conaill, mopi- 
cup. Minpcepcat Nh: Opiain vo proghas a nO cliaé. 
Focpas, Ri Fall, moprsup. 

Ict. Enaip. Mupchad mac Concuparp ch. Maortpec- 
-Lainn vo mapbad vXmlab mac Maoldn 1 gcloreceé 7 | 








1 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the date | occurred, this being the method Pret 


1070. 

2 January. See note 4, p. 289. The 
date 1071 has been prefixed by O’F. 

3 Kal. of January. See note , p. 
289. ‘This is the year 1073, as O’F. 
has noted in the marg. =, 

4 Kal. of January. The annalist 
seems to have intended adding the 
criteria for the year; i.e. the day of 
the week on which the 1st of January 


. § Muircertach. The son of Toir- — 














indicating the date generally followed — 
by the earlier chroniclers. The omis- i 
sion of the ferial number has been — 
repeated at many entries infra. See 
note 4, p. 289. O’Flaherty has added 
the correct year, 1074, in the margin. — 


dhealbhach, or Turlough, at this time — 
King of Ireland. The date 1075 has 
been prefixed by O'F, call 


3 Uladh, occisus est. 





ously slain by his brother. 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 291 


Kal! Ailill Ua Airechtaigh, who was of the Corca- 
’ Raidhe, comarb of Ciaran, quievit. Murchadh Liathanach, 
_ Royal heir of Connacht was slain by the Conmaicne, 
_ through treachery. Donngal, son of Gorman, tanist- 
_ Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. 

Kal. of January.? Ruaidhri Ua Canannain, King of 
_ Qinel Conaill, was killed. Ua Maeilruanaidh, King of 


_ Kal Diarmaid, son of Mael-na-mbo, King of the 
_ Foreigners, and of Laighen, and of Leth-Mogha, was 
killed by Conchobhar Ua Maeilsechlainn, in the battle of 
_ Odhbha, and a carnage about him. Ua Flaithri, King 
_ of Uladh, and Mac Aisitha, King of Gabhla, were burned 
in a house on fire, by the men of Midhe. 
Kal. of J anuary.* Conchobhar Ua Maeilsechlainn, 
King of Temhair, was slain by his brother's son, é.e. by 
_ Murchadh, son of Flann, through treachery. His head 
was taken from its sepulchre at Cluain-muc-Nois, to Cenn- 
coradh, by Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain, on Good Friday. 
On Sunday, immediately after, it was brought from the 
south, and two rings of gold along with it. 

Kal. of January.‘ Dunan, Bishop of Ath-cliath, quievit. 
 Donnchadh Ua Ceallaigh, King of Ui Maine, was treacher- 


Kal. of January. Ua Canannain, King of Cinel Conaill, 


_ moritur. Muircertach® Ua Briain was made King at 





_ Ath-cliath. Gothfraigh, King of the Foreigners, moritur. 
Kal. of January. Murchadh, son of Conchobhar® Ua 
_ Maeilsechlainn, was killed by Amhlaibh, son of Maelan, 
_ 4e. the King of Gaileng, in the Cloictech’ of Cenannus; 





6 Son of Conchobhar. Over the 
name Conchobhar the orig. hand has 
written “U mac Ltainn,” or “son 
of Flann,” as in all the other chron- 
 i¢les, except that of Tighernach, 
which has Ua [tainn, ie. “ grand- 





son of Flann.” The reading, “son 
of Flann,” is probably correct. See 
note 2, p. 292. 

7 The Cloictech; i.e. the belfty, 
steeple, or round tower. O’F. has 
prefixed the date 1076. 


v2 


AD. 
[1067.] 


[1068.] 


[1069.] 


£1070.] 


[1071.} 


[1072.] 


[1073.] 


292 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Cenannypa 1.00 pis Farleng, et a curcim pén La Maol- | 
reclainn mac Concupmp. Tepce bro spin bliadain — 
7. 

fet. Enap. Cluain muc Nop vo Lopeead wile, — 
cenmota an tempol. Mupchad mac Concupap, mic 
Maoilpeclainn, 00 mapbad opepap Teabea. ; 

Hct. Enarp.  Leétopap -h. Larognén, Ri OCipsrall, es 
Concupap -h. Dprain, Ri Cinel Cogan, es Domnall — 
mac Tisepndin, Ri Conmaicne, omnep ocerys a i 
Corbvenaé ancapa ImLig 1bcap, qtreut. 

fect. Maolerapdan mac Cuimn na mbochs, qureurs. 
Ceallach -h. Ruanada, ollam Cipenn, moprcup. Cod 
h. Llatbeapoms, Ri r1apctamp Connacht, v0 mapbad 
La Rumor h. Concupoip. Muipevaé mac Mugporn, 
rep Leginn Cluana muc Noip, quieme. Sluaged La 
Tapoealbach h. mOpican 50 hCLé cliat, et 50 pepord — 
Mrvde, 50 coamig Maolpeclainn mac Concupaip na tet 
La comapba Paoparce et La Bacall 1080. “f 

ket. Cnaap. Mae Cmalsaoa mie Llann, cundialaa no 
Ri Callpase, 00 mapbao v0 Maolreclainn mac Con- 
cupap. Cpu vapsain v0 Fallorp. 

fet. Enarp. “Oomnall mac Taroce -h. Concuparp, 
pisoamna Connacht, v0 mapbao vo Cathal mac Coda 
h. Concupmp, tpe fell. Cachal h. Concupaip D0 — 
cuitim La Ruaops h. Concupmp, 50 pocharde mop — 





1 The Tempol. There were several 


8 Kal. of January. See note 4, p, r 
churches at Cluain-muc-Nois called | 290. 


“Tempol” (templum); and it is un- 
certain which of them is here referred 
to. The Four Mast. (1077, which is 
the correct year) have “senmocio 
a cceampatt,” “ except their 
churches.” 


2 Son. The Annals generally read 
Ua, i.e. grandson, or descendant; 
which is probably more correct, See 
note %, p. 291. 





4 Anmchara. ancapa, A. B., for 
anmooypa, or anameapa; ie. “soul- 
friend.” 

5 Kal. O’F. has added the date 
1079 in the margin. ; 

6 Chief poet. Ott., for ei 
A. OU, B. 

7 Muiredhach. This entry and the 
following are noted by O’F. as 
longing to the year 1080. ree 
next page. . ' 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 293. 


_ and he himself fell by Maelsechlainn, son of Conchobhar. 
_Ascarcity of food in this year. 
. Kal. of January. Cluain-muc-Nois was entirely burned, 
except the Tempol.! Murchadh, son of Conchobhar, son? of 
‘Maelsechlainn, was slain by the men of Teabhtha. 
Kal. of January.* Lethlobhar Ua Laidhgnen, King of 
Airghiall, and Conchobhar Ua Briain, King of Cinel 
_Eoghain, and Domhnall, son of Tighernan, King of Con- 
-maiene, were ajl slain. Coibhdenach, Anmchara‘ of 
- Imlech-Tbhair, quievit. 
_ Kal? Maelciarain, son of Conn-na-mbocht, quievit. 
-Ceallach Ua Ruanadha, chief poet® of Erinn,moritur. Aedh 
Ua Flaithbheartaigh, King of the West of Connacht, was 
killed by Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair. Muiredhach,’ son of 
- Mughron, lector of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. A hosting 
by Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain to Ath-cliath, and to the 
men of Midhe; and Maelsechlainn, son of Conchobhar, 
~ eame into his ‘icon ® with the comarb of Patrick and with 
_ the Bachall Isa. 
_ Kal.® of January. The son of Amhalghaidh, son of 
_ Flann, chieftain, or King,!° of Calraighe, was slain by 
 Maelsechlainn, son of Conchobhar. Ara was plundered 
by Foreigners. 
Kal. of January. Domnhall, son of Tadhg Ua Con- 
chobhair, Royal heir of Connacht, was slain by Cathal, 
son of Aedh Ua Conchobhair, through treachery. Cathal 
Ua Conchobhair fell! by Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair, and 














8 Came into his house; i.e. sub- | has written the words “marom na 
mitted to him. necap,” #.e. “the defeat of the boats,” 


* 9 Kal. O'Flaherty has prefixed the | #8 if to signify that Cathal fell in the 
date 1081 thus implying that the year battle so called. But in the Four 
1080 has been omitted. See note,7, | Mast. (1082) the battle called the 


Mast pa “ defeat of the boats” is stated to have 
# bg been fought on Loch-Ribh, now Lough 
3° Or King. “& Ri,” for no Ri, Ree, and to have been gained by 


ceding word (caorpec) in A. lainn, over the men of West Meath, 
_ 4 Fell. In the marg. the orig. hand | and the Dealbhna, and Cuircne, 
} 





“added in the orig. hand over the pre- | Domhnall, son of Flann Ua Maeilech- _ 


A.D. 


[1073.] 
[1074.] 


[1075.} 


[1076.] 


[1077.] 


[1078.] 


294 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


mme. Cinaoé -h. Ruadain, canary CCbbao Clucna — 
muc Nop, quem. 3g 

Ict. Cnap. Lod -. Maoilpeclann, Ri CCrLrg, mopu- g 
cup. On Mepanach -h. Cochada, Ri ULad v0 baohad 
a Lurmnech. | 

Ict. Enap. Cac ervoip Donnchao h. Rucarpe, Fo. 
naipcep Connacht, ocur 50 Campbpe, ocup co nFailen- 
fae pe Munpcepraé .N. mOprain so nFallor’, ocup 

asm ocuy Oppaséb ocup Murmnetab, sup mapbaro 
ann nodnedhie Db, Ruaipe, ocup Cinnens h. Dprarn, 
ocup Congalaé -N. Concupap Pals, ec abn. 

Ict. Cnap. Op vaome oeur imme in hoe anno. 
Mac Oomnatt -h. Ruape, Ri h. mbpaurn, oceipup 
ert pep doLum. i 

fet. Cnap. Maoilopa h. Dpolacan, Trine pendip. 
Enenn, ocup paor hecna ocup aapcevoil, quien. Torp- — 
vealbaé -h. Opricain, Ri upmoip Epenn, pesnr anno 
era. witam pelicitep piniuis. Marom na Cpinéa pra 
nSalloib, ocur Largm, for Maolpeclainn mac Concu- — 
pap, wbi cecrvepuns Maolerapain .-h. Cacapar$, ocup 
A. Maoilmhiond, Ri pLep Ceall, ec alu. On Sinnaé 
finn -N. Covapnang 1. Cinaoé, Ri Tebeca, ocup a mac, — 
ocur -h. Mmpeohm¥, caorped Munzipe Tlamarn, v0 
mapbad a pill 6 Maolpecloann mac Coneuparp, 1 tloé — 
Murke Nuata -N. Daorgealléan, Ri CCipgratlt, oceipup 
ert o ConaLhlib. : “ 












1 TheMeranach. (Cn Mepanach; | Neagh).” It is possible that “Luim- — 
i.e. “the wanton.” Tighernach (1083) | nech” may be only a misreading of — 
writes the name “In Mepanach.” | an abbreviated form of the name — 
The Ann, Ult. and the Four Mast. | ‘ Loch-Eathach,” which might be 
have “(eoh Mepanach,” ‘“Aedh | contracted to “ Unechi.,” and th 
Meranach,” or “Hugh the wanton.” | mistaken for “lUuimnech.” 1e 

2 Iuimnech; i.e.~Limerick, The | year 1083 has been prefixed to these 
Four Mast., who record this event | entries by O'F. 4 
under the year 1074, say that “ Aedh 5 Kal. of January. See note 4, p. 
Meranach” was drowned “at Luim- | 289. O°F. has added the date 1084 
nech, or in Loch-Eathach (Loch | in the marg, 7 























CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 295 


a great multitude along with him. Cinaeth Ua Ruadhain, 
tanist-Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. 
q Kal. of January. Aedh Ua Maeilsechlainn, King of 
_ Ailech, moritur. The Meranach' Ua Eochadha, King of 
_ Uladh, was drowned at Luimnech.? 
Kal. of January.* A battle between Donnchadh Ua 
_ Ruaire, with the men of East Connacht, and with the 
_ Cairbre, and with the Gailenga, and Muircertach Ua 
_ Briain, with the Foreigners, and the men of Laighen, and 
of Osraighe, and of Mumhain; in which Donnchadh Ua 
Ruaire, and Cennedigh Ua Briain, and Congalach Ua 
Conchobhair Failghigh, and others, were slain. 
Kal. of January. A great mortality of men and cattle 
_ inthis year. The son of Domhnall Ua Ruairc, King of 
Ui-Briuin, was treacherously killed. 
Kal. of January. Maelisa Ua Brolachan, illustrious 
senior of Erinn, and professor of learning and poetry, 
quievit. Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain, King of the greater 
part of Erinn, in the 22nd year of his reign, ended his 
life happily. The victory of the Crinach was gained by 
the Foreigners and Lagenians, over Maelsechlainn, son of 
Conchobhar, in which victory fell Maelciarain Ua Catha- 
saigh, and Ua Macilmhuaidh, King of Feara-Ceall, and 
others. The Sinnach Finn® Ua Catharnaigh, 7.e. Cinaeth,” 
King of Teabhtha, and his son, and Ua Muiredhaigh, 
chieftain of Muinter-Tlamain, were treacherously slain 
by Maelsechlainn, son of Conchobhar, in Loch-Muighe- 
Huatha. Ua Baeigheallain, King of Airghiall, was slain 
by the Conaille. 


4 Kal. of January. See note 4, p. 





7 Cinaeth. The Four Mast. call 


289. The correct date is 1085, as 
O’F. has noted in the marg. 
8 Happily. Letucie., for pelicivep, 
A. B. incorrectly reads paeticem. 
O’F. has prefixed the correct date, 
1086. 

6 The Sinnach Finn; lit. “the 
white Fox.” See note °, p. 278. 








him Tadhg, i.e. Thaddeus, or Timothy; 
but Tighernach writes it “ Cinaeth.” 
He is also called “Tadhg” in the 
admirable genealogical work compiled 
by Duald Mac Firbis, the transcriber 
of this Chronicle. See the Miscellany 
of the Irish Archeological Society, 
vol. i, Pp. 186, 


A.D. 


[1078.] 
[1079.] 


[1080.] 


[1081.] 


[1082.] 


296 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


|ct. Maolpeclcaann mac Concupap, Ri Tempak, v0” 
mapbao opepmb Teabta a nOCpoachad, pep volum. 
Maolpuanad .N. CCipc, Ri Tebta, moprcup.  Caé 
Conacla 1. a Concainn, La Rucvopr ch. Concuparp, ocur 
Copmac .h. Cillin, apo pecnab Sil Murpeohargs, ocup 
mova Crapan na Loh pepan cat, nriambaor va cup 
evn Connachtorb ocup Conmarems, sup paermhed por 
Conmaremb, vi accopéap CCod mac Cipt ch. Rucape, 
Ri Conmancne, ocup Mmpeohat.N. Cola, ocup Sitpros 
mac Conplete h. Lepsail, ocup mac FSappags h. 
Siprvdén, et al. Rucrop .N. Concuparp wuietop Pure. 
Coté Raca Comp eoip Lorsmib ocup pepart Maman, 
sup paoimed pop Lasmb. Mupcepcaé ch. Oprcan 
uicTON Put. 
ct. Marom ta Rumopi -h. Concuparp as Imp 
Cpoachad, pop Muipcepcaé -h. mbprain, ou an po 
mapberd ap Mumnec. Cp ale Muimneé La Rucrop 
Concupap. Inpad Copcumptiad La Ruavona Wi 
Concupap, 1p inbeachtain noé ap paspac boin no- 
ouine Fan malaips. “Oo pocpaccap ann cpi baoshal 
tpiap maré vo Connachtorb 1. mac Cachoal .N. Mugpom, 
saorpeé Clainne Cachanl, et Cupinna mac Mupeheprars, 
caoipeé Clainne Tomalcas, ocup mac Filla Chapt, mie 
Ectizepn, caoiped Cope CCclann. Comnmed caorcroip 
6 Rumop -h. Concupap, v0 Domnall mac Mie Loé- 
Lainn, ocup 00 Conall ocup vE€osan. Oo ctaccap 
rappin Connachta ocup Lucht an cuaipsept 1 Mumhain, 





1 Kal. The correct year is 1087, 
according to O’F. 

2 The staff. moroa; lit. “stick.” 
This intervention of Cormac Ua Cillin 
is not noticed in any of the other 
chronicles which record the battle of 


Conachail, now Cunghill, a townland , 


in the parish of Achonry, barony of 
Leyny, and co. of Sligo. There is 
another Cormac Ua Cillin referred to 
under the year 964, supra. 





8 Kal. O’F. has added the correct 
date (1088) in the marg. 


4 Inis-Ardachadh. The name is also 
thus written in Tighernach; but the 
Four Mast., probably correctly, have 
Inis-adhareach, i.e. ‘the horned is- 
land,” now Incherky, an island in the 
river Shannon. See Ordnance Map 
of the King’s county, sheet 29. 


5 Being left in danger. Tpi baoghi., 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM, 297 


Kal! = Maelsechlainn, son of Conchobhar, King of 
Temhair, was treacherously killed by the men of Teabhtha, 
at Ard-achadh. Maelruanaidh Ua Airt, King of Teabhtha, 
moritur. The battle of Conachail, 7.¢. in Corann, was 
fought by Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair; and Cormac Ua 
Cillin, chief vice-Abbot of the Sil-Muiredhaigh, having 
the staff? of Ciaran in his hand, stood in front of the 
battle, whilst it was fought between the Connacht- 
men and the Conmaicne; and the Conmaicne were 
defeated ; on which occasion Aedh, son of Art Ua Ruaire, 
King of Conmaicne, and Muiredhach Ua Eolais, and 
Sitric, son of Cusleibhe -Ua Ferghail, and the son of 
Gofraigh Ua Siridén, and others, were slain. Ruaidhri 
Ua Conchobhair was the victor. The battle of Rath- 

Edair between the Lagenians and the men of Mumhain, 
and the Lagenians were vanquished. Muircertach Ua 
Briain was the victor. 

Kal? A victory by Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair, at Inis- 
Ardachadh,* over Muircertach Ua Briain, in which a 
multitude of the men of Mumhain were slain. Another 
slaughter of the men of Mumhain by Ruaidhri Ua Con- 
chobhair. The ravaging of Corcomruaidh, by Ruaidhri 
Ua Conchobhair, so that it is doubtful that they left a cow, 
or a man, without injuring. Three nobles of the Connacht- 
men, being left in danger,” perished there, viz., the son of 
Cathal Ua Mughroin, chief of Clann-Cathail, and Cusinna, 
son of Muirchertach, chief of Clann-Tomaltaigh, and the son 
of Gillachrist,® son of Echtighern, chief of Corca-Achlann. 
A fortnight’s refection was given by Ruaidhri Ua Con- 
chobhair to Domhnall, son of Mac Lochlainn, and to the 
Cinel Conaill and Cinel Eoghain. The Connachtmen’ 
and the men of the North went afterwards into Mumhain, 





for tpi baoshat; lit. “ through 7 Connachtmen. Qachta, A., in 
danger.” which the reversed letter (9) repre- 

6 Gillachrist. Filla Cip., A. B., | sents the syllable Conn. Conpa, 
for Filta Cf., the usual abbrev. form | another abbreviated form of the same 
of “Sila Cpe.” word, B. 


AD. 
[1083.] 


[1084.] 


298 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Sup imopeaccap 50 Imlech 1bap, ocup 50 Loé Farp, 
ocup Opus prs, ocup Dun cer, ocup so Opuman -N. 
Clepein, ocup sup muppac Limneé, ocup 50 couspat 
cenn mice Canlis o Enocorib Sainngil, ocup sup cosanlpos 
Cenn copad, ocup sup pagbard~ic ocht .ax. Laoé ann 
evvep Sullu ocup Faorvealu, ocup co pa sZabaryie 
piallu 018; 50 puspac Leo mac Maoudain -h. Crnneois 
epte, ec mac Consalurs -N. Ocaan, et mac Echach h. 
Lunsps, 50 cused ba, ocup dp, et e& et capsed, ocup 
eurpn capa éenn 6 Mupchad-h. Opa. Tisepnach Nh. 
Bpan, 00 SL Mmpevhms, comapba Crapain Cluana 
muc Nop, ocur Comain, queuc. “Oupceablers ingen 
CCoa -N. Concuperp, mopicup. Médp, ingen Tcapoeat- 
bars h. Dprcan, ben Ruavom .N. Concuparp, mopucup. 
Ua Maoilgipre, ollam Epenn, qureurc. 

}ct. “Oonnchad mac Domnall pemarp, pi Larsen 
et Fall, v0 mapbad v0 Concupap -h. Coneuparp [P]aat- 
515. Coblaé prep Mumhan vo corgect for Sineimn, 
ocup pop Log Rib, Sup capsproc Inip Clocpann, ev Imp 
b6 finne, ocup Imp Engin, ocup Cluamn Eman, sup 
ounad Crdipceé ocup Recpmt vap a nép La Ruavom 
Ah. Concupap, ocur co noetaccap Lucht an cobleng pop 
cumarpce [.N.] Maoilpeclaann, 50 prapspac a Longa 
mize ; co noetaro A. Concupap ap cperé « Mumharn, 
50 Cill Dalua, ocup 50 Oal cCapr 1p na Longarb pin ; 
A. Maoitpecleann 1 nllaémb ape ocup a ntlatmb 





1 Cailech; i.e. “the cock,” an 
epithet of Art Ua Ruairc, King of 
Connacht, whose death is entered 
under the year 1044, supra. His son, 
Donnchadh, whose head is here stated 
to have been brought away from the 
hills of Sainngel (Singland, co. of 
Limerick), was slain by Muircertach 
Da Briain, or Mortogh O’Brien, in 
the year 1084, according to the Four 
Mast, and the Annals of Inisfallen ; 





and it is probable that his head was 
carried to Munster, as a trophy, by 
the victor. + 

° Tighernach Ua Brain. This is 
the annalist Tighernach, whose chro- 
nicle of Irish affairs is generally re- 
garded as the most authentic of its 
kind. 

3 Kal. O’F, has prefixed the year 


1089, which is the correct date, 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 299 


and they plundered to Imlech-Ibhair, and to Loch Gair, 
and Brugh-righ, and Dun-aiched, and to Druman-Ui- 
Clerchin; and they demolished Luimnech, and brought 
the head of the son of Cailech! from the hills of Sainngel ; 
and they destroyed Cenn-coradh, where they found eight 


r _ score heroes, including Foreigners and Gaeidhel, of whom 


they took pledges; and they carried off with them there- 
from the son of Madudhan Ua Cennedigh, and the son of 
Congalach Ua Ogain, and the son of Eochaidh Ua Loing- 
sigh, until cows, and gold, and horses, and silver, and 
goblets were given for their sake by Murchadh Ua Briain. 
Tighernach Ua Brain,? of the Sil-Muiredhaigh, comarb of 
Ciaran of Cluain-muc-Nois, and of Coman, quievit. 
Dubheabhlaigh, daughter of Aedh Ua Conchobhair, mori- 
tur. Mor, daughter of Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain, wife of 
Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair, moritur. Ua Maeilgiric, chief 
poet of Erinn, quievit. 

Kal. Donnchadh, son of Domhnall Remhar,* King of 
Laighen, and of the Foreigners, was slain by Conchobhar 
Ua Conchobhair [Flailghigh. A fleet of the men of 
Mumhain went upon the Sinainn, and upon Loch Ribh, 
and plundered Inis Clothrann, and Inis-bo-finne, and 
Inis Enghin and Cluain-Emhain; but Aidhircech and 
Rechraith were blocked up after them by Ruaidhri Ua 
Conchobhair, and the crew of the fleet placed themselves 
under the protection of [Ua] Maeilsechlainn, and left their 
ships with him; and Ua Conchobhair went on a preying 
expedition into Mumhain, to Cill-Dalua, and to Dal-Cais, 
in those ships ; and Ua Maeilsechlainn went into Uaithne- 
tire, and into Uaithne-fidhbhaidhe—so that they brought 





4 Domhnall Remhar; i.e. “Domh- | that some words had been omitted. 


nall the fat.” The Four Mast. (1089) say that _ 


8 Ua Maeilsechlainn went. There | Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair, or Rory 
is an apparent want of connection | O’Conor, and Ua Maeilsechlainn, or 
between this and the preceding clause | O’Melaghlin, proceeded together inte 
in the text, from which it would seem {| Munster, 


AD. 
[1084.] 


[1085.] 





300 CRONICUM scCoTORIM. 


goobarde, 50 Tcuspac ba amoa ocur bpaid Leo. Caps 
na saoiwhs. 

Ket. Murpcepzaé -h. Drrcan do oul ap Loé Riak cpe 
baogal. Muipceptat ch. Dpace, Ri na n Oey, ocerpup 
et. “Dun aged v0 Lopcecad La Rucvops -N. Concuparp. 

Ict. Cennpaeclad .h. Osan, comapba Dpenainn, 
qtneut. “Oonnplete .. Cochada, Ri ULad, 00 mapbad 
6 Cinel Cogan. Mac mec Coda, mic Ruaop, Ri 
1apcaip Connacht, mopitup. Meaorlipa, comapba Pao- 
pace, quiews a nOCpomacha. 

Ict. Ruavop h. Concupaip, Ri Connacht, v0 vallad 
D0 Llmtbepcaé -h. Llartbepcag, ocup o[Llasapcae -h. 
[Llaccaptms, ocupr ape a alcpu ocup capoiup Cmors 
fo peacht, ocur a tigepna. in Cparboeé .N. LalLamain 
20 bavhad 1 Log Cappsin. Cod mac Cachal ch. 
Concupap vo [sabanl vo] Dan, ocur quge Sil Muipe- 
ohag [v0 tabarpc] vo Srolla na naom .h. Erdin. 
Copmac Mainpopeaé, uapal Epreop, quieuis. CobLlaé 
rrer Muman vapgoain Cluana muc Norp. 

kct. nap. Maolcoluim mac Oonnchada, Ri CCLban, 
20 mapbad vo Lpangcoib, ocup Eobapo a mac, et 
Mapsapita, ben Maeilcoluim, vhéc va Eumad. Cod 
mac Cachat -h. Concupmp, Ri Sil Muipeohas, vo 
mapbad 1 Mumhain a ngemil, La +h. Lasapcthans .1. 
Lagapcaé, tua pell. Meabao ap Sil Mupedars wile 
La Mupcepcaé -N. mOpraan, Ri Epenn, sup caps, et 
sup innapb hi ccip, n€ogain, ocup sup sab a Ri§ +. 





1 Kal. The correct date is 1090, 
as O’F. has noted in the margin. 

2 Through danger. Tye baoshat. 
The translation is literal, but the 
meaning is that Muircertach went 
upon Loch Riach, which, or rather the 
surrounding district, was undefended 
and exposed to danger. Dr. O’Dono- 
van renders it “by taking an unfair 
advantage.” Four Mast., ad an. 1090. 

® Kal. This is properly the year 








1091, as O’F. has pointed out in the 
margin. 

4 The Craibhdech; i.e. “the Devotee.” 
O’F. has prefixed the date 1092. 

5 Ua Fidhin. The Four Mast. 
him Gilla-na-naemh Ua Conchobhair 
(or O’Conor), as his name is written 


"under the next year. But he is called 


Ua Eidhin, or O’Heyne, at the year 
1096. The words enclosed within 
brackets are supplied from the Four 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 301 


a great many cows and captives with them. The Easter 
of the wind. 

-Kal.! Muircertach Ua Briain went upon Loch Riach, 
through danger.” Muircertach Ua Brice, King of the 
Deisi, occisus est. Dun-aiched was burned by Ruaidhri 
Ua Conchobhair. 

Kal? Cennfaeladh Ua Ogain, comarb of Brenainn, 
quievit. Donnsleibhe Ua Eochadha, King of Uladh, was 
slain by the Cinel Eoghain. The grandson of Aedh, son 
of Ruaidhri, King of the West of Connacht, moritur. 
Maelisa, comarb of Patrick, quievit in Ard-Macha. 

Kal. Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair, King of Connacht, 
was blinded by Flaithbheartach Ua Flaithbheartaigh, 


and by [F]ogartach Ua [F]ogartaigh; and he was his 


(Ua Flathbheartaigh’s) fosterer, and seven times his gossip, 
and his lord. The Craibhdech* Ua Fallamhain was 
drowned in Loch Cairrgin. Aedh, son of Cathal Ua 
Conchobhair [was taken prisoner] by Brian, and the 
sovereignty of the S{l-Muiredhaigh [was given] to Gilla- 
na-naemh Ua Eidhin.’ Cormac of Mainistir, an illustrious 
Bishop, quievit. A fleet of the men of Mumhain plun- 
dered Cluain-muc-Nois. 

Kal. January.® Maelcoluim, son of Donnchadh, King 


of Alba, and Edward his son, were slain by Franks,’ and _ 


Margarita, Maelcoluim’s wife, died of grief for him. 
Aedh, son of Cathal Ua Conchobhair, King of Sil- 
Muiredhaigh, was treacherously killed in Mumhain, 
whilst in manacles, by Ua Fogartaigh, «.e. Fogartach.® 
The Sil-Muiredhaigh were all defeated by Muircertach 
Ua Briain, King of Erinn, and he ravaged their territory, 
and expelled them to Tir Eoghain, and captured their 





Mast., having been omitted in the |  & Fogartach. The name of the per- 
text, apparently through negligence. son who slew Aedh was, therefore, 
6 Kal. of January. See note‘, p. | Fogartach Ua Fogartaigh, or Fogarty 
289. The year 1093 has been pre- | O’Fogarty, as the name would now be 
fixed by O'Flaherty. written. 
7 Franks. Recté, by Normans. 


8 girvte p, 

* at 
be “ i 
a ras 
*g" we 


Gerke. 
tHe 


[1087.] 


[1088.] 


[1089.] 


302 cRONICUmM SCOTORUM. 


Silla na naom .N. Concupap, ocuy -N. Concencann mie 
Tams, Ri Ah. nOrapmeoa.  OCrLiLL A. Niallaan, 00 
U6 Piacpach Crone, canaape Cbbao Cluana muc Nor, 
ocur comapba Cronan Tuama speine, et Mic “Ouach, 
quieus. ipell Ciapain vo cennac ap dilpe vo Copmac 
mac Cuimn na mbochz 6 -N. LLaénen, ocup o Domne 
mac Plann -h. Maoilpeclain, o R1s Mie. 
fet. Enaap. Domnall mac Plann sh. Maorlpeclainn, 
Ri Tempach, v0 mapbad vpepaib M1ve .1. D0 Luignib. 
Caz Lrdnata pe Taos mac Ruaroxpu, ocup pe Sil Muipe- 
vhas, ap -N. pLloarchbepcong, ocup pop Copcumpuad, 
ocup for r1apcaip Connacht, sup cuiped a nép. “Oonn- 
chad mac Maoilcoluim, Ri Olban, v0 mapbao a pup. 
Mive do poinn evoip Donnchad ocup Concupap. Filla 
na ningen -. Cobchag, Ri Umarll, aapeinnec OCchard 
frabaip, 00 mapbad 6 peparb Cepa. Rucaopr ch. Oon- 
nagdin Ri pao, mopitup. map ch. Bille Ultedn, 
caoipeé Muincipe Maoilponna, vo mapbero 6 peparb 
Mive. Cluain muc Nop vapgain vo Oealbna. 
kct. Enaap.  Tareled -h. Espa, Ri Lursne, occipup eft. 
‘Oomnall -N. Muipisen, Ri Teabca, ec CCmlar’ mae 
Conmeoa, v0 mapbao 1 pill a ngeml 1 Mumain. | 
Cluain muc Nop vapgain vo Conmaicmb, sup vunao 
popup an cempail vo clochat. Oliaoan na cepea an 
bliavain [p1], cona purl aapim ap ap mapp vo dao. 
Inspem mop o Dpo€ daoinb pop Clicain [muc Nor] 
in hoc anno, sup paparsed an Fcatpms wile acht bee, 





1 UVa Conchobhair. See note 5, p. 
800. 
2 Isell-Ciarain; t.e. “*Ciaran’s low 
land;” the name of a church at Clon- 
tmacnois. This entry is written in 
the lower margin of A., page 96, 
with a mark of reference pointing out 
its proper place in the text. The 
writer adds “OL. acomcomnaic,” 
“D[uald] F[irbisigh] is my name.” 


® Kal. of January. The correct | 





date, 1094, has been added in the 
margin by OF. ~ 
4 Airchinnech; i.e. Herenach. The 


Four Mast. (1094)make the Airchin- 


nech of Achadh-fabhair a different 
person from the King of Umhall, who 
is represented by them as having died 
a natural death. 

5 Kal. of January. See note 4, p. 
289. The correct date is 1095, as 
O’F. has pointed out in the matg. 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 303 


- King, «e. Gilla-na-naemh Ua Conchobhair,' and Ua Con- 
cennain, the son of Tadhg, King of Ui-Diarmada. Ailill 
Ua Niallain, of the Ui-Fiachrach-Aidhne, tanist-Abbot of 
Cluain-muc-Nois, and comarb of Cronan of Tuaim-greine, 
and of Mac Duach, quievit. Isell-Ciarain® was purchased 
in perpetuity by Cormac, son of Conn-na-mbocht, from 
Ua Flaithnen, and from Domhnall, son of Flann Ua 
Maeilsechlain, King of Midhe. 

Kal. of January.* Domhnall, son of Flann Ua Maeil- 
sechlainn, King of Temhair, was slain by the men of Midhe, 
ae. by the Luighne. The battle of Fidhnacha was gained 
by Tadhg, son of Ruaidhri, and by the Sil-Muiredhaigh, 
over Ua Flaithbheartaigh, and over the Corcumruaidh, 
and over the men of the West of Connacht, and they 
were put to slaughter. Donnchadh, son of Maelcoluim, 
King of Alba, was killed by his own people. Midhe was 
divided between Donnchadh and Conchobhar. Gilla-na- 
ninghen Ua Cobhthaigh, King of Umhall, Airchinnech‘ of 
Achadh-fabhair, was killed by the men of Cera. Ruaidhri 
Ua Donnagain, King of Aradh, moritur. Imhar Ua 
Gilla-Ultain, chief of Muinter-Maeilsinna, was slain by 
the men of Midhe. Cluain-muc-Nois was plundered by 
the Dealbhna. : 

Kal. of January.” Taithlech Ua Eghra, King of 
Luighne, occisus est. Domhnall Ua Muirigen, King of 
Teabhtha, and Amhlaibh Mac Conmedha, were treacher- 
ously slain, in fetters, in Mumhain. Cluain-muc-Nois 
was plundered by the Conmaicne, when the door of the 
church was closed with stones. [This] year was the 
year of the heat, so that there is no reckoning the 
number of people whom it killed. Great persecution from 
evil men against Cluain-[muc-Nois] this year, so that 
nearly the entire city® was laid waste; et nec potuerunt 





6 The. ... city. an scacp., for | overthe abbrev. Monastic establish 
an gcatpaig, A.B. Some hand has | ments are not rarely called “civitates” 
added the word ‘‘civitas,” as a gloss, | in Irish chronicles. 


A.D. 
[1089.] 


[1090.] 


[1091.} 


304 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


ev nec potuepuns mulieper habitape peoppum, red 
commatvae PUEPUNT CUM WIpIP PUP. 

Ict. Eneap. Oliadaan na pele Eoin pop Come an 
bliadain ~, Fun Zab esla mop pip Epenn ime, cond 
{ comample ap ap cinneccap clems Epenn va vigop 
a. Tpevenup Zaé mi, ocup tpopsad sac Laoi so cenn 
mbliadna, ocur almpana von commohed. Tuspac psa 
Epenn paoipe vo ceallarb imda pobaccap andvoctp. 
Muipcepcac Ah. “Oupoa, Ri -h. nOmalgard, ocup h. 
rhiacpaé, a pup occrpup ere. -N. LLastnen, comapba 
Ciapdan, 00 dol 1 narlitpe. 

Ict. Cnap. Taoce mac Ruavop Ah. Concupaip, Ri 
Connacht, v0 mapbao a pup. Llartbeptaé vo dol 1 
nacupoda 50 hod h. Concupaip, ocup parse Sil Muipe- 
ohargs vo. Maolbprsve -h. Lpoléan, Eppeop Cille 
oapa, quem. Clorgceé Maumyptpeé vo Lopecead sup 
an pepuptuip ann. Dliavain na end. 

}ct. Enap. Plumalip annup ec pepoliy. Plane 
bepraé N. Lleaébepcas vo mapbad vo Sil Murpeohars 
a noigail vallcoa Runop. Mive vpapuccad eromp 
“Oonnchad .h. Maoilpeclainn ec Concupap -N. Maort- 
recLainn. “Oomnall sh. Nen, apo Epreop rep Numan, 
in .Laext. anno aetamip puae, quiem1tT. Snecoa mop in 
hoc anno. 

}ct. Enarp. Catpaoined pe niaptap Teabta pop 
apcep Teabta, oti accopchaip Murpcepoaé h. hips, 
Ri Teabta, ocur sh. Lachcnéan. Deppopsall, ingen 


TAIDE h. Billepaopas, macaip Murpcepcars h. Dprcan, 


mopeTuc eft. 
|ct. Enaap. Filla na naom sh. Nervoin, Ri Sit M uipe- 





1 Great fear. The nature and | is the correct date, as O’F. has noted 
causes of this fear are explained in | in the margin, 
O’Curry’s Lectures on the MS. Mate- 
rials of Irish History, p. 404. The 8 The year of the nuts ; i.e. in which 
correct year, 1096, has been prefixed | there was a great profusion of nuts. 
by O’F. This entry is added in the marg., in 
2 Aedh. (Co1, B. The year 1097 | the orig. hand. ‘ 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 305 























mulieres habitare seorsum, sed commixte fuerunt cum 
Kal. of January. This year was the year of the festival 
_ of John on Friday, and great fear’ seized the men of Erinn 
on account thereof; and the resolution arrived at by the 
_ clergy of Erinn to banish it was, to order an abstinence 
_ of three days each month, and a fast each day, to the 
end of a year, and almsgiving to the Lord. The Kings 
_ of Erinn gave freedom to many churches which were in 
_ difficulty. Muircertach Ua Dubhda, King of Ui-Amhal- 
_ ghadha and Ui-Fiachrach, was slain by his own people. 
_ Ua Flaithnen, comarb of Ciaran, went on a pilgrimage. 
Kal. of January. Tadhg, son of Ruaidhri Ua Con- 
_ chobhair, King of Connacht, was slain by his own people. 
_ Flaithbheartach went into his patrimony, to Aedh? Ua 
Conchobhair, and the sovereignty* of the Sil-Muiredhaigh 
was given to him. Maelbrighde Ua Brolchain, Bishop of 
Cill-dara, quievit. The steeple of Mainistir was burned, 
with the writing in it. The year of the nuts. 

. Kal. of January. A wet and fertile year. Flaithbher- 
tach UaFlaithbhertaigh was slain by the Sil-Muiredhaigh, 
in revenge for the blinding of Ruaidhri. Midhe was laid 
_ waste both by Donnchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn and Con- 
_ chobhar Ua Maeilsechlainn. Domhnall Ua Heni, Arch- 
bishop of the men of Mumhain, in the 76th year of his 
age, quievit. ee snow in this year. 

Kal. of January.‘ A victory was gained by thay men of 
_ West Teabhtha over those of East Teabhtha, in which 
_ Muircertach Ua hAirt, King of Teabhtha, and Ua Lacht- 
_ nain, were slain. Derforgaill, daughter of Tadhg Ua 
 Gillapadraig, mother of Muircertach Ua Briain, mortua 
_ est. 

_ Kal. of January.’ Gilla-na-naemh Ua Heidhin,® King 


_ 4 Kal. of January. See note 4, p. 5 January. The correct date, 1100, 
_ 289. The correct year is 1099, as | has been prefixed by O’F. 





under the year 1088, 
x 


4 O’F. has pointed out in the margin. 6 Ua Heidhin. See note 5, p, 300, | 


A.D. * 


[1091.] 
[1092.] 


[1093.] 


[1094.] 


[1095.] 


£1096.) 


306. CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


charg ocup Connacht mle, moyrtup; ocup a cCluain — 
muc Nop po hadnache. “Oonnchad -h. Eocheda, Ra 
Ulead, do curbped v0 Domnall mac Mie Loclainn, 20 
ys Cinel Cogan. Chimeda .h. Laogaéain, apo caorped — 
Sil Roncan, quent. Macpmt -h. Lleatnen, comapba a 
Crapo ocup Cponain Tuama sFpéine, a iain se a 
quien 1 nOchad bo. to 
}ct. Enaap. Comal pep n€penn um rerpiceyetst ; 
Sh. mOpiain 15 Canypit 1. so Laochaa’ ocup clepéib; ocup 
ap annpin cus Muipcepoaé h. Dpiain Cal na ps 
a mobaipc von Cormohed. Sluaged pep nEpenn la — 
Muupcepraé -N. mOprcan cimeill Epenn 2. veap Rus 
ocup 1 cCinél Conall, ocup a nimp Coghain, ocup pa 
psaoil Cileé, vap Leprarp Campa 1 nUiltcorb, vap 
Sliah Lund ba HE. Magnup vo craccain v0 Fabel 
Epenn. Compac va certepn 1 cCluain muc Nop 1. 
Muincep Taogcin ocup Muinsep Cinaorée, ocup marorp 
ap Muintep Cinaoizt, ocup pa mapbad ann an Filla — 
finn mac me Ucllachéin, Ri Sil Cnmechada. Catal — 
Ua Mumpusén, Ri Teabta, 00 mapbad 6 arpcep Teabta. 
‘Donnchad mac Oips.h. Ruampe, Ri Conmarene, enna 
ert a pup. . 
}ct. Cnaap Ceovaoin. “Domnall mac Creepin i 
sh. Ruarpe, Al Dhophe ocup Connacht, ocerpup epo 6 
Mumncap Eoltrp. Muspon .N. Mupsarp, pep Lesinn 
ipo Macha, qnewmc 1. atap Maoilmaovorg ocup — 
he Cmors. Sit bliadna vo denuth do Winioor y 
Dpicin pe Magnup Ri Lochtamne. Oe 
}ct. Cnap. Copmac mac Cumn na mbochs, v0 
Musdopnas’ Margen, comapba Crapdan Cluana mue— 
Noip, quieus. Cat Make Cobha Slunkeds La Muip- 
ee 

1 Ua Flaithnen. .N. torten, | Cashel) of the Kings.” The year 
“Ua Flaithen,” A. B.; but the name | 1101 is the correct date. a a 


is written Ua Flaithnen at the year ae 
1092, supra. 8 On Wednesday. Ths cornet 








® Caisel-na-righ; ie. “Caisel (or | is, therefore, 1102, which 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 307 


q of Sil-Muiredhaigh, and of all Connacht, moritur ; and in 
_ Cluain-muc-Nois he was buried. Donnchadh Ua Eochadha, 
_ King of Uladh, was manacled by Domhnall, son of Mae 
 Lochlainn, King of Cinel Eoghain. Cumedha Ua Laegh- 
 achain, arch-chieftain of Sil-Ronain, quievit. Macraith 
é Ua Flaithnen,! comarb of Ciaran, and of Cronan of Duaini- 
a eo. quievit in pilgrimage at Achadh-bé. 

Kal. of January, An assembly of the men of Erinn, 
_ with Muircertach Ua Briain, at Caisel, 7.e. with laics and 
 ¢lerics; and it was then that Muircertach Ua Briain gave 
 Oaisel-na-righ? as an offering to the Lord. A hosting of 
_ the men of Erinn by Muircertach Ua Briain, round Erinn, 
_ yiz., to Eas-Ruaidh, and into Cinel Conaill, and into Inis 
_ Eoghain (and he demolished Ailech) ; across Fertas-Camsa, 
- into Ulidia, over Sliabh Fuaid, to his home. Magnus 
- eame toinvade Erinn. An encounter between two bands 
at Cluain-muc-Nois, viz., Muinter-Tadhgain and Muinter- 
 @inaeith, and Muinter-Cinaeith were defeated, and the 
Gilla Finn, son of Mac Uallachain, King of Sil-Anm- 
chadha, was slain therein. Cathal Ua Muirigén, King of 
Teabhtha, was killed by the people of East Teabhtha. 



























was slain by his own people. 

_ Kal. of January on Wednesday.? Domhnall, son of 
_ Tighernan Ua Ruaire, King of Breifne and Connacht, was 
_ slain by Muinter-Eolais. Mughron Ua Morgair, lector of 
_ Ard-Macha, quievit; ic. the father of Maelmaedhoig* and 
_ Gillachrist.. A year’s peace was made by Muircertach 
Ua Briain with Magnus, King of Lochlann. 

Kal. of January. Cormac Mac Cuinn-na-mbocht, of 
the Mughdhorna-Maighen, comarb of Ciaran of Cluain- 
 muc-Nois, quievit. The battle of Magh-Cobha. A hosting 





: P bbs weatsaaay, the Dominical letter | bishop of Armagh, the friend and 
being E. correspondent of St. Bernard of 
4 Maelmaedhoig; te Malachy, Arch- | Clairvaux. penny 


_ Donnchadh, son of Art Ua Ruairc, King of Conmaicne, 


AD. 
[1096.] 


[1097] 


[1098.] 


[1099.] 


308 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


ceptaé -h. mbpiain so Leé Moka wile, ocup go Con- — 
nachtoib, ocur 50 feporb Mive, 50 paneuccap OCCpo — 
Maéa, ocup 50 pabacap caoigerdip a Longpops ann; © 
conveacuttap apide FO Mas Coba, sup pons anny, — 
ocur Fon Deachanrd Muipceptac h. Dprcan et Donnchao — 
A. Maortpechtann, Ri Mive, ocup Domnall mac 
Rumopi, Ri Connacht, ap cpeachorb 1 n Dal Cparde, 
Eup mapbpac Val CCparde Donnchad mac Tapoealbars — 
h. Dprain, ocup Pecca demain sh. Deolléan, es canrg 
rappin Ri Cinel Eogann .1. Domnall mac Mic Loclainn, — 
D0 pushed an Lochta po fpasbac a Mas Coba, cas — 
Laigen ocup epmop rep Muman, ocup apall opeparb 
Mive, ocup vo Connachtorb, sup feprad cats annpin, 
BuP paoimned for Larsn1p, ocup pop Oppaigib. Ice 
annpo usa ocur Taoipecha 00 pocpaccap 171n Cae 41. 
Muipceptat mac Fille Mocolmog, Ri Laigen, ocup Da 
mac -N. Lopcain 2. Mupchad Ri -. Murpeodhang, ocup 
a bpatap, Mac tapainn -h. Pracpaé, pi ch. n€neclarp, — 
pa mac Maoilmopoa -N. omnalt, ocup a bpatarp, — 
Billa Paopas Ruad, Ri Opparge. Magnup Ri Loc- — 
Lainne ocup na ninnyib, pep po cprall popbary: pop | 
Cpinn wile, v0 mapbad ap cpeé vULlcorb. Cmalgard — 
mac mic Cova mic Ruaiop: 00 mapbad va atarp, ocup — 
oa machaip, ocup va bpachaip anniosail a noaloa «a. | 
Concupap mac Rua -h. Concupmp, po mapb pum. 
ben vo bperé va Lenath a naompeachs spin bliccoann, 
ocuf aon copp aca ota a mbpuinne suppiurge a mimlinn, — 
ocur a mbanll mle 50 céip Senmota pin, ocup asarvd — 
care D106 pp aporLle, ocup Da ingen ia. B 

fet. Filla Chips h. Etcigepn, Eppeop Cluana muc— 
Nop, quem. Cuulad-N. Camnelbarn versup 1 Topas 

1 Pettademain Ua Beollain; i.e. 3 But one body. The orig. hand — 
“the Demon's-pet, Ua Beollain.” | has written the word ingnad, “a — 
For “Ua Beollain,” the Four Mast., | wonder,” in the marg. 4 
Ann. Ult., and Ann. Inisfal. read e 
“ Ua Beoain.” 4 Kal. The correct year is 1104, — 


% Attack. Pooryr., for popbary, | as O'F. has noted in the margin. = 
A. poary, B. ~ te tee 











CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 309 


_ by Muircertach Ua Briain, with all Leth-Mogha, and 
_ with the Connachtmen, and the men of Midhe, until they 
_ veached Ard-Macha; and they remained a fortnight in 
camp there; and they proceeded from thence to Magh- 
_ Cobha, where they separated ; and Muircertach Ua Briain, 
_ and Donnchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn, King of Midhe, and 
~ Domhnall, son of Ruaidhri, King of Connacht, went on 
_ preying expeditions into Dél-Araidhe, and the Dél- 
_ Araidhe killed Donnchadh, son of Toirdhealbhach Ua 
_ Briain, and Pettademain Ua Beollain.! And the King of 
_ Cinel Eoghain, i.¢. Domhnall, son of Mac Lochlainn, came 
afterwards to attack the band that was left at Magh- 
_ Cobha—viz., the battalion of Laighen, and the majority 
of the men of Mumhain, and some of the men of Midhe 
_ and of the Connachtmen—when they fought a battle there, 
and the Lagenians and Osraighe were defeated. These 
are the Kings and chieftains who were slain in the battle, 
_ yiz., Muircertach Mac Gillamocholmog, King of Laighen ; 
and the two sons of Ua Lorcain, é.e. Murchadh, King of 
_ Ui-Muiredhaigh, and his brother; Mac Iarainn Ua 
_ Fiachrach, King of Ui-Enechlais ; the two sons of Mael- 
_ mordha Ua Domhnaill, and his brother ; and Gillapadraig 
_ Ruadh, King of Osraighe. Magnus, King of Lochlann 
and the Islands, and a man who attempted an attack? 
against all Erinn, was slain, on a predatory incursion, by 
the Ultonians. Amhalghaidh, grandson of Aedh, son of 
_Ruaidhri, was killed by his father, mother, and brother, 
in revenge for their foster-son, viz., Conchobhar, son of 
| Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair, whom he had slain. A woman 
_ brought forth two children together, in this year, and they 
had but one body? from the breast to the navel, and all 
_ their members were perfect with that exception ; and the 
face of each was towards the other, and they were two 
a ‘ 

| OTK! Gillachrist Ua Echtighern, Bishop of Cluain-muc- 
_ Nois, quievit. Cu-uladh Ua Cainnelbhain was thrown 




























AD. 
[1099. 


[1100.] 


810 


baile, octip a héc agcacmé. Pracpa -N. Plain; can 
SiL Maolptanad, ocerpur 6 Conmaremb. ee 4 

}ct. Concupap mac Mailpeclornn .1. mie Concuparp, — } 
Ri lece Mide, vo mapbad 6 ab Dpruin a 
Mupsiup -h. Concennarn, Ri .N. n’Oiapmava, mopitup. 4 
Domnall mac Cmalgada, comapnba Paopars, quieurs 

}ct. “Oonnchad mac Mupchada, me [P]lann Nh. 
Maorlpeclainn, Ri M1de, vo mapbod DU Minnicen. 
Copmace .N. Cillinn, apo peacnab Sit Muimpeohans, ocup q 
aipeinnech tige mgeo Cluana mue Noi, quieme an 
“Domnall mac Rumop: .N. Concupearp 
m0 Connachtorb, ocup Taipoealbach na inad. te Oe . 
an tepmainn po pisad Tapoelbach -h. Concuparp. — : 
Maoilpeclainn vartpigao, ocur MBE | 


pace. 


Muipcepraé h. 
Mive vo Mupchad. 


fet. Concupap Cipenaé sh. Eochada, Ri Uled, 00 - 
mapbao. Marom Cléa clagan pe nOCipcep Teabta, of 
mn po mapbad Cinaot mac mic Cmalgabva, caoipec © 
Samuin na Zaorte. 
sealdan 1 nEpinn spin blicoain 4, Sup mapb ap vaorm 


Calpaige. 


ocur inniLe. 


fet. Enaap. Domnall mac Donnchava -N. el : 
Ri .-h. mbpitin Dpepne, 00 mappao o Capbpe. Foll 
Sapbpaise sh. Cochada, Ri Ulead, occipup ero 6 Ae 
Macgamna. Tporgab Samta Ciapoin pop Mitipespant 


CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 




















Baot mop ocup tene — 





1 Died of the injury. a K agcat., 
A. B.; apparently for “a éc a §ca- 


cag.” The last word is probably — 


the abl. form of cataé, which means 
“damage,” “injury,” or “ trespass.” 
The Ann. Ult. state that Cu-uladh 
Ua Cainnelbhain (‘‘the Dog-of-Ul- 
ster O’Quinlan”) “died of the fall ;” 
and the Ann. Four Mast. add that he 
died ‘“‘before the end of a month.” 
O’F. has written a marginal note, 
now nearly destroyed, but evidently 
quoting the following entry from the 





| wile 


Four Mast. (1104) :—“ULetftinn 
pathtiace Cluana muc Nor 0 
Popbad La PLartbepoaé Ua Loing- | 
1S 14p na cinnycecat ta Copb-— 
mac mac Cuinn na mbocht;” | 
“the shingling of one-half the St 
church of Cluain-mue-Nois was 
completed by Flaithbhertach U 
Loingsigh, after the work had 
commenced by Cormac Mac Cuinn- 
na-mbocht.” 
2 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the 
1105, which is the correct date, — 











CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 311 


from his horse at Tragh-bhaile, and died of the injury.’ A. 
_ Fiachra Ua Flainn, chief of Sfil-Maeilruanaidh, was slain [1100 
__ by the Conmaicne. 
__. Kal? Conchobhar, son of Maelsechlainn, i.e. son of [1101.] 
_ Conchobhar, King of the Half of Midhe, was slain by the 
; a Muirghius Ua Concennain, King of 
_ Ui-Diarmada, moritur. Dombhnall, son of Amhalghaidh, 
x comarb of Patrick, quievit.* 
Kal‘ Donnchadh, son of Murchadh, son of [FJlann Ua  [1102.] 
Maeilsechlainn, King of Midhe, was killed by Ua Minnigen. 
y Cormac Ua Cillin, chief vice-Abbot of the Sil-Muiredhaigh, 
_ and Airchinnech of the guests’ house of Cluain-muc- 
 Nois, quievit in pace. Dombhnall, son of Ruaidhri Ua 
_ Conchobhair, was dethroned by the Connachtmen, and 
Toirdhealbhach was elected in his place. Toirdhealbhach 
Ua Conchobhair was inaugurated at Ath-an-termainn. 
Muircertach Ua Maeilsechlainn was dethroned, and the 
sovereignty of Midhe was given to Murchadh. 
_ Kal Conchobhar Cisenach Ua Eochadha, King of [1108] 
Uladh, was killed. The victory of Ath-Clagan® was 
gained by the men of East Teabhtha, where Cinaeth, son 
of Mac Amhalghadha, chief of Calraighe, was slain. The 
Allhallowtide of the wind. Great wind and lightning’ in 
Erinn in this year, which killed a multitude’ of people 
and of cattle. 

Kal of January. Domhnall, son of Donnchadh Ua [1%] 
Ruaire, King of Ui-Briuin-Breifne, was killed by the 
men of Cairbre. Goll Garbhraighe Ua Eochadha, King 
of padh, was slain by Ua Mathghamhna. The fasting 








8 Quievit. ds A. 65, “died,” B Calgan.” It was the name of a ford 
‘Kal. O'F. has added the real | ®™@ewhere in the co. of Longford, 
date, 1106, in the margin. probably on the river Inny. 


| *Kal.. The correct year is 1107, | 7 righting. Tene selain. 8 
ag has been noted in the margin by meee 270. See cee pee 
O’F. ; 

6 Ath-Clagan ; i.e. “ Clagan’s ford.” 8 A multitude. Op; lit, “a 
The Four Mast, (1107) call it “Ath- | slaughter.” 








312 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


A. Maorlpecleann, 15 cuns1d paompe Cille moimpe 
Mune emp, peo mox wnoicatre Deup 1. cape Murp- 
cepoas po Epinn ocup apgain M19e. 

}ct. Cape pop pepc fet. Man, ocup mineape 1 
pampod. PLlatbepcaé -h. Longs, comapba Crapain, 
qureurt. 

ket. Silla Colum -h. Maoitmhuand, Ri pLep eCeall, 
ocur a ben, 00 mapbad .1. ingen . pic, Don 
ch. Cillein. Mearom na Rapp pe ‘Torproodbbat mae 
Rucropu, pe prs Connachz, ocur pe Sil Muipeohans, por 
Conmaicmb, 1 Mars Cli, Sup mapbad ap Conmaicne 
ann tm mae Concaitte .N. Lepsail, ocur um mac Billa 
na naom -h. Lepsaal, ocup um Ouapean mac “Ourpoapa 
h. Eolmp, ocup pocharde ante. 

kct. pop Oomnach. (Cod mac Domnall h. Rucaape 
a. an Filla ppdn maol, vo coinnmed egne a cClaain 
muc Now. Snecoa na nen. Sicc mép Zo cverpdip na 
Brarde copab tipmoarb Locha Epenn. Catal h. mMug- 
pin, taoipec Clainne Cacanl, mopitup. Cliain muc 
Nop vapgain 00 Ol cCap, spe comaiple Murpcepoars 

Uprican. Senad mop 1 Liao me nCongupa a. pas 
oal rep nEpenn ecip Laochoib ocup clepcharb «». um 
Mupeepcaé Nh. mOpicon, Ri Muman, so martib 
Muman, ocup Maolmuipe +h. Ounain, aro eppus 
Epenn, ocup Ceallaé mac Coda, comapba Paoparg. 


Cr 1 po tTRa nuimp aopa spond baoi ain dal pin 2. 





1 Reputation of Muircertach. Taye 
Mupcencarg. The word cape 


these entries, 
margin, 


as O’F. has noted in the 


(tasc) signifies fame, reputation, or 
character. The meaning seems to 
be that Muircertach’s character was 
brought into ill repute throughout 
Erinn, owing to the fasting against 
(vor, lit. “on”) him of Ciaran’s 
congregation. Dr. O’Conor (Ann. 
Buelliani, ad an. 1114) translates 
care “gritudo,” but incorrectly. 
The year 1108 is the correct date of 





® Little Easter in summer ; ¢.e. Low 
Sunday in summer, The criteria here 
given point to the year 1109, in which 


Easter Sunday coincided with the 7th — 


of the Kalends of May, or 25th of 
April, the 2nd of May being conse- 
quently Low Sunday. 
added a note on the subject, which ‘is 
now nearly destroyed, 

* The Geocach. The word idle 


eg 


OF, has 








” CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 313: 

of the congregation of Ciaran, against Muircertach Ua 
Maeilsechlainn,demanding thefreedom of Cill-mér-Muighe- 
Enir, sed mox vindicavit Deus, viz., by the reputation! of 
Muireertach throughout Erinn, and the plundering of 
Midhe. 

Kal. Easter on the seventh of the Kalends of May, 
and Little Easter in summer.? Flaithbhertach Ua 
Loingsigh, comarb of Ciaran, quievit. 

- Kal. Gillacoluim Ua Maeilmhuaidh, King of Feara- 
Ceall, and his wife, i.e. the daughter of Ua Bric, were 
slain by the Geocach* Ua Aillein. The victory of the 
Ross was gained by Toirdhealbhach, son of Ruaidhri, 
King of Connacht, and by the Sil-Muiredhaigh, over the 
Conmaicne, in Magh-Ai, where a multitude of the Con- 
maicne were slain, together with the son of Cucaille Ua 
Ferghail, and the son of Gilla-na-naemh Ua Ferghail, and 
Duarcan, son of Dubhdara Ua Eolais, and a great many 
others. 

— Kal. of January on Sunday.* Aedh, son of Domhnall Ua 
Ruaire, z.c. the Gilla-srén-mael,’ billeted himself forcibly 
at Cluain-muc-Nois. The snow of the birds.® Great frost, 
sothat the droves passed dry-footed over the lakes of Erinn. 
Cathal Ua Mughrdin, chief of Clann-Cathail, moritur. 
Cluain-muc-Nois was plundered by Dal-Cais, through the 
counsel of Muircertach Ua Briain. A great synod at 
Fiadh-mic-Aenghusa, viz., a royal convention of the men 
_ of Erinn, both laics and clerics, i.e. including Muircertach 
UaBriain, King of Mumhain, with the nobles of Mumhain, 
and Maelmuire Ua Dunain, chief Bishop of Erinn, and 
Ceallach, son of Aedh, comarb of Patrick. This is the 
number, indeed, of the men in orders who were in that 





" (geocach) means a glutton, and also 5 Gilla-srén-mael; i.e. “the flat- 
a strolling player, and beggar. Itis | nosed gilla (or fellow).” 
sometimes used as a proper name. 

4 On Sunday. This indicates the 6 The snow of the birds. So called 
‘year 1111, in which the Kalends, or | from the excessive destruction of birds 
Ast, of January fell on a Sunday. caused by it. 


AD. 
[1104.] 


[1105.] 


[1106.] 


[1107] 


314 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


c. [uin] eppeop caogad, peacht pagape Dece ap op 
[cevar6], ocup .u111. prdic veotain, ocup ni fuil aapem - 
ap imao a clepcharb éena. Ro cinned tha pragla 
imdarpin penad pin. Senad mop Uipms ipin bliaoon 
ceona, (ocup 1pin Senad yin 0 poinned parpce ceall 
Lep Mive ap 06 exip Eppcop Cluana mue Nop ocup 
Epypcop Cluana Ipapo «. 0 Cloéan anoimpim pian 
vEpreop Cluana muc Nop, ocup ota an Cloéan ceona 
rain vEppcop Cluana 1Ipoaipo), La Mupchad +h. Maoit- 
reclainn, ocup La Cochard .N. Ceallarg, ocup La pamad 
Crapéan; um Filla Crys -h. Maoiledin 1. Cb Cluane 
[mue Noy]. Cpeaé La Toippoealbaé .h. Coneuparp, 
Eup aips Tepmann Oabeoc. Cpeaé ele ler sup mips 
5O Dinn Eclappa, ocup 50 Sliab Rupen, ocup Fo 
Epne. 

fet. Silla murpe -h. Posapconé, comapba Openuinn 
Cluana pepta, vhee versup iap papuccad Ciapdin ope 
Lopsad an Tpevdoil. ; 

fect. Epoam Crapain vo cumoaé ecip rluinne ocup 
benncobap. Fabal Mupchada -h. Maoilpechtaann Le 
Mupeepcaé:.h. Oprcan. bo ap mop. Longa, 
aipcinnech Opoa Paoparg, v0 Lopecad 6 tined parsnén 
ap Crumé Poopaice. Comaroepacht evip Muipcepoaé 





1 Hight. The number is incomplete 
in A., the scribe having apparently 
been unable to decipher his original. 
Some later hand has added the cha- 
facters u111. in the place left blank. 

2 Bishops. corp., A. B., which is 
imperfect. 

8 Hundred. Omitted in A. and B. 
Supplied from Four Masters. 

. 4 Synod of Uisnech. This is the 
only Irish chronicle which gives an 
account of the proceedings of the 
synod of Uisnech. The Annals of 
Boyle, at the year 1114 (O’Conor’s 
ed.), mention “the synod of Uisnech 





_ by the clerics of Erinn,” in a note to 


which entry Dr, O'Conor refers to the 
Ann. Ult., at the year 1111, and the 
Ann. of Inisfallen, at the year 1094 
1111. But the synod referred to in 
these authorities is that of Fiadh- 
mic-Aenghusa. Colgan states that 
the synod of Fiadh-mic-Aenghusa 
was called “the synod of Uisnech” 
in a marginal note in the copy of the 
Ann. Four Masters which he used. 
(Trias Thaumat., p. 300). Fiadh- 
mic-Aenghusa, “the land of the son 
of Aengus,” is stated in the Annals: 
Loch Cé (1111) to have been sif 





ye 
mys! 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 315 























convention, viz., fifty-eight’ bishops,? three [hundred]* 
' and seventeen priests, and eight score deacons ; and there 
is no counting the multitude of their clerics besides, 
Numerous regulations were determined, truly, in that 
synod. The great synod of Uisnech* was held in the 
same year, (and it was in this synod the diocese of 
Feara-Midhe was divided into two parts, between the 
Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois and the Bishop of Cluain- 
Iraird, viz., from Clochan-an-imrim westwards, to the 
Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, and from the same Clochan 
eastwards to the Bishop of Cluain-Iraird), by Murchadh 


by the congregation of Ciaran, with Gillachrist Ua 
Maeileoin,’ i.e. Abbot of Cluain[-muc-Nois]. A predatory 
expedition by Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, and he 
plundered Terman-Dabheoc. Another predatory expe- 
dition by him, and he plundered to Benn-Kchlabhra, and 
to Sliabh-Rusen, and to Loch Erne. 

_ Kal® Gillamuire Ua Fogartaigh, comarb of Brenainn 
of Cluain-ferta died of a fall from his horse, after pro- 
faning Ciaran by burning the Tredoil.’ 

_ Kal The Erdamh® of Ciaran was covered, both with 
shingles and benncobhar.? Capture of Murchadh Ua 
Maeilsechlainn by Muircertach Ua Briain. A great cow 
mortality. Ua Longain, Airchinnech of Ard-Patrick, was 
burned by lightning on Cruach-Padraig. A compact 





near Uisnech (Usney hill, in West- 
meath), and the synods held in both 
places might, therefore, easily have 


ted, “a herd or flock,” and out, 
‘‘a stable or stye,” as mucport (pron. 
mucoil), which is glossed “ hara” (pig- 


Va Maeilsechlainn, and by Eochaidh Ua Ceallaigh, and - 


been confounded. See Cambrensis 
Eversus., ed. for Celt. Soc. by Rev. 
Matthew Kelly, vol. ii., p. 53. 

5 Gillachrist Ua Maeileoin. The 
reputed compiler of the present Chro- 
nicle. See Introduction. 

6 Kal. The correct date is 1112. 

7 Tredoil. This was probably a 
house for cattle; ic. cpeoport, from 








stye) in a very ancient MS. quoted 
by Zeuss, Gram. Celt., vol. i., p. 198. 


8 Erdamh. See note 7, p. 188. 


9 Benncobhar. Lit. “the shield of 
the summit.” O’Donovan (Suppl. 
to O'Reilly's Irish Dictionary, voce 
beannéobay.), explains it as “the 
conical cap of a round tower,” . 


AD. 
[1107.] 


[1108.] 


[1109.] 


ae ge ee 


pee Se) ee eee ig ee = me 


ts 





316 CRONICUM sCOTORUM. 


ch. mOprcon et mac Mie Lochtamn. Dpaoan po Zabad 
15 Luimneé in hoc anno va cparsro DEE ina ToD, DE 
popn .x. na Leted san a prolcad, ocup TP DO DIP 
ocur Da MEN a Pad a etpe bpaiger. 

Kct. Mop salop v0 sabal Muipcepcags Ah. Dpian, 
SUP impardpros Pip Epenn aap. Ro sab Oiapmaro he 

rican quse Mumhan rappin. Ro sab Tarpoealbaé 
mse Connacht, ocup po invapnb a bpatap 1m Mumain, 
ocup Conmarcne vo Mag CCof. Mop pluarged La Lervé 
Cun wile pin Mumain, Oonnchad mac Mic Loclainn, 
ocur a mac, ocur Conall ocur Cogan, ocup Cipsialla ; 
h. Macsgamna co nUlteoib, ocup h. MaoilpeéLainn 
50 prepa’ Mive, ec Cod -h. Ruaape so prepmbd 
Dpepne, ex Tapoealbaé .N. Concuparp 50 sConnachcord. 
Ocabard mane pluag ag na Delacad erp Connachtors 
ocup Muimmnechorb, ubs mule ocei~ puns, um Cachal 
ch. nOubeinn. Oo bep, ofan] Tapoealbaé .A. Con- 
cupmip capoe opepaib Muman cap papuccad Lerte 
Cunn pp pe mbliaona Cpeaé La Mupchad -h. 
Maoilpeclainn so plebsb Laigen. Cpeé La Torp- 
vealbaé .N. Concupap a mapcap Moe, sup aps ule. 
Oonnchad .h. Cochada, Ri Ulad vo vallav vo -h. 
Matsamna, ocup prxe v0 -N. Macsamna. 

}ct. Snecoa ppuabach po mop, ocuyr proce, 50 ceecedip 
na himepcaine copa [1b }apmenb cap ppm LochaibEpenn, 





Prisciant of St: Gall, quoted by 
Zeuss, Gram. Celt., vol. i, p. 22; 


1 Kal, O'Flaherty has prefixed the 
year 1114, which is the true date. 


2 Conall; i.e. the Cinel Conaill, for 
whom is here put the name of their 
ancestor, Conall, son of Niall of the 
Nine Hostages. 

3 Eoghan. The Cinel Eoghain are 
here referred to. See note 2, p. 244. 

4 The Belata. This name would 
signify “the cross roads,” or ‘the 
passes.” The word betac (plur. 
betaca, dat. plur. belacarb) is 
glossed “‘compitum” in the Codex 





but in the Book of Leinster, a twelfth 
cent. MS. in the Library of Trin. 
Coll, Dublin (Class H. 2, 18, fol. 
80, a), it is put for beatach (beal- 
ach), aroad, way, or pass. See infra, 
ad an. 1129. a 
5 To the violation. Tap paypuc- 
cad. The meaning is that Toirdheal- 
bhach, or Turlough, granted a year’s 
respite to the men of Mumhain, 
against the wishes of the men of — 








‘CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 317 


between Muircertach Ua Briain and the son of MacLoch- 
lainn. A salmon was caught at Luimnech this year, 
which was twelve feet in length ; twelve hands in breadth, 
without being split open; and the length of its neck fin 
was three hands and two fingers. 

Kal.’ A great disease seized Muircertach Ua Briain, 
so that the men of Erinn turned against him. Diarmaid 
Ua Briain afterwards took possession of the sovereignty 
of Mumhain. ‘Toirdhealbhach took possession of the 
sovereignty of Connacht, and expelled his brother into 
Mumhain, and the Conmaicne from Magh-Ai. A great 
hosting by all Leth-Chuinn into Mumhain, viz., Donn- 
chadh, son of Mac Lochlainn, and his son; and Conall,? and 
Eoghan, and the Airghialla; Ua Mathghamhna, with 


a the Ultonians; and Ua Maeilsechlainn, with the men of 


Midhe ; and Aedh Ua Ruaire, with the men of Breifne; 
-and Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, with the Connacht- 
men. A cavalry fight took place at the Belata,* between 
the Connachtmen and the men of Mumhain, where many 
were slain together with Cathal Ua Duibhcinn. Toird- 
healbhach Ua Conchobhair, however, granted a respite to 
the men of Mumhain, to the violation® of Leth-Chuinn, 
during the space of a year. A preying expedition by 
Murchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn, as far as the hills of 
Laighen.® A preying expedition by Toirdhealbhach Ua 
Conchobhair into the West of Midhe, all of which he 
plundered. Donnchadh Ua Eochadha, King of Uladh, 
was blinded by Ua Mathghamhna, and the sovereignty 
was given to Ua Mathghamhna. 
Kal.’ Very great “sweeping” snow, and frost, so that 
the droves of cattle were wont to pass dry-footed over the 





Leth-Chuinn, or the northern half of | near Ste1bte, now Sletty, or Slatey, 
Erinn. in the Queen’s county. 
6 As far as the hills of Laighen. 
Eo plebrib Laigen. The hills re- 7 Kal. The correct year, 1115, 
ferred to are most likely the hills | has been prefixed by O'F. 


A.D. 
[1109.] 


[1110.} 


[1111.} 


818 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Eup mapp ap mnile ocup én, ocup daomne. "Orepmare 
A. Dpican, Ri Maman, v0 sab&l vo Murpeepraé .h. 
Bpiain, ocur 00 Salloib Lurmmé, ocup prge 00 Murp- 
ceptaé. Tapoealbaé .N. Concupmp, Ri Connacht, v0 
Lot 50 mop Da muintep Féin, Fo parb a ccpolige bea, 
et tepna fa veors. OCplart, ingen +h. Maortpectainn, 
ben Torpoeatbars -. Concuparp, moprcup. Coblaré 
la Tapoealbaé -h. Concupmp pop Sinainn, FUP aps 
Domnall mac Conrlebe h. Lepsail, ocup 50 coanis 
Mupchad .h. Maorlpecleann na ceé, ocup sup vaIng- 
mgeo Ler buinne ocup Verge, ocur sup vobaip cp 
peova vo Ciapdn 1 cCléiain 1. copn 50 nép, ocup blede 
apsard co nop, ec mulloé uma co nop ocup co napsue. — 
Cat Ota cliaé pop Largnnb, pe Domnall mac Muip- 
cepoans ch. Opican. Mrive vo pomn evoip va mae 
Domnall .N. Maorlpeclainn [41. Maolpechlainn ocup 
Mupchad]|. Maolpeclainn vo curmm fo ceddip La 
Mupchad. Cluain muc Nop vapgain 00 Muimnechorb, 
ocup Dpem 16 D0 mapbad o. Ff. T. [CL]oroem 
LMt of an Emuin rin calmoain; cpargs frp o a Clapaé 
conige a faopap pop saé Let ann; va cpargio a Leteo 
anhesmmp a clapons. 
fet. Mapad Dopuma, ocup Lopeca’s Cinn copa, oct 

apgoain Tuco Muman La Tarpoealbach mac Ruaopa 
Nh. Concupmp. FSopca mop spin epach, so pecaro an 
rep a mac ocup a ingen ap biad, ocup Fo mevip na 
oaoine cro a chéle ann, ocup na com. Papugad Langen 
tile acht bes, ocur a pspaoiled po Erpinn ap ZopTa. 





1 A multitude. ap, lit “a 
slaughter.” 

® Buinne and Beithe. Dunne ocur 
Deite, A. B. The Four Mast. (1115) 
combine these two names into one, 
“ Buidhi-an-bheithe,” which means 
“the yellow .[surfaced land] of the 
birch,” and was apparently the name 
of an island in the Shannon. 

8 Cluain; i.e. Cluain-muc-Nois, or 
Clonmacnois, 





4 Patena. mutt., A. B. “The 
name is written multécc by the Four 
Mast. By patena is meant the cover 
of a chalice. 

5 Slain. The letters o. p. t. follow 
in the text, but the Editor is unable 
to determine what words they repre- 
sent. ! 

° On either side. The sword 
question was, therefore, a two-edj 


o 


sword. This entry, which is 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 819 


principal lakes of Erinn, which killed a multitude! of cattle, 
birds, and men. Diarmaid Ua Briain, King of Mumhain, 
was captured by Muircertach Ua Briain, and by the 
Foreigners of Luimnech, and the sovereignty was given 
to Muircertach. Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, King 
of Connacht, was greatly wounded by his own people, so 
that he was in the agonies of death; but he recovered 
ultimately. Arlaith, daughter of Ua Maeilsechlainn, wife 
of Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, moritur. A fleet by 
Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair on the Sinainn, and he 
plundered Domhnall, son of Cusleibhe Ua Ferghail ; and 
Murchadh UVa Maeilsechlainn came into his house; and 
Buinne and Beithe’ were fortified by him; and he pre- 
sented three precious things to Ciaran, at Cluain,* viz., a 
drinking horn inlaid with gold, a silver cup with gold, and 
a patena‘ of copper with gold and silver. The battle of 
Ath-cliath was gained over the Lagenians by Domhnall, 
son of Muircertach Ua Briain. Midhe was divided between 
the two sons of Domhnall Ua Maeilsechlainn, [viz, 
Maelsechlainn and Murchadh]. Maelsechlainn fell imme- 
diately afterwards by Murchadh. Cluain-mac-Nois was 
plundered by the men of Mumhain, and a number were 
slain? . . . . . A sword was found at the Emhain, 
in the ground, which measured a man’s foot from its 
groove to its edge, on either side ;° its breadth was two 
feet without including its groove. 

Kal? Demolition of Borumha, and burning of Cenn- 
coradh, and plundering of Tuadh-Mumhain, by Toir- 
dhealbhach, son of Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair. A great 
famine in the spring, so that a man would sell his son, 
and his daughter, for food, and the people would eat 
even each other, and dogs. Laighen was nearly altogether 
depopulated, and they (of that province) were dispersed 
all over Erinn, through hunger. 





Bie towtr eit the MB. | 7 Kal. The correct year is 1116, 
232 of the yol., is omitted in B. as O’F. has noted in the margin. 


A.D. 
[1111.3 


[1112.] 


320 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Ict. pop Luan. “Orapmars mac Enna mie Mupchada, 
Ri Fall ocup Larsen, quewms a nWé cliat. Chee 
plumged La Connachtorb spin Mumarn, so pancuccap 
Sliab Cpot, ocup Clépe, ocur Sliab Cia “Do Lud cas 
Tuaod Mumhan anveashard Connachca 1m Mumhain. 
Lepcap cat ecvoppa. Murdip pop repaid Muman, ocup 
ciiptep a nap, um Ua Cenneodis ec mule. Mepusud 
Mupchada -N. Maoitpecleann. Maolmupe .h. Ou- 
néon, apo eppcop Epenn, cenn ecna et cpaobad rapcaip 
pomain, quiemc im Cyupco 1 cCliain Ipdapo. Sell 
Mupchada .N. Maorlpeclainn La Tapoealbaé .N. Con- 
cupaip. 

fect. Orapmanz -h. Opiaan, Ri Lerée Moka, moprcup. 
SLucrges La Tapoeatbaé -N. Concupaip, ocup La Mup- 
chad Nh. Maorlpeclainn 1m Mumhain, 50 pancuccap 
Blenn Magaip, 50 couspac sialla Muman led. Slua- 
Sed oile ono Leipin Lucht ceona, 50 ccuspac pialla 
Largen Led, ocur 50 couspac “Domnall mac Mupchada 
A. Maoilpecloann Led ap hécin a hE cliaé. Rucwops 
h. Concupap, apo pi Connacht, in clepicacu wicam 
relicitep quiemt 1 cClucan muc Nowy. “Oomnall mac 
Ruarvopu, Ri Sil Muipevhars, monicup, et pepulcur ert 
1 TCuaim Fpeime. 

fet. Murpcepraé -h. Opraan, Ri Epenn DupMoOP, in 
clepicacu uicam felicitep quien. Cod sh. Concen- 
ann, Ri .N. nDiapmaoa, mopitup. Nua Dargillarn, 
Ris pile Epenn, v0 mapbao vo Tumet pata, [.1.] 6n 
Sparlliué O LPlannagain. 





1 On Monday. This indicates the 
year 1117, in which the Kalends, or 
1st, of January fell on Monday, the 
Dominical Letter being G., as O’F. 
has observed in a marg. note. 

2 Battle. The orig. hand has added 
the note Cat Decpaca (“battle of 
Betrach”’) in the marg. But in the 
Four Mast. it is called the “ battle of 
Leitreacha-Odhrain,” now Latteragh, 





in the bar. of Upper Ormond, and co, 
of Tipperary. . 
3 Baffling. Mepugav. The word 
also signifies ‘leading astray.” 
The event is more intelligibly given 
in the Annals of Inisfallen (O’ Conor's 
ed., ad an. 1090=1117):—*Daegat 
moaoma por Mupchao Ua Maert- 
rechtann o Fatlarb Ocha ctsach, 
ocur Largmb, sunna copacht a 





 tongponc pe cp avochib ;” ie. 
_ “a deceitful victory over Murchadh 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 321 


Kal. of January on Monday.' Diarmaid, son of Enna, 
_ son of Murchadh, King of the Foreigners, and of Laighen, 
quievit in Ath-cliath. A predatory expedition by the 
~ Connachtmen into Mumhain, until they reached Sliabh- 
 Crot, and Cldire, and Sliabh-Cua. The army of Tuadh- 
P Mumhain went after the Connachtmen into Mumhain. 
_ A battle? was fought between them. The men of Mumhain 
were defeated and slaughtered, together with Ua Cenne- 
 digh and many others. The baffling? of Murchadh Ua 
- Maeilsechlainn. Maelmuire Ua Dundin, chief Bishop of 
Erinn, head of the learning and devotion of the west of 
_ the world, quievit in Christo in Cluain-Iraird. The 
_ pledges of Murchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn were taken by 
Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair. 

_ Kal.* Diarmaid Ua Briain, King of Leth-Mogha, moritur. 
_ A hosting by Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, and by 
- Murchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn, into Mumhain, until they 
_ reached Glenn-Maghair, and they brought off with them 


_ the hostages of Mumhain. Another hosting, also, by the 


same parties, and they brought with them the hostages of 
 Laighen, and brought with them Domhnall, son of Mur- 
_chadh Ua Maeilsechlainn, by force, from Ath-cliath. 


_ Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair, chief King of Connacht, in 


clericatu vitam feliciter quievit? in Cluain-muc-Nois. 
Domhnall, son of Ruaidhri, King of Sil-Muiredhaigh, 
moritur, and was interred in Tuaim-greine. 

Kal. Muircertach Ua Briain, King of the greater 


part of Erinn, in clericatu vitam feliciter quievit.? Aedh 


- Ua Concennain, King of Ui-Diarmada, moritur. Ua 
 Baighellain, chief poet’? of Erinn, was slain by a man 
_ of Tuath-ratha, [7.¢c.] by the Spaillach O’F lannagain. ’ 





5 Quievit. ¢., A. which is doubt- 


~ Ua Maeilsechlainn, by the Foreigners 
of Ath-cliath, and the Lagenians, so 


that he did not reach his encampment 


during three nights.” 
‘ 4 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the cor- 
rect year (1118). 








less a mistake for ts “ finivit.”” 
és, “died,” B. 
6 Kal. The correct date, 1119, has 
been prefixed by O’F. : 
7 Chief poet. Rig pire; lit. “King- 
poet.” 
i 


A.D. 
[1113.] 


[1114.] 


[1115.] 


322 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


kct. Conat Tallcen vo venum La Tapoealbaé h. 
Concupmp. Thi ppim dpocait vo Denum La Taip- 
vealbaté .N. Concupmp in hoc anno «. oporsen Oca 
Laan, ocup oported CCéa Cpoca, ocup oporéeo “Ouine 
Leova. Slumed La Tarpoealbaé 1m Mrde Fup mnnapb 
Mupchad A. Maorlpeclainn spin cumopgeps, ocup a 
ZeLL vo Demué comapba Poopaic, ocur Dacla 10800. 

fet. Domnall mac Mie Loclainn, Ri TUM FELT 
Erpenn +. CCiliué, quieurs. Samuel, Eppeop Wéa cliaé, 
qe. Cpec pluarged La Tarpoealbdaé -N. Concupaip. 
pin Mumain, sup Lapes cpitscap mop pop Carpil, ocu 
sup aapspic po Lindin. Tangsup cpe veped an stan 
ag dul fo veay, sup mapbad ann Cod -h. heroin, R 
A. pfiacpaé, ocup Mupevhat -h. Llatbepcm¥s, Ri 
rapcarp. Connacht, ec Mupgep -h. Lopcarn, ec alin. 
Mop [Lonspope] La Tarpvealbac h. Concupaip, ocup La 
Leé Cuinn, 15 Dippa, 6 Samain so PéL Dmrgoe, Sup poinn 
Deapmumain eroip Clann Capchars es CLainn mOpiain. 

fet. Cod mac Domnall -h. Ruarpe, Ri arpeep Con- 
nacht, moprcup. od mac Oumnnplete -h. Eocada, Ri 
Ulad, vo mapbad vo .N. Macsamna 1 eccat. Maol- 
mopoa -N. Domnall, Ri sh. cCennprolang, 1 clepicacu 
quent. Maolpeclann -h. Oonnagan, Ri Cpao tie, 
oceipup ert 6 Clainn Corspars ctpe meabonl. 

}ct. “Oamliag Crané&in v0 sabcal pop Mupched -h. 
Maorlpeclainn o Sailengoib, et an ceat apaibe do 
Lopsad pap. “Opeam va muintep 00 mapbad, es a 
cepnum pén app. “Donnchad mac Filla Paopars Rua, 





a ae 


t cy er 


: 


1 Was celebrated. “Oo venum. 
These words are placed at the end of 
the entry in A.and B. The real year 
is 1120, as O’F. has noted in the 
margin, 

2 Its hostages; i.e. the hostages of 
Midhe, or Meath. 

8 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the year 
1121, which is the correct date. 





4 Great terror. cratsap; lit. 
“tremble-shout.” : 

5 Encampment. The word has been 
obliterated in A. B. reads ylua, for 
pluagad, “a hosting.” X 

6 Kal. The correct date, 1122,has 
been added in the margin by O’F. } 

% Kal. This is properly the year 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 323 






















Kal. The fair of Taillten was celebrated’ by Toir- 
i dhealbhach Ua Conchobhair. Three principal bridges were 
a constructed by Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair in this 
year, viz., the bridge of Ath-Luain, and the bridge of 
_ Ath-Crocha, and the bridge of Dun-Leodha. A hosting 
_ by Toirdhealbhach into Midhe, and he expelled Murchadh 
_ Ua Maeilsechlainn into the North, and its hostages? were 
_ gwen to him under the protection of the comarb of Patrick 
_ and the Bachal Isa. 

-~ Kal® Dombhnall, son of Mac Lochlainn, King of the 
- North of Erinn, ze. of Ailech, quievit. Samuel, Bishop 
_ of Ath-cliath, quievit. A predatory hosting by Toir- 
_ dhealbhach Ua Conchobhair into Mumhain, and they 
- brought great terror! upon Caisel, and plundered Ard- 
Finain ; but the rere of the army was intercepted whilst 
_ going southwards, and Aedh Ua hEidhin, King of Ui- 
_ Fiachrach, and Muiredhach Ua Flaithbhertaigh, King 
_ of the West of Connacht, and Muirghes Ua Lorcain, and 
_ others, were slain. A great [encampment*] by Toirdheal- 
_ bhach Ua Conchobhair, and by Leth-Chuinn, at Birra, 
_ from Allhallowtide until the festival of Brigid; and he 
- divided Deas-Mumhain between the Clann Carthaigh and 
Clann Briain. 

_. Kal®. Aedh, son of Domhnall Ua Ruairc, King of the 
_ East of Connacht, moritur. Aedh, son of Donnsleibhe 
- Ua Eochadha, King of Uladh, was slain in battle by 
Va Mathghamhna. Maelmordha Ua Domhnaill, King of 
_ Ui-Cennsealaigh, in clericatu quievit. Maelsechlainn Ua 
_ Donnagdin, King of Aradh-thire, was slain by the Clann- 
 Cosgraigh, through treachery. 

Kal? Daimhliag of Cianan was captured against Mur- 
_ chadh Ua Maeilsechlainn by the Gailenga, and the house 
in which he was sheltered was burned over him. A number 
y of his people were slain, but he himself escaped therefrom. 8 





1123, as O'F. has observed in a mar- | § Therefrom. Opp, A. CC pocny, 
ginal note. B., which is incorrect. 


y 2 


A.D. 
[1116] 


[1117.] 


[1118.] 


[1119.] 


324 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Ri Oppose, a pwrp ocerpup ert. Cpoé Crips 1 sCon- 
nachta in hoc anno. Mop plunged La Tarpoealbac 
h. Concupmp porn mump, ocur for tip, Sup aps Crap- 
poise, 50 puachs pén Coneas, 5O ToaNcUTTaPp mocite 
Oear Mumhan ina ceé, um Oonnchad mac Captonrs, 
et um Ceallach -h. mDpuc, ocur um h. Cinnpaolad, 
ocur um h. Concupap Crapparse ; ocup poip plan vap 
clap Cille Oalua 

fet. Mopcablaé La Tarpoealbaé 1 Rinn Lema 
sup mill ocupr sup caps Oear Mumuin. Taoee mac 
Mic Capcas, Ri Oeap Mumhan, mopicup. Copmac 
pesnatns pops eum. (Cn cloicceé mop Cluana mue 
Nop vopbud la Filla Cprpc -h. Maorledin, ocup ta 
Toripoealbaé h. Concupap. Coaipcel La Connachta .1. 


caiplen Ouin Saillme, et “Oun Leova, ocup Cul Male. — 


Cpeaépluased La Toipoealbat 1m Mas Capbpe, sup 
aps Conmaicne, 50 puce Mupchab ch. Maorlpeclaann 
rap, et Conmarcne, sup murd for an Lops Connacht 1 
cCpab Roip va capnd, 50 ccopchaip ann Sinnaé Sosain 
Ah. Cealtoné, ocup sh. 0u6 me Lenodain. Soar TPa 
Connachta piu, es mapbaid pocharde v1b um caoipeé 
Munzipe Fepaoain.  Frollabpaive h. Rupe v0 
badhad ap Loé mic Nen La Connachtoib. Maolpec- 
Lainn mac Taroce -h. Maoilpuanand, Ri Muse Laps, 
D0 mapbad ovpepardb Dpepne, et 00 Tizepnan .U. Ruaipe. 





1 Cross of Christ. This relic, which 
was supposed to be a portion of the 
True Cross, is now considered to be 
enclosed in the Cross of Cong, in the 


5 Finished. prick for 00 fop- 
bu, A. B. 

6 Craelierele-dipubaeds B. reads 
Crab Roy cul va capn. The 


Royal Irish Academy. 

2 Returned. Soir, A. Rory, B 

3 Of Cill-Dalua. Citle .o., A 
B. erroneously reads Citle vapa, ‘ of 
Cill-dara,” or Kildare. 

4 Rinn-Luimnigh ; i.e. “the point 
of Luimnech,” or Limerick. The 
correct year is 1124, as O’Flaherty 
has noted in the margin. 





word, or syllable cut (tul) is also 
written in A., an expunctory line 
being drawn under it, which the 


transcriber of B. seems to have over- 


looked. 
7 Turned. pouro, A. paoro, Be 
8 Loch-mic-nen. The Ann. Ult. — 
(1125) say “Loch-Aillene,” te. Loch- 
Allen, in the co, Leitrim. The Four 





325 


Donnchadh, son of Gillapadraig Ruadh, King of Osraighe, 
was slain by his own people. The Cross of Christ! in 
Connacht in this year. A great expedition by Toir- 
dhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, on sea and land, so that he 
plundered Ciarraighe ; and he himself reached Corcach, 
and the nobles of Deas-Mumhain came into his house, 
together with Donnchadh Mac Carthaigh, and with 
Ceallach Ua Bric, and with Ua Cinnfaeladh, and with 
Ua Conchobhair Ciarraighe; and he returned? safely 
across the plank bridge of Cill-Dalua.* 
Kal. A great fleet assembled by Toirdhealbhach at 
Rinn-Luimnigh,* so that he destroyed and plundered 
_ Deas-Mumhain. Tadhg, son of Mac Carthaigh, King of 
_ Deas-Mumhain, moritur. Cormac reigned after him. 
The great belfry of Cluain-muc-Nois was finished? by 
Gillachrist Ua Maeiledin, and by Toirdhealbhach Ua 
Conchobhair. Castles were erected by the Connachtmen, 
viz., the castles of Dun-Gaillmhe, and Dun-Leodha, and 
Cul-Maile. A predatory hosting by Toirdhealbhach into 
Magh-Cairbre, and he plundered Conmaicne; but Mur- 
chadh Ua Maeilsechlainn and the Conmaicne overtook 
him, and the army of Connacht was defeated at Craebh- 
rois-da-charn,® and Sinnach Soghain Ua Ceallaigh, and Ua 
Duibh, son of Lennan, were slain there. The Connacht- 
men, however, turned’ against them, and slew a multitude 
_ of them, together with the chieftain of Muinter-Geradh- 
ain. Gillabraide Ua Ruaire was drowned in Loch-mic- 
nen® by the Connachtmen. Maelsechlainn, son of Tadhg 
Ua Maeilruanaidh, King of Magh-Luirg, was slain by 
the men of Breifne, and by Tighernan Ua Ruaire. The 
hostages of Deas-Mumhain, together with the son of 
Mast. write the name Loch-en, i.e. | an. 1225. 


CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 





There is a lake at present 


“the lake of the birds,” which Dr, 
O’Donovan identifies with ‘Loch-na- 
nen,” a marsh, which was formerly a 
lake, near the castle of Roscommon, 
Ann. Four Mast., ed. O’Donovan, 
note », ad an. 1124, and note *, ad 








called Loch Macnean, situated in the 
N.E. part of Connacht, between the 
counties of Leitrim and Fermanagh, 
which is probably that referred to in 
the text. 


A.D. 
[1119.] 


[1120.] 


826 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Bell Ver Mumhan; um mac Copmare mie Capthas, vo 
mapbad La Toipoealbat .h. Concuparp. 

}ct. Oa mac Cineipuip sh. Goin «1. fLlann ocup an 
Billa puco, va pus -h. ¢Liacpach CCione, 00 mapbao a 
prll vo Concupap -h. Placbepcmé ag un Faaltme. 
Billabnaive, Ri Dperne, occipur eft @ Purp. CCoprshad 
Mupchada -h. Maoitpeclaann vo Torpoelbaé ocup v0 
Tisepnan. 

fet. Enna mae Mapchalsa] a. mic Oonnchada, pa 
Laigen, mopitup. Slumses La Toipoelbaé ch. Concu- 
pap, 50 cous pise Larsen ec SLL da mae pén, v0 
Concupap. Mupchad -N. Maoilpeclaann 1 Mids. 
Moplongpops la Taipoeatbaé a nUp Murhoon 6 
Lugnapad so peril Dpigoe, ocup po aps pect apn 
Lonspops pin Tip Conall, ocup fect cali 50 Mont 
Modif, ocup so Slenn Magsap, ocup fect 50 DEITFENT 
Orpmge, ocup po cmp ap Oppase um +h. Capéc. 
‘Domnall Pionn .N. Oupoa v0 badad as Cate es viii 
6 Cinel Conall. 

fet. Frolla Cros -h. Maortedin, Cbd cliente mie 
Noiy, copap ecna ocup veipce, cenn poma ocur paubpapa 
na h€penn, qtremct. Mupchad -h. Maoilpecloan 
paitpioghad. “Domnall, « mac, na ionad. “Domnall 
DMEUsaS accinn pdite, ec “Orapmaro +h. Maoilpec- 
Lainn na nonad a ndoip. Cat eroip va pus ULad, ob - 
accopéayp (Cod Nh. Maégamna, ocuy Niall mac “Oumn- 
plete .N. Gochada. 

}ct. Stolla an Comoead mac Cuinn Dealbnwg, 
cana OCbbad Cluana muc Nor, qureurc. 








1 Kal. The correct date (1125) 
has been prefixed by O’F. 

2 Gillabraide. This is probably a 
repetition, in a phraseology somewhat 
altered, of the entry under the last 
year, relating to Gillabraide Ua 
Ruaire, 





8 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the year 
1126, which is the proper date, __ 4 

4 Tir-Conaill, Usually [ “Bi 
Conaill, or Ui-Conaill-Gabhra =) o 
name of this district is still p ved 
in those of the baronies of Upper and 
LoveCanal athe ein 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. $27 


Cormac Mac Carthaigh, were killed by Toirdhealbhach 
Ua Conchobhair. 

Kal! The two sons of Aneislis Ua Edhin, viz, Flann 
and the Gilla-ruadh, two Kings of Ui-Fiachrach-Aidhne, 
were treacherously slain by Conchobhar Ua Flaithbher- 
taigh, at Bun-Gaillmhe. Gillabraide,? King of Breifne, was 
slain by his own people. The dethronement of Murchadh 
Ua Maeilsechlainn, by Toirdhealbhach and Tighernan. 

_Kal? Enna, son of Murcha[dh], son of Donnchadh, 

of Laighen, moritur. A hosting by Toirdhealbhach 
Ua Conchobhair, and he gave the sovereignty of Laighen, 
and of the Foreigners, to his own son Conchobhar. 
Murchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn again in Midhe. A great 


- - camp by Toirdhealbhach in Ur-Mumhain, from Lammas 


till the festival of Brigid, and he plundered from that 
camp, at one time, Tir-Conaill,* and another time as far as 
Moin-mér, and to Glenn-Maghair, and one time to the 
South of Osraighe, and he effected the slaughter of the 
Osraighe, together with Ua Caréc. Domhnall Finn Ua 
Dubhda was drowned whilst bringing a prey from Cinel 
Conaill. 

Kal® Gillachrist Ua Maeiledin,® Abbot of Cluain-muc- 
Nois, fountain of knowledge and charity, head of the 
prosperity and affluence of Erinn, quievit. Murchadh 
Ua Maeilsechlainn was dethroned. Domhnall, his son, 
was elected in his place. Domhnall was dethroned before 
the end of a quarter, and Diarmaid Ua Maeilsechlainn 
was elected in the place of both. A battle between the 
two Kings of Uladh, in which Aedh Ua Mathghamhna 
and Niall, son of Donnsleibhe Ua Eochadha, were slain. 

Kal? Gilla-an-choimdédh, son of Conn Dealbhnach, 
tanist-Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. 





5 Kal. O’F. has prefixed the year | sent Chronicle has been attributed to 
1127, which is the correct date. this ecclesiastic. See Introduction. 

8 Gillachrist Ua Maeileoin. The 7 Kal. The correct year is 1128, 
compilation of the original of the pre- | as O’F. has noted in the margin, 


[1122.] 


[1128.] 


[1124.] 


328 cRONICUM scCOTORUM. 


Hct. Maknup mac Mic Logélaann, Ri Cineoil Eosaan 
ocup an cumodpsept, Do mapbao 6 Cinel Maen. 
Ceallat, comappa Paopaic, ocup apo Cppcop Epenn, 
ohéc a nQpo Paopaic, ocup a aonacal 1 tli moipe. 
Teapbaé mop pin blicdain, sup mill na suipc. OCLcop 
oarinliag méip Cluana muc Nop ovpoplusas, ocup ped1o 
20 bpeit epte .1. cappacan tempuil Solman cucead 6 
Maolpeclainn mac “Oomnaill, ocur curd Oonnchada 
mic Llainn, osup na cpi pedro cuce Toipoealbaé h. 
Concupap 1. blede apsar, et copan apsaid et cporr 
jp Tapip, es copn co nop, et copn -N. Riacon pus 
pad, et conleé apgao ocup mam dip poip con aveipe, 
ev copan apgaro Ceallars, comapba Pacparce. 

ket. §Orapmaro -N. Pallamarnn coped Clomne 
Ucoach, moprtup. Soll Cluana .N. CCipeccms, mopi- 
cup. Sedo Cluana muc Noip opoillpsud ap Salloib 
Lamm, 1a. na ngaio v0 Frolla Comgsain, ocup pa 
cpochad 6 15 “Oun cluana itap, 14p na monacal 6 
Concupap -h. Dprcan; o ps Muman : po Pp TPRa an 
Siolla Comsain pin Copcas, ocur loop mop, ocup Pops 
Lapse v0 vol vap muip, ocup an Long a ppakbad 
10nad, ni fasbad pec Fao1t peolca, ocur fo sebdip na_ 
Longa apchena. “Oetbep on, ono, ap na papoad Crapan 
an Long 1 copiallad pom cect THT, ET DO paopom 
subioip pi bap inopein conarced Ciapan cona baéarlL 
1¢ faptad Fata Luinge 1 coprallad vol caypup. Ra 
mopupccan tna an Comoe an ci naom Ciapan 11 
ypc pin. Cuarpne a; Concupap, Ri h. ¢Lalse, 
mopitup. Moaom pe Tigepnan h. Rucape pop captep 





1 Kal. The correct year is 1129. by Dr. O'Donovan, Four Mast., ad 


an. 1129, 
3 Cuidin; i.e. catinus, 
4 Kal. O’#. has prefixed the cor- 


2 Carrachan. This seems to have 
been the same as the article mentioned 


at the year 1005, supra, under the 
name of “ Eneclar.” O'Reilly (Jr. 
Dict., in voce) explains carrachan as 
“a model,” in which he is followed 





rect year (1130). 
5 Dun-cluana-Ithair. The Four 
Mast. call the place “ Dun-cluana- 


Bhriain,” or “the fort of Brian’s — 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 329 


Kal.’ Maghnus, son of Mac Lochlainn, King of Cinel 
Eoghain and the North, was slain by the Cinel-Maein. 
Ceallach, comarb of Patrick, and chief Bishop of Erinn, 
died at Ardpatrick, and was interred in Lis-mor. Great 
‘heat in this year, which destroyed the corn fields. The 
altar of the great Stone-church of Cluain-muc-Nois was 
opened, and precious things were taken out of it, viz., 
the carrachan? of Solomon’s Temple, which was given by 
-Maelsechlainn, son of Dombhnall, and the cuidin® of 
Donnchadh, son of Flann, and the three articles which 
Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair gave—viz.,a silver goblet, 
and a silver cup with a golden cross over it, and a drink- 
ing-horn with gold—and the drinking-horn of Ua Riata, 
King of Aradh, and a silver chalice, with a burnishing of 
gold and an engraving, and the silver cup of Ceallach, 
comarb of Patrick. 

Kal* Diarmaid Ua Fallamhainn, chief of Clann- 
Uadach, moritur. Goll-Cluana Ua Airechtaigh, moritur. 
The precious things of Cluain-muc-Nois were revealed 
against the Foreigners of Luimnech, after having been 
stolen by Gillacomghain, and he was hanged at Dun- 
cluana-Ithair,® after he had been delivered up by Con- 
chobhar Ua Briain, King of Mumhain. This Gilla- 
comghain, indeed, sought Corcach, and Lis-mor, and 
Port-Lairge, to go across the sea; but the ship in which 
he might find a place could not get wind enough for 
sailing, though all the other ships would. No wonder, 
truly, for Ciaran would detain the ship in which he sought 
to escape him; and he made a declaration, when dying, 
that he had seen Ciaran, with his staff, detaining every 
‘ship in which he attempted to escape him. The Lord 
magnified Saint Ciaran,® truly, in that miracle. Cuaifne 


Ua Conchobhair, King of Ui-Failghe,moritur. A victory | 





lawn, or meadow,” which Dr. 6 Saint Ciaran. (Cn ti naom 
O'Donovan says is now Cloonbrien, | Ciapan; lit. “the person, Saint 
a townland in the parish of Athlacca, | Ciaran,” A. B, 

near Bruff, in the co. of Limerick. 


AD. 
[1125.] 


[1126.] 


330 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Mite, vf accopchap Driapmaro -h. Maorlpeclainn; Ri 
apcep Mise, es Consup 6 Cainvealbain, Ri Laoganpe, ; 
et Cocall pliué mac mic Senain, Ri Saileng, ec al 
mule. Merr oimép saca copard in hoe anno. 
t. Longer Tapoealbas 50 Ror ailicpa, sup Lois. 

50 mop Oearp Mumain. Mac Conconnacht -h. Con- 
cupmip, ec -N. Cappthas ollam Connacht, occ punt 
immarom Caille Cobtas, tre anaiténe evip Connachtorb 
mucem. Moprlumzed La Concupap mac Mic Loch- 
Lainn, La mis cumpsgepo Epenn, co nUllcob et go 
nOipsiallarxb maille ppp, 1 sConnachtoib, 50 pracht 
Copppliab, s0 ccuspac Connachca amur . ge ms 
s8exaip, Sup muid pop Cinel Conall, ni 
ann -h. Maoilgante, ec an Fapbanaé .h ae eT 
ali: mulzi, es conveapnpac ~t Po reniain ec mac Mie 

oclainn va cars, et 50 noeaccaccup ULad ocup CCip- 
Balla vap OCé Lacan paip da orkid, 50 scompainirs 
vob ocup Tigepnan .N. Ruaape a Mans [Conatte], 1eEpe 
crapaips cpeice voib a Ullcoit vap a nem, sup mud 
forp Ultcob ocup pop Cipsiallenb, sup mapbad ann 
h. Cochada, Ri ULad, ocup 6 Cprogdan, Ri Lepnmage, 
ecuy a mac, ocup -N. Inopeachoms, Ri Nh. Méé, oc 
ali. Maolfropal -h. Poklada, apo Eprcop Mumhanh, 
queue. Concupap -N. Opiain vo bualed opiop va 
Muintep Pén. 

Ict. Enaip Pop Clore, ocup .x. PIPE, OcuP bLiararnh 
bipeé, ocup an Deana bliavain .xxe. ap ced ap mile © 





1 Cochall-fliuch ; i.e. “ cucullus hu- 
Ynidus,” or “wet-mantle.” The Four 
Mast. (1130) call him “ Amhlaibh.” 

® Kal. ‘The correct year, 1131, has 
been prefixed by O’F, 

3 In the defeat of Caill-Cobhthaigh. 
The Four Mast. state that Ua Con- 
chobhair and Ua Carthaigh were slain 
in a cavalry engagement fought be- 
tween the Munstermen and Connacht- 





men, near Loch-Semdighe dn 
Sewdy), in the co. of Westmea 
Caill-Cobhthaigh, ie. “ Coffey’s 


_ wood,” was the name of a woody dis- 


trict in the south of the co. Galway, 
but the name is now obsolete, 

4 Went. 50 noeacaccup, A, 
noeacaccup, B. 

5 Conaille, This word, which is 
effaced in A., and consequently omit- 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 331 


by Tighernan Ua Ruaire over the men of the East of 
Midhe, in which were slain Diarmaid Ua Maeilsechlainn, 
King of the East of Midhe, and Aengus O’Caindealbhain, 
King of Laeghaire, and Cochall-fliuch,' grandson of Senan, 
King of Gaileng, and many others. A great crop of all 
kinds of fruit in this year. 

Kal? The fleet of Toirdhealbach sailed to Ros-ailithri, 
and spoiled Deas-Mumhain very much. The son of 
Cuconnacht Ua Conchobhair, and Ua Carthaigh, chief poet 
of Connacht, were slain in the defeat of Caill-Cobhthaigh,* 
through a mistake among the Connachtmén themselves. 
A great hosting by Conchobhar, son of Mae Lochlainn, 
King of the North of Erinn, with the Ultonians and the 
Airghialla along with him, into Connacht, until he reached 
Corrsliabh ; but the Connachtmen made an attack on him 
fin the Seaghais, when the Cinel Conaill were defeated, and 
Ua Maeilgacithe, and the Garbhanach Ua Baeighell, and 
tany others, were slain there. And they made peace 
immediately, and the son of Mac Lochlainn returned to 
his house, and the Ultonians and Airghialla went‘ across 
Ath-Luain, eastwards, towards their homes, until they en- 
éountered Tighernan Ua Ruaire in Magh [Conaille*], who 
Was after bringing a prey from Uladh in their absence ;* 
and the Ultonians and Airghialla were defeated, and Ua 
Eochadha, King of Uladh, and O’Criochain, King of 
Fern-inhagh, and his son, and Ua Indreachtaigh, King of 
Ui-Meith, and others, were slain. Mael{isa] Ua Fogh- 
ladha, chief Bishop of Mumhain, quievit. Conchobhar Ua 
Briain was struck by a man of his own people. 

_ Kal.’ of January on Friday, and the 10th day of the 
moon, and a bissextile year, and the 32nd year over a 
hundred and a thousand from the Incarnation of Christ. 








ted in B., is supplied from the Four | dition from which they were return- 
st. ing when Tighernan Ua Ruaire en- 
_ 8 In their absence. oop a ney; | countered them. 
lit. “after them ;” i.e. after they (the 7 Kal. This is properly the year 
Ulidians) had departed on the expe- | 1132, as the criteria indicate, 


AD. 
[1126.] 


[1127.] 


[1128.] 





332 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 
inncolLucca’d Core. Mopcablat La Tapoealbaé -h. 
Concupaip pop Loé nDeipsvepec, Sup miLL mopan von 
Mumain. Slumsed Leip 1m Mrde so cous prize D0 
Mupchaoh .N. Maoilpechtainn. Cpeaé La Concupap 
h. mOpican am Maonmags, sup aps Crll mbian, ec 
50 pucc bu imoa Ler. Carplen bona Fallme vo 
Loysad do Lonsaip pep Mumhan, ocup opeam diapoap 
Connacht vo mapbad 1m h. Tms5 an Teslars. Chee 
plumged La Tapoealbaé a nib Lapsa, sup aps ule. 
CCilen an Dete pop Sinainn vo Lopsad o peparbh 
Muman, ocup opeam um caorpeé Muincipe Cinaorts 00 
cuitim ann. Cpeé Mage Luips La perp Dperpne. 
Uapeipse -N. Neécain, cenn Cele n°Oé Cluana muc 
Noip, 1n pace qmewc. Oiapmais mac Mic Eoigen, 
canipeé Claanne Orapmaoa, moprtup. Comapba Dpigve 
00 [bp Jat copuccad v0 Diapmait mac Mupchada, ocup 
a tabaipt Dia pran ap esin, ocup peacht ppicit vo 
mapbad ap Lap Cille vapa, et a upmdp v0 Lopecud. 
fet. Moppluaged Lev Moka um Copmac mae 
Mic Cappthas, ocup um Concupap h. mOpian, 1 
sConnaccorb, sup pévigpe[o] an Ruadberms ocup na 
Delaca, ocur sup mapbpac Cachal mac Cachalt 5- 
vamna Connacht, ocup Fillananaom .h. Plann, 
canoe SiL Maolpticain. “Oa mac Conconnache .h. 
Concupap v0 bavhad ap Loé Ri’. Marom pe reparb 
Teabta pop Siol Muipeohars, ub1 ocerpup eps CCmlarb— 
mac CCpchon -h. Raowmb, caoiped Clamne Tomaloars, 
ocup pa sabad Mac 1Llepomp -N. CCinvlive. Concupap 


a 





1 Ua Nechtain. Ni. Weénan (Ua | lator of the Annals of Clonmacnoise _ 


Nechnain), A. B. Corrected from the 
Four Mast. 

2 Was betrayed. v0 .. at, A, 
some letters being effaced at the be- 
ginning of the second word, which 
should apparently read bpat. B. 
follows the reading in A. The trans- 








(1135, rect? 1132) states that “the 
Abbesse of Kildare was forced and 
taken out of her cloisters by Dermot — 
Mac Murrogh.” 

3 Kal. The correct year is 1188, 
as O’F, has noted in the margin, 

4 Ruadh-bheitheach; ie. “the Red 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 333 


A great fleet by Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair on 
Loch-deirg-dere, so that he destroyed a great part of 
Mumhain. A hosting by him into Midhe, and he gave 
the sovereignty to Murchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn. <A 
predatory expedition by Conchobhar Ua Briain into 
Maen-magh, and he plundered Cill-mBian, and carried 
off a great number of cows. The castle of Bun-Gaillmhe 
was burned by a fleet of the men of Mumhain, and a 
number of the men of the West of Connacht were 
killed, along with the grandson of Tadhg-an-teghlaigh. 
A predatory hosting by Toirdhealbhach into Ui-Forga, 
which he entirely plundered. Ailen-an-bheithe, on the 
Sinainn, was burned by the men of Mumbhain, and a 
number fell there, along with the chief of Muinter- 
Cinaeith. The plundering of Magh-Luirg by the men of 
Breifne. Uareirghe Ua Nechtain,’ head of the Celi-Dé 
of Cluain-muc-Nois, in pace quievit. Diarmaid, son of 
Mac Edigen, chief of Clann-Diarmada, moritur. The 
comarb of Brigid was betrayed,’ and carried off by 
Diarmaid Mac Murchadha, who forcibly compelled her 
to obey him; and seven score persons were slain in 
the middle of Cill-dara, and the greater part of it was 
burned. 

Kal? A great hosting of Leth-Mogha, with Cormac, 


son of Mac Carthaigh, and with Conchobhar Ua Briain, 


into Connacht, and they levelled the Ruadh-bheitheach* 
and the Belata,® and killed Cathal, son of Cathal, Royal 
heir of Connacht, and Gilla-na-naemh Ua Flainn, chief of 
Sil-Maeilruain. The two sons of Cuconnacht Ua Con- 
chobhair were drowned in Loch-Ribh. A victory by 
the men of Teabhtha over Sil-Muiredhaigh, in which 
Amblaibh, son of Archu Ua Raduibh, chief of Clann- 
Tomaltaigh, was slain, and Mac Illestair Ua hAindlidhe 





Birch,” now Roevehagh, in the parish 5 The Belata; i.e. “the cross- 
of Killeely, bar. of Dunkellin, and co. | roads.” See note 4, p. 316. 
of Galway. — ‘ 





aide > 
\? 
& pts % 
& ad 
wet RRS ow 


Chitaria 
tre tee 


A.D. 
[1128] 


[1129.] 


EN LL 


334 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


mac Mupchada -h. Maorilpeclann, prgoamna Mrbe, 
20 mapbad v0 Donnchad mac Fillemocolmog ocur 
20 Sallaip. Mac Fillemocolmdgs 00 mapbad vo M1ve- 
émp. Maolsapb spin bliaodain, sup mapb bu Epenn, 
ocup a muca acht nemtm. Cpcpa spemne hopa cepria 
oie. Occipo Llatbepoms Ah. Llatbepcmé Lupea 
20 Lopecad ule, cona tempol, 00 Domnall mac Mup- 
chada -h. Maorlpeclarnn, 

Ict. Cn mé ceona pop inmlb Lerée Cunnn. Mac 
mie Cacal .h. Concupmp vo mapbad La h. nespa. 
Coippecad cempaal Copmarc 1 sCarpiol La martip 1mda. 
Mupchad -N. Espa, ocup a ben a. ingen Tarpveclbans 

. Concupap, v0 mapbad 6 Tatled N. CEpa CE 
ip aie oreptain a eCarpil, sup ba pnath vona 
hecemB ap mapgad Cail. Marom pé nOppargibd por 
Dianmad mac Mupchada, vf accopchaip Usaipe h. 
Tuatal, ec al. Coccad mop var exp Let Moga, 
sup Lata opi cata ecuppa Celecap mac Cumnn na 
mboct, ppt pendip CLuana mue Norp, quieus. Maol- 
ciapdin mac Cuinn na mbocht, uapal pagan, in Crapto 
quiews. Cod mac Mic Coélan, Ri Oealbna becpa, 
moptup. Cod mac Mic TmZ h. Ceallans, Ri h. 
Maine, moprtup. Maolbpenarmnn h. Cnpcrdorn. queue. 
Sluamged La Mac Mupchada go Largmb, ocup go naib 
eCinnprolag, ec 50 nFalloib Oca cliaé pop Coneupap 
A. mbpiaan 50 Murmnechab, es Oppm#ib, ev Sallonp 
Puipc Lapse, vf accopcaip ap mop... accopcarp mac 
Bille Maine mic Cilgoips, an Fall ap perp po baoi a 
n€ipinn, ec um OCmlab Pupc Lapse, ec um mares 
Oppmge, ocup gZabal Fillepacpace -N. Cinpéoié. 


——ae 





1 Maelgarbh; i.e. a murrain. 4 The same destruction ; j.e. the dis- 
temper which is mentioned under the 
previous year. 

5 Could swim. The o: , 
s Kal. The year 1134 is the cor- | written the word fais by me 
rect date, as has been observed in the | prodigy,” in the margin. 
margin by O'F. 6 Multitude. Gp, lit. “a slaughter,” 


2 A very few. nemtmn, A. B., for 
nernn1, lit. ‘*nothing.” 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 335 


was taken prisoner. Conchobhar, son of Murchadh Ua 
Maeilsechlainn, Royal heir of Midhe, was slain by 
Donnchadh Mac Gillamocholmog and by Foreigners. 
Mae Gillamocholmog was slain by the men of Midhe. A 
maelgarbh' in this year, which killed the cows of Erinn, 
and its pigs, except a very few.* An eclipse of the sun 
at the third hour of the day. The killing of Flaith- 
bhertach Ua Flaithbhertaigh. Lusca was altogether 
burned, together with its church, by Domhnall, son of 
Murchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn. 

Kal.* The same destruction* on the cattle of Leth- 
Chuinn. The grandson of Cathal Ua Conchobhair was 
killed by Ua Eghra. Consecration of Tempol-Chormaic 
in Caisel, by many nobles. Murchadh Ua Eghra and his 
wife, 2.c. the daughter of Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, 
were slain by Taithlech Ua Eghra. A shower of hailstones 
fell in Caisel, so that horses could swim® on the market- 
place of Caisel. A victory by the Osraighe over Diar- 
maid Mac Murchadha, in which Ugaire Ua Tuathail, and 
others, were slain. A great war grew up amongst the 
people of Leth-Mogha, so that three battles were fought 
between them. Celechair Mac Cuinn-na-mbocht, illus- 
trious senior of Cluain-muc-Nois, quievit. Maelciarain 
Mac Cuinn-na-mbocht, an illustrious priest, quievit in 
Christo. Aedh, son of Mac Cochlain, King of Deal- 


Ceallaigh, King of Ui Maine, moritur. Maelbrenainn 
Ua Anradhain quievit. A hosting by Mac Murchadha, 
with the Lagenians, and the Ui-Cennsealaigh, and the For- 
eigners of Ath-cliath, against Conchobhar Ua Briain, with 
the men of Mumhain, the Osraighe, and the Foreigners 
of Port-Lairge; on which occasion a great multitude® 
__-were slain, viz., the son of Gillamaire, son of Allgort, the 

best Foreigner that was in Erinn, was slain, together 
with Ambhlaibh of Port-Lairge, and with the nobles of 
Osraighe ; and Gillapadraig Ua Cennedigh was taken pri- 





bhna-Bethra, moritur. Aedh, grandson of Tadhg Ua. 


AD. 
[1129.] 


[1130.] 


336 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Mupceptaé, comapba Pacparce, queurs. Tucomuha 


opapuctad 14p papuccad catanse laplaite. Maol- 
maovors .N. MongZap 1 ccatarp Pacparce. 
Hct. Encap aan, pL aur, M.C. vee. Catal mac 


Taroce .N. Concupmp occipup ert o pepab Teabea. 
Ror Comain cona tempol vo Lopccad, ocup a harp- 
cinneé, ocup a peplesinn vo mapbad, 6 pepo Operpne. 
Maom Maongarse pe Sil Mmpevhas ap 16 Marne, 
ubi mule cecidepunt, um Concupap h. Ceallons, ocuy 
A. Maannin, Ri Sogsaan. Rucvopt -h. Canannaan, Ri 
CinelL Conall, oceipup ert 6 Cinel Eogain. Gene 
pasnén vo beim a Ginn do cloiécec CLluana muc Norp, 
et 00 tollao claguise Rup cpe. Maolipa sh. netin- 
mine, Eppeop Pups Lapse, quent. Ua Maoudain, 
Ri Sil CCnmchada et -N. Marne, vo mapbad a ppl 
v0 mac Fillecaoimsin h. Cinnein1s. “Oomnall mae 


Muupcepcoas -h. Opicaan a. Sepp Larhaé, in clepreacu 


quem. Cinaot bit Dangilt, Eprceop Clocarp, quieurs.  - 


Merr mop in hoc anno. Oenprc, Ri Saxan, mopicup. 
O Maille occipup ert o mac Domnall .h. Ouboa, 1 
noomliag na Nua Congbala. CC sa01 fen va mapbad 
ram tpe pipc Colaim Cille spin pate ceona. Cunga 


0 Lopcecad cu a pecler. Chmagng 00 mapbao "pe PINT 


lapLarce. 





1 Covenant of Iarlaith. There is 
no mention of this covenant elsewhere 


tinized ‘‘Malachias,” by some hand, 
in the margin. 


in this Chronicle, or in any other 
authority that the Editor has seen. 
It would seem to have been a cove- 
nant made by St. Iarlaith, who was 
the founder and patron of Tuam, be- 
tween the tribes inhabiting the south 
of the present county of Galway and 
their neighbours of Tuadh-Mumha, 
or Thomond. 

* Maelmaedhoig Ua Morgair. The 
name ‘‘ Maelmaedhoig” has been La- 





3 The third feria; te. Tuesday. 


This indicates the real year to be 
1135, as the annalist has correctly — 


specified. The actual reckoning of 


the “ Kals.,” however, gives the date 


1181. 

4 Maengach. The Annals of Boyle, 
at the year 1135, call the place 
Findabhair (or Finnabhair), i. e. 


Finnure, bar. of Leitrim, co. Galway ; 
and the continuator of Tighernach has 


- 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 337 





soner. Muircertach, comarb of Patrick, quievit. Tuadh- 
Mumha was wasted, after the profanation of the covenant 
_ of Jarlaith.' Maelmaedhoig Ua Morgair? in the chair of 
Patrick. 

Kal. of January on the 3rd feria,®? the 16th of the moon: 
~ MOXXXYV. Cathal, son of Tadhg Ua Conchobhair, 
_ was slain by the men of Teabhtha. Ros-Comain, with 
_ its church, was burned, and its airchinnech and lector 
_ were killed, by the men of Breifne. The victory of 
_ Maengach* was gained by Sil-Muiredhaigh over the Ui 
Maine, in which many fell, together with Conchobhar 
_ Ua Ceallaigh, and Ua Mainnin, King of Soghan. Ruaidhri 
_ Ua Canannain, King of Cinel Conaill, was slain by the 
Cinel Eoghain. Lightning knocked off the head of the 
steeple of Cluain-muc-Nois, and pierced the steeple of 
Ros-cre. Maelisa Ua hAinmire, Bishop of Port-Lairge, 
quievit. Ua Madudhain, King of Sil-Anmchadha and 
Ui Maine, was treacherously slain by: the son of Gilla- 
caeimhghen Ua Cennedigh. Dombhnall, son of Muir- 
certach Ua Briain, 7.c. Gerr-lamhach,’ in clericatu quievit. 
Cinaeth Ua Baighell, Bishop of Clochar, quievit. Great 
fruit in this year. Oenric,° King of the Saxons, moritur. 
O’Maille was slain by the son of Domhnall Ua Dubhda, 
in the stone-church of Nua-chongbhail. His own spear 
killed him,’ through the miracle of Colum Cille, in the 
game quarter. Cunga was burned, with its Recles.® 
~ Cumara was slain through the miracle of Iarlaith."° 





“Madm Conoisg Maonmairge,” 7 Him; i.e. Domhnall Ua Dubhda, 


_ te. “the victory of the Aenach (fair) 8 Quarter; viz., of a year. 

of Maenmagh,” the name of a plain 9 Recles, A “Recles” meant an 
comprising the district around Lough- | “ Abbey church.” See Reeves’s 
rea, in the co. of Galway. Adamnan, p. 276. E 

5 Gerr-lamhach; i.e. “the short- 10 Jarlaith. Mac Firbis’s hand- 
handed.” writing in A, ends with this name, as 
6 Qenric. Henry I. of England | does also the text in B. The fol- 
_ is here meant, who died in the year | lowing entries are only contained in 





1185. © A. See next note. 
Z 


AD. 
[1130.] 


[1131.] 


CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 









Concubup mac mie Donneard -h. Marlpeaélans v0 
mapbad 1 neil la Mupéad -h. MaorlpechLann. — 
CCpc mac Mupchada -h. Maoilpechlann, psootina — 
Teahpat, mopcuur ert. “Oothnall mac Rucwdpr he Be 
Mailihtiars Ri Lep Cell ocerpup epc o Muinzp Lua — 
nam. Comapba Ciapan «1. Maelmotca v0 apsain 20 
Sil nOnmchada, ocup v0 Choncobup mac Mic Coélain. — 

}ct. Cnaap pop cecaan, ocup oen uatad purppr. Con- — 
Eabap mac Oriapmaoa -h. Opican, Ri Murthan in oprbu- 
Lacione bona quiemc 1 Cill Oalua. Frollamaonaca — 
mac mic Omalgabda, caoipioe Callpuise, ocerpap ept o 
Dpesmambh. Mac Leapgat -h. Maolthund, Ri — 
Leap Ceall, ocerpup eps o thac Riadpi -N. Maoilmand f 
1 nOupmars Coltrm Cille. Catapat .N. Cerpéaepaé, — 
rep Lédinn Cpo Maca in Cpipco quieus. “Oonnead 
sh. Conéabarp, Ri Crappuige Luatpa, v0 thapbad v0 
Coinmapa thac thic Conmapa. A 

Ict. Enceap pop Corne, ocup ails vec purppa. Mup- | 
éeapcat .. MailpeéLainn, pisdsathna Tearhpat, ocup 
mM raptap Mise, mopcuup ert. “Oonncead +h. Coin- — 
ceanuind mopcuup ere. OC thac pén 1. Roiarvdp: vo 
epgabal Lé Topptealbach -h. Conéabarp, oa papu- 4 
Eavh Laecé ocup clepech. Slumgead La Torppdeclbat — 
ch. mbpican ocup pia peapturbh Murhan hi Connachta, 
cop teapepas in Rucobersg, ocup cop peailproc a carpel, 


naidt,” to signify that : 





1 Conchobhar. For an account of 


the original of the following entries, 
see the Introduction, p. xli. 

2 Donnchadh. Over this name 
O'Flaherty has added “.1. mic Dorh- 


was the son of Domhnall, BY 

* Wednesday. O'Flaherty has cor- _ 
rected this to “Dapooin, “Thurs- 
day,” on which day the Kalends, or — 
Ist of January occurred in 1142, ‘: 


















CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 339 

* * * * * * * * 
* * * cd ca a * 

* Ea * * * * * * 


_ Conchobhar,' grandson of Donnchadh? Ua Maeilsech- 
_ lainn, was killed in captivity by Murchadh Ua Maeilsech- 
lainn. Art, son of Murchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn, Royal 
_ heir of Temhair, mortuus est. Dombhnall, son of Ruaidhri 
_ Ua Maeilmhuaidh, King of Feara-Ceall, was slain by 
_ Muinter-Luanaim. The comarb of Ciaran, i.e. Mael- 
_ mochta, was plundered by Sil-Anmchadha, and by Con- 
_ ehobhar, son of Mac Cochlain. 

_. Kal. of January on Wednesday,’ the Ist day of the 
_ moon. Conchobhar; son of Diarmaid Ua Briain, King 
_ of Mumhain, in tribulatione bona quievit at Cill-Dalua. 


_ raighe, was slain by the Breghmhaine. The son of 
_ Fergal Ua Maeilmhuaidh, King of Feara-Ceall, was killed 
_ by the son of Ruaidhri Ua Maeilmhuaidh, in Durmhagh- 
_ Choluim-Chille. Cathasach Ua Ceirchaerach, lector of 
_ Ard-Macha, in Christo quievit. Donnchadh Ua Con- 
_ ehobhair, King of Ciarraighe Luachra, was killed by 
~ Cumara, son of Mac Conmara. 

Kal. of January on Friday, the 12th day of the 
; moon. Muirchertach Ua Maeilsechlainn, Royal heir of 
_ Temhair, and King of the West of Midhe, mortuus est. 
- Donnchadh Ua Concennain mortuus est. His own son, 
4c, Ruaidhri, was apprehended by Toirdhealbhach Ua 
_ Conchobhair, in violation of laics and clerics. A hosting 
by Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain, and by the men of Mumhain, 
_ into Connacht, and they cut down the Ruadh-bheitheach,* 





4 Ruadh-bheitheach; i.e. the Red | of the chiefs of Ui-Fiachrach-Aidhne 
_ Birch; probably the inauguration tree | See under the year 1129, supra. 
z2 


- Gillasiadnata, son of Mac Amhalghadha, chief of Cal-- 


(1141.] 


[1142.] 


[1143.] 


340 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


ev ported petepy punt cen cperé cen cac. Mupead — 
sh. Maorlpeaélurnn, capo pr Mise cona popcuatarb v0 
epsabail La Toippdeclbaé .N. Conéabarp pop pnavad — 
mind ocup commaipsed na hEpenn. Rise Mide vo 
tabapt vo Toippdealbaé dia thac pén 1.00 Conéabhap. — 
Rise Cenel Cosarn vo Sabarl oU Farpmleaoas, ocup — 
mic Nell vo 10nnapba. Macpach .N. Larllecaan, — 
Epreop et wpso, quieurs. Fiolla CCongupa -N. Cluman, — 
olLom Connachta, moptuup ert. i‘ 
kct. Enaap pop Satupnd, ocup tpep .xx. Purp, ocup — 
blicoain bipexa. Tade mac Toippdealbars .N. Con- 
cabhaip, mopcuup eps. Conéabap mac Toippdealbars 
ch. Conéabarp, prsdarhna Epenn, ev pi Mide puma ps 
Let Bliadna, v0 thapbad Lé-N. Ourbleng, La prs Leap 
Tula, ocup pra Ruavdp -N. Seanéan. “Dorhnalt Nes 
Coinpracla pi Teacbha, cuile. ponupa ocup pardbmopa 
Epenn, in clepicacu wicam felicitep pimius 1 cClian 
Ipmpo. Ceapball ch. Pinnallan, pi. Dealbna méipe q 
oo éacc. “Oothnall mac mic TarD5 h. Cealling, v0 
mapbad vo cpr macuibh mic mic Concabarp -h. — 
Ceallwis; in tpeap mac dibpive do euce 1 cClucin 
- [muc Nor], 10ap na Fun hi pmrtpeannip, et va mac 
oile 00 Tutim La Muincep Gaogan. Fiolla Pcopms 
Mac Congal, pean Legind Cluana. lopapr, ocup a 
rasaps, quieurc. Cronaod mac Mic Crhalgada a pup — 
occipup eft. “Oonnéad mac Mic Capcos aerppiog- — 
scomna Muman, vo éug a semil as Tapoealbat Ua 
Dpican. “Donnéad mac Tass Uc Mailpuanard, mop- 
TuUL Efe. : 
Ict. Eneap pop, Luan, ocup .111. uachad fuppe. Apo 
Eosad mop 1p1n bliadain pr. Lip Mide vo cets 





1 Caisel; i.e. a stone-fort, stone-wall, 
or maceria. 

2 Gairmleadhaigh. Saimpewoms, 
A. 
8 The sons of Niall. The Four 
Mast. say ‘“Muircheartach, son of 
Niall Mac Lochlainn.” 





4 Chief: aeip, A.; probably a mi 
take for ap, or ayo, lit. “high.” 
5 The depths of Breifne. The 
meaning is, doubtless, that the men — 
of Breifne retired into the fastnesses © 
of their territory for protection. = 


’ 





CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 341 





and demolished its caisel ;! and they afterwards returned 
without plunder or battle. Murchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn, 
chief King of Midhe, with its Fortuatha, was taken 
_ prisoner by Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, while under 
__ the protection of the relics and guarantees of Erinn. The 
_ sovereignty of Midhe was given by Toirdhealbhach to his 
_ own son, i.e. to Conchobhar. The sovereignty of Cinel 
_ Eoghain was assumed by Ua Gairmleadhaigh,? and he 
_ expelled the sons of Niall. Macraith Ua Faillechain, a 
_ Bishop and Virgin, quievit. Gilla-Aenghusa Ua Clumh- 
_ ain, chief poet of Connacht, mortuus est. 

Kal. of January on Saturday, the 23rd of the moon ; 
and a bissextile year. Tadhg, son of Toirdhealbhach 
~ Ua Conchobhair, mortuus est. Conchobhar, son of 
_ Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, Royal heir of Erinn, 
_ and King of Midhe during the space of half ‘a year, was 
_ killed by Ua Dubhlaigh, King of Feara-Tulach, and by 
Ruaidhri Ua Seanchain. Domhnall Ua Coinfiacla, King 
_ of Teathbha, flood of the prosperity and riches of 
_ Erinn, in clericatu vitam feliciter finivit in Cluain-Iraird. 
_ Cearbhall Ua Finnallan, King of Dealbhna-mér, died. 
~ Domhnall, grandson of Tadhg Ua Ceallaigh, was killed by 
_ the three sons of the grandson of Conchobhar Ua Ceal- 
- laigh. The third son of them died in Cluain[-muc-Nois], 
_ after being mortally wounded in an engagement, and the 
_ two other sons fell by Muinter-Tadhgain. Gillapadraig 
_ Mae Conghail, lector of Cluain-Iraird, and ‘its priest, 
_ quievit. Cinaedh, son of Mac Amhalghadha, was slain 
by his own people. Donnchadh, son of Mac Carthaigh, 
_ chief* Royal heir of Mumhain, died while detained in 
- eaptivity by Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain. Donnchadh, son 
_ of Tadhg Ua Maeilruanaidh, mortuus est. 

Kal. of January on Monday, the 4th of the moon. A 
_ great, mighty war in this year. The men of Midhe went 
into Laighen, and the men of Breifne went into the depths 
of Breifne,> and the Airghialla went northwards across 





A.D. 
[1143.] 


[1144] 


[1145.] 


342 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Lagi, ocup pip Opepne vo teaéc 1 prpudomun na 
Dpepne, ocup Cipsialla vo teats cap Slab Piao fo 
tums. Cpeachad La Mupcad Ua Maoilpeaclainn 1 — 

nCCipsrallerb, 50 ccapro na bu o Cuaitnge. Lip Murhan 

1 cConnaéca, 50 puspao Tads5 O Ceallers Led, pif O 
Maine, ocup Fo po mapbrao Rumdus O Llartbepoanrs. 
Masdm Vinne Dubain pia Maolpeclainn mac Mupéaro 
U1 Maorlpeclainn, [ocup] ma Cappmb pop popu 

Dpepne, ubi .cce. cecrdepunt, uel ampliup, immo Sep- 
pach Ua Connatcms, ocup 1mmo [mac] Catal Ua 
Caclian, ocup im Nh. Cubpan. fionn ch. CepBaatt 
piogoothna Ele ocapup ers. “Oonn Ua Mannacan, 
Ri Ua mOprtin na Sionna, ocup Mupéad Ua Maort- 
bpentuinn, caoiproé cloinne Conéabaip, ocup a ben, D0 
cinzim La -h. Dprtian Dpepne 1 nammup Longpuips. 
Mupéad O Maoilpecloarnn, 50 frepuib Mrde ocup 
Teatba ocup Conthaicne, vo 10mpod ap Tarpoealbaé 
Ua cContabarp, ocup Tapdealbaé O Dpiain vo piogas 
S61b. Tavs Ua Dprain vo r0p$abaal La Tarpdealbaé - 


A. mbprcan bh cancaps. Fills Eppcop Lamm, qureurs. | 


Srolla Canny ch. Luancam mopcuup eft. 

Ict. Eneap pop mapz, ocup «cu. purppe. Cpeé ta 
Tapoealbaé O cConéabaip 1 cTeatba, 50 po aps 
opem vo Munap Maoilfpionna PLoppagabypiom ono 
poéarve Dia thunoip ag CCE Lacan, eoip bavad ocup 
mapbad La propa Teatba. Mardm Marge Duarsm¥e 
pa vepsepc Opes pop Fullu Céa cliaé, ocup pop Spem 
0 Largnib, ubi [cecrvepunt] .ce. et .xxxt. 1m Ragnall 
mac Tupcarll prs Fall. Copmac -h. Catapars, arpo- 
eppeop Larsen, ocup comopba Opisve pria pé, qureure. { 





1 At Ath-Luain. The battle here | been the beam of the bridge at Ath- — 
referred to is called “moarom na | lone, as the continuator of Tighernach — 
clet:,” “the victory of the cliath,” | (1145) says that “the cliath of the — 
in a marg. note by the scribe. The | bridge fell” under the Connachtmen, — 
word cliath, gen. clethi, means a beam, | on the occasion of the battle. 
and also a hurdle. It seems to have 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM, 343 


Sliabh Fuaid. A preying expedition by Murchadh Ua 
_ Maeilsechlainn into Airghialla, so that he brought the cows 


_ from Cuailgne. The men of Mumhain went into Connacht, 


and they carried off with them Tadhg O’Ceallaigh, King 
b of Ui Maine, and killed Ruaidhri O’Flaithbhertaigh. 
_ The victory of Dun-Dubhain was gained by Maelsech- 


 lainn, son of Murchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn, [and] by the 


g _ Cairbre, over the men of Breifne, in which battle 300, or 


s more, fell together with Serrach Ua Connachtaigh, and 
_ with [the son] of Cathal Ua Cathluain, and with Ua 
_ Cubhrain. Finn Ua Cerbhaill, Royal heir of Ele, occisus 


est. Donn Ua Mannachan, King of Ui-Briuin-na-Sinna, 
and Murchadh Ua Maeilbhrenainn, chief of Clann-Con- 
_ ¢hobhair, and his wife, fell by the Ui-Briuin-Breifne, in a 
camp assault. Murchadh Ua Maeilsechlainn, with the 
_ men of Midhe and Teathbha, and the Conmaicne, turned 
against Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair ; and Toirdheal- 
bhach Ua Briain was made King by them. Tadhg Ua 
Briain was taken prisoner by Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain, 
a second time. Gille, Bishop of Luimnech, quievit. 
Gillacainnigh Ua Luanaim mortuus est. 

Kal. of January on Tuesday, the 15th of the moon. 
A preying expedition by Toirdhealbhach O’Conchobhair, 
into Teathbha, and he plundered a number of Muinter- 
-Maeilshinna. He, however, lost a multitude of his 
people at Ath-Luain,’ who were either drowned or killed 
by the men of Teathbha. The victory of Magh-Buaigh- 


g nighe was gained by the men of the South of Bregh, 
over the Foreigners of Ath-cliath and a number of the 


_ Lagenians, where 235 fell, along with Raghnall Mae 
_ Tureaill, King? of the Foreigners. Cormac Ua Catha- 
a saigh, Archbishop of Laighen, and comarb of Brigid 
_ during his time, quievit. Domhnall Ua Brain,’ King of 





_ 2 King. Raghnall is called “ mor- 3 Ua Brain; i.e. O'Breen. The 


rs maer,” i.e. “great steward,” in the | Four Mast. write the name “Ua 
Ann. Four Mast. Braoin.” 


A.D. 
[1145.] 


[1146.] 


344 cRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


“Oothnall -h. Dpain, Ri Opesmarne, mopicup. Frolla- 
paopais mac Oonnéada t. Sillepaonais, Ri Oppose 
20 mapbad vo thacanb ConSalons ti ondain 1 cCitl 
Canms. Ceallat O Ceallars, pi Dpeak, ocerpup eps 6 
[L]Lnébeapcac -h. Caéapms, ocup 6 Fallurb Oéa cliak. 
Mags nor vo 10no0pads vo Tisepnan ch. Ruape, ocup 
‘Oun Imgan do Lorsad, ocup cecars pop Loch 

ocup apaile vo Lonngaib Conacht vo Lorcud 9016, ocup 
ap vaine intiB. Frolla na naoth, mac mic Conmeada 
ch. Laesacan, v0 ciurzim do Lath a veapbpatap perpin 
41. Domnall, ocup Conmeaoda a mac quiere. 

Ict. Enaap pop céudaoin, ocup .cxur. puippe. Fiolla 
Motonna 2. .N. Catal, pi -N. Praépaé OCrdne, v0 thap- 
bavh vo mac mic “Oorhnarll U1 Conéabhap. Marvom 
CCéa Lacan pop Dorhinall mac ToippdealBars ocup pop 
U Maine, pra fepaib Tetba, Du 1 ccopéap mac mic 
Crhalsada mic [L]laino, ec ali cum eo. Meap 
mép iin bliadain~s, ecp Eno mear ocup coptheap. 
Coimtionol mop Ploiged Lap na Cpipcaisib so hiepu- 
palem 0 10nnapbad neaps 1fa<e. 

Ict. Cnap pop vapoaoin ocup .u1. uachad porppr, 
ocur bliaoain bipexa. Tiseapnan h. Ruaipe vo bualad 
6 Muincep Cngaile. Comtionol Seanms ag Imp 
Paopars oc Dpem vdeapcopuib na hEpenn 1m Mael-— 
maevoic .N. Mopsaip, 1m comopba Paopwuig, ocup 1m 
Epreopaib alg 50 po cinnprot aporle vo prasluib ano. 
Maelmoevoic van vo teats apind [plenud fin v0 
accallaim comapba Pevaip. Cpreaé La Tomppoealbaé 
h. Conéatarp 1 naptep Mide sup aps opem vo 
Mumnap Laegachan. Oarpmeap mop rpin Bliadoan pr. 


Masters have vés, “died.” The 





1 They; i.e. the forces of Tighernan 


Ua Ruaire. 

2 His son, quievit. The text has 
““a@ mac ate,” “his other son.” But 
the word aite is probably a mistake 


1 
for “qe,” or “qtuieurc,” as in the 
continuation of Tighernach, at the 
year 1146, For quiewic the Four 





name “ Cumeda” is written “‘ Con- 
meada,” the gen. form, in the text. 

8 The Jews. The second crusade is 
evidently intended. In the middle 
ages the Jews were often confounded 
with the Mahometans. 

4 Muinter-Anghaile. Mu«ncep 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 345 


Breghmhaine, moritur. Gillapadraig, son of Donnchadh 
Ua Gillapadraig, King of Osraighe, was slain by the sons 
of Conghalach Ua Braenain, in Cill-Chainnigh. Ceallach 
O’Ceallaigh, King of Bregh, was slain by [F]laithbhertach 
Ua Cathasaigh, and by the Foreigners of Ath-cliath. 
Magh-nAei was ravaged by Tighernan Ua Ruaire, and 
Dun-Imghan was burned; and they' went upon Loch 
Longa, and burned some of the ships of Connacht, in 
which a slaughter of people was committed. Gilla-na- 
naemh, grandson of Cumedha Ua Laeghachain, fell by the 
hand of his own brother, viz., Domhnall; and Cumedha, 
his son, quievit.? 

Kal. of January on Wednesday, and the 26th of the 
moon. Gillamochonna, ze. Ua Cathail, King of Ui- 
Fiachrach-Aidhne, was killed by the grandson of Domh- 
nall Ua Conchobhair. The victory of Ath-Luain was 
gained over Domhnall, son of Toirdhealbhach, and over 
the Ui Maine, by the men of: Teathbha, where the grand- 
- son of Amhalghaidh, son of [F']lann, was slain, and others 
with him. Great produce of fruit in this year, both nut 
crop and acorn crop. A great army was collected by the 
- Christiansto Jerusalem, to extirpate the power of theJews.* 

Kal. of January on Thursday, and the 7th of the 
moon, and:a bissextile year. Tighernan Ua Ruaire was 
struck by Muinter-Anghaile.* A synod was assembled 
at Inis-Padraig by a number of the Bishops of Erinn, 
along with Maelmaedhoig Ua Morgair, comarb of Patrick, 
and several Bishops; and they decided on various regula- 
tions there. Maelmaedhoig, moreover, proceeded from 
that synod to confer with the comarb of Peter. A 
preying expedition by Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, 
into the East of Midhe, and he plundered a division of 
Muinter-Laeghachain. A great oak crop this year. 
Otir, King of the Foreigners of Ath-cliath, was slain, 





Qngaib, A. ‘¢Muinter-Anghaile” | ghaile, or O’Farrells, who were seated 
was the tribe-name of the Ui-Fer- | in the present county of Longford. 


A.D. 
(1146.] 


[1147.] 


[1148.] 


346 CRONICUM SCOTORUM. 


Oup pu Fall Cléa chiaé vo thapbad cpa meabal do 
macaib Mic Tupccall. Muproaé Sinnaé, Ri Tetba, 
mopouup ere. Sicpruce -h. Bpan pr Opesmaine, vo 
cintim La mac Congalargy -h. Opain, copra prongant. 
Mac Leapgat .h. Maolhuars, pr Leap Ceall, ocerpup 
ert 0 Cib pacan. Maolmaedoic .N. Mopsoaip Cpehi- 
epipcopur et uipso ev pcepiba, caput pelisiomp tconur 
Nibepniae, ec CClbanmiae, et Lesacup Cporcolic: Inno- 
cent1, ocup feap po atnins manéine ocup canonac 
qagulla hecaily: nEpenn, wicam felicitep Tepminatis 
hi Clapbull 1c cots 00 agallarh comapba Peaoaip. 

Ict. Enaip pop Sachupn, Lanae .xui1., ocup cet blia- 
cain bipech pap. Topand ocup forsnen vo Tiaccain 1 
nEnaip, sup sab an ceni 1 mubap Ciapain cond spe 
neapt doeine po barded, ocup 50 po mapbead tpi caoims 
ap ced pon mubap. Murmpéseapcaé .N. Maelmotopsi, 
Epreop -h. mDpiuin Operne, quem. Frolla Paopuis 
h. (ilemnnes, Epreop Cluana feapta Dpeunainn, 
quien. Laorspioé A. Mopoa, pi Lannép1, mopouup ers. — 
Concubap mac mic Cotlan, Leé pi Oealbna Deépa, 
momtup. Sluasead La Muipceapcaé mac NéLL mic mic 
Loclains co Conall ocup co n€ogan, ocup co nOrpsial Lub, 
1 nlilcab, 50 po inpearcap Ulloa ervep Cealla ocup 
cuaca. Tus van bparigoe Ler 1apccain. Ceallacdn 
mac me Cappcars mopcuup eps. Sluatead la mac 
mic Loclaind 50 pus bparsoe Tizepnain -h. Ruarps, 
ocup bpargoe Mupéaro -h. Marleclarnn, ocup perso 
Conmaicne ocup feap Teactba, Ler von cup pin. Call- 
pinge wile vapsain 6 Siol Ronan, ocup a monnapba 





1 Ua Morgair. Ni. Mongorp, | the old Irish churches to plant some 
“Ua Mongair,” A. memorial tree, generally a yew, near 
2 Scribe. ba, A. each. See Dr. Petrie’s remarks on 


8 Yew tree of Ciaran. This was a 
celebrated yew which stood near the 
church of Cluain-muc-Nois, and was 
planted by St. Ciaran, who founded 
the establishment. It seems to have 
been the practice of the founders of 





the subject, Round Towers, Transac- 
tions of the Royal Irish Academy, 
vol, xx., p. 65. 

‘ Bishop of Ui-Briuin- Breifne. This 
appears to be the first mention in the 
Annals of a Bishop of Ui-Briuin- 








CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 347 


_ through treachery, by the sons of Mac Turcaill. Muiredh- 
ach Sinnach, King of Teathbha, mortuus est.  Sitric 
Ua Brain, King of Breghmhaine, fell by the son of Con- 
galach Ua Brain, through fratricide. The son of Fergal 
Ua Maeilmhuaidh, King of Feara-Ceall, was slain by the 
Ui-Racan. Maelmaedhoig Ua Morgair,' Archbishop, and 
virgin, and scribe,’ head of the religion of all Hibernia 
and Alba, and Legate of the Apostolic Innocent, and the 
man who restored the Monastic and Canonical rules of 
the Church of Erinn, ended his life happily in Clairvaux, 
when going to confer with the comarb of Peter. 

Kal. of January on Saturday, the 18th of the moon; 
and the first year after a bissextile year. Thunder and 
lightning came in January, and the lightning took effect 
on the yew tree of Ciaran,’ so that it was, through the 
power of men it was extinguished ; and it killed 113 
sneep under the yew. Muircheartach Ua Maeilmocherghi, 
Bishop of Ui-Briuin-Breifne,* quievit. Gillapadraig Ua 
Ailchinnedh, Bishop of Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, quievit. 
Laeighsech Ua Mordha, King of Lacighis, mortuus est. 
Conchobhar, son of Mac Cochlain, half-King of Dealbhna- 
Bethra, moritur. A hosting by Muircertach, son of Niall, 
son of Mac Lochlainn, with the Cinel Conaill, and Cinel 
Eoghain, and Airghialla, into Uladh, and he plundered 
Uladh, both churches and territories. He also carried off 
hostages afterwards. Ceallachan, son of Mac Carthaigh, 
mortuusest. A hosting by the son of Mac Lochlainn, and 
he carried off the hostages of Tighernan Ua Ruaire, and the 
hostages of Murchadh Ua Maeilechlainn, and the hostages 
of the Conmaicne, and of the men of Teathbha, on that 
expedition. Calraighe was altogether plundered by the 
Sil-Ronain, and they* were all expelled into Connacht, in 





Breifne, a district which is now re- 5 They; i.e. the Calraighe, or inha- 
presented by the diocese of Kilmore. | bitants of the district of Calraighe- 
See Harris's edition of Ware’s Bishops, | an-Chaladh, anglicé Calry, in the co. 
p. 226. , of Westmeath. 


A.D. 
[1148.] 


[1149.] 


348 cronicum scoToORUm. 


wile 1 cConnachta, 1 ccionavd Siolla Uledn mic tiie 
Sapsamna po mapbpac. 

Enap pop “Oomnach, Lunac .xcxix. On Fiolla 
claon -h. Crapda, pi Carpbpe, v0 curtim La h. Paolan. 
Congalac ch. Dpain, [Ri] Opeagmarne, v0 mapbad vo 

thuincep Cetepnans 1 prll 1 nS5apsa na garthnurge 1 
cCluain muce Nop. Muipeaoaé -h. Oubcars, Opehi- 
epipcopup, et caput beasiey |} ttam ies Tep- 


minawc. Wuipeaoac .. . ee 

a * * * * * * * 
* * * * of * * 

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CHRONICUM SCOTORUM. 349 


revenge for Gilla-Ultain, son of Mac Gargamhna, whom 
they had slain. 


Kal. of January on Sunday, the 29th of the moon. The 
Gillaclaen Ua Ciardha, King of Cairbre, fell by Ua Faelain. 
Congalach Ua Brain, [King] of Breghmhaine, was killed 
by Muinter-Cethernaigh, in treachery, in Gardha-na-gamh- 
naighe, at Cluain-muc-Nois. Muiredhach Ua Dubhthaigh, 
Archbishop, and head of religion, ended his life happily. 
Muiredhoch . . . . . . 


* * * * * * * * 
~ * * * * * * 

* * * * * * * * 
* * * * * * * 

* * * * * * * * 





[1150.] 








GLOSSARY. 


Nore. —The figures indicate the pages of the work in which the words explained occur, 


Qipchinnech (airchinnech), angli- 
cised “ Erenach” and “ Herenach.” 

The word is explained uarat 
cheand (uasal cheand), i.e. “supe- 
rior head,” in Cormac’s Glossary. 
In the Annal. Ulster the word is 
represented by “ Princeps.” (See 
Dr. Reeves’s observations on the 
word; Adamnan, p. 364, and Col- 
ton, p. 4; and also supra, Introd. 
p. lili); passim. 

Clty: (allsi), a gangrene, 48. 

Cicpu (altru) or acpa,—Lat. altor, 
a fosterer, 300. 

Onchapod(ancharadh). See p. 258, 
n. *, 

CCnhesmuip (anhegmuis), without 
including, or besides ; lit. in the 
absence of, 318. 

OCnmchapa (anmchara) “soul-friend;” 
passim. “Anmchara is a com- 
pound loan word from anime 

_carus, and is that which is com- 
monly used to denote a ‘confessor.’ 
In old Latin lives of the Irish 
saints it is generally rendered 

‘ pater confessionis,’ or ‘pater con- 
fessarius.’ Colgan explains it by 
synedrus.” Reeves on the Culdees, 





Transactt. Roy. Irish Acad., vol. 
xxiv., pt. IT., p. 206, n. 

QCn comnpiud (an tainriud) for mt 
fainpuud, particularly, 226. 

Qpsuc (argut), for apsect, = Lat. 
argentum, silver, 318. 

OCpcate (ascalt), a famine; apparent-- 
ly comp. of ap, or ear, a negative 
part., and cotc (=Lat. cultus 4), 
food; 214, 

Ocagap (atagar), is invoked, 122. 

Cceipe (ateisc), a stamp, or engrav- 
ing, according to Connell Mageo- 
ghegan, who translates it so in his 
version of the Annals of Clonmac- 
nois, at the year A.D. 1129; 328. 

Ctpuccad, for atpuged (athru- 
ghadh), to appear, 286. 

Orcpochap (attrochair), See 1cc- . 
gochay.. 


baogat (baoghal), danger; also the 
state of being exposed to danger ; 
passim. ; 

Denncobap (benncobhar), the coni- 
cal cap of a round tower. See p. 
315, n. %. 

Dpoz (brot), for bpurz, pl. of brace, 
a garment, 260. 


352 


Cabaé (cabach), exaction, 226. 

Cain (cain,) a tribute, or law; passim. 

Carpet (caisel), a stone fort, stone 
wall, or maceria. Passim. In Cor- 
mac’s Glossary the word is stated 
to be derived from casula, or com- 
pounded of the words cip ait, ie. 
“tribute rock,” so called “from the 
tributes which the men of Erinn 
were wont to bring to that place 
(Cashel).” 

Caorgerdip (cacigcidhis), a fortnight, 
306. 

Caoimés (caoimthi), companions, 250. 
Catarge, recte cacarge (cataighe), 
gen. of cacach, a covenant, 336. 
Catpaoimesd (cath-raoinedh), a defeat; 

lit. a battle-breach ; passim. 

Ceou (cedu), notwithstanding, 68. 

Ceitepn (ceithern), a band, or com- 
pany, 306. 

Cetromain (cetsomain), May, pro- 
perly the Ist of May; 4. See Cor- 
mac’s Glossary, in voc. 

Clap (clar), a plank bridge; lit. a 
board, or plank, 320. 

Ctapaé (clasach), the groove in a 
two-edged sword; from clay, a 
furrow, or trench, 308. 

Coimnmend (coinnmed), refection, bil- 
letting ; passim. 

Comaitz (comailt), grinding, 92. 

Comapba (comarba, or comarb) ; 
passim. See Introd., p. liii. 

Comopba. See comapba. 

Concogept (concogert), for con-co- 
ceaptad, a judgment, 36. 

Conovaceraipcc (condatesairce), for 
convo-va-eraipicc, the 3rd_ pers. 
sing. pret. indic. of the verb 





GLOSSARY. 


eraipcc, to protect, or rescue, 
with the infixed pron. pl. va, 10. 
Conutge (conuige), as far as; passim. 
Copardeachta (coraidheachta), sup- 
plications, 90. 


Coptrhear (corthmheas, pron. cor- 


vas), explained “acorns,” or acorn 
crop, by O’Curry.—(See Census 
of Ireland, 1851, Part V., table i., 
p- 73), 344. 

Co re (co se), hitherto; passim. 

Cpaobaro (cradbad), or cpaban, de- 
votion, 196. 

Curoin (cuidin), a plate; = Lat. 
catinus; 328. 

Cumaipce, for comatpce (comairce), 
protection, supposed to be com- 
pounded of com = Lat. com, and 
atpce, from Lat. arceo ; passim. 

Cumpabart (cumgabhail), for com- 
sZabait, taking, or lifting, 150. 

Cpeé (crech), a preying party, 248. 

Crim (crim), for cpeath, wild garlic, 
242. 

Cpatsaip. (crith-ghair), great terror; 
lit. tremble-shout; from cpt, a 
trembling, and sain, a shout, 320. 

Cpnotige (crolighe), agonies ; lit. 
“ gore-bed,” from cpo, gore, and 
uge, a bed; passim. 

‘Ocimliag (Daimliag), a stone 
church ; passim. 

‘Oaipmeap (dairmeas), an oak crop, 
from voip, “oak,” and mear, 
“ produce,” 344. 

“Ouip (daip), for vaib, or vo1b, “ for 
them ;” passim. 

‘Oapsain, for vo apsain (do argain), 
to plunder. 


























—"Depsabait (dergabhail), for vo ep- 
 -gabart, to capture ; passim. 
“"Dersop (desgor), for vo ergop, to 
_ fall, or be thrown [from a horse], 
204. 

“pena (dfertain), for vo peptarn, 
to be shed ; passim. 

O10 (dia), two, 206. 

*Ditre (dilse), perpetuity, 302. 
"Omnpao (dinnrad), for vo mnpao, 
to plunder ; passim. 

Domtiag. See voamlsag. 

Dopbuo (dorbud), for vo fopbun, 
to finish, 322. 

rc ainiboro (duinibad), mortality ; 
. See vaimtsag- 
Dupmodp (durmér), for vo upmop, 
of the greater part, 320. 


Eneclap (eneclar). See p. 245, m. 5. 
€nrd (enid), interj. behold ! (from 
_ Lat. en?), 68. 

Epaid (erail), or upait, a request, 
_ desire, command, 262. 


Epgnati (ergnamh), a feast, 230. 
Epmop (ermor), for upmop, the 
_ greater part, 306. 

Epzeé (ertech), protection, guaran- 
tee, 244. 


Fe sbardypic | (fagbaidhsit), for o- 
 gabord-piac, “they find,” 298. 

1 ? sct (fecht), a time, or occasion ; also 
_ an expedition, 326. 

eomanna (fedhmanna), burthens, 


GLOSSARY. 





353 


Fenna (ferna), pl. of pepenn, a gar- 
ter, or girdle, 42. 

Fruvomun, for puoomun (depth), 
342. 

Fisric (figsit), or po pigpic, they 
fought, 12. 

Focneap (focreas), for po cuiper, 
3rd pers. sing. pres. indic. of the 
verb cuipim, I put, or place; but 
apparently used also in the pass. 
sense, 14. 

Foopuap (fodruair), caused; = fo- 
0-po-uaip, from the rad. fap, 
34. 

Fopbaip (forbais), a siege; also an 
attack, or invasion, 308. 

fPopbpipyic (forbrissit), for popbaip- 
fic, 3rd pers. pl. pret. indic. of 
the verb fopbaip, to multiply, 
increase, 4. 

Ponpfasaibrom = fo - po - fagatb - 
giom  (fo-ro-fagaib-siom) ; ‘“ he 
lost ;” lit. “ he left,” 342. 

foptporb (fortraibh), shall have, or 
receive, 36. (This word seems 
corrupt. Qy. poncpaib, for paip- 
co-patb, “on him may be” ?) 

Ponvagaip (foruagair), for fo-po- 
fuagaip, 3rd pers. sing. pret. 
indic. of the verb fogpav, to 
proclaim, 226. 

Lrrtsain (frithghuin), heat of bat- 
tle, or properly counter-wounding, 
from fp, or pith, contra, and 
pun, wounding ; passim. 

Emepeannip (frithscannir), a con- 
flict, or engagement ; compounded 
of pit, against, and pcannip, or 
reanvep, a skirmish, or engage- 

2A 


354 
ment, 340. An attack against a 
fortress is sometimes called a 
scannir in the Irish Annals, and 
therefore it is possible that the 


word may be borrowed from the 
Lat. scando. 


Beocach (geocach). See p. 312, x. %. 

Sonouard (gonduaidh), “he ate,” 286. 
The word is probably compounded 
of the compos. part. son or con, 
ou = 00, a verb. part., and a1 = 
Lat. edo? 

Subromp (gubidir), a confession, or 
declaration, 328. In the parallel 
passage in the Annals of the Four 
Masters (1130), the word used is 
coibrena (coibsena), confession. 


lapmense (iarmerge), nocturns, 282. 
The meaning of the word is fixed 
by a passage in the “ Navigation of 
Maelduin” (Leabhar na h’ Vidhri, 
MS. R. I. Acad., fol. 31, 60): 
“Meovon croc tu10 
Citdt von cil; 17 © Tpactron vo 


Deocaid im ie an vo berm clus 


00 1apmepngi ;” Le. “at midnight 
. . Ailill went to the 

cane and this was the time 
when the nun went to ring the 
bell for n Mg 

lopccoin (iarttain), for sapcain, 
afterwards ; passim. 

Imbecoaip, (tinbecdair), for smmech- 
Taip, an edge, or border, 160. 

imepcaime (imertaine), droves of 
cattle, 316, 


GLOSSARY. 
























1mmopatcc (immoralta), for 4 
po-laca, “through which + 
fought,” 28. 

Impiao (imrad), for ap.) 
pers. pl. pret. indice. of the + 
patio, to row, with the i 
sive part. im prefixed, 10, 
Lat. remus. ‘a 

Ipmon, for upmép cutis the 
most part; passim. — a 

Iccpotéap (ittrochar), for acfocharp » 
or av potepi, fell, 28. - a 

Lec casprd (lec aigrid), ice; pas: i 

Lec esa (lec ega), ice ; pain? 

Up aged (lis ‘igo a wei 
hospitality, from lp, a sibel or 
habitation, and atzeo, or Orgers @ a 
guest, or traveller; passim. 

Lonogatach (ondialaeis of fewwe 
valour, 182. ~ 


Maoa (mada), a stick; also cid 
signify a staff, or roel 296. 
Mebroin (nebeatti), a defeating ; « 3 
verb. subst. from meabao 

bad), to defeat ; lit. to break, 272 
Mepte (merle), theft i ii) 
stealth, 242. 
Movarg (modaig), quoad, 49. 


Neanatcn1d (nanaithnidh), for i 
nro, unknown, unprecedented 

Nemtn1 (nemthni), for nem: 
thing, 334. 

Niboap, (nibdar), for Ht borne 
“they were not,” 132. ie 

Nomooa (soma), pl. of 1 ae 
In the Annals of Loch C6, 


ne 
i 





Scotland is stated to have died at 

the end of three nomada after the 
death of King Malcolm. Nomato, 
_ therefore, seems to signify a day 
4 ind night, and not an ennead of 
f oan, as stated supra, p. 10, n. 


: 46 )oproccap (ro-ortattar), 3rd pers. 
3 ph pret. indic. of the verb, opzan, 
to destroy ; passim. 


“ Ppocecc (procect), a precept, 126. 


“Rab (rab), for pro bo, erat, 286. 
“Roipric (raissit), for pordpic, they 
rowed, 10. See impao. 

- Ratlpac (ralsat), for po Lapac, “they 
inflicted,” 150. 

Rivamna, or prgoamna (righdamna), 
a person eligible for the office of 
king ; lit. “ materies regis ;” from 
7%, a king, and vamna, materies; 
Ripum (risum), for potépum, 1st 
pers. pl. fut. condit. of the verb 
goitim, I reach, 10. §o pipum, 
until we reach. 

Riccargeéc (rittaigecht), for ppic- 
 targecht, rebelling; lit. “coming 
against,” 150. 

j Biican (robtar), for po batap, 
4 _ “they were,” 132. 

Roovgesuin (rodgeghuin), po-o-se- 
gut, “that wounded him,” 104. 
Roonepsaib (rodnergaibh). See p. 
- 266, n. & 
Ro-geogain, he wounded, 122. 













GLOSSARY. : 


year 1093, Queeh Margaret of |: 





355 
abi after Trinity. See p. 152, 
N. 


Samhcpurs (samhtrusg), & plague, 
50. 


Scainoplecha (scaindrecha), ace. plur. 
of reannipi; passim. See fjuc- 
reannin. 

Seée (seche), a hidée, 244. 

Secnab (sechnab), vice-abbot; passim. 
Secnopoce (sechnopote), fot pet na- 
bard, or peé naboarne, vice-abbacy, 

136. 

S8s5umu (sgumu), the lights of ani- 
mals, 160. 

80010 (soaid), or poatte (soaitt), they 
turn, or return, 324. 

Soir (sois), for pordip, 3rd pers. sing. 
pres. indic, of the verb poo, to 
return, 320. 


Taplisyic (tairligsit), for do-air- 
leig-set, “they let fall,” 280. 

Taipnic (tairnic), for vo atpnic, he 
met, or found, 6. 

Tanarcap (tanastar), succeeded, 6, 8. 

Tappoo (tarrad), to overtake, to 
meet ; passim.’ 

Teé naeroheo (tech naeidhed), a 
house of entertainment ; passim. 
Terca, or cepéa (tescha), gen. of 

cerac, heat, 302. 


_ Tene selatn (tene gelain), lightning; 


passim, The name is now usually 
applied to the exhalation known 
as the “ Will o’ the wisp.” 
Tocomta, or cocumtu1d (tocumluid), 
for v0 com-tu1o, 3rd pers. sing. 
pret. ind. of the verb turdim, I 
go, proceed, 10, 12. 
2A 2 


356 ; GLOSSARY. 


Torsecht (toigecht), corruptly 
_ written teacht (teacht), coming ; 
passim. 

Tomger (toinged), 3rd pers. sing. 
pret. subj. of the verb coipgen, to 
impart, offer, or deliver, 126. 

Tpedvort (tredoil), a flock-house, 314. 
The word should probably be 
Tped-foil, compounded of cen, 
a herd, or flock, and foit, a stable, 
or stye, the ¢ of fort being aspi- 
rated, and therefore not pro- 











nounced. The word muc i. 
(pron. mucéil), which is gloss 
‘“hara,” or pigstye, in a very 
cient MS. quoted “eae Gr 
Celt., vol. i., p. 198, is imilarl; 
formed, viz., from muc, a pig, aa 
Soil, a stye. { 
Tuapsaib cenn (tuargaib cn - 
peared ; lit. “raised, [the] dheng 
178. isn 


Upat. See ena. 








































_ Achadh-bé (Aghaboe, Queen’s co.), Ab- 
bots of, 39, 111, 155, 157; plundered 
by Gentiles, 187. 

_ Achadh Cuinn, death of Cathbadh, Bishop 

of, 51. 

_Achadh-fabhair (now Aghagower), co. 

Mayo, 303. 

_ Achadh-farchadh (i.e. the ‘‘field of light- 
ning”), where Lughaidh, son of Laeg- 
haire, was killed, 37. 

Acorns, a great crop of, 345. 

_ Adamnan, Abbot of Hi, 79, 109, 111, 113, 

115; the shrine of, 139. 

_ Aedh, death of, 77. 

_ Aedh, Abbot of Glenn-da-locha, dies, 127. 

_ Aedh, Bishop of Ros-Comain, dies, 165. 

_ Aedh, Bishop of Treoid, dies, 243. 

_ Aedh, Abbot of Tir-da-glass, slain, 145. 

_ Aedh, anchorite of Slebhte, death of, 113. 

_ Aedh, King of Teabhtha, 63, 69. 

_ Aedh, son of Ainmire, King of Ireland, 

«59, 61, 63, 65. 

_ Aedh, son of Bece, King of Teabhtha, 

213, 217. 

Aedh, son of Catharnach, slain, 147. 

_ Aedh, son of Ceallach, slain, 121. 

_ Aedh, son of Cennedigh, slain, 283. 

_ Aedh, son of Colcan, King of the Airthera, 

/. 73. 

_ Aedh, son of Conchobhar, King of Con- 

nacht, slain, 171. 

_ Aedh, son of Dluthach, King of Fera Cul, 

109, 111. 

_ Aedh, son of Echtighern, 229. 

_ Aedh, son of Eochagan, King of Uladh, 

191. 

_ Aedh, son of Flann, blinding of, 191. 





INDEX, 


Nore.—The figures refer to the pages in the work; but some names will be found entered more 
than once in the same page. 





Aedh, son of Flann, son of Maelsechlainn, 
slain, 26]. 

Aedh, son of Fogartach, slain, 133. 

Aedh, son of Gairbhith, King of Cairbre 
Mor and Dartraighe, slain, 211. 

Aedh, son of Maelmithidh, 195, 217. 

Aedh, son of Maelruanaidh, royal heir 
of Temhair, 211. 

Aedh, son of Niall Frossach, King of Ire- 
land, promulgates the “ Lawof Patrick,” 
125; death of, 131. 

Aedh Airedh, King of Dal-Araidhe, slain, 
113. 

Aedh Aldan. See Aedh Uairiodhnach. 

Aedh Bendan, arch-King of Munster, 
death of, 75. 

Aedh Bethra, son of Cuimin, slain, 95. 

Aedh mBree, King of the Irish Cruithne, 
or Picts, slain, 55. 

Aedh Cluasach, slain, 119. 

Aedh Dubh, ie. “ Black Hugh,” King of 
Uladh, kills Diarmaid Mac Cerbhaill, 
57; is slain, 63. 

Aedh Dubh, Abbot of Cill-dara, death of, 
87. 

Aedh Finnliath, King of Ireland, preys 
Ulidia, 153; invades and devastates 
Midhe, 157; attacks Maelsechlainn I, 
ib. ; defeats the Foreigners and Ulidians, 
and plunders Connacht, 159; made King 
of Ireland, ib. ; blinds Lorcan, King of 
Midhe, ib. ; gains the battle of Cill-Ui- 
nDaighre, 161; plunders Laighen, 163; 
plunders Cill Ausaille, 165; dies, 167. 

Aedh Fortamhail, son of Eoghan Bel, 
slain, 51. 

Aedh Guastan, slays Aedh Slaine, 69, 


358 


Aédh Laighnen Ua Cernaigh, slain, 123. 

Aedh Mac Bric, Bishop, death of, 63. 

Aedh Roin, King of Ui-Failghe, 69. 

Aedh Ron, son of Maelcobha, dies, 95. 

Aedh Slaine, King of Ireland, slays 
Suibhne, King of Midhe, 67; is mur- 
dered, 69; ‘‘ the sons of,” 221. 

Aedh Uairiodhnach, or Aedh Aldan, King 
of Ireland, 71; death of, 73. 

Aedhacan, of Lughmhagh (Louth), dies, 
141. 

Aedhacan, King of Teabhtha, dies, 177. 

Aedhan, Abbot of Bennchair, dies, 101. 

Aedhan, Bishop of the Saxons, dies, 91. 

Aedhan, an anchorite, death of, 7 3. 

Aedhan, a leper, 122, n. 8, 

Aedhan, son of Gabhran, death of, 7 71. 

Aedhan, Abbot of Ros-cre, dies, 171. 

Aedhgen Ua Mathghamna, slain, 121. 

Aedhlugh, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
death of, 93. 

Aelfwine(Almune),son of Oswiu,slain, 105. 

Aelle, King of the Saxons, death of, 33. 

Aenach Colmain, a fair celebrated on the 
Curragh of Kildare, 204, n. 4. 

Aenach-Tete (Nenagh, co. Tipperary), 
burnt, 235. 

Aendruim, or Naendruim (now Mahee 
Island, in Strangford Lough), death of 
Mochaoe of, 33; death of Critan of, 87. 
See Naendruim. 

Aengus, son of Algail, Superior of Domh- 
nach-Padraig, dies, 149. 

Aengus, son of Amhalgaidh, death of, 63. 

Aengus, son of Colman, 73, 77. 

Aengus, son of Colman Moér, King of 
Midhe, slain, 79. 

Aengus, son of Domhnall, slain, 91. 

Aengus (or Oengus), son of Donnchadh, 
King of Midhe, 205, 207. 

Aengus, son of Dunchadh, King of Teabh- 
tha, dies, 137. 

Aengus Céle Dé, the Festology of, 39, 
n, 18, 

Aengus Liathana, defeats Maelduin, son 
of Aedh Bennan, 87. 

Aengus, i.e. Mac Cnissi, Bishop of Con- 
dere, dies, 37, 


INDEX. 


Ailbhe, St., of Imlech Ibhair (Emly, co, — 





























Aengus, Mac Nathfraeich, King of Mun- 4 
ster, slain, 31. i 
Affraic, Abbess of Cill-dara, dies, 141. 

Aghaboe. See Achadh-bé. 
Aghagower. See Achadh-fabhair. ; 
Aghda, son of Dubhcenn, King of Teabh- E 
tha, 222, n. 1, 227. 7 
Agond (or Hacon ?), defeated by Cerbhall, 4 
son of Dunghal, 149. q 
Aideid, son of Laighne, 173, 175, 177. 
Aidhircech. See Inis-Adhareach. ; 
Aidhne (pron. Ané, a district comprising — 
the present barony of Kiltartan, co. — 
Galway), battles in, 41, 48; Kings of, — 
127, 173, 191, 193, 203, 238, 237, 251. 
See Ui-Fiachrach-Aidhne, | 


Tipperary), death of, 45; death of : 
Lighda, comarb of, 285. si) 
Ailbhe, of Senchua Ua nAililla, death 4 * 
47. 
Ailebra Ua Muirle, Bishop of Daimbliag, 
dies, 181. nia 
Ailech, or Ailech Frigreinn (now Ely, or — 
Greenan-Ely, in the N.E. of the co, — 
Donegal), the ancient seat of the North- — 
ern Hy Neill Kings, 31; demolished, — 
105, 208, 307; plundered, 181; Kings — 
of, 157, 161, 175, 185, 215, 221, 223, — 
289, 241, 243, 246, n. 6, 271, 273, 295, — 
323; Lan, Queen of, 203. a 
Ailen-an-bheithe, ‘tthe island of the — 
birch,” now Illanaveha, in the Shannon, ; 
belonging to the barony of Garrycastle, — 
King’s co., 333. yi 
Ailfin (Elphin, Roscommon eo.), spoiled, 
269. 
Ailill, Abbot of Achadh-bé, dies, 155. 
Ailill, Abbot of Armagh, death of, 41, 45. 
Ailill, Bishop and Abbot of Fobhar, dies, — 
163. har 
Ailill, Abbot of Trian Corcaighe, slain, 
181, oa 
Ailill, comarb of Caemhghen (Kevin), r 
221. “ 
Ailill, Cruitire, son of Aedh Slaine, kill 
85. 
Ailill Flannessa, death of, 101. 


Jeng 





INDEX. 


Ailill Inbhanda, King of Connacht, slain, 
51, 

Ailill Molt. See Oilill Molt. 

Ailill, son of Aedh Roin, King of Laighen, 
87. 

Ailill, son of Baedan, murder of, 75. 

Ailill, son of Ceallach, death of, 77. 

Ailill, son of Colman, King of Ui Laegh- 
aire, death of, 87. 

Ailill, son of Conall Grant, slain, 123. 

Ailill, King of the Cruithne, slain, 109. 
See Oilill. 

Ailitir, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, death 
of, 67. 

Aimergin Gluingil, son of Milidh, 15. 

Aimhirgin, son of Cinaedh, King of Ui- 
Failghe, 205, 207. 

_Aindiarraidh, King of Leith Cathail, slain, 
175. ; 

Aine (Knockany, co. Limerick), the battle 
of, 10]. 

Ainmire Bocht, t.e. “‘Ainmire the poor,” 
247. 

Ainmire, son of Senna, King of Ireland, 
47, 58, 57, 59. 

Airghialla (Oriel, or Uriel, in Ulster), the 
men of, defeat the Cinel Conaill, 225; 
plunder Ard-Macha, 235; a battle be- 
tween the Cinel Conaill and, 239; in- 
vade Munster, 317; defeated, 331; the 
territory of, ravaged by Murchadh Ua 
Maeilsechlainn, 343; invaded by Muir- 
certach MacLochlainn, 347; Kings of, 
39, 65, 105, 135, 153, 165, 169, 191, 209, 
215, 219, 261, 277, 293, 295. 

Airmedhach, Bishop of Ard-Macha, dies, 
245. 

Airmedhach, of Craebh, death of, 107. 

Airtech, a territory comprising the present 
parishes of Tibohine and Kilnamana, in 
the W. of the co. Roscommon, 107. 

Airthera, now the baronies of Upper and 
Lower Orior, co. Armagh, plundered by 
Conchobhar, King of Ireland, 131 ; Kings 
of, 73, 87, 113, 121. 

Airther Lifé, the part of the co. Kildare, 
embraced by the winding of the river 

- Liffey, Kings of, 159, 189, 





359 


Airtri, Abbot of Ard-Macha. See Artri. 

Aiteid, son of Laighne. See Aideid. 

Alba, the name of a hill in Magh Lifé, or 
the plain of the Liffey, 27. ; 

Alba (Scotland), flight of the men of, be- 
fore Bruide, King of the Picts, 53; the 
islands of, plundered, 205 ; Bishops of, 
271, 283; Kings of, 53, 177,211, 215, 
219, 225, 235, 243, 271, 278, 285, 301, 
303. 

Alba, chief of the Black Gentiles, slain, 
167. 

Albdan, son of Gothfrith, slain, 197. 

Albene, now the Delvin river, the northern 
boundary of the co. of Dublin, 279. 

Allen, hill of. See Almhain, 

Almhain, now the hill of Allen, co. Kil- 
dare, battles of, 43, 121. 

Almune, son of Oswiu. See Aelfwine. 

Alps, the. See Sliabh Ealpa. 

Ambacuc, decapitation of, 49. 

Amhalgadh, or Ambhalghaidh (pron. 
Awly), King of Connacht, dies, 23. 

Ambhalghaidh, King of Calraighe, dies, 
277. 

Amhalghaidh, son of Cathal, King of the 
W. of Connacht, blinded, 279. . 

Amhalghaidh, comarb of Patrick, dies, 
279. 

Amhalghaidh Ua Conaing, slain, 119. 

Ambhlaibh (Amlaff, Aulaf, or Olaf), son 
of the King of Lochlann, arrives in Ire- 
land, and receives the submission of the 
Foreigners and Irish, 153; defeats Ca- 
thal Finn, 155; drowns Conchobar, half- 
King of Midhe, 159; devastates Ard- 
Macha 163; returns to Ath-Cliath 
from Scotland, ib. 

Amhlaibh, son of Gothfrith, defeated by 
Muircertach, son of Niall, 201; dies, 
203. 

Amblaibh, son of Ilulbh, King of Alba, 
slain, 225. 

Amhlaibh, son of Imhar of Luimnech 1225. 

Ambhlaibh, grandson of Imhar, slain, 175, 

Amhlaibh, son of Sitric, plunders Cill- 
dara, 215; dies, 227. 

Awbhlaibh, son of Sitric, slain, 249, 


360 


Ambhlaibh, son of Sitric, taken prisoner, 
267 ; is slain, 271. 

Amhlaibh Cuaran, plunders Cenannus, 
219. 

Amhlaibh, of Port Lairge, slain, 335. 

Ambhlaibh, King of Gaileng, 291-3. 

Ananloen, a pilgrim, 177.. 

Anastasius, Pope, 33, 35. 

Anchorites, 113, 133. 

Aneslis, King of Corco-Bhaisginn, slain, 
279. 

Anfartach Ua Mescain, slays Fergus, 
King of Midhe, 75. 

Anfidh, son of Aedh, King of Uladh, de- 
feated by Aedh Finnliath, 159; slain, 
169. 

Anghi, the river Nanny Water, co. Meath, 
151. 

Aninne. See Darerca. 

Anlon, King of Aidhne, dies, 127. 

Anmchadh, Bishop of Cill-dara, 229. 

Anoroit, or Anaraud, King of Britain, 
dies, 189. 

Antrim. See Oentraibh. 

Aporcrossan (Applecross, in Scotland), 
the church of, founded by Maelrubha, 
103. 

Applecross (in Scotland). See Aporcros- 
san. 

Ara, t.e. the island of Aran, in Galway 
Bay, plundered by Foreigners, 293. See 
Arann-airther. 

Aracul (Errigal Keeroge), Saint Daciaroc 
of, 135. 

Aradh, or Aradh-tire (now the barony of 
Arra, co. Tipperary), a battle in, 157; 
Kings of, 269, 303, 323. 

Aradha, or Ara Cliach, a tribe anciently 
seated in the E. of the co. of Limerick, 
101. 

Aradh Cliach, a district in the barony of 
Idrone, co. Carlow, 31. 

Aralt, or Harold, King of the Foreigners 
of Luimnech, slain, 203. 

Aralt, son of Amhlaibh, slain, 237. 

Arann-airther (i.e. ‘‘ Eastern Aran”), the 
most eastern of the Aran Islands, in 
Galway Bay, 155. See Ara. 





INDEX. 


Archu, royal heir of Uladh, slain, 229. 

Ard-achadh (Ardagh, co. Longford), Cele, 
Bishop of, dies,277. See Ard-Curadh, 

Ard-achadh of Sliabh Fuaid, a place 
near Newtownhamilton, co. Armagh, 
131. 

Arda-Eolairg, the old name of aterritory 
in the co. Londonderry, near Lough 
Foyle, forfeited by the Cruithne, 55. 

Ard-Brecain (Ardbraccan, co. Meath), 
Abbots of, 149; plundered, 211, 269; 
burned, 289. 

Ard-carna, co. Roscommon, death of 
Beoid, bishop of, 41. 

Ard Ciannachta (now the barony of Fer- 
rard, co. Louth), Kings of, 97, 109; a 
shower of blood in, 177. 

Ard Corrann, battle of, 81. 

Ard-Curadh(Ard-achadh?), death of Mael, 
Bishop, at, 31. 7-2 

Ard-Finain, co. Tipperary, plundered, 
323. : 

Ard-Fothaigh (in the barony of Tirhugh, 
co. Donegal), 87, 

Ardgal, comarb of Comgall and Finnen, 
dies, 223. ; 

Ardgal, son of Conall Crimhthann, slain, 
39. 

Ardgal, King of the Britons of Srath 
Cluaidhe, slain, 163. 

Ardgal, son of Loingsech, slain, 115. 

Ardgar, King of Uladh, 219. 

Ard-Macha (Armagh), Abbots of, 39, 41, _ 
45, 77, 97, 117, 125, 127, 129, 183, 185, 
137, 139, 141, 145, 151, 153, 157, 165, 
167, 171, 178, 217, 285 (see also co- 
marbs of Patrick); bishops of, 109, 159, 
169, 175, 201, 213, 235, 245, 271; lec- 
tors of, 167, 173, 307, 339; ceconomus 
of, 161; tanist-abbot of, 179; a change 
of abbots at, 217, 285; Brian Bo. 
rumha’s offering to the altar of, 243; 
devastation of, 153, 163; burned, 133, 
235, 261; contention at, 173; plun- — 

_ dered, 139, 177, 193, 201, 205, 235, 255; — 
profaned, 185; ravaged by Flan; son of — 
MacleccHininit, 169; royal meeting at, — 
151. | 








INDEX. 


Ard-maelcon (Ardmulchan, near Navan, 
co. Meath), a battle at, 219. 

Ard-Sratha (Ardstraw, co. Tyrone), 
bishops of, 105, 117. 

Ard-Ui-nEchach (ie. the Ard, or 
**height,” of Iveagh, co. Down), 115. 

Argadan, Abbot of Corcach, dies, 177. 

Arlaith, wife of Turlough O’Conor, dies, 
319. 

’ Armagh. See Ard-Macha. 

Arra. See Aradh, or Aradh-tire. 

Art, son of Carthach, 219. 

Art, son of Diarmaid, King of Teabhtha, 
slain, 135. 

Arthur, son of Bicur, slays Mongan, son 
of Fiachna, 79. 

Artri, Abbot of Ard-Macha, goes to Con- 
nacht with the Shrine of Patrick, 129; 
death of, 139. 

Artri, King of Teabhtha, 135. 

Assal, a plain in the co. of Meath, 119. 

Assaroe, See Eas-Ruaidh. 

Assey, co. Meath. See Ath-Sighe. 

Ath-Abhla (Ballyhooly, co. Cork), battle 

of, 83. : 

Ath-an-termainn (i.e., “the ford of the 
termon”), in Roscommon, 311. 

Ath-Clagan, the victory of, 311. 

Ath-cliath (Dublin), first taken by Gen- 
tiles, 143; Black Gentiles arrive at, 
151 ; forcibly taken from the Foreigners, 
189; occupied by Godfrey, grandson of 
Imhar, 193; occupied by Godfrey, son 
of Sitric, 211; occupied by Malachy 
and Brian, 237; Amhlaibh and Imhar 
return to, 163; battles of, 191, 319; 
besieged, 283; burned, 201, 243, 255; 
bishops of, 291, 323; Eachmarcach, 
King of, expelled, 281 ; the son of Mael- 
na-mbo, made King of, 281; Muircer- 
tach Ua Briain made king at, 291; 
plundered by King Congalach, 207; 
the Foreigners of, 157, 165, 171, 197, 
201, 205, 213, 215, 219, 225, 227, 229, 
233, 235, 237, 239, 267, 269, 273, 277, 
843, 345; the Gentiles of, 179, 189, 
191. 

Ath-Crocha, an ancient ford on the Shan- 





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non, at Shannon Harbour, the bridge of, 
built, 323. 

Ath-da-ferta, a place in the co. Louth, 
131. 

Ath-Dara, battles of, 25, 27. 

Ath-Firdhia (Ardee, co, Louth), 205, 231. 

Ath-Goan, in Iarthar Liffé (i.e. “ Goan’s 
ford,” in the district of West Liffey), 
battle of, 83. 

Ath-Liag (Lanesborough, co. Longford), 
the causeway of, 238, n. 6, 

Ath-Luain (Athlone), the Connachtmen 
defeated at, 177 ; ahosting by Brian to, 
239; the causeway of, made, 7b. ; the 
bridge of, built, 323; a battle at, 343; 
the victory of, 345. 

Ath-Sighe (Assey, co. Meath), 41, 231. 

Aufer, a foreigner, 197. 

Aulaf. See Amhlaibh. 

Aurtaile, slain, 105. 

Ausli, the son of, slain, 169. 

Auxilius, St., sent to the Irish, 23. 


Baccach, a plague, 117. 

Bachall Isa (the Staff of Jesus), 267, 269, 
275, 293, 323. 

Bachru, alleged defeat of, by Milidh, 13. 

Badhghna, 201. See Slieve Bawne. 

Baedan, son of Cairell, King of Uladh, 
61; murder of the sons of, 71. 

Baedan, King of Temhair, slain, 61. 

Baedan, grandson of Muiredach, slain, 59. 

Baedan Mac UiCormaic, Abbot of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, 99. 

Baedan “ of the yellow hair,” at the battle 
of Cuil Dremne, 55. 

Baeghal Bille, slays Aedh Slaine, 69. 

Baeithin, foster son of Colum Cille, 45. 

Baetan, Bishop of Inis-bo-finne, dies, 
119. 

Baetan, son of Conn, fights against the 
Cruithne, 55. 

Bairre, comarb of, 283. 

Baithin, Abbot of Bennchair, 101. 

Baithen, Abbot of Hi, 65. 

Balla, in the bar. of Clanmorris, co. Mayo, 
death of Dachua of, 85; Cronan, Abbot 
of, 131. 


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Ballaghmoon (Bealach Mughna), the bat- 
tle of, 181, 183. 

Bangor, co. Down, 

Bangor, in Wales. 
num. 

Banna (Bann), river, 9. 

Barchi (or Boirche, now the bar. of 
Mourne, co. Down), 73. 

Bard Boné, chief poet of Ireland, 201. 

Barid, son of Imhar, dies, 167. 

Barrow. See Berbha. 

Bealach Daithe (now Ballaghanea, bar. of 
Castlerahin, co. Cavan), battle of, 63. 
Bealach Mughna (Ballaghmoon, co. Kil- 

dare), battle of, 181, 183, 
Bearnan Ciarain, i.e. the ‘‘ gapped bell of 
Ciaran,” 223, 275. 
Bee, son of Cuana, King of Airghiall, 
slain, 65. 
Bec Mac Dé,a prophet, 31, 49,n. 8, 51, 137. 
' Bec Ua Lethlabhair, King of Dal-Araidhe, 
dies, 185. _ 
Becan Ruminn, dies, 105. 
Bece, King of Teabhtha, 211. 
Beee, King of Uladh, slain, 173, 
Beccan, comarb of Finnen, 221. 
Becc Bairche, prophecy of, 79; slays Con- 
“gal Cennfoda, 103; defeated by Finn- 
achta, 105; dies, 119. 
Beda (Venerable Bede), 89, 109, 
Bedan, St. Comgall’s fisherman, 57. 
Beg Bairche. See Becc Bairche. 
Belach-duin (now Castlekeeran, co. 
Meath), 245. 
Belan. See Bithlann. 
Belata, i.e. ‘‘the cross roads,” 317, 333. 
Belefeth, a mortality, 47. 
Benignus, St,, death of, 27. 
Bennchair, or Bennchair Mér (Bangor, 
co. Down), birth of St. Comgall of, 39 ; 
_ church of, founded, 53; abbots of, 73, 
89, 99, 101, 105, 111; comarb of, 199; 
attacked and plundered by Gentiles, 
133. 
Bennchor Britonum (Bangor, in Wales), 
burning of, 102, x, 2. 
Benn-Echlabhra (now Binaghlon, co, Fer- 
managh), 315, 


See Bennchair, 
See Bennchor Brito- 





INDEX. 


Beoid, Bishop of Ardcarna, death of, 41. 

Beoid, father of St, Ciaran of Cluain-muc- 
Nois, 49. . 

Beollin, King of Loch Gabhar, 219. 

Berach, Abbot of Bennchair, 99, 101. 

Berba. See Cesar.’ 

Berbha (Barrow), river, 7, 219, 

Berean, See Mobhi Clairinech. 

Bernan Ciarain. See Bearnan Ciarain. 

Betadh, the son of, 251. 

Betanzos. See Bregann. 

Bethra, or Dealbhna Bethra, devastated 
by Feidhlimidh, 139, See Dealbhna 
Bethra. 

Birr, or Birra (Parsonstown), 323, 

Bile-Tenedh (now Billywood, bar. of 
Kells, co. Meath), battle of, 119, 

Bile Tortan, a celebrated tree which stood 
near Ardbraccan, co, Meath, 77. 

Bithlann (Belan), co, Kildare, battle of, 
225. ‘ 

Blacaire, grandson of Imhar, 205, 209, 

Black-Gentiles, a battle between Fair 
Gentiles and, 167. See also Dubh- 
Ghenti. 

Blackwater, river. See Dabhall. 

Bla Sliabh, battle of, 107. 

Blathmac, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 175. : 

Blathmac, son of Aedh Slaine, King of 
Ireland, 89, 97, 99. 

Blathmac, King of Teabhtha, dies, 99. - 

Blathmac, son of Flann, martyrdom of, 
133. 

Blathmac, son of Maelcobha, death * 
101. 

Blood, showers of, 121, 167, 177. a 

Bodhbheadh (pron, Bov-ka) Midhe,sonof 
Diarmaid, defeated in battle, 114, i 

Bodhbhghna (pron. ‘‘ Bovna,” now Slieve 
Bawne, co. Roscommon), a battle in, 
105. See Badhghna, 

Boinn (the river Boyne), a fleet of None 
men on the, 141, 145. 

Boirche. See Barchi, 

Boirinn of Corcomruaidh (Burren, ¢0, 
Clare), a battle in, 217. 

Bolgach, a leprosy, 107, 235, 








INDEX. 


Bolg Luatha, King of Ui-Cennsealaigh, 
80, n.1, 81, 89. 

Bophin Island. See Insula vacew albe. 

Borumha (now Béal-Borumha, an earthen 
fort near Killaloe), demolished, 319. 

Borumha, a tribute of cows exacted by 
Trish monarchs, 25, 121, 219. 

Both (a place in Ulster, not identified), 
battle of, 81. 

Braen, son of Maelmordha, King of Laig- 
hen, plunders Ath-cliath, 207 ; is slain, 
ib 


Braen, son of Maelmordha, (another) King 
of Laighen, 259. 

Braen, son of Murchadh, royal heir of 
Laighen, slain, 227, 

Bran, son of Conall, King of Laighen, 105, 
111. 

Bran, son of Faelan, King of Laighen, 
143. 

Bran, King of Gabhran, 155. 


Brandubh, son of Eochaidh, King of: 


Laighen, murders Cumuscach, son of 
Aedh, 65 ; gains the battle of Dun Bolg, 
ib. ; ** the blows” of, 67; slain, 71. 

Brandubh, son of Maelcobha, slain, 83. 

Bran Finn, King of the Desi of Munster, 
101. 

Bran Finn, sonof Maelfothartaigh, mor- 
tal wounding of, 103. 

Brawney. See Breghmhuine. 

Bread, a scarcity of, 133; failure of, 177. 

Bregann (the Port of Betanzos, in Spanish 
Gallicia), 13, 

‘Bregh (Lat. Bregia), an ancient territ, in 
the co. Meath, comprising the eastern 
part of the county, 67, 85; the plain of, 
laid waste by Saxons, 107; plundered 
by Feidhlimidh, King of Munster, 143; 
Gentiles defeated by the men of, 141; 

‘the hostages of, taken by Donnchadh, 
son of Brian, 265; kings of, 85, 129, 
141, 149, 151], 161, 175, 179, 191, 195, 
199, 217, 219, 267, 285, 345; queens of, 
19],195. See South Bregh. 

Bregh-magh (the plain of Bregia, co. 
Meath), 123. 

Breghmhuine (now the barony of Braw- 





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ney, co. Westmeath), kings of, 143, 195, 
345, 347, 349. ’ 

Bregia. See Bregh. 

Breifne (the people of Cavan and Leitrim), 
plunder Cluain-muc-Nois, 129; kings 
of, 125, 173, 177, 185, 199, 201, 255, 
287, 307, 327, 343. 

Brena (Strangford Lough), eruption of, 7. 

Brenainn, son of Briun, death of, 61. 

Brenainn, St., of Birr, 57, 59. 

Brenainn, or Brendan, St., of Clonfert, 
founds the church of Clonfert, 53; 
death of, 61; comarhbs of, 229, 233, 273, 
30], 315. , See also under Cluain-Ferta, 
Abbots. 

Brenainn, King of Ui Maine, death of, 67. 

Brendan, St. See Brenainn. 

Bresal, King of Laighen, death of, 23. 

Bresal, son of Ailillen, slain, 219. 

Bresal, son of Finnachta, slain, 111. 

Bresal Conaillech, comarb of Ciaran, 
265, 269. 

Bress, one of the Tuatha De Danann, 9. 

Brian Borumha, birth of, 195; profanes 
Inis Cathaigh, 225; defeats Mael- 
mhuaidh, son of Bran, 7b.; invades 
Midhe, 233; defeated by Maelsechlainn, 
son of Domhnall, 235; gains the battle of 
Glen-mama, in conjunction with Mael- 
sechlainn II., 237; receives the hostages 
of the foreigners, 239; begins to reign 
over Ireland, 7b. ; turns against Mael- 
sechlainn, id.; takes the hostages of 
Midhe and Connacht, 241; a hosting 
into the north by, ib. ; a great hosting 
by, 243; visits Ard-Macha, ib. ; receives 
the hostages of Dal-Araidhe and Uladh, 
ib.; takes the hostages of Cinel Eogh- 
ain, 247 ; takes the hostages of Uladh, 
ib.; slain, 251; death of Dubhcabh- 
laigh, wife of, 247. 

Brian, the son of, submits to the son of 
Maelnambo, and to Aedh Ua Conchob- 
hair, 285. 

Brian, son of Maelruanaidh, King of the 
west of Connacht, slain, 241. 

Bridamh (a hill in the King’s co., not iden- 
tified), 67, 


364 


Bridges, built by Toirdhealbhach Ua Con- 
chobhair, 325. 

Bri-Ele (now the hill of Croghan, King’s 
co.), the conflict of, 27. 

Brigid, St., birth of, 23; death of, 41; co- 
marbs of, 225, 333, 343. See also under 
Cill-dara, Abbots, Bishops, &c. 

Britain, a part of, held by the Dél-Riada, 
35; kings of, 109, 111, 155, 185, 189, 
223, 263, 273. See also under Britons. 

Britain (North), Maelcoluim, son of Domh- 
nall, King of, 235. 

Britons, defeated in the battle of Rath- 
mor of Magh-Line, 107 ; a battle between 
the Ultonians and, 115; defeated in 
Dal-Riada, 119; brought to Ireland by 
Amhlaibh and Imhar, 163; kings of, 
87, 109, 167. 

Britons of Srath Cluaidhe, Ardgal, King 
of, slain, 163. 

Brogarbhan, the son of, 253. 

Bron, Bishop of Caisel-Irre, death of, 35. 

Bruadar, son of Aedh, slays Eachtigern, 
King of Laighen Desgabhair, and is 
slain, 153. 

Bruadar, son of Dubhgilla, King of Ui- 
Cennsealaigh, 201. 

Bruadar, son of Echtighern, King of Ui- 
Cennsealaigh, 229. 

Bruadar, chief of the Danars, slain, 253. 

Brugh, or Brugh-na-Boinne (?.e. the Brugh 
or Burgh? of the Boyne, a place on the 
Boyne near Stackallan Bridge, co. 
Meath), 93, n. 

Brugh-righ (Bruree, co. Limerick), 299. 

Bruidhe, son of Foth, death of, 87. 

Bruidhe, son of Maelcon, King of the 
Picts, 53. 

Bruidhen-da-choga. See under Bruighin. 

Bruighin-da-choca (now Breenmore, bar. of 
Kilkenny West, co. Westmeath), 69, 193. 

Buas (the Bush), one of the rivers found 
in Ireland by Parthalon, 7. 

Buidhe Conaill, a plague, 50, n. 3, 99. 

Buinne and Beithe, fortified, 319. 

Buite, or Buti, son of Bronach, founder 
of Monasterboice, death of, 39; Macnia, 
comarb of, 273, 





INDEX. ; 


Bull Island. See Tech-nDuinn. 
Bun-Gaillmhe, the mouth of the Galway 
river, 327 ; the castle of, burned, 333. 

Bush, river. See Buas. 
Buti, son of Bronach. See Buite. 


Cacht, daughter of Raghnall, Queen of 
Erinn, dies, 283. 

Caeincomrac, Abbot of Lughmhagh, dies, 
179. 

Caeincomhrac, Abbot of Cluain-Eois, dies, 
215. 

Caelbadh, King of Uladh, slays Muiredh- 
ach Tirech, 15. 

Cael-uisce (the Narrow Water, in Iveagh, 
co. Down), 145, 

Caeman Brec, birth of, 41. 

Caemhan, Abbot of Linnduachaill, burnt 
by Gentiles, 145. 

Caemhghen (Kevin), of Glenn-da-locha, 
death of, 75, 77; comarbs of, 221, 241, 
255, 269; the termon of, plundered, 
229. 

Caer-Abroe (York), burnt by lightning, — 
271, 

Caicher, a druid, 11, 13. 

Cailchin, son of Dima, death of, 83. 

Caill-Cobhthaigh (Coffey’s wood), the 
defeat of, 331. 

Cain, a sig te rule or law, 128, n. % 
180, n. 

Cain Sana (te. a * Sunday Law”), 
171. 

Caindelbhan King of Laeghaire, dies, 197. 

Cainech, Queen of Ireland, 199. 

Cainnech (Canice), St.; death of, 67; 
Maelsamhna, comarb of, 221. 

Cairbre, King of Munster, 59. 

Cairbre Crom, or Cam, Bishop of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, 177, 179. 

Cairbre, or Cairbre Ui Ciardha, (now the 
barony of Carbury, co. Kildare), kings 
of, 235, 249, 277, 349. 

Cairbre Mér (Carbury, co. Sligo), Aedh, 
King of, 211. See also Cairpre and 
Coirpre. 

Cairech Dergain, death of, 61. 

Cairellan, the sons of, 231, 








INDEX. 


Cairnech, St., poem by, 43. 

’ Cairpre, King of Ui Cennsealaigh, 137, 165. 

Cairpre (or Cinel Cairbre, a tribe seated 
in the co. Longford), Conall Oirgnech, 
King of, slain, 105. See also Cairbre 
and Coirpre. 

Cairthind, the son of, slain in the battle 
of Feimin, 25. 
Cais, a place in Magh Lifé, near which 
Laeghaire, son of Niall, was killed, 27. 
Caisel, or Caisel-na-righ (i.e. ‘ Cashel of 
the Kings,” now Cashel), presented as 
an offering to the Lord, 307 ; a change 
of kings at, 179; Maelsechlainn, son of 
Maelruanaidh, in, 155; kings of, 139, 
163, 165, 171, 175, 179, 181, 183, 187, 
283; royal heir of, 139; a great shower 
of hail in, 335. 

Caisel-Finnbhair (not identified), battle 
of, 107. 

Caisel Irre (now Killaspugbrone, in the 
co. Sligo), death of Bron, Bishop of, 35. 

Caittell, son of Ruaidhri, King of Britain, 
dies, 185. 

Calatruim, now Galtrim, co. Meath, Mael- 
duin, King of, mortally wounded, 147. 
Calraighe of Tephtha, or Calry of Teffia 

(a territ. in the cos. of Westmeath and 
Longford), 115; chiefs of, 311, 339; 
kings of, 277, 281, 283, 293; plundered 
by Sil-Ronain, 347; the people of, 
slaughtered by the Conmaicne, 281. 
_Calry of Teffia. See Calraighe of Teph- 
tha. 
Camin of Inisceltra, death of, 92, n. 4. 
Campus Delenn, situation of, 120, n. 6. 
Cananan, brother of Maelbrighde, King of 
Conaille, captured by Gentiles, 139. 
Cannan, Abbot of Daimhliag, dies, 161. 
Canoin Padraig (“Canon of Patrick”), 
covered, 203. 
Canon, son of Gartnait, the killing of, 109. 
Cantyre. See Cenn-tire. 
Carbad of Ard-Macha, the, burned, 261. 
Carlingford Lough. See Snamh-aignech. 
Carlus, the sword of, 235, 267, 285. 
Carman, the residence of the kings of 
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Carn Conaill (i.e. Conall’s heap, or carn, 
supposed to be the place now called 
Ballyconnell, near Gort, co. Galway), 
battle of, 91. 

Carn-Feradhaigh (now Knockany, co. 
Limerick), battles of, 81,117; a slaugh- 
ter of the Gentiles at, 143. 

Carn-fordroma (not identified), the battle 
of, 233. 

Carn Lughdach (i.e. Lughaidh’s carn, or 
monumental heap, in Munster, not 
identified), battle of, 155. 

Carn-Ui-Tolairg, 213. 

Carrach-Calma or Carthach-Calma (see 
DonnchadhUa Maeilechlainn); Muircer- 
tach, son of, 263; Oengus, son of, 259. 

Carraic-Brachaidhe (Carrickabraghy, in 
Inishowen), the King of, slain, 189. 

Carrowmore Lough. See Finn Loch. 

Carthach (alias Mochuda, or Mochta), 
expulsion from Raithin, and death of, 85. 

Carthach-Calma. See Carrach-Calma. 

Cashel. See Caisel. 

Caspian Sea, considered during the middle 
ages to be an arm of the Northern 
Ocean, 10, n. 7. ‘ 

Castledermot. See Disert-Diarmada. 

Castles, erected by Connachtmen, 325. 

Catel, slays Ead, King of Cruithen-tuaith, 
18]. 

Cathair-Cinn-Con (a stone fort near Rock- 
barton, co. Limerick), battle of, 87. 

Cathal, half-King of Uladh, slain, 153. 

Cathal, King of the West of Connacht, 
goes on a pilgrimage, 273. 

Cathal, son of Aedh, King of Munster, 
death of, 79. 

Cathal, son of Ailill, King of Ui Maine, 
133, 147. 

Cathal, son of Cathal, royal heir of Con- 
nacht, slain, 333. 

Cathal, son of Conchobhar, King of Con- 
nacht, dies, 195. 

Cathal, son of Conchobhar, (another) 
King of Connacht, 183, 239, 247, 

Cathal, son of Domhnall, 249, 253. 

Cathal, son of Dunlaing, King of ‘Ui- 
Cennsealaigh, dies, 131. 


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Cathal, son of Flannagan, slain, 221. 

Cathal, son of Maelmhuaidh, 253. 

Cathal, son of Muiredhach, King of Con- 
nacht, dies, 117. 

Cathal, son of Muirghes, King of Con- 
nacht, dies, 143. 

Cathal, son of Murchadh, King of Ui 
Maine, slain, 131, 

Cathal, son of Oilill, King of Ui Fiachrach, 

~ 129, 

Cathal, son of Raghallach, dies, 105. 
Cathal, son of Tadhg, King of Connacht, 
slain, 221. 

Cathal, son of Tighernan, King of the 
East of Connacht, slain, 285. 

Cathal Finn, a victory by Imhar and 
Amhlaibh over, 155. 

Cathalan, son of Etroch, 241. 

Cathalan, half-King of Uladh, 163. 

Cathasach, Bishop of Ard-Macha, dies, 169. 

Cathasach, comarb of Caemhghen, blind- 
ed, 269. 

Cathasach, son of Emhin, 97. 

Cathasach, King of the Cruithne, slain, 107. 

Cathasach, grandson of Domhnall Brec, 
death of, 109. See also Cathusach. 

Cathbadh, Bishop of Achadh Cuinn, death 
of, 5]. 

Cathmogh, Abbot of Lis-mor, and Bishop 
of Corcach, 213. 

Cathusach, son of Doilgen, comarb of 
Patrick, and Bishop of Ard~Macha, 213. 

Cathusach, son of Murchadhan, Bishop of 
Ard-Macha, 217. 

Cathusach, son of Domhnall Bree, death 
of, 91. 

Cathusach, son of Luircen, slain, 101. 

Catinche (an island in the Shannon, be- 
tween Clonfert and Clonmacnois), battle 
of, 215. 

Catrian, Abbess of Cill-dara, dies, 153. 

Cattle, mortality of, 189, 213, 275, 295. 
See Cows. _ 

Ceallach, comarb of Patrick, 313, 329. 

Ceallach, tanist-Abbot of Ard-Macha, 
dies, 179. 

Ceallach, Abbot of Cill-dara and Hi, dies, 
159. 





INDEX. 


Ceallach, Abbot of Fobhar, dies, 161. 
Ceallach, Abbot of Fothan Mér, death of, 
95. 


Ceallach, King of Ireland, 89. 


Ceallach, son of Cerbhall, slain, 195. 

Ceallach, son of Cinaedh, King of Ui- 
Cennsealaigh, slain, 207. 

Ceallach, son of Diarmaid, King of Os- 
raighe, 241, 


Ceallach, son Faelan, King of Laighen, - 


dies, 217. 

Ceallach, son of Guaire, death of, 101. 

Ceallach, son of Guaire, King of Laighen 
Desgabhair, dies, 155. 

Ceallach, son of Maelcobha, gains a battle, 
91; death of, 95. 

Ceallach, son of Raghallach, gains a battle 
in Corann, 115; dies, ib. 

Ceallach, King of Bregh, slain, 175. 

Ceallach, King of the South of Bregh, 191. 

Ceallach, King of Laighen, dies, 141. 

Ceallach, King of Osraighe, slain, 181, 
183. 

Ceallachan-Caisil, King of Munster, 201; 
plunders various churches, 203 ; r 
slaughter of the Deise by, id. ; : deliver. 
ed to the King of Ireland, 205; de-. 
feats Cennedigh, son of Loran, 207 ; 
dies, 211. 

Ceallach Cualann, King of Laighen, 111; 
gains a battle at Claen-ath, 115; dies, 
119, 

Cearbhall, son of Lorcan, the sons of, 239. 

Cearbhall, son of Finnachda, King of 
Dealbhna-Bethra, dies, 137. _ 

Cearbhall, son of Muirigen, dies, 183. 
See also Cerbhail. ; 

Cedadhach, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 151. 

Ceis-Corainn, co. Sligo, battle of, 291. 

Ceithernach, vice-Abbot of Cill-dara, a 
slain, 145. 

Cele, Bishop of Ard-achadh, dies, 277. _ 

Cele, comarb of Bennchair, 199. 

Celechair, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 289. 

Celechair, comarb of Finnan and ‘tama 
‘dies, 211. 








INDEX. 


Celechair, son of Coman, slain, 115. 

Céle-Clerech, a rule established over Leth- 
Chuinn by, 181. 

Céle Dé, or Culdees, members of the order 
of, 127, 193, 209, 333. 

Oéle-Tighernaigh, Abbot of Cluain-Eois, 
death of, 119. 

Cellach; a holy virgin, 231. 

Cenannus (Kells, co. Meath), the battle of, 

"119; building of a new (religious) es- 

tablishment at, 127; profanation of, 
179; plundered by Foreigners, 191; 
plundered by Gothfrith, son of Sitric, 
211; again plundered, 219; burnt, 257; 
plundered by Sitric, son of Amhlaibh, 
259; Colum-Cille’s gospel stolen from, 
245; bishops of, 219. 


Cened, son of Luchtren, King of the 


Picts, death of, 83. 

Cenn Ailbhe, battle of, 35. 

Ceiincoradh (Kincora), the name of King 
Brian’s residence; at Killaloe, co. Clare, 

_ 247; demolished by Aedh Ua Conchob- 
hair, 287; destroyed, 299; burned, 
319. 

Cenn Delgten, battle of, 77. 

Cennedigh, son of Lorcan, defeated by 
Ceallachan Caisil, 207; dies, 211. 

Cenn-eich (Kinneigh, co. Kildare), battles 
of, 41, 43. 

Cennetigh, or Cenn-Eittigh (Kinnitty, 
King’s co.), plundered by Gentiles, 145 ; 
Colman, Abbot of, slain, 183. 

Cennfaeladh, or Cendfaeladh (pron. Ken- 
néaly), an ancient Irish poet, quoted, 
35, 39, 43. 55. 

Cennfaeladh, Abbot of Fobhar, dies, 117. 

Cennfaeladh of the Sabhall, a bishop, 
249. 

Cennfaeladh, King of Ard-Ciannachta, 

- slain, 97. 

Cennfaeladh, King of Caisel, dies, 163. 

Cennfaeladh, King of Ciannachta of 
Gleann Geimhin, burnt, 107. 

Cennfacladh, King of Connacht, slain, 
107. 

Cennfaeladh; King of Ireland, slain, 103. 

Cennfaelddh, son of Colgan, 93 





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Cennfaeladh the Wise, dies, 105. 

Cenn-fuait, in Leinster, the battle of, 
189. 

Cenngegain. See Finnguine. 

Cenngubha (or Cennbughbha, aiglice 
Cambé, near the town of Roscommon), 
battle of, 77. 

Cenn-tire (Cantyre, in Scotland), 79; 107. 

Cenwulf, King of the Saxons, dies, 131. 

Cerbhall, son of Dungal, gains a victory 
over Agond (Hacon ?), 147; slays Each- 
tigern, King of Laighen Desgabhair, 
153. 

Cerbhall, son of Dunlaing, 
Osraighe, 157, 165, 171. 

Cerbhall, son of Lorcan, royal heir of 
Laighen, 217. 

Cerbhall, son of Muirigen, 179, 18}. 
also Cearbhall. 

Cermad, chief of Corca-Baiscinn, slain, 
159. 

Cernach, King of Luighne, 249, 

Cernach Sotail, death of, 99. 

Cernachan, King of Breifne, 199. 

Cernachan, son of Duligen, 185. 

Cernachan, son of Tadhg, the sons of, 179. 

Cerrncein, slays the two sons of Domhnall, 
son of Aedh, 97. 

Cesar, alias Berba, or Eriu, alleged arrival 
in Ireland of, 3. 

Cethernach, Bishop of Tech-Collainn, 
dies, 277. 

Ceylon. See Taprobane. 

Charlemagne, dies, 129. 

Christ, the cross of (or thé éross of Cong), 
325. 

Cian, son of Maelmhuaidh, slain, 253. 

Cianan, St., of Daimhliag (Duletk), dies, 
31. 

Cianan, the oratory of. See Daimhiliag. 

Ciannachta (a tribe anciertly settled in 
the territory comprised in the present 
baronies of Upper and Lower Duleek, 
in the co. Meath), defeated by Tuathal 
Maelgarbhi, 45; spoiled by Gentiles, 
139; a shower of blood in the térrit. of, 
167; Saxdlb, Lord of the Foreigners, 
killed by, 143; kings of, 59, 97. 


King of 


See 


368 


Ciannachta of Gleann Geimhin (now the 
bar. of Keenaght, co. Londonderry), 
107. 

Ciar, daughter of Dubhrea, dies, 107. 

Ciaran, St. (of Saigher), the “gapped 
bell” of, 222, n. 2. 

Ciaran, Bishop of Tulen, dies, 193. 

Ciaran (Kieran), St., of Clonmacnois, 
birth of, 37; the law of, 129: the shrine 
of, 177; miracles of, 49, 147,329; the 
crozier, or staff of, 199, 297 ; fasting of 
the congregation of, 275, 3)3; the 
Erdamh of, 315; the yew tree of, 347; 
the ‘* gapped bell ” of, 223, 275; death 
of, 49; comarbs of, 211, 217, 221, 223, 
231, 233, 241, 255, 265, 269, 275, 281, 
291, 299, 305, 307, 313, 339. See also 
abbots, under Cluain-muc-Nois. 

Ciarraighe-Chuirchi (bar. of Kerricurrihy, 
co. Cork), Fogartach, King of, slain, 
181, 183. 

Ciarraighe-Luachra (now the co. Kerry), 
plundered, 325; kings of, 151, 181, 251, 
259, 289, 339. 

Cill-Achaidh, Cill-Aichedh, or Cill- 

_ Achaidh-Droma-fota (i.e. ‘the church 
of the field of the long ridge”), now Kil- 
leigh, King’s co., death of Sinchell of, 
51; abbots of, 171, 203; lector of, 269; 
plundered, 203 ; demolished by Gentiles, 
143. 

Cill Ausaille (Killashee, co. Kildare), 
plundered by Aedh Finnliath, 165. 

Cill Biann, by whom built, 61. 

Cill-mBian, now Kilmeen, co. Galway, 
plundered, 333. 

Cill-Chainnigh (Kilkenny), 345. 

Cill-Cuillinn (now old Kilcullen, co. Kil- 
dare), death of Mac Tail of, 51; plun- 
dered, 203. 

Cill-Dalua (Killaloe) pillaged, 257, 299; 
death of Ua Gerithir, Bishop of, 283; 
burnt, 287; Conchobhar Ua Briain, 
King of Munster, dies at, 339. 

Cill-dara (Kildare), abbesses of, 109, n. 7, 
139, 141, 153, 187, 189, 215; abbotsof, 
87, 113, 159; bishops of, 39, 117, 159, 
163, 165, 169, 171, 199, 229, 275, 305; 





INDEX. 


vice-abbots of, 145, 171; the oratory of, 
141; plundered, 141, 171, 173, 177, 189, 
191, 197, 199, 215, 229, 237. 

Cill-delga (Kildalkey, co. Meath), Donn- 
chadh, Abbot of, slain, 171. 

Cill-mona (Killmoone, co. Meath), the 
battle of, 219. 

Cill-mor-Muighe-Enir (Kilmore, to the 
E. of Armagh), 313.° 

Cill-Muini (Menevia, or St. David's), death 
of St. David of, 63. 

Cill-Osnaigh (now Kellistown, co. Carlow), 
battle of, 31. 

Cill-Scire (Kilskeery, co. Meath), death 
of Conall, Bishop of, 161; plundered by 
Gothfrith, 211. 

Cill-Slebhe, Cill-Sleibhe, or Cill-Slebhe- 
Cuilinn (Killevy, co. Armagh), death of 
Coneain of, 95; death of Darerea of, 
39; the Foreigners of, 195. 

Cill-Ui-nDaighre (Killineer, near Drogh- 
eda), battle of, 161. 

Cill-Ula. See Gabhar. 

Cinaedh, son of Conaing, King of Bregh, 
rebels against Maelsechlainn, 151; is 
drowned, id. 

Cinaedh, son of Dubh, King of Alba, 
slain, 243. 

Cinaedh, son of Maelcoluim, 225, 235. 

Cinaedh, son of Tuathal, King of Ui-Fe- 
nechlais, slain, 189. 

Cinaedh, King of Ui-Failghe, 193. 

Cinaeth, son of Conaing, King of Bregh, 
dies, 141. 

Cinaeth, King of Breghmhuine, mortal 
wounding of, 148. 

Cinaeth, King of Ui-Cennsealaigh, 201. 

Cinel Boghaine (the race of Enna Bogh- 
aine, grandson of Niall of the Nine 
Hostages, who were seated in the 
barony of Banagh, co. Donegal), mur- 
der of Sechnasagh, King of, 73; Dungal, 
King of, slain, 103; Forbasach, King 
of, 131. 

Cinel Cairbre. See Cairpre. 

Cinel Cairpre (i.e. the race of Cairpre, son 
of Niall of the Nine Hostages, who were 
seated in the present bar. of Granard, co. 





Longford), 101; kings of, 103,107, 117, 
121. See also Cairpre. 
Cinel Conaill (i.e. the race of Conall, son 
of Niall of the Nine Hostages, who were 
seated in Tirconnell, which in latter 
ages was co-extensive with the present 
co. of Donegal), kings of, 117, 181, 179, 
181, 213, 215, 225, 229, 233, 237, 247, 
265, 267, 269, 271, 275, 285, 291, 337 
Dalach, chief of, slain, 163; battles 
between the Cinel Eoghain and, 131, 
217; a battle between the Airghialla 
and, 239; gain the battle of Moin- 
Daire-Lothair, 55; defeated, 225, 231 ; 
invade Munster, 297, 317 ; refuse host- 
ages to Brian, 245; the hostages of, 
taken by Flann Sionna, 169; Flaith- 
bhertach, royal heir of ‘Tembhair, slain 
by, 209. 
Cinel Cruithne (i.e. “the Pictish race”), 
Dichull, son of Eochaidh, King of, 8). 
Cinel-Echach-Gall (i.e. the race of Eoch- 
aidh Gall, or “ Eochaidh the Foreigner”), 
161. 
Cinel Eoghain (i.e. the race of Eoghan, son 
of Niall of the Nine Hostages, who were 
seated in the present counties of ‘I'yrone 
and Londonderry, and in the baronies 
of Inishowen and Raphoe, co. Donegal), 
kings of, 95, 113, 117, 179, 289, 23, 
307, 309, 329, 341; battles between the 
Cinel Conaill and, 131, 217; gain the 
battle of Moin-Daire-Lothair, 55; de- 
feat the Foreigners, 161; defeat the 
Ulidians, 241 ; defeated by Conall Cael, 
85; defeated by Ruaidhri Ua Canan- 
-nain, 205; the hostages of, taken by 
Flann Sionna, 169; refuse hostages to 
Brian, 245; the hostages of, taken by 
Brian, 247; Tlachtgha burned by the, 
181; a contention at Ard-Macha be- 
tween the Ultonians and, 173; invade 
Munster, 297, 317. 
~ Cinel-Feradhaigh (a tribe of the Cinel 
Eoghain, seated in the present barony 
of Clogher, co. Tyrone), 33 
_ Cinel Fiachach (the race of Fiacha, son 
of Niall of the Nine Hostages, settled 








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369 


in the S. of the now co. of Westmeath), 
defeated by Cerbhall and Imhar, 157 ; 
foreigners slaughtered by, 205. 

Cinel Laeghaire (i.e. ‘‘ the race of Laegh- 
aire,” a tribe seated in the district 
around the present town of Trim, co. 

_ Meath), death of Cumasgach, King of, 
169; Maelcron, King of, 179. 

Cinel Maeilche (a tribe of the Dal-Fiatach 
of Uladh, seated near Moira, co. Down), 
19664 

Cinel Maein (a sept formerly seated in the 
bar. of Raphoe, co. Donegal), 329. 

Cinel-Maine (the descendants of Maine, 
son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, 
settled in the east of Meath), pk or 
lord of, 191. 

Cinel-Mechair, Lorcan, King of, 251. 

Cinngaradh (Kingarth, in Bute, Scotland), 
death of Daniel, Bishop of, 95. 

Cinn-rimonaidh (St. Andrew’s, Scotland), 
217. 

Claen-ath (Clane, co. Kildare), a battle at, 
135. 

Claenloch (a place near Gort, in the co. 
of Galway), battle of, 45. 

Claenlocha of Sliabh Fuaid (near New- 
town-Hamilton, co. Armagh), a hosting 
by Brian to, 247. 

Claire (a hill near Duntrileague, co, Lime- 
rick), 321. 

Clann Briain (é.e. the descendants of Brian 
Borumha), 323. 

Clann Carthaigh, the farally: or tribe of 
Mac Carthy, 323. 

Clann-Cathail (¢.e. O’Flanagan’s country, 
in the co. Roscommon), 297; Cathal Ua 
Mughroin, chief of, 313. 

Clann Colmain, 220, x. 1, 254, n. 1. 

Clann-Conchobhair (Clan-Conor), the 
tribe name of the O’Mulrennins, who 
were seated in the parish of Baslick, co. 
Roscommon, 343. 

Clann Cosgraidh (ie. “the progeny of 
Cosgrach,” a sub-section of the Ui- 
Briuin-Seola, seated on the east side of 
Lough Corrib, in the co. Galway), 269, 


323. 
2B 


370 

Clann-Diarmada, or Ui-Diarmada, death 
of Diarmaid, chief of, 383. See Ui- 
Diarmada. 

Clann-Fianghusa, 271. 

Clann Firbisigh, or family of Mac Firbis, 11. 

Clann Murchadha (the tribe name of the 
O’Finaghtys, who were seated in the 
co. of Galway, to the east of the river 
Suck), Murchadh, chief of, 22]. 

Clann-Tomaltaigh, a tribe anciently seated 
in the co. Roscommon, 297; Ambhlaibh 
Ua Raduibh, chief of, 333. 

Clann Uadach, the tribe name of the 
O’Fallons, who were settled in the pre- 
sent barony of Athlone, co. Roscommon, 
329. - 

Cleircen, King of Breifne, dies, 201. 

Cleitech, on the Boyne, a residence of the 
kings of Ireland, 43. 

Clemens, Abbot of Cluain-Iraird, 135. 

Clerchen, comarb of Fechin, 229. 

Cliachs, an ancient district in the co. 
Carlow, plundered, 43. 

Clochan-an-imrim (now probably Cloch- 
anumera, N.E. of Mullingar, co. West- 
meath), 315. 

Clochar (Clogher), Cinaeth Ua Baighell, 
Bishop of, 337. 

Clonbroney. See Cluain-Bronaigh. 

Clonenagh. See Cluain-Eidhnech. 

Clones, co. Monaghan. See Cluain-Eois. 

Clonfert. See Cluain-ferta-Brenainn. 

Clonmacnois. See Cluain-muc-Nois. 

Clontarf, battle of, 251. 

Clooncraff. See Cluain-creamha. 

Clothna, chief poet of Ireland, 247. 

Cluain-Airthir (now Magheracloone, co. 
Monaghan), 79. 

Cluain-Bronaigh (Clonbroney, co. Long- 
ford), Finbil, Abbess of, 127. 

Cluain-Cain (Clonkeen, co. Louth), death 
of Crunnmael, Bishop of, 167. 

Cluain-Ciarain (i.e. Cluain-muc-Nois), 
burning of the termon of, 139. 

Cluain-Comardha (Colman‘’s Well, near 
Kilmallock, co. Limerick), 145. 

Cluain-Creadal, or Creadan (now Kil- 
leedy, co. Limerick), St. Ita of, 51, 59. 


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Cluain-creamha (Clooncraff, near Elphin, 
co. Roscommon), plundering of, 129, 

Cluain-Deochra (Clondara, co. Long: 
ford), Flann, Bishop of, 225. 

Cluain Dolean (Clondalkin, near Dublin), — 
plundering of, by Gentiles, 139. a 

Cluain-Eidhnech (Clonenagh, Queen’s¢o.), — * 
abbots of, 67, 145; plundered, 143,203. " 

Cluain-Emhain (Chasis near Athlone), ~ 
plundered, 299. 4 

Cluain-Eois (Clones, co. Monaghan), Cele- 
Tighernaigh, Abbot of, 119; bishops 
of, 49, 143. See under Tigernach of 
Cluain-Eois. 

Cluain-ferta-Brenainn (Clonfert), found- 
ed, 53; death of St. Brenainn of, 61; 
abbots of, 129, 151; bishops of, a, s af 
193, 347; (see also comarbs of Bren- 
ainn) ; sini 145, 257, 275; ; plundered, 
271, 287." . r 

Cluain-fota-Baetain-abha (now Clonfad, 
bar. of Farbil, co. Westmeath), death of — 
Etcen, Bishop of, 61. 

Cluain-Iraird (Clonard, co. Meath), St. 
Finnian of, 51; abbots of, 75, 93, 99, — 
135, 157, 197; bishops of, 137, 163, 193, — 
267; lector of, 341; tanist-abbot of, — 
195; vice-abbot of, 143; demolished, — 
143; plundered, 173, 221; the freedom — 
of, granted, 211; limits of the diocese J 
of, 315. 4 

Cluain - mér - Maedhoig (Cloninakideg C0. 4 
Carlow), plundered, 141. 

Cluain-muc-Nois (Clonmacnois), abbots: 
of, 49, 59, 61, 67, 75, 81, 85, 93, 99, 109, 
115, 119, 129, 131, 145, 151, 161, 163, 

_ 165, 167, 169, 173, 175, 179, 187, 195, 
197, 199, 209, 211, 315, 327; anchorii Z 
of, 173; anmchara of, 263; bishops ¢ 
171, 178, 177, 179, 191, 205, 209, 213, 
221, 237, 239, 247, 273, 285, peo 
Céle-Dé of, 333; lectors of, 196, "32! 
293; priests of, 187, 207; tanist-al 
of, 131, 143, 145, 165, 173, 175, 291, 295, 
308, 327; vice-abbots of, 133, 227, 261; 
burnt, 129, 141, 145, 231,257, 261, 293; 
plundered, 145, 147, 193, 201, 205, 211, 
213, 275, 279, 285, 287,301, 303, 813, 319. 





INDEX, 


Cluain-muc-Nois, the burial place of Diar- 

-  miaid, son of Aedh Slaine, 91; the vice- 

abbacy of, 137; attacked by Feidhli- 
midh, King of Cashel, 139; the stone- 
church of, 185; a great mortality at, 
235; the great altar of, 245; great per- 
secution against, 303; the guests’ house 
of, 311; the limits of the diocese of, 
$15; the great belfry of, 325; the altar 
furniture of, stolen and recovered, 329; 
the steeple of, 337. 

Cnes, mother of Aengus, Bishop of Con- 
dere, 35. 

Cnoe Toath (or Taeth), battle of, 75. 

' Cnoghbha (Knowth, co. Meath), Domh- 

nall, King of, 217. 

Cnut, King of the Saxons, dies, 271. 

Cobha. See Magh Cobha. 

Cobha (or Ui-Eathach-Cobha, the present 
baronies of Iveagh, co. Down), death of 
Fergus, King of, 109. 

Cobhflaith, Abbess of Cill-dara, 187. 

Cobhthach, King of Ciarraighe Luachra, 
151. 

' Coblaith, daughter of Canonn, 111. 
Cochall-fliuch, King of Gaileng, slain, 331. 
Cochlan (Coghlan), King of Dealbhna- 

Bethra, slain, 281. 

Coibhdenach, Abbot of Cill ~ achaidh, 
drowned, 203. 

Coibhdenach, Bishop of Ard-Sratha, dies, 
117. 

Coibhdenach, anmchara 
Ibhair, dies, 293. 

Coibhdenach, son of Fiachra, slain, 121. 

Coinder-an-catha, at Dulane, co. Meath, 
165. ; 

Coirpre, King of Laighen, 145. 

Coirpre, or Cairbre, son of Niall, defeats 
the Lagenians, 33, 35. 

- Coirpre, a battle gained over the Ui- 

Neill by, 41. See Cairbre. 

Colbain, slays Glun-iarainn, 231. 

Colcen, two sons of, slain, 115. 

- Colcu, son of Blathmac, 107. 

- Colcu, son of Domhnall, son of Muircer- 

tach, slain, 61. 
Colga, King of Airghiall, 39. 


of Imlech- 





371 


Colga, King of Munster, 105. 

Colga, son of Ceallach, 77. 

Colgu, slain, 119. : 

Colgu, son of Domhnall, 97. 

Colic, 247. ; 

Colic, a magical, 231. 

Colla, son of Barid, King of Luimnech, 
195, 199. 

Collooney. 
Maile. 

Colman, Abbot of Bennchair, 105. 

Colman, Abbot of Cenn-Eittigh, slain, 
183. 

Colman, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, dies, 
107. 

Colman, Bishop of Daimhliag and Lusca, 
dies, 181. 

Colman, Bishop of Glenn-da-locha, dies, 
95. 

Colman, Bishop, proceeds to Insula vacexw 
albee, 101; dies, 105. 

Colman, King of Osraighe, 71. 

Colman, son of Cobhthach, 77. 

Colman, son of Dunlaing, King of Fothar- 
ta-tire, 159. 

Colman Bec, 59, 63. 

Colman Cas, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 99. 

Colman Conaillech, Abbot of Cluain- 
muc-Nois and,Cluain-Iraird, 185, 197. 

Colman Ela, death of, 73. 

Colman Mac Lenin, death of, 69. 

Colman Mac Ua Tellubh, death of, 93. 

Colman Mér, son of Diarmaid, murder of, 
53. 

Colman Rimidh, King of Ireland, 67, 69. 

Colman Stellan, death of, 77. 

Colman Ua Cluasaigh, dies, 97. 

Colman Uathach, death of, 75. 

Colum, Abbot of Bennchair, dies, 101. 

Colum, Bishop of Corcach, dies, 153. 


See Cul Maine and Cul 


| Colum, of Inis Celtra, death of, 51. 


Colum Cille, St., birth of, 39; profaned 
by Diarmaid Mac Cerbhaill, 53; pro- 
ceeds to Hi, 55; death of, 65; comarbs 
of, 158, 211, 218, 215, 231, 237, 247, 
273; (see also, Abbots of Hi); the 
Gospel of, 245; his establishment at 

2B2 


372 


Cenannus, or Kells, 127; miracle of, 
337; the shrine and reliquaries of, 131, 
137, 139, 167. 

Colum Mac Crimthainn, death of, 51. 

Columba (Colman) Bishop of Insula 
vacce albwz, dies, 105. 

Columbanus, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
81. 

Columns, two fiery, 207. 

Comaltan, King of Ui-Fiachrach-Aidhne, 
265. 

Coman, St., of Roscommon, comarbs of, 
217, 281, 299. 

Comanns, the three, (septs seated in the 
north of the present co. of Kilkenny), 
189. - 

Comar-tri-nuisce (i.e. “the meeting of 
three waters,” near Waterford), 155. 
Comdan Mac Da Cearda, death of, 87, n. 7. 

Comets, 105, 287. 

Comgall, St., of Bennchair, birth of, 39; 
death of, 67; comarbs of, 213, 223. 

Comgan Mac Cuiteme, dies, 99. 

Conachail (now Cunghill, barony of 
Leyny, co. Sligo), the battle of, 296, n. 7, 
297. 

Conaille, or Conaille Muirthemne (now 
the co. of Louth), plundered by Gentiles, 
139; a battle between the Ultonians 
and, 169; kings of, 109, 139, 185, 187, 
195, 219, 239; Colman Conaillech of 
the, 269. 

Conaing, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, dies, 
247. 

Conaing, son of Aedhan, son of Gabhran, 
drowned, 77. 

Conaing, son of Congal, 107. 

Conaing, son of Congal,-son of Aedh 
Slaine, killed, 97. 

Conaing, son of Congal, King of Teabhtha, 
dies, 181. 

Conaing, son of Donncuan, slain, 251. 

Conaing, son of Flann, King of Bregh, 
dies, 149. 

Conaing, son of Niall, 199. 

Conaing Ua Daiut, Abbot of Imlech- 
Iubhair, dies, 97. 

Conalach, son of Conaing, slain, 121. 


INDEX. 





Conall, Bishop of Cill-Scire, dies, 161. , 

Conall, son of Aedh, son of Ainmire, 67, _ 
69. 

Conall, son of Blathmac, mortal wounding @ 
of, 91. 

Conall, 

Conall, 


son of Domhnall, slain, 97. 

son of Dunchadh, slain, 107. 

Conall, son of Guaire, death of, 109. 

Conall, son of Maeldubh, son of Mael- 
bresail, slain, 81. 

Conall, son of Niall, King of Bregh, dies, 
129. 

Conall, son of Suibhne, King of the Deisi, 
dies, 113. 

Conall, son of Suibhne, King of Midhe, 
69, 77, 83, 85. 

Conall, King of Cobha, slain, 169. 

Conall, King of Dalriada oF Scotland), 
dies, 61. q 

Conall, King of Ui Fidhgheinte, dies, — 
113. 

Conall, King of Ui Maine, slain, 81. 

Conall Cael, son of Maelcobha, King of 
Treland, 85, 89, 91, 93. 

Conall Cloccach, dies, 97. 

Conall Cor, murder of, 93. 

Conall Crandamhna, dies, 97. 

Conall Crimthann, son of Niall, 29, 

Conall Gabhra, slain, 115. 

Conall Grant Ua Cernaigh (¢.e. Conall the — 
grey, grandson of Cernach), 119. 

Conall Laegh Bregh, slain, 73. 4 

Conall Meann, King of (inel Ci ‘, 
slain, 121. if 

Conall Oirgnech, King of Cairpre, slain, — 
105. NA 

Conamhail, son of Gilla-Airre, slain, 227. — 

Concain of Cill-Slebhe, death of, 95. 

Conchobhar, son of Aengus, 263. 

Conchobhar, son of Cerbhall, 233. A 

Conchobhar, son of Donnchadh, King of — 
Treland, 131, 139. 

Conchobhar, son of Donnchadh, half-King L 
of Midhe, drowned, 159. iq 

Conchobhar, son of Finn, King of Ui. b- 
Failghe, dies, 225. 3 

Conchobhar, son of Maelchen, King of 
Ui-Failghe, 203. 





Conchobhat, son of Maelsechlainn, 235. 

Conchobhar, son of Maelsechlainn, King 
of the Half of Midhe, slain, 311. 

Conchobhar, son of Tadhg, King of Con- 
nacht, 161, 169. 

Conchobhar, King of Luighne, 233. 

Conchobhar Mac Nessa, era of, 21, 29. 

Conchobhar Macha, King of the Airthera, 
slain, 113. 

Conchobhar Ua Maeilechlainn, King of 
Midhe, slain, 191. 

Conchobhar, “the province of” (i.e. 
Uladh), 151. 

Condere (Connor, co. Antrim), bishops of, 
37, 47, 95, 273. 

Conene, son of Muircertach, 241. 

. Cong, the cross of, 324, n. 1. 

~ Congal, King of Bregh, slain, 85. 

Congal, King of Munster, killed, 109. 

Congal, son of Dunchadh, slain, 85. 

Congal, son of Fergus, King of Ireland, 
115, 117. ' 

Congal, son of Maelduin, 105. 

Congal, son of Ronan, 95. 

Congal Caech (i.e. “Congaltheone-eyed”), 
81, 83, 85. 

Congal Cennfoda, King of Uladh, 89, 
103, 

Congalach, King of Airghiall, 165. 

Congalaeh, King of Conaille Muirthemne, 
185. 

Congalach, King of Leghe and Rechet, 
225. 

Congalach, son of Aedh, 221. 

Congalach, son of Conchobhar, King of 
Ui-Failghe, 248, n. %, 255, 259. 

Congalach, son of Conaing, 109, 111, 143. 

Congalach, son of Eochaidh, slain, 135. 

Congalach, son of Flann, King of Gaileng, 
slain, 227. 

Congalach, son of Maelmithidh, King of 
Ireland, 195, 203, 205, 207, 209, 211, 
213. 

Congalach, son of Irgalach, tanist-Abbot 
of Cluan-muc-Nois, dies, 131, 145. 

Conlaedh, Bishop of Cill-dara, 39. 

Conmach, Abbot of Ard-Macha, dies, 125. 

Conmael, Abbot of Hi, dies, 117. 





INDEX. 





373 


Conmaicne (the tribes inhabiting a dis- 
trict now comprised in the co. of Lei- 
trim and part of Longford), kings of, 
293, 297, 307; plunder Cluain-muc-Nois, 
279, 287, 303 ; plunder Inis-Clothrann, 
279; visited by a plague, 275; ravaged 
by Aedh Ua Conchobhair, 281 ; defeat 
the Connachtmen, 325; defeated, 279, 
297, 313; expelled from Magh-Ai, 317 ; 
the hostages of, taken, 347. 

Conmaicne Cuile (now the barony of Kil- 
maine, S. of co. Mayo), 107. 

Conmaicne Mara (the people of Conne- 
mara, co. Galway), 99, 127. 

Conmal, son of Bruadaran, 199. 

Conn, son of Conchobhar, 215. 

Conn, son of Donnchadh, royal heir of 
Temhair, 207. 

Connacht (Connaught), bishop of, 219; 
kings of, 23, 35, 47, 51, 61, 63, 89, 95, 
97, 101, 107, 113, 115, 117, 119, 129, 139, 
143, 145, 149, 161, 169, 171, 177, 183, 
195, 215, 215, 217, 221, 247, 255, 263, 
269, 271, 277, 279, 285, 301, 305, 307, 
309, 311; Mughron, half-King of, 165; 
royal heirs of, 291, 293, 333 ; the hostages 
of, taken, 181, 207, 241, 259; invaded, 
193, 233, 339, 343; a battle between the 
Corca Bhaiscinn and the men of, 121; 
the Law of Daire promulgated in, 135; 
plundered and devastated, 141, 145, 159, 
165, 177, 201, 221, 229; the men of, de- 
feated by the men of Midhe, 187. See 
Connachtmen. 

Connacht, the East of, 278, 279, 285, 323. 

Connacht, the North of, 229. 

Connacht, the South of, 235. 

Connacht, the West of, 241, 273, 279, 293, 
323. 

Connachtach, son of Loingsech, slain, 115. 

Connachtmen, defeat the Gentiles, 143, 
171, 199; invade Munster, 297, 317; 

* defeat the men of Munster, 321; de- 
feated, 147, 177, 185. 

Connadh Cerr, King of Dalriada (of 
Scotland), 81, 83. 

Connecan, son of Colman, slain, 155. 

Conner. See Connor, 


374 


Connican, son of Airechtach, slain, 187. 

Connmach, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 161. 

Connmach Mor, King of Ui mBriuin, dies, 
147. 

Conn-na-mbocht, Bishop of Cluain-muc- 
Nois, 209, 285; Joseph, the father of, 263. 

Connor, plundered, 215. See Condere. 

Conodhar, of Fobhar, died, 117. 

Conor. See Conchobhar. 

Conrad II, See Cuana. . 

Conry, Rev. John, Int, ix, xxvii. 

Constantine, son of Cinaedh, King of the 
Picts, 163, 165. 

Constantine, son of Cuilen, King of Alba, 
slain, 235. 

Corann, co. Sligo, Domhnall Ua Eghra, 
King of, 265; battles in, 107, 115. 

Corea-Achlann, a district in the E. of the 
co. Roscommon, 297. 

Corca-Bhaiscinn, a territory anciently co- 
extensive with the present baronies of 
Clonderalaw and Moyarta, in the §. E. of 
the co. Clare; chief of, 159; kings of, 
251, 279; acatastrophe in, 125; a battle 
between the men of Connacht and, 121; 
invaded by Aedh Ua Conchobair, 283. 

Coreach (Cork), abbots of, 109, 159, 161, 
175, 177, 197; bishops of, 153, 165, 213; 
plundered by Gentiles, 131, 187 ; burnt 
by Gentiles, 148, 249; the fort of, 149. 

Corea Cullu (a Connacht tribe, whose 
situation is not known), 91. 

Corca-Duibhne (now the bar. of Corka- 
guiny, co. Kerry), 183. 

Corca Mogha (Corcamoe, a territory com- 
prising the parish of Kilkerrin, bar. of 
Killian, co. Galway), 99, 211, 241. 

Corca-Raidhe, a tribe seated anciently in 
the present barony of Corkaree, co. 
Westmeath, 291. 

Corco-che (or Corca-Oche), a Munster 
tribe, in 8. W. of co. Limerick, 51. 

Corco-Firtri (a tribe anciently inhabiting 
the barony of Gallen, co. Mayo, and those 
of Leyney and Corran, co. Sligo), 207. 

Corcomruaidh (Corcomroe, co. Clare), the 
battle of, 115; Maclsechlainn Ua Con- 


INDEX. 


| Cows, mortality of, 113, 117, 231, 315,335, 
























chobhair, King of, 267; ravaged by 

Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair, 297; the 

men of, defeated by the Sil-Muiredhaigh, 

803. 

Corinda, death of, 101. 

Cork. See Corcach. 

Cormac, Abbot of Fobhar, 173, 

Cormac, Bishop of Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, 
dies, 198. 

Cormac, Bishop and Abbot of Cluain- 
Iraird, dies, 137. 

Cormue, Bishop of Daimhliag, dies, 169. — 

Cormac [in] dernidhe, Bishop, death of, 33. 

Cormac of Mainistir, a Bishop, dies, 301. — 

Cormac Ua Liathain, Bishop, dies, 161. 

Cormac, King of Feara-Arda, slain, 213. — 

Cormac ‘‘ the mild,” death of, 79. 

Cormac, son of Ailill, King of Munster, 
slain, 119. 

Cormac, son of Conn-na-mbocht, 303. 

Cormac, son of Cuilennan, King of Cashel, 
143, 171, 179, 181. 

Cormac, son of Maenach, King of Munster, 
slain, 117. 

Cormac, son of Mothla, King of the Deisi, 
dies, 191. 

Cormac Mac Airt, era of, 29. 

Cormac’s chapel, in Cashel. 
Chormaic. 

Cornan, son of Aedh, murdered by Diar- 
maid Mac Cerbhaill, 53. 

Coronal tonsure, received by the “ family ” 
of Hi, 119. 

Corrsliabh, the Curlieu Hills, co, Roseom- 
mon, 331, 

Cosgrach, son of Flannabhyat, slain, 129. 

Cosgrach, comarb of Flannan and Bren= — 
ainn, 273. 


See Tempol- 


See Cattle. q 
Craebh Laisre (a place near Clonmacnois, — 
King’s co.), a prodigy at, 169. 4 
Craebh-rois-da-charn, i.e. “the tree of — 
the Wood of the two cairns,” situated — 
in the co. Longford, a battle at, 325, 
Craebh-telcha, battle of, 241. 
Crich Ui Gabhla (i.e, the territory of Ui 3 
Gabhla, q. v.) 





INDEX. 


Crimthann, King of Ireland, 17. 

Crimthann, King of Laighen, 27, 31. 

Crimthann, son of Aedh, King of Laig- 
hen, slain, 83. 

Crimhthann (a territ, in the now bar. of 
Slane, co. Meath), kings of, 269, 273. 
See Ui Crimthainn. 

Crinach, battle of, 295. 

Crinder, a battle at, 47. 

Criomthann. See Crimthann. 

Critan of Aendruim, death of, 87. 

Critan, Abbot of Bennchair, death of, 101. 

Croghan. See Cruachan. 

Croghan, hill of. See Bri-Ele. 

Cro-inis of Loch-Aininn (an island in 
Lough Ennell, co. of Westmeath), 261. 

_ Crom Conaill, a great mortality, 51. 

~ Cronan, Bishop of Naendruim, 89. 

Cronan of Balla, death of, 111.. 

Cronan, Abbot of Bennchair, dies, 111. 

Cronan of Magh Bile, death of, 91. 

Cronan, Abbot of Ros-cre, comarb of, 
275. 

Cronan of Tuaim-greine, comarbs of, 265, 
303. ’ 

Cronan, King of Ciannachta, 59. 

Cronan, son of Silne, death of, 99. 

Cronan Bec (or Cron Bee, z.e. Little Cron), 

Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 111. 

Cronan Mac U Loeghde, Abbot of Cluain- 

' mue-Nois, 85. 

Cros-na-Screaptra (7.e. ‘‘the cross of the 

_ writings”) at Cluain-muc-Nois, 285. 

Cruachan (Croghan, or Rathcroghan, co. 

- Roscommon), the seat of the kings of 

_ Connacht, 129. 

Cruach-Padraig (Croagh Patrick, a moun- 
tain in Connacht), 315. : 

Crundmael, King of Cinel Eoghain, gains 
the battle of Flescach, 95. 

Crundmael Erbuilg, King of Laighen 

' Desgabhair, death of, 95. 

Crunnmael, a bishop, dies, 247. 

Crunnmael, Bishop of Cill-dara, dies, 199. 

Crunnmael of Cluain-Cain, a bishop, dies, 
167. 

Cruithen-tuaith (Pictland), Ead, King of, 

. 179, 180, 2, 1, 





375 


Cruithne (Picts) of Ireland, 55, 89, 101, 
107, 109, 117. 

Cruithne of Midhe, 101. 

Cruithne of Scotland, 71, 81, 95, 97. 

Cuailgne (Cooley, co. Louth), 219, 343. 

Cuallaidh, slain, 117. 

Cuan, son of Amhalghaidh, death of, 
86, n. 4, 

Cuan, son of Enna, King of Munster, 
slain, 91. 

Cuan, King of Ui-Fidhgheinte, slain, 91. 

Cuana, son of Calcin, death of, 89. 

Cuana (the Emperor Conrad II.), 263, 273. 


‘Cubretan, son of Congus, 123. 


Cu-cen-mathair (é.e. ‘“Canis-sine-matre ”), 
Abbot of Imlech-Ibhair, dies, 171. 

Cu-cen-mathair, King of Munster, 69,99. 

Cucennan, son of Tadhg, slain, 233. 

Cucerca, King of Osraighe, dies, 117. 

Cuchenn, son of Laighnen, slain, 95. 

Cuchullain, era of, 21. 

Cucongelt, King of Southern Laighen, 
dies, 129. 

Cuconnacht, chieftain of a ae, 
slain, 245. 

Cucuarain, King of the Cruithne and of 
Uladh, slain, 117. 

Cudinaise, slain, 117. 

Cuduiligh, King of Fera-tulach, 227. 

Cuduiligh, son of Cennedigh, slain, 251. 

Cuduiligh, son of Eochaidh, slain, 241, 

Cugamhna, son of Suibhne, dies, 93. 

Cuil-Coil, battle of, 67. 

Cuil Conaire, in Cera (Carra, co. Mayo), 
battle of, 51. 

Cuil Corra (now Coolarn, near Galtrim, 
co. Meath), battle of, 93. 

Cuil Dremne, in the barony of Carbury, 
co. Sligo, battle of, 53. 

Cuil Uinnsend, in Teffia, battle of, 55. 

Cuilen, son of Ilulb, King of Alba, slain, 
219. 

Cuilen, King of Osraighe, 201. 

Cuilen, the sons of, 267. 

Cuilene, King of Ui-Failghe, slain, 93. 

Cuillne, battle of, 51. 

Cuimin Foda (i.e. “‘Cuimin the tall”), 
63, 97. 


376 


Cuimine, Bishop of Naendruim, dies, 95. 

Cuindidh, i.e. Mac Cuilind, Bishop of 
Lusca, dies, 33. 

Cuini, son of Colman, slays Baedan, King 
of Temhair, 61. 

Cuircne (Kilkenny West, co. Westmeath), 
chiefs of, 213, 271. 

Culen, son of Etigen, slain, 237. 

Cul-Maile or Cul-Maine (Collooney, co. 
Sligo), conflict of, 105; the castle of, 
erected, 325. 

Culmana, sister of St. Patrick, and mo- 
ther of St. Secundinus, 25. 

Culuachra, King of Ciarraighe-Luachra, 
259. 

Cumaine, son of Libren, slays Baedan, 
King of Temhair, 63. 

Cuman, son of Colman, slain, 81. 


Cumascach, or Cumasgach. See Cumus- 
gach. 
Cumin Fota. See Cuimin Fota. 


Cumine, Abbot of Bennchair, 101. 
Cumine, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 99. 
Cumine Albus, Abbot of Hi, 101. 


Cumuscach, or Cumascach, King of Air- 


ghiall, slain, 135. 

Cumusgach, King of Cinel Laeghaire, 
dies, 169. 

Cumusgach, King of Ui Crimthainn, slain, 
95. 

Cumusgach, son of Aedh, murdered, 65. 

Cumusgach, son of Aengus, slain, 85. 

Cumusgach, son of Flaithri, 241. 

Cumusgach, son of Ronan, death of, 103. 

Cunda, son of Ceallach, murder of, 101. 

Cunga (Cong) burned, 337. 

Cunghill. See Conachail. 

Cunnenn, Bishop of Condere, 273. 

Curlieu hills. See Seghais. 

Curoi, son of Aedh, son of Dluthach, slain, 
117. 

Cusinna, chief of Clann-Tomaltaigh, slain, 
297. 

Cycles, 185. 


Dabhall, now the river Blackwater, which 
flows between the cos. of Armagh and 
Tyrone, 15, 215. 





INDEX. 


Dachonna, of Daire, dies, 115. 

Dachua (alias Mochua), of Balla (in Mayo 
co.), death of, 85. 

Dacia, 11. 

Daciaroe, Saint, of Aracul, 135. 

Dagan, of Inbher Daile, 87. 

Daghda, the, one of the Tuatha De Da- 
nann, 9. 

Daigh Mac Cairill, 63. 

Daimhin, son of Coirpre Dambargaid,. 57., 

Daimhinis (Devenish Island, in Lough 
Erne), death of St. Molaise of, 57; 
abbots of, 139, 161, 175; Sillan, Bishop 
of, 95; plundered, 131; destroyed, 
143, 

Daimhliag, or Daimhliag of Cianan (Du- 
leek, co. Meath), death of St. Cianan 
of, 31; abbots of, 149, 161, 163; bishops 
of, 131, 169, 181, 193, 199; spoiled by 
Gentiles, 139; the oratory of, plun- 
dered, 167; pillaged, 273; taken by the 
Gailenga, 323. 

Daircill, Bishop of Glenn-da-locha, 105. 

Daire, the Rule or Law of, 129, 135. 

Daire, Finnachda, comarb of, 203. 

Daire Calgaigh (Derry, or Londonderry), 
75, 139. 

Daire, Daire-Mochonna, or Daire-Disert- 
Dachonna (not identified), death of 
Dachonna of, 115; Gentiles defeated at, 
149, 

Dalach, Abbot of Cluain-Iraird, dies, 157. 

Dalach, chief of Cinel-Conaill, slain, 163. 

Dalaise, or Cmiacy” Abbot of Leithglinn, 
dies, 87. 

Dal-Araidhe (a seteitody extending from 
Newry, co. Down, to Slemish, co. An- 
trim), kings of, 29, 81, 113, 175, 177, 
185, 199, 225, 243, 257; a battle between 
the Ultonians and the men of, 221; in- 
vaded, 215, 399; the hostages of, taken, 
213, 243, 

Dal-Cais (the tribe name of the O’Briens 
of Thomond), 211, 215, 229, 299, 313. 
Dal-Fiachach, or Dél-Fiatach (ie. the 
tribe or race of Fiatach Finn, who were 
seated in the present co. of Down), 

Fiachna, son of Deman, king of, 81, 








INDEX. 


 Dal-Riada (Trish) Diarmaid, son of Seal- 
bhach, king of, 187. 

Dal-Riada (Scotch), 35, 81, 83, 103, 115, 

119. 

Dallan, son of Mér, a poet, 182, n. 1. 

Daniel, Bishop of Cinngarad, dies, 95. 

Daniel, Abbot of Glenn-da-locha, dies, 
161. 

Daniel Ua Luaithidhe, Abbot of Corcach 
and Lis-mér, mortally wounded, 159. 

Dano-Irish. See Gall-Gaeidhel. 

Darerca, mother of St. Ciaran of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, 49. 

Darerca, St., of Cill-Slebhe-Cuilinn (Kil- 
levy, co. Armagh), death of, 39. 

Dargarta, son of Finnghuine, murder of, 
109. 

Dartraighe (Dartry, or the bar. of Ross- 
clogher, co. Leitrim), 211. 

Dartraighe of Daimhinis (Dartry, co. 
Monaghan), 161. 

Dathi. See Nathi. 

David, St., death of, 63. 

Dealbhaeth, one of the Tuatha De Da- 
nann, 9. 

Dealbhna-Bethra, orDealbhna-Ethra (now 
the bar. of Garrycastle, King’s co.), 240, 
n.1; kings of, 187, 175, 241, 281, 335, 
347; plundered, 143. 

Dealbhna-bee (i.e. “little Delvin,” now 
the bar. of Demi-Fore, co. Westmeath), 
249, 

Dealbhna-mér, now Delvin, co. West- 
meath, 341. 

Dealbhna Nuadhat (a territ. in the co. 
Galway, between the rivers Suck and 
Shannon), 129. : 

Dealgan, in Cantyre, the battle of, 60, n.1. 

Deas-Mumha, or.Deas-Mumhain (Des- 
mond), 323, 325, $27, 331. 

Dedimus, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 179. 

Dedimus, tanist-Abbot of Cluain-muc- 
Nois, 195. 

Delenn (Magh Delenn, co. Donegal’), 
battle of, 95. 3 

Delg, battle of, 35. 

Delg-Inis, i.e. “the thorn island,” now 
Dalkey, near Dublin, 203. 





377 


Deisi, Desi, or Deisi-Mumhan (Decies, co. 
Waterford), kings of, 101, 113, 155, 165, 
175, 191, 235, 251, 801; a slaughter of 
the people of, 203. 

Delbhna. See Dealbhna, 

Delvin, river. See Albene. 

Deman, son of Cairell, 51, 59. 

Dennlis (not identified), 181. 

Derbhail, daughter of Congalach, son of 
Maelmithidh, dies, 249. 

Derbhail, daughter of Tadhg, son of 
Cathal, dies, 247. 

Dere-Ferna (the cave of Dunmore, co. 
Kilkenny), demolition of, 199. 

Derforgaill, mother of Muircertach Ua 
Briain, dies, 305. 

Dermait, Dermot, or Diarmaid, Abbot of 
Ard-Macha, 151, 153. 

Dermhagh. See Duirmhagh. 

Derlas, Maelgarbh, King of, 199. 
Durlus. 

Derry. See Daire Calgaigh. + 

Desi. See Deise. 

Detna, in Droma-Bregh, battle of, 39. 

Devenish Island. See Daimhinis, 

Diarmaid, Diarmait, or Dermot, Abbot of 
Ard-Macha, 151, 153. 

Diarmaid, Abbot of Cluain-Iraird, 75. 

Diarmaid, Abbot of Hi, 131, 137, 139. 

Diarmaid, son of Aedh Slaine, King of 
Treland, 85, 89. 

Diarmaid, son of Domhnall, King of Ui- 
Cennsealaigh, dies, 237. 

Diarmaid, son of Enna, King of Laighen, 
dies, 321. 

Diarmaid, son of Maelnambo, 283, 289, 
291. 

Diarmaid, son of Tomaltach, King of Con- 
nacht, 131, 139. 

Diarmaid, son of Uathmaran, King of 
Luighne, dies, 231. 

Diarmaid Mac Cerbhaill, King of Ireland, 
49, 53, 55, 57. 

Diarmaid, King of Dal-Riada, slain, 187. 

Diarmaid, King of Loch Gabhar, slain, 
161. 

Diarmaid Midhe, King of Midhe, 109. 

Diarmaid, King of Osraighe, 199, 


See 


378 


Diarmaid, King of Sil-Anmchadha, slain, 
237. 

Diarmaid, grandson of Aedh Roin, ancho- 
rite, dies, 133. 

Dichull, son of Eochaidh, King of Cinel 
Cruithne, 81. 

Dicull, son of Fergus Tuile, slain, 83. 

Dima, a Bishop, death of, 97. 

Dima Dubh, Bishop of Connor, 95. 

Dioceses, formation of certain, 315. 

Dirath, Bishop of Ferna, 111. 

Diseases. See Pestilences. 

Disert-Ciarain (Castlekieran, co. Meath), 
211. 

Disert-Diarmada (Castledermot, co. Kil- 
dare), plundered by Gentiles, 145. 

Disert-Tola (Dysart, bar. of Delvin, co. 
Westmeath), plundered, 221, 

Diucull, murder of, 75. 

Dochumachonoe, Abbotof Glenn-da-locha, 
death of, 109. 

Doimnere. See Liath Manchan. 

Domangart (Donard) Mac Nissi, St., 27. 

Domangart, King of Dal-Riada, 103. 

Domhnach Maghen (Donaghmoyne, co 

- Monaghan), 139. 

Domhnach Padraig (Donaghpatrick, co. 
Meath), 149, 211, 235. 

Domhaall, Bishop of Mainistir-Buite, dies, 
243. 

Domhnall, son of Aedh, King of Ireland, 
73, 81, 93, 85, 87. 

Domhnall, son of Aedh, King of Ailech, 

171, 181, 187. 

Domhnall, son of Amhalghaidh, comarb 
of Patrick, dies, 311. 

Dombnall, son of Cathal, King of Con- 
nacht, dies, 119. 

Domhnall, son of Cathal, royal heir of 
Connacht, 195. 

Domhnall, son of Cathal, slain, 251. 

Domhnall (or Donnchadh), son of Ceallach, 
King of Ui-Cennsealaigh, 223. 

Domhnall, son of Conall Crandamhna, 
murder of, 113. 

Domhnall, son of Congalach, King of 
Cnoghbha, or Bregh, 215, 217, 219, 221, 
223, 225, 





INDEX. 


Domhnall, son of Constantine, King of — 
Alba, dies, 177. 

Domhnall, son of Diarmaid, King of Coren 
Bhaiscinn, slain, 251. ;. 

Domhnall, son of Donnehadh, royal hell a 
of Temhair, 211. “a 

Domhnall, son of Dubhdabhairenn, 253, 
255. 

Domhnall, son of Dubhtuinne, King of — 
Uladh, slain, 245. a 

Domhnall, son of Dunlaing, 271. 

Domhnall, son of Emhin, slain, 253. 

Domhnall, son of Eochaidh, slain, 241. % 

Domhnall, son of Koateny King of Britain, a 
dies, 223, ; 

Domhnall, son of Faelan, King of the 
Deisi, dies, 235. 

Domhnall, son of Finn, royal heir of 
Laighen, 209. 

Dombnall, son of Flann, King of Midhe, 
slain, 193. 

Domhnall, son of Gairbhith, 187. 

Domhnall, son of Lorcan, King of Aidhne, 
203. 


Domhnall, son of Mac Erca, King of 4 


Treland, 47, 51, 53, 57. 

Domhnall, son of Muircertach, King of 
Treland, 213, 215, 219, 221, 223, 225. 
Domhnall, son of Muirigen, King of 

Laighen, 167, 169. 


-Domhnall, grandson of Murchadh Glun- 


ilair, slain, 263. 
Domhnall, son of Ruaidhri, King of Sil- 
Muiredhaigh, dies, 321. 
Domhnall, son of Senchan; slain, 265.. a 
Domhnall, son of Tighernan, sie of | 
Conmaicne, slain, 293. ; 
Domhnall, son of ‘Tuathalan, 97. i 
Domhnall, King of Laighne: of Connacht, 4 
207. ; 
Domhnall, King of Muscraidhe-tire, 233, P 
Domhnall Bree, 77, 85, 87, 109. a 
Domhnall Claen, King of Laighen, 221, q 
225, 227, 229, ie | 
Domhnall Got, King of Midhe, 269. “4 
Domhnall Mac Alpin, King of the Pit qq 
dies, 157. ft: 
Domhnall Ua Macilechlainn, 185, 








INDEX. 


Domhnall Ua Neill, devastation of Laig- 
hen by, 125. 

Donaghmoyne. See Domhnach Maghen. 

Donaghpatrick. See Domhnach Padraig. 

Donard, St. See Domangart. 

Donn, King of Teabhtha, slain, 233. 

Donn, son of Dongal, 257. 

- Donn, son of Milidh, 13. 

Donnabhan, son of Imhar, slain, 235, 

Donnabhan, King of Ui-Fidhghente, 223, 

Donnacan, King of Ui Cennsealaigh, slain, 
163. 

Donnacan, son of Maeltuile, dies in Italy, 
145, - 
Donnacan (or Donncuan), son of Cenne- 

digh, slain, 211. ‘ 
Donnagan, King of Airghiall, 219. 
Donnagan, King of Laighen, 257. 
.Donnan of Eg, burning of, 75. 
Donnchadh, Abbot of Cill-delga, slain, 
171. 
Donnchadh, son of Blathmac, 91. 
Donnchadh, son of Brian, 258, 259, 263, 
» 265, 267, 269; 277, 287. — 
Donnchadh, son of Ceallach, King of 
Osraighe, 207, 223. 
Donnchadh, or Domhnall, son of Ceallach, 
King of Ui-Cennsealaigh, 223. 
Donnchadh, son of Ceallachan, King of 
Munster, 215. 
Donnchadh, son of Critan, chief King of 
Alba, slain, 273. 
Donnchadh, son of Domhnall, half-King 
of Midhe, 209. 
Donnechadh, son of Domhnall, King of 
Laighen, slain, 237, 299. 
Donnchadh, son of Domhuall, royal heir 
of Temhair, slain, 195. 
Donnchadh, son of Domhnall, royal heir 
of the north of Ireland, 197. 
_Donnchadh, son of Dunlaing, King of 
Laighen, blinded, 273. 
Donnehadh, son of Donnechadh Finn, 249. 
Donnchadh, son of Eoganan, 77. 
Donnchadh, son of Flann, King of Ire- 
~ land, 179, 191, 193, 201, 203, 205, 207. 
Donnchadh, son of Follamhan, plundered, 
147, 





379 


Donnchadh, son of Gilla~Padraic, 241, 257. 

Donnchadh, son of Maeleoluim, King of 
Alba, slain, 303. 

Donnchadh, son of Maelechlainn, slain; 
249, 

Donnchadh, son of Tuathal, royal heir of 
Laighen, 217. 

Donnchadh, King of Caisel, dies, 171. 

Donnchadh, King of Ui-mBairche, slain; 
275. 

Donnchadh, King of Ui nEchdach, dies, 
147. 

Donnchadh Finn, son of Aedh, 221, 223. 

Donnchadh Got, the son of, 277. 

Donnchadh Ua Maeilechlainn, 185. 

Donncuan, son of Dunlaing, King of 
Laighen, 255. 

Donncuan, King of Teabhtha, slain, 189. 

Donncuan (or Donnacan), son of Cenne- 
digh, slain, 211. 

Donngal, tanist-Abbot of Cluain-muc- 
Nois, dies, 291. 

Donngal, Bishop of Corcach, 165. 

Dor, son of Aedh Allan, 79. 

Dorsum Britannia, 119. 

Downpatrick. See Druim-leth-glaise, 
and Dunlethglaise. 

Droma-Bregh (‘“ Dorsa Bregize”’), 39. 


 Drost, King of the Picts, death of, 102, n. 3, 


105, See Drust. 

Druidical Erbhe. See Erbhe. 

Druids, 11, 13, 53, 55. 

Druim-bé (now Drumbo, co. Down), 243. 

Druim-Cleithe, battle of, 51. 

Druim-cliabh (Drumcliff, co. Sligo), Flann 
Ua Becean, Airchinnech of, 211. 

Druim-da-mhaighe (now Drum-caw, bar. 
of Coolstown, King’s co.), battle of, 
157. 

Druim Dergaighe, battle of, 39. 

Druim-Hubhla, plundering of, 139. 

Druim-inasglainn (now Drumiskin, co. 
Louth), 167, 219. 

Druim-leth-glaise (Downpatrick), death 
of Fergus, bishop of, 61. 

Druim Lochmaighe (some place in the 
co. Louth), battle of, 35. 

Druim-mic-Erce, battle of, 61, 


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Druim-Raithe (now Drumraney, barony 
of Kilkenny West, co. Westmeath), 83, 
209, 235, 257. 

Druman-Ui-Clerchin (now Drumin, near 
Kilmallock, co. Limerick), 299. 

Drumraney. See Druim-Raithe. 

Drust Mac Erb, King of the Picts, death 
of, 25,. See Drost. 

Duach Teugumha, King of Connacht, 
slain, 35. 

Dubheabhlaigh, wife of Brian, dies, 247. 

Dubheabhlaigh, daughter of Aedh Ua 
Conchobhair, dies, 299. 

Dubhcenn, son of Imhar of Luimnech, 
225. 

Dubhcuilinn, Abbot of Ros-ech, 179. 

Dubhdabhairenn, King of Munster, 213. 

Dubhdachrich, son of Dubhdainbher, 123. 

Dubhdalethe, comarb of Patrick and 
Colum Cille, 217, 237. © 

Dubhdalethe, Abbot of Ard-Macha, 285, 
287. 

Dubhdainbher, King of Ard Ciannachta, 
slain, 109. 

Dubhdaingen, King of Connacht, 271. 

Dubhdiberg, son of Dungal, slain, 115. 

Dubhduin, comarb of Colum Cille, 213. 

Dubhduin, King of Cinel Cairpre, 103. 

Dubhduin Ua Becce, slain, 119. 

Dubheassa, daughter of Brian, dies, 281. 

Dubhgall, son of Amhlaibh, slain, 253. 

Dubhgall, son of Aedh, royal heir of 
Uladh, 195. 

Dubh-gail (ze. black foreigner) Fulf, a, 163. 

Dubh-Ghenti (i.e. “Black Gentiles”) 
arrive at Ath-cliath, 151; commit de- 
predations, on the other Foreigners, 
151; defeat Finn-Ghenti, 153; Horm, 
chief of, slain, 155. See Gentiles. 

Dubhgilla, King of Teabhtha, 191. 

Dubhgilla, King of Ui Cennsealaigh, 179. 

Dubhgualai, Abbot of Glenn-da-locha, 
117. 

Dubhindracht, King of Ui-mBriuin-Ai, 
101. 

Dubhlachtna, King of Caisel, 171, 175. 

Dubhlena, Queen of Ireland, 205. 

‘Dubhlinn (Dublin), a fortress erected by 





INDEX. 


foreignersat, 143; Gentilesat, 145 ; plun- 
dering of, by Maelsechlainn, 149. See 
Ath-cliath. . 

Dubhsgaile, comarb of Colum Cille, dies, 
215. 

Dubhslanga, son of Aedh, 241. 

Dubhsloit Ua Trena, 53. 

Dubhtir-Atha-Luain (ze. the Black dis- 
trict of Athlone), 193. 

Dubhtuinne, son of Ardgal, slain, 241. 

Dubhtuinne (¢.e. the “Tore,” or “ Boar,”) 
King of Uladh, slain, 245. } 

Dublin. See Ath-cliath, and Dubhliinn. 

Duoetach, Abbot of Ard-Macha, 39. 

Duibhlitir, a priest, slain, 195. 

Duinsech, Queen of Ireland, death of, 87. 

Duirmhagh, Dermhagh, or Dairmagh 
(Durrow, King’s co.), 63, 189, 151, 259, 
339. 

Duisech, daughter of Duach, King of 
Connacht, 35. 

Duleek. See Daimhliag. 

Dumagh Aicher, battles of, 27, 81. 

Dumha-na-nDeisi (i.e. the mound of the — 
Deisi), a place in Louth, not identified, 
167. 

Dunadhach, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 213. 

Dun-aiched, a fort néar Croom, co. Lime- 
rick, 299, 301. 

Dunamon, See Dun-Imghan. 

Dunan, Bishop of Ath-cliath, dies, 291. 

Dun Bolg (near Kilbaylet, co. Wicklow), 
battle of, 65. 

Dun Buchad(Dunboyke, co. Wicklow), 65. 

Din Cearmna (i.e. Cearmna’s fort, the 
Old Head of Kinsale), 155. 

Dun Ceithern, or Dun Cethirn (now the 
Giant’s Sconce, co. Londonderry), 83, 
107. 

Dunchadh, Abbot of Hi, dies, 119. 

Dunchadh, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 205. 

Dunchadh, comarb of Ciaran, 223. 

Dunchadh, King of Caisel, 165. 

Dunchadh, King of Airghiall, slain, 105. 

Dunchadh Muirsce, King of Connacht 
slain, 107. 








INDEX. 


Dunchadh, King of Ui Fidhgheinte, 141. 
Dunchadh, King of Umhall, slain, 129. 
Dunchadh, son of Aedh Slaine, 95. 
Dunchadh, son of Conaing, slain, 95. 
Dunchadh, son of Orcdoith, 109. 

- Dunchadh Ua Ronain, 103. 

Dun-cluana-Ithair, a man hanged at, 329. 

Dun Crimhthainn (a fort which anciently 
stood on the Hill of Howth), battle of, 
91. 

Dun-Dealga, in Conaille, (now Dundalk), 
241, 

Dundrum bay. See Loch Rudhraidhe. 

Dun-Dubhain, the battle of, 343. 

Dun-Echach, 243. 

Dunflaith, daughter of Maelmithidh, 205. 

Dun Forgo, 105. 

Dun-Gaillmhe (fortress of Galway), the 

_ castle of, erected, 325. 

Dungal, son of Baithin, Abbot and Bishop 
of Glenn-da-locha, 179. 

Dungal, King of Cinel Boghaine, slain, 
103. 

Dungal, King of the Cruithne, burnt, 107. 

Dungal, son of Fergal, King of Osraighe, 
dies, 145. 

Dun-Imghan (now Dunamon, barony of 
Ballimoe, co. Galway), burnt, 345. 

Dunlaing, son of Muiredhach, King of 
Laighen, dies, 161. 

Dunlaing, son of Tuathal, King of Laighen, 
253. 

Dunlang, son of Cairbre, dies, 185. 

Dunlang, royal heir of Munster, 231. 

Dunleer. See Lann Lere. 

Dun-Leodha (Dunlo, at Ballinasloe, co. 
Galway), a bridge built at, 323; the 
castle of, 325. 

Dun-leth-glaise (Downpatrick), 33, 133, 
205, 245, 275. See Druim-leth-glaise. 
Dun-Maeiltuile (not identified), a victory 

gained over the Gentiles at, 149. 

Durmagh. See Duirmhagh. 

Dun-Masc (now Donamase, Queen’s co. ), 
plundered by Gentiles, 145. 

_ Dun-Suobhairce (Dunseverick, co. An- 
trim), plundered by Foreigners, 197. 

‘Dunstan, chief bishop of the Saxons, 231. 





381 


Durlas, or Derlas, kings of, 97, 239. 
Durrow, King’s co. (see Duirmhagh). 


Eachmarcach, son of Raghnall, King of 
Dublin, 279. 

Eachtigern, King of Laighen Desgabhair, 
slain, 153. See Echtigern. 

Ead, King of Cruithen-tuaith, 179, 180, n.1, 

Earthquakes, 35, 99, 107. 

Eas-Ruaidh (Assaroe, Ballyshannon, co, 
Donegal), 143, 245, 307. 

Ebha (now Machaire Ebha, “plain of 
Ebha,” a plain in the barony of Car- 
bury, co. Sligo), 47. 

Ebhir (pron. Evir), son of Milidh, 13. 

Ebhlinn (Sliabh-Phelim mountains, co. 
Tipperary), battle of, 41. 

Echtighern, son of Cennedigh, slain, 211. 

Echtighern, King of Breghmhaine, 195. 

Eclipses of the Moon, 127, 108, 111, 159, 
263. 

Eclipses of the Sun, 33, 35,63, 99, 109, 159, 
167, 169, 203, 263, 335. 

Edan Ua Fiachrach, death of, 57. 

Eden. See Etan. 

Edgar, King of the Saxons, dies, 223. 

Edged Brit, Bishop of Cill-dara, dies, 159. 

Edirsgel, Bishop and Abbot of Glenn-da- 
locha, dies, 129. 

Edward, son of Maelcoluim, slain, 301. 

Edwin, son of Aelle, King of the Saxons, 
83, n. 8, 

Eg (Egg Island), death of Donnan of, 75. 

Egartach, the sons of, 267. 

Eglais-beg (i.e. “the little church,” at 
Cluain-muc-Nois), 209. 

Egypt, visited by Milidh (Milesius), 11. 

Eiccnech, King of the Airthera, slain, 121. 

Eidhnen (i.e. “ the little ivy,” a name fof 
a church), 162, n. *. 

Eignech, King of Airghiall, slain, 215. 

Eignechan, son of Dalach, King of Cinel 
Conaill, dies, 181. 

Eile, Ele, or Eli (the inhabitants of Ely- 
O’Carroll, which anciently comprised 
the baronies of Ballybritt and Clonlisk, 
King’s co., and those of Eliogarty and 
Ikerrin, co. Tipperary), 263, 285, 343. 


382 


Eilne (the ancient name of a plain in the 
north of the co. Antrim, between the 
rivers Bush and Bann), burned, 57. 

Eirene. See Terene. 

Eiremhon, lord of Cinel-Maine, 191. 

Eiremhon, half-King of Uladh, slain, 169. 

Eithne, Queen of Bregh, dies, 191. 

Eithne; Queen of Ireland, 211. 

Eithne, Queen of Munster, slain, 31. 

Elair, son of Barid, slain, 173. 

Ele, or Eli. See Eile. 

Eloir, son of Iargni, 171. 

Elphin. See Ailfin. 

Ely, or Greenan-Ely. See Ailech. 

Emhain, or Emhain Macha (the ancient 
seat of the kings of Ulster, now the 
Navan fort, near Armagh), 61, 131. 

‘Emly, co. Tipperary. See Imlech Ibhair. 

Enan of Druim-Raithe, death of, 83. 

Endeus, St., of Aran. See Oena. 

En-inis (i.e. “‘ Bird Island”), in Fotharta- 
tire, plundered, 193. 

Enna, son of Cathbadh, death of, 25. 

Enna, son of Murchadh, King of Laighen, 
dies, 327. 

Eocha, son of Dunadhach, 251. 

Eochacan, half-King of Uladh, slain, 169. 

Eochaidh, death of, 71. 

Eochaidh, son of Ardgal, King of Uladh, 
297, 241, 

Eochaidh, son of Blathmac, 95. 

Eochaidh, son of Conlaedh, King of Uladh, 
51. 

Eochaidh, son of Enna Cennsealach, slays 
Niall of the Nine Hostages, 19. 

Eochaidh Buidhe, son of Aedhan, 83. 

ELochaidh Find, grandson of Muiredach, 59. 

Eochaidh Guinech, 31. 

Eochaidh Iarlaithe, King of the Cruithne, 
101. 

Eochaidh Mac Cairpre, 31, 33. 

Eochaidh Muighmedhoin (pron. “ Eohy 
Muee-veon”), King of Ireland, 15, 17. 

'Eochaidh, King of Dal-Araidhe, 221. 

Eochaidh, “ the son of,’ King of Uladh, 
263, 277, 287. 

Eochaidh Ua Tuathail, Bishop and Abbot 
of Lughmhagh, 131. 





INDEX. 


FEoganan, son of Tuathalan, 97. 

Eoghan, Bishop of Connacht, 219. 

Eoghan, son of Corcran (an alias name 
for Mac Tail of Cill-Cuillinn, q. v.) 

Eoghan, son of Crunnmael, 101. 

Eoghan, son of Torbach, anchorite, 149. 

Eoghan Bel, King of Connacht, 47. 

Eoghan Mainistrech, Abbot of Ard-Macha, 
135, 137, 141. ' 

Eoghan Tobair, Abbot of Cluain-muc- 
Nois, 165. é 

Eoghanacht, pron. Onaght (the descend- 
ants of Eoghan Mor, King of Munster 
in the second century, represented now 
by the O’Donoghues), 75. 

Eoghanacht-Chaisil, or Northern Eoghan- 
acht, a branch of the Eoghanacht or 
race of Eoghan Mor, seated near Cashel, — 
149, 267. . . 

Erard Mac Coisi, chief poet of the Irish, — 
233. 

Erbhe, druidical, a kind of charm, 55. 

Ere, Bishop of Slane, dies, 35. 

Eremon, son of Milidh, 18. 

Erennan (or Herennan) son of Milidh, 13, 
15. 

Ereran the Wise, death of, 99. 

Erinn, the name of a hill in Magh Lifé, 27. 

Eriu. See Cesar. 

Ernan, son of Cresin, death of, 85. 

Ernan, son of Fiachna (chief of Cinel 
Feradhaigh), 83, 85. 

Erne, river. See Samaoir. 

Errigal-Keeroge (Aracul), 135, n. 6 

Erudhan, chieftain of Ui Breasail, slain, 
187. 

Esserninus (or Iserninus) St., sent to the 
Trish, 23. ; 

Etan or Eden, ¢.e. Cair-Eden, now Car- 
riden, in Linlithgowshire, 85. 

Etar (Howth) 249. 

Etcen, Bishop, death of, 61.- 


Fabhar (Fore) Abbots of, 99, 155. See 
Fobhar. 

Fachtna, son of Maelduin, 161. 

Faelan, son of Colman, King of Laighen, 
81, 83, 101. we 








INDEX. 


Faelan, son of Muiredhach, King of 
Laighen,-195, 205. 

Faelan, King of Osraighe, 95. 

Faelan, King of Ui Cennsealaigh, 175. 

Faelchar Ua Maelodhra, slain, 111. 

Faelchu, King of Midhe, 85. 

Faelchu, son of Maeluma, slain, 97. 

- Faelghus, Abbot of Ros-cré, dies, 157 

' Fahan. See Othan, and Fothan. 
Failbhe Flann, King of Munster, 81. 
Failbhe, Abbot of Hi, 103, 105. 

Failbhe, son of Eochaidh,-81. - 

Failbhe Bec, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
119. 

Failbhe, King of Munster, 83, 85. 

Failbhe Fiann Fidhbadh, 79. 

Fair of Taillten, 171, 178, 245.. 
under Taillten. 
Famines in Ireland, 113, 1383, 177, 215, 

242, n. 6, 277, 319. 

_ Farne, or Lindisfarne. See Inis Medgoit. 
Fea, from whom Magh-Fea is named, 7. 
Fealla (a territ. not identified), Tolorg, 

chief of, slain, 145. 
Feara-Arda (Ferrard, co. Louth), 213. 
Feara-Bile (Farbill, co. Westmeath), 261. 
Feara-Ceall (a territory in the King’s 
co.), kings of, 193, 215, 259, 277, 295, 
389, 347 ; plundered, 143. 
Feara-cul-Teabhtha ( a territ. in the n.w. 
of the co. Westmeath), 165, 211. 
Feara-Luirg (now the bar. of Lurg, co 
Fermanagh), 271, 281. 


See 


Feara-Maighe (Fermoy bar., co. wb 


kings of, 89, 251. 

Feara-Manach (or Pennddagh) Niall Ua 
Eghnigh, King of, 281. 

Feara-Midhe (Meath and Westmeath), 
divided into dioceses, 315. 

Feara-Tulach (Fartullagh, co. West- 
meath), 227, 341. 

Feardomnach, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
163. 

Feartas-Camsa, a ford on the Bann, near 
Camus, co. Londonderry, 307. 

Feast of Temhair, celebrated, 25, 27, 53. 

Fechin, St., of Fobhar, death of, 99; 
comarbs of, 229, 239, 





383 


Fechtgna. See Fethgna. 

Fedhlimidh, son of Crimhthann, me of 
Munster, 131, 133, 139, 141, 143, 147. 
Fedhlimidh, son of Tigernach, King of 

Munster, death of, 63, 

Feidhlimidh. See Fedhlimidh. 

Feimin (or Feimhin) an ancient plain in 
Munster, in the present baronies of Iffa 
and Offa East, co. Tipperary, 25, 59. 
See Magh Feimhin. 

Femhin. See Feimin. 

Fenius Farsa, 5. 

Fennor. See Finnabhair, and Finnabhair- 
abha. 

Feradhach, Abbot of Hi, dies, 167. 

Feradhach, son of Congal, 109. 

Feradhach, son of Tuathalan, 109. 

Feradhach Meith, death of, 111. 

Fera Cul (a territ. in Meath, nearly co- 
extensive with the present bar. of Kells), 
109, 111. 

Fera-Ross, situation of, 122, n. 2, 

Fera-Tulach. See Feara-Tulach. 

Ferdomhnach, ‘‘ Sapiens” of Ard-Macha, 
dies, 147. 

Ferdomhnach, comarb of Colum Cille, 
dies, 247. 

Fergal, son of Conaing, King of Ailech, 
239. 

Fergal, son of Domhnall, King of the 
North (of Ireland), 199, 201. 

Fergal, son of Eochaidh Lemhna, slain, | 
12). 

Fergal, son of Loingsech, King of Cinel 
Conaill, 117. 

Fergal, son of Maelduin, King of Ireland, 
117, 119, 121. 

Fergal, King of Connacht, dies, 118. 

Fergal Got, son of Aengus, 209. 

Fergal Ua Aithechda, slain, 121. 

Fergal Ua Conaing, slain, 119. 

Ferghal, son of Aengus, slain, 187. 

Fergil, Bishop of Finnabhair, dies, 181. 

Fergna, Abbot of Hi, death of, 77. 

Fergna Ua Ibdaigh, King of Uladh, slain, 
51, 

Fergraidh, King of Munster, 215. 

Fergus of Ros-Ailithre, dies, 161. 


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Fergus, son of Bresal, King of Cobha, 
death of, 109. 

Fergus, son of Colman Mér, King of 
Midhe, murder of, 75. 

Fergus, son of Domhnall, slain, 93. 

Fergus, son of Domhnall, royal heir of 
Ailech, 259. 

Fergus, son of Fothadh, King of Con- 
nacht, dies, 145. 

Fergus, son of Muccid, dies, 101. 

Fergus, son of Muirigen, chief of Ui- 
Crimhthainn, 189. 

Fergus, son of Nellin, 59. 

Fergus, son of Raghallach, 95. 

Fergus Mor Mac Erca, King of Ireland, 
35, 47, 51, 53, 57. 

Fergus, son of Loingsech (‘‘ Mac Loing- 
sigh”), Abbot of Ard-Macha, death of, 
133, 135. 

Fergus, Bishop of Druim-leth-glaise, 61. 

Fergus, King of Cinel Cairpre, 107. 

Fergus Cirrbel, kills Oilill Molt, 29. 

Fergus Fial, King of Cuailgne, 219. 

Fergus Forcraith, slain, 115. 

Fergus Sgandail, King of Munster, 61. 

Fergus Ua Eoghain, slain, 123. 

Fermoy. See Feara-Maighe. 

Ferna, or Ferna- Mor (Ferns, co. Wexford), 
death of St. Maedhog of, 79, 97; death 
of Dirath, Bishop of, 1]1; burning of, 
by Gentiles, 143; plundering of, by 
Gentiles, 141. 

Fernmhagh (Farney, co. Monaghan), 113, 
187, 207, 331. 

Fersat (not identified), battle of, 101. 

Ferta, or Ferta-Nimhe (a place on the 
Boyne, near Navan, co. Meath), 143, 
239. 

Fethgna, or Fechtgna, Abbot of Ard- 
Macha, 151, 153, 157, 165. 

Festology of Aingus Céie Dé, 39. 

Fiach Ua Ugfadan, slays Cormac, son of 
Cuilennan, 181. 

Fiachaidh, or Fiacha, son of Niall, 37, 39. 

Fiachna Caech (i.e. Fiachna, the one- 
eyed), son of Baedan, 71. 

Fiachna, son of Baedan, King of Dél- 
Araidhe, 59, 65, 67, 77, 81. 


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INDEX. 


Fiachna, King of Uladh, slain, 171. : 

Fiachna, son of Deman, King of Dal- — 
Fiachach, 67, 81. 

Fiachra, son of Ciaran, 75. 

Fiachra, son of Finghin, 75. 

Fiachra Lonn, King of Dal-Ardidhe, 29. 

Fiachra, King of Feara-tulach, 227. 

Fiachra, son of Radubh, chieftain of 
Muinter-Maeilsinna, 235. 

Fiadh-mic-Aenghusa, synod of, 313. 

Fianamhail, King of Laighen, mortal 
wounding of, 105. ; 

Fidh-Eoin (pron, “Fee-owin,” a place not 
identified, but apparently in Scotland), 
battle of, 81. 

Fidhghellach, King of Ui Maine, 111. 

Fidhnacha (Fenagh, co. Leitrim), battle 
of, 303. 

Finan, son of Airennan, dies, 105. 

Finan, son of Rimidh, death of, 95. 

Finbil, Abbess of Cluain-Bronaigh, dies, 
127. 

Finchu Ua Rebain, 117. 

Fingal, or Fine-Gall, the northern part of 
the co. Dublin, 249, 279, 281. 

Finghin the Long, death of, 111. 

Finghin, son of Fiachra Encridhe, death 
of, 77. 

Finghin, bishop of the Family of Hi, 
dies, 217. 

Finn, river (in Ulster), 9. 

Finnabhair (fennor, near Kildare), battle 
of, 4]. “i 

Finnabhair (Fennor, co. ‘Westmeath j 
battle of, 133. 

Finnabhair-abha (Fennor, bar. of Duleek 
co. Meath), 151, 181. 

Finnacan, son of Allailedh, 145. “3 

Finnachda, or Finnachta, Abbot of Cor- 
cach, 197. 

Finnachda, Abbot of Daimhliag, 149. 

Finnachda, comarb of Daire, 203. 

Finnachda, King of Laighen, dies, 127. 

Finnachda, son of Tomaltach, dies, 149. 

Finnachda Fledach, King of Ireland, 103, _ 
105, 109, 111. fl 

Finnan, Finnen, or Finnian, of Cluain- 
Iraird, death of, 51; comarbs of, 211. 








INDEX, 


221, 255. See under Cluain-Iraird, 
Abbots. 

Finnchadh, King of Ui-Cennsealaigh, 
slain, 31. 

Finnchar, Bishop of Daimhliag, dies, 193. 

Finnen, of Cluain-Iraird. See Finnan. 

Finnen, of Magh-bile. See Finnian. 

_Finn-Gaill (Fair Foreigners), slaugh- 

tered by Dubh-Ghenti (Black Gen- 
tiles), 151. 

Finn-Ghenti (Fair Gentiles), a depre- 
dation committed on, by Dubh-Ghenti 
(Black. Gentiles), 151; defeated by 
Dubh-Ghenti, 153. 

Finnghuine, King of Munster, 113. 

Finnglass (Finglas, near Dublin), Robhar- 
tach of, Bishop, 161. 

_ Finnguine, (or Cenngegain), King of 
Caisel, 179. 

Finnguine, King of Feara-Ceall, 193. 

Finnian, St., of Cluain-Iraird. See Fin- 
nan. 

Finnian, St., of Magh Bile, 53, n., 223. 

Finnian Ua Fiatach, Bishop, 61. 

Finn-Loch of Irrus Ui Fiachrach (now 
Carrowmore Lough, bar. of Erris, co. 
Mayo), 7. 

Finntan, or Fintan, of Cluain-Eidhnech, 
death of, 67. 

Finntan of Oentraibh, Abbot of Bennchair, 
75. 

Finntan, son of Maeldubh, 83. 

Finntan Munnu, death of, 85; Monastery 
of (i.e., Taghmon, co. Wexford), 109. 

Finshnechta. See Finnachda. 

Fintan. See Finntan. 

Fir-Bolg, occupy Ireland, 9; overcome by 
the Tuatha De Danann, ib. 

Fir-Cera (“men of Cera”), a tribe an- 
ciently settled in the now barony of 
Carra, co. Mayo, 47. _ 

Flaithbhertach, King of Ailech, slain, 215. 

Flaithbhertach, son of Murchadh, King of 

_ Ailech, 173, 175. 

Flaithbhertach, Bishop of Cluain-muc- 

Nois, 273. 

Flaithbhertach, comarb of Ciaran and 

Finnian, 253. 





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Flaithbhertach, Bishop of Dun-leth-glaise, 
275. 

Flaithbhertach, (son of Inmhainen), King 
of Caisel, 181, 187, 207. 

Flaithbhertach, son of Niall, slain, 155. 

Flaithbhertach, royal heir of Temhair, 
slain, 209. 

Flaithemhail, son of Dluthach, slain, 123. 

Flaithnia, son of Muirghius, slain, 127. 

Flann, King of Cinel Eoghain, slain, 
113. 

Flann, Abbot of Glenn-da-locha, 213. 

Flann, Abbot of Hi, dies, 173. 


-Flann, son of Cuana, Abbot of Mainistir 


Buite, 149. 

Flann, lector of Mainistir Buite, 283. 

Flann, son of Aedh, son of Dluthach, 117, 
119, 

Flann, son of Cennfaeladh, 113. 

Flann, son of Conaing, 157, 159, 161. 

Flann, son of Domhnall, royal heir of the 
North, 181. 

Flann, son of Eoghan, chief judge of Leth- 
Chuinn, 239. 

Flann, son of Fercar, Giconomus of Ard- 
Macha, 161. 

Flann, son of Flaithbhertach, vice-Abbot 
of Cluain-muc-Nois, 133. 

Flann, son of Lonan, the “ Virgil” of Ire- 
land, 175. 

Flann, son of Maelechlainn, King of Ire- 
land. See Flann Sionna. 

Flann, son of Maelmichil, 225. 

Flann, son of Maelruanaidh, 147. 

Flann, son of Maelsechlainn, slain, 249. 

Flann, son of Maelsinna, 199. 

Flann, son of Raghallach, 123. 

Flann, son of Tighernan, King of Breifne, 
185. 

Flann Febhla, Abbot of Ard-Macha, 
117. 

Flann Finn, son of Maeltuile, 107. 

Flann Fobhair, 195. 

Flann Foirbthe, dies, 119. 

Flann Gerg, son of Loingsech, 115. 

Flann Sionna, son of Maelsechlain, King 
of Ireland, 167, 169, 171, 173, 177, 179, 
181, 183, 185, 187. 

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Flannan, Bishop of Killaloe, death of 
Cosgrach, comarb of, 273. 

Flescach (not identified) battle of, 95. 

Floriacus, i.e. Ludovicus Pius, dies, 143. 

Fobhar (now Fore, co. Westmeath), death 
of Fechin of, 99; abbots of, 117, 161, 
173; Ailill, Bishop of, 163; burning of, 
by Feidhlimidh, King of Munster, 139; 
burnt, 289; plundered, 221. See 
Fabhar. 

Fobraech, father of Aengus, Bishop of 
Condere, 35. 


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Fachtna, royal heir of, 161; Flann 
Sionna’s expedition to, 169; Niall, King 
of, 185. 

Fogartach, King of Ciarraighe-Chuirchi, 
181, 183. 

Fogartach, King of Cinel Conaill, 179. 

Fogartach, son of Aedh, 67. 

Fogartach, son of Donnagan, King of 
Airghiall, 209. 

Fogartach, son of Maelbresail, King of 
Airghiall, 153. 

Fogartach Ua Cernaigh, King of Midhe, 
115, 119. 

Fogartach, King of Teabhtha, 197. 

Fogartach, son of Tolarg, King of the 
South of Bregh, 175, 183, 185, 187. 

Foichsechan, mortally wounds Fianam- 
hail, King of Laighen, 105. 

Foilge Berraidhe, battle of Fremhain 
gained by, 37; defeat of, 39. 

Fomorians (“ Pirates”) defeated by Par- 
thalon, 7; defeated by the sons of Mi- 
lidh, 15. 

Forach (now Farragh, near Skreen, co. 
Meath), a battle at, 149. 

Forannan, Abbot of Ard-Macha, 141, 145, 
153, 

Forannan, Abbot of Cill-dara, 113. 

Forath, in Dealbhna Nuadhat, the battle 
of, 129. 

Forbasach, King of Cinel-Boghuine, 121. 

Forbes, family name of, Int. xi., n. & 

Forcellach, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 129. 

Forcron, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 109. 





INDEX. 


Fore, co. Westmeath. See Fobhar. 

Foreigners, defeated by the Irish, 139, 
157, 161, 171, 173, 175, 191, 195, 197, 
199, 205, 207, 209, 258; defeat the Con- 
nachtmen, 147; depredations of, 143, 
145, 165, 177, 181, 189, 191, 197 ; sub- 
mit to Amhlaibh, son of the King of 
Lochlann, 153; in alliance with Irish, 
157, 169, 171, 199,201, 203; oppressed by 
Foreigners, 149; a great war een 
the Gaeidhel and, 249; the hostages of, 
taken by Maelsechlainn and Brian, 237; 
the hostages of, taken by Donnchadh, 
son of Brian, 265; fortresses erected at 
Dubhlinn and Linn-duachaill by, 143; 
Ath-cliath taken from, 189. 

Foreigners, of Ath-cliath, defeat Flann 
Sionna, 171; leave Ireland, 197; return 
to Ath-cliath, 239 ; of Loch-Dachaech, 
189; of Loch-Echach, 201; of Loch- 
Erne, 2b. ; of Luimnech, 199; arrive at 
Port-Lairge, 187; kings of, 281, 291, 
843, 345. See Gentiles. 

Fortola, battle of, 59. 

Foss of Laighen (otherwise oni the 
Glen of Laighen, or Leinster, not iden- 
tified), a shower of blood in the, 121. 

Fothadh, son of Conall, death of, 51. 

Fothan Mér (now Fahan, co. Donegal), 
death of Ceallach, Abbot of, 95. See 
Fahan. 

Fotharta-tire (the barony of Forth, ¢o. 
Carlow), mortal wounding of Colman, 
King of, 159. 

Fraech, King of Southern Leinster, 33. 

Fraechan, son of Tenusan, 55. 

France, Richard, King of, (?), 267. 

Fremhain (Frewin hill, co. Westmeath), 
battle of, 37. ' 

Fretum Brene. See Brena. 

Frisians, alleged defeat of, by Milidh, 13. 

Frost, great, 113,131, 155, 189, 247,313,817. 

Fruit, great produce of, 285, 331, 337, 
345. 

Fulf, a Dubh-gall, slays Maelsechlainn, 
son of Niall, 163. 

Furadran, son of Bee, death of, 89. 

Fursa, St., the vision of, 81; déath of, 91. 








Gabhar (or Cill-Ula), a placé in the co. 
Mayo, not identified), 173. 

Gabhia, a territory in the S. of the co. 
Kildare, 291. See Ui-Gabhla. 

Gabhra Lifé, or Gabhra of the Liffey, bat- 
tles of, 57, 89. 

Gabhran, son of Domahgatt, King of Alba, 
death of, 53. 

Gabhran (Gowran, co. Kilkenny), 155, 181. 

Gadhra, son of Dunadhach, 265. 

Gadhra, the son of, King of Sil-Anmcha- 
dha, 289. 

Gaeidhel, son of Agnoman, 5. 

Gaeidhel (i.e. the Irish), pay tribute to 
Amblaibh, son of the King of Lochlann, 
153; a large number of, slain by Fo- 
reigners, 193; a great war between 
Foreigners and, 249. 

Gaileng, or Gailenga-Méra (now repre- 
sented by the barony of Morgallion, co. 
Meath), 129, 147, 165, 203, 249, 323; 
kings of, 227, 233, 241, 249, 291-3, 331. 

Gailenga of Corann (a sept seated in the 
district now forming the barony of Cor- 
ran, co. Sligo), 93, 247. 

Gairbhith, King of Ui-Echach, 241, 

Galinne of the Britons (Gallen, King’s 
co.), burnt by Feidhlimidh, son of 
Crimhthann, 133. 

Gallen. See Galinne. 

Gall-Gaeidhel (“ Dano-Irish ”), 155, 157. 

Garad (Cinngarad or Kingarth, Scotland), 

death of Iolan, Bishop of, 109. 

Gardha-an-bhainbh, at Cluain-muc-Nois, 
265. 

Gardha-na-gamhnaigh, i.e. “the garden 
of the stripper (cow),” at Cluain-muc- 
Nois, 349. 

Garlic, wild, grows in winter, 243. 

Gartnait, King of the Cruithne, death of, 
97; voyage to Ireland of the sons of, 
101 ; the sons of, leave Ireland, 101. 

Gebhennach, King of Feata-Maighe, 251. 

Gebhennach, chief of Ui Maine, 221. 

Gelasius, Pope, death of, 33. 

Gentiles, first taking of Ath-cliath by, 
143; expulsién from Ath-cliath of, 179; 
the family ® of Hislain by, 125; a war 





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between King Maelsechlainn I. and, 
155; defeat the Irish, 129, 133, 143. 
defeated by the Irish, 127, 133, 137, 141, 
143, 145, 149; depredations committed 
by, 127, 131, 153, 139, 141, 143, 145, 
149, 173, 177, 187, 189, 205. See 
Foreigners. 

Germanus, St., visited by St. Patrick, 17. 

Giant’s Sconce. See Dun-Ceithern, 

Gilla-an-Choimdedh, tanist-abbot of 
Cluain-muc-Nois, dies, 327. 

Gillabraide, King of Breifne, slain, 327. 

Gilla-Christ, King of Conaille, slain, 239. 

Gilla-Christ, the son of, chief of Corca- 
Achlann, slain, 297. 

Gillaciarain, son of Glun-iarainn, slain, 
253. 

Gillacolmain, King of Ui-Diarmada, slain, 
233. 

Gillacomgaill, son of Ardgal, slain, 243. 
Gillacomghain, hanged for stealing altar 
furniture from Cluain-muc-Nois, 329. 
Gilla-Enain, King of Teabhtha, slain, 237. 

Gillamaire, the son of, a foreigner, 335. 

Gilla-Mochuda, a poet, quoted, 195. 

Gillapadraig, King of Osraighe, 235, 237. 

Gillapadraig, (another) King of Osraighe, 
275, 283. 

Gillapadraig Ruadh, King of Osraighe, 
slain, 309. 

Gillapadraig Ruadh, Donnchadh, son of, 
slain, 325. 

Gillapadraig, son of Imhar, slain, 229. 

Gillapadraig, son of Tomaltach, 241. 

Gille, Bishop of Luimnech, dies, 243. 

Girley. See Greallach-Dollaith. 

Glanworth. See Glenn Damhain, 

Glastonbury, Old St. Patrick, Bishop of, 
25. 

Glenn-da-locha, death of Caemhghen (St. 
Kevin) of, 75; abbots of, 109, 117, 127, 
141, 161, 179, 213; bishops of, 95, 105, 
129, 199; plundered, 141, 229. 

Glenn Damhain (Glanworth, co. Cork), 87. 

Gleun-Maghair (Glanmire, near Cork), 
321, 327. 

Glenn Mairison, in Scotland, battle of, 85. 

Glenn-mama, in Wicklow, “4 ee of, 237. 
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Glenn-Uissenn (Killeshin, near Carlow), 
Maelmaedhoig, Abbot of, 188, 2. 3; 
plundered, 275. 

Glun-iarainn, son of Amhlaibh, 229, 231. 

Glun-hIair, i.e. Murchadb, King of Ailech, 
plunders Lughbhadh and Druim-inas- 
glainn, 219; defeats the Connachtmen, 
221. 

Gluntradna, son of Glun-iarainn, slain, 
175. 

Gnathnad, Abbess of Kildare, 109, n. 7. 

Gnia, Abbot of Daimhliag, dies, 163. 

Godfrey, Goffraigh, or Gothfrith, grandson 
of Imhar, occupies Ath-cliath, and 
plunders Ard-Macha, 193. See Goth- 
PG, © 53 y 

Goffraigh. See Godfrey. 

Goibhnenn (pron. “ Govnen”), King of Ui- 
Fiachrach-Aidhne, gains the battle of 
Claenloch, 47. 

Gorman, ancestor of the Mac Cuinns, 
death of, 75. 

Gorman, son of Lonan, royal heir of Caisel, 
slain, 155. 

Gormflaith, daughter of Flann, dies, 209. 

Gormgal, Abbot of Ard-Macha, 125. 

Gormgal, of the High-Island, 259. 

Gormgal, son of Aedh, slain, 119. 

Gormlaith, daughter of Donnchadh, Queen 
of the Gaeidhel, dies, 157. 

Gormlaith, daughter of Maelsechlainn, IT., 
dies. 

Gormlaith, daughter of Murchadh, son of 
Finn, dies, 269. 

Gospel of Colum-Cille, 245. 

Gothfraigh (Godfrey), King of the For- 
eigners, dies, 291. 

Gothfrith (Godfrey), King of the Foreign- 
ers, dies, 201. 

Gothfrith, son of Amhlaibh, 209, 215. 

Gothfrith, son of Aralt, slain, 231. 

Gothfrith, son of Sitric, occupies Ath- 
cliath, plunders various churches, and 
dies, 211. 

Gothfrith, the sonof, 199,201. SeeGodfrey. 

Gothia, 13. 

Gots, the (i.e. “the stammerers”), mem- 
bers of the family of O’Melachlin, 263. 





INDEX. 


Gowran. See Gabhran. ; 

Graine (Graney, in the S. of the county 
Kildare), battles of, 31, 33. 

Granard, burned, 289. 

Graney. See Graine. 

Greallach Daiphil, in Magh Lifé, Laegh- 
aire, son of Niall, killed at, 27. 

Greallach-Dollaith (Girley, near Kells, co. 
Meath), 111. 

Greallach-Eillte (Girley, co. Meath), battle 
of, 187. 

Grectraighe-Arda (now the bar. of Cool- 
avin, co. Sligo), 99, 167. See Greg- 
raighe. 

Greenan-Ely. See Ailech. 

Gregory I., Pope, birth of, 47; death of, 
63. 

Gregraighe of Loch Teched (a tribe in- 
habiting the present bar. of Coolavin, 
co. Sligo), 99, 167. See Grectraighe. 

Guaire, Abbot of Glenn-da-locha, dies, 
127. 

Guaire Aidhne, King of Connacht, 77, 81, 
91, 97. 

Guaire Gaillsech, son of Forannan, slain, 
83. 

Guaire, son of Maelacain, priest of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, dies, 207. 

Gull (now Ros-Guill, in the N. of the co. 
Donegal), Nuadha, King of, slain, 121. 


Haconn. See Agond. 

Hair, change of cutting the, adopted by 
the virgins of Ireland, 171. 

Haon (or Hoan), King of Britain, slays 
Domhnall Brec, 87, 109. 

Hardy, T. Duffus, Int. lvii.; Cat. of Brit. 
History by, 38, 2. 4. 88, n. 5. 

Harold. See Aralt. 

Henry II. See Oenric. 

Hi, Iona, or Hy Coluim Cille, abbots of, 
65, 71, 77, 79, 93, 95, 101, 103, 105, 115, 
117, 119, 131, 137, 139, 153, 159, 167, 
173, 227; bishop of, 217; presented to 
Colum Cille, 61; Colum Cille proceeds 
to, 55; the family of, slain by Gen- 
tiles, 125; the coronal tonsure received 
by the family of, 119; Amblaibh, son 








INDEX. 


of Sitric, goes on a pilgrimage to, 227; 
martyrdom of Blathmac, son of Flann, 
in, 133; the family of, expelled across 
**Dorsum Britanniz,” 119. 

Hibernia, See Ireland. 

High-Island, Gormgal of, 258, n. 8. 

Hoan (or Haon), King of the Britons, slays 
Domhnall Bree, 87, 109. 

Honey, a shower of, 119. 

Horm, chief of the Dubh-Genti, slain, 155. 

Hormisdas, Pope, 41. 

Hornhead. See Irgull. 

Horses, British, given as a ransom in Ire- 
land, 267. 

Huada, King of Teabhtha, slain, 137. 

Huaisle, Queen of Laighen, death of, 89. 

Huarcridhe Ua Ossene, King of Conaille, 
slain, 109. 


Iaco, King of Britain, slain, 273. 

Tarlaith, St., of Tuam, the covenant of, 
337; a miracle of, 2b. 

Tar-Mumha, or Iar-Mumhain (i.e. West 
Munster), plundered, 209. 

Tarthar Liffé (¢.e. “ West of Liffey,” a dis- 
trict on the Western side of the River 
Liffey), 83. 

Iarthar Seola (i.e. the West of Seola, or 
Magh Seola, a plain comprised in the 
present barony of Clare, co. Galway), 
battle of, 93. 

Ibar, Bishop, death of, 35. 

Ice, great, 155. See Frost. 

Ictian Sea, Niall of the Nine Hostages 
slain at the, 19. 

Iercne, or Eirene, a chief of Finn-Ghenti, 
beheaded, 153. 

Ilaid-na-ttri-cros, at Cluain-muc-Nois, 
265. 

Tle (Islay, in Scotland), 79. 

Illann, son of Dunlaing, King of Laighen, 
31, 35, 41. See Iollann. 

Iilulbh, King of Alba, dies, 215. 

Imhar (Ivar), King of the Norsemen, gains 
a victory over Cathal Finn, 155; defeats 
the Cinel-Fiachach, 157; returns to 
Ath-cliath from Alba, 163; dies, 165; 
the grandsons of, 18], 189, 





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Imhar of Luimnech, 225, 

Imhar of Port-Lairge, plunders Cill-dara, 
229; defeated, ib. ; dies, 239. 

Imlech Fio (Emlagh, co. Meath), battle 
of, 109. 

Imlech Ibhair (Emly, co. Tipperary), 
death of Ailibhe of, 45; abbots of, 97, 
171, 265; anmchara of, 293 ; plundered, 
149, 299 ; a prodigy at, 207, n.7, 

Inbher, or Inver, an estuary, or mouth of 
a river, 10, n. 7. 

Inbher Daile (Ennerelly, co. Wicklow), 
death of Dagan of, 87. 

Inbher Dea, or Inver Dea, the mouth of 
the Vartry river, co. Wicklow, 141. 

Inbher-na-mbarc, supposed to have been 
the name of the mouth of the Bray 
river, 141. 

Inbher Sgene (supposed to be the name 
of the Kenmare river), where Nimhedh 
and the sons of Milidh landed, 9, 18, 15. 

Inbher Slaini (Wexford harbour), arrival 
of the Milesians at, 13. 

Incherky. See Inis-Adharcach. 

Indercadh, a Bishop, death of, 97. 

Indeidhnen, situation of, 162, x. 2; Mael- 
poil, Abbot of, 193, n. & 

Indéin-na-nDési (now Mullaghnoney, near 
Clonmel, co. Tipperary), 153. 

Inde Mér, battle of, 35. 

Indictions, 46, x, 1. 

Indreachtach, King of Connacht, 117. 

Inis-Adharcach (Incherky, in the Shan- 
non), a battle at, 297. 

Inis Ainghin (now Hare Island, Lough 
Ree), 177, 299. 

Inis-bo-finne (in Loch Ree), plundered, 
257, 299. 

Inis-bo-finne, off the coast of Mayo. 
Insula vacce albe. 

Inis-Cain, Maelduin, son of Aedh, burnt 
‘in, 87. 

Inis Cathaigh (Scattery Island, in the 
Shannon), profaned by Brian, 225. 

Inis-Celtra (Iniscaltra, in Loch Derg- 
dheirc), death of Colum of, 51; death of 
Camin of, 92,n, 4; burning of, by Gen- 
tiles, 141, 


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390 


Inis Clothrann (Iniscloghran, in Lough 
Ree), St. Sinnach of, dies, 121; plun- 
dered, 257, 279, 299, 

Inis Doimhle (an island between the 
counties of Waterford and Wexford), 
plundered by Gentiles, 131, n., 153. 

Inis Enghin (Hare Island, in Lough Ree). 
See Inis-Ainghin. 

Inis-Gaill-Dubh, situation of, 257. n. 6. 

Inis Medgoit (now either Farne, or Lin- 
disfarne), founded, 83. 

Tnis-Mochta (Inishmot, co. Meath), plun- 
dered, 203, 265. 

Inis-Muinremhar, an island in Loch 
Ramor, co. Cavan, demolition of, by 
Maelsechlainn, 147. 

Inis-Muiredhaigh (Inismurray, off the 

' eoast of Sligo), burnt by Gentiles, 127. 

Tnis-na-lainne (some island off the coast 
of the co. of Sligo), a great loss of life in, 
267. 

Inis-Padraig, (now Patrick’s Island, near 
Skerries, co. Dublin), a synod held in, 
345. 

Inis Tarbhna (now “the Bull,” an islet 
west of Dursey Island, co. Cork), 
155. 

Inmesgach, the Religious, establishes a 
law over Ireland, 121. 

Innocents, Law of the, 113. 

Innrachdach, son of Conchobhar, 185. 

Innsi-Ore (Orkney Islands) Sichfrith, 
Earl of, 253. 

Inrechtach Ua Finnachta, successor of 

Colum Cille, martyred among the 
Saxons, 153. 

Insi-Gall (the Hebrides), Gothfrith, son of 
Aralt, King of, 231. 

Insula vacce albe# (Inis-bo-finne, now 
Bophin Island, off the west coast of 
Mayo), voyage of Bishop Colman to, 
101; bishops of, 105, 119. 

Invasions, Book of. See Leabhar Gabhala. 

Tolan, Bishop of Garad, dies, 109. 

Tollann, son of Dunlaing, See Illann, 

Tollann (or Illann), son of Fiacha, death 
of, 79. 

Iona. See Hi, 





INDEX. 


Ireland, colonizations of, 3, 5, 9, 18, 155 
first Saxon depredation in, 23. 

Irgalach Ua Conaing, slain, 115, 

Irgull (Hornhead, co. Donegal), Nuadha, — 
King of, slain, 121. 

Trish. See Gaeidhel. 

Ir-Mumhan, or Ur-Mumhan (Ormond), 
burning of churches in, by Gentiles, 141. 

Isell Ciarain, a church at Cluain-muc- 
Nois, 303, 

Islay. See Ile.. 

Iserninus. See Esserninus, 

Ita, or Ite, St., 5], 59. 

Iturnan, death of, 101. 


Iveagh, co. Down. See Ui-Echach-Uladh. A 


Jerusalem, expedition to, 345. 

John I., Pope, 41. 

John, St., the festival of, fears regarding, 
305. 

Joseph, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, elected, 
179; dies, 7b. 

Joseph, anmchara of Cluain-mue-Nois, 
263. 

Joseph, Bishop of Ard-Macha, 201. 

Joseph of Ross, Bishop and Abbot of 
Cluain-Eois, dies, 143. 


Kellistown, co. Carlow. See Cill-Osnaigh. 

Kelly, D. H., Int. xxii, n., xxiii, 2. 

Kevin, St. See Caemhghen, 

Kieran, St. See Ciaran. 

Kil, or Kill. For names beginning with 
Kil, or Kill, see Cill and its compounds. 

Kilcullen, co. Kildare. See Cill Cuilinn. 

Kildalkey. See Cill-delga. 

Kildare. See Cill-dara. 

Kilkenny. See Cill Chainnigh. 

Killaloe, See Cill Dalua. f 

Killashee, co. Kildare, See Cill Ausaille, 

Killeedy, co. Limerick. See Cluain- — 
Creadail, 

Killeshin. See Glenn-Uissenn. | 

Killevy, co. Armagh, See Cill-Sleibhe- ‘ 
Cuilinn. " @ 

Killineer. See Cill-Ui-nDaighre. — 

Kilmeen, co. Galway. See Cill mBian, 

Kilmoone, co, Meath, See Cill-mona, 








INDEX. 


Kilmore, co. Armagh, See Cill-mor- 
Muighe-Enir. 

-Kilskeer, co, Meath. See Cill-Scire, 

Kiltartan. See Aidhne. 

Kincora. See Cenncoradh. 

Kingarth, in Bute. See Cinngaradh. 

Kinneigh, co. Kildare. See Cenn-eich. 

Knockany. See Aine. 

Knowth. See Cnoghbha. 


Lachtna, King of Teabhtha, 173. 

Lachthnan, King of Mughdhorn-Maighen, 

gs: 

Ladgnenn, son of Blathbannaigh, dies, 97. 

Ladhra, one of the first SPY that 

arrived in Ireland, 3. 

Laeghaire (pron. Leary), son of Niall, 
King of Ireland, 21; defeats the Lage- 
nians, 25, 27; taken prisoner by the 
Lagenians, 25; celebrates the “ Feast of 
Tara,” 25; dies, 27. 

Laeghaire, or Ui Laeghaire (a district in 
the co. Meath), kings of, 197, 331, 

Laeighis (Leix, Queen’s co.), 189, 347. 

Laethet (now probably Knock-layd, bar. 
of Carey, co. Antrim), battle of, 81. 

Lagenians, or men of Laighen or Leinster, 
defeated 25, 27, 33, 35, 41, 57, 105, 161, 
189, 207, 253, 297, 309, 319; defeat 
Oilill Molt, 27; slay King Congalach, 
213; capture Laeghaire, son of Niall, 25; 
the hostages of, taken by Donnchadh, 
son of Brian, 265. See Laighen. 

Lagore. See Loch Gabhar. 

Laighen, Lagenia, or Leinster, kings of, 
$1, 35, 41, 71, 75, 81, 83, 87, 101, 105, 
11], 119, 121, 

- 159, 161, 163, 167, 169, 18], 183, 189, 
195, 205, 207, 213, 217, 221, 225, 227, 
229, 237, 249, 253, 255, 257, 259, 263, 
273, 275, 291, 299, 309, 321, 325, 327; 
half-kings of, 129, 141; queen of, 153 ; 
royal heir of, 209; plundered, 121, 163, 
167, 219, 229, 249; devastated, 81, 121, 
125, 131, 143; invaded, 317, 321; great 
diseases in, 285 ; depopulated by famine, 

819; the hostages of, taken by Donn- 
chadh, son of Brian, 279, 


127, 137, 141, 143, 145, , 





391 


Laighen Desgabhair, or Southern Lein- 
ster, kings of, 33, 95, 129, 153, 155, 193; 
queen of, 191. See Ui-Cennsealaigh. 

Laighis. See Laeighis, 

Laighis Rete (a district in the Queen’s 
co.), 59. 

Laighline, son of Parthalon, dies, 7, 

Laighne of Ros-tetrach, situation of, 144, 
n. 1, 

Laighnen, King of Connacht, 95. 

Lakes, eruption of, in Ireland, 7. 

Lambay Island. See Rechra. 

Lann, Queen of Ailech, 203, 

Lann-Ela (Lynally, King’s co.), plundered, 
221. 

Lann-Lere (Dunleer, co. Louth), 137; the 
refectory of, burnt, 219. 

Laoi (Lee), river, 7. 

Lasren, Abbot of Hi, 71. 

Lasren of Menadrochit, 69, 

Latharna Molt (a tribe anciently inhabit- 
ing the district round Larne, co, An- 
trim), St. Ciaran’s father of them, 49, 

Law of Ciaran, 129. 

Law of Daire, 135. 

Law of the Innocents, £13. 

Law of Patrick, 125, 127, 131. 

Lea’ (i.e. the territory of the Fir-Lii, in the 
bar. of Coleraine, co, Londonderry), 
forfeited by the Cruithne, 55. 

Leabhar Gabhala (‘‘ Book of Invasions”) of 
O’Clery, 8, n. 2. 

Lecale. See Leith-Cathail, and Magh- 
inis. 

Lec-mBladha (Lickbla, co. Westmeath), 
267. 

Lecmagh in Ui Mic Uais, a plain repre- 
sented by the present barony of Cole- 
raine, co. Derry, 5. 

Lee, river. See Laoi. 

Leghe and Rechet, territ. in the Queen’s 
co., Congalach, King of, 225, _ 

Leighlin. See Leithglinn. 

Leim-ind-eich (i.e. “ horse-leap,” a place in 
Ulster, not identified), 63, 

Leinster. See Laighen. 

Leinster, Southern, See Laighen Des 
gabhair, 


392 


Leith Cathail (Lecale, co. Down), Ain- 
diarraidh, King of, 175. 

Leithglinn (Leighlin, co. Carlow), 87, 
125, 257. 

Leix, Queen’s co. See Laeighis. 

Leobhelin (Llewelyn), King of Britain, 
263. 

Lergus, Bishop of Cill-dara, 171. 

Lethairbhe (not identified), battle of, 83. 

Lethaitech, son of Cu-carat, slain, 121. 

Leth Chuinn (i.e. “Conn’s half,” or the 
northern part of Ireland), 18]. 

Lethe-cam in Magh-Enir (a place in the 
par. of Kilmore, to the E. of Armagh), 
battle of, 135, 137. 

Lethe-Luin (a place near Armagh), 136, 
n. 1, 137. 

Lethlobhar, son of Eochaidh, slain, 117. 

Leth-Mogha, or Mogh’s half, ze. the 
southern half of Ireland, 321, 335. 

Letracha(Latteragh, co. Tipperary), death 
of Odhran of, 49. 

Lia-Ailbhe (‘the stone of Ailbhe ”), 237. 

Liath Manchan (now Lemanaghan, King’s 
co.), presented to St. Ciaran, 91; death 
of Manchan of, 99. 

Liathmhain (now Cloghleafin, bar. of 
Condons and Clongibbons, co. Cork), 
“the hero” of, 88, 2. 2, 89. 

Liath Mér (or Liath-Mér-Mochaemhog), 
death of Mochaemhog of, 91. 

Liath-na-ttri-lemenn, meaning of, 216,n. 4. 

Liban (called the Muirgeilt, or mermaid), 
daughter of Eochaidh Mac Muiredha, 
57. 

Liber Pontificalis, quoted, 64, n. 2 

Libren, son of Illann, his two sons killed, 
77. 

Lickbla. See Lec-mbladha. 

Lifé (i.e. the plain of the Liffey), plun- 
dered by Conchobhar, son of Donn- 
chadh, 139. 

Liffe, or Liffey, the river, 7; a fleet of 
Norsemen on, 141. 

Ligach, Queen of Bregh, 195, 

Lighda, comarb of Ailbhe, 285, 

Lightning, great, 72, 125, 155, 167, 271, 
$11, 347, 





INDEX. 


Limerick. See Iuimnech. 

Lindisfarne. See Inis Medgoit. 

Linn-duachaill (a place near Dundalk, but 
not identified), the Foreigners of, 143, 
145, 151, 153; Caemhan, Abbot of, 
burnt by Gentiles, 145. 

Linn Limni (the Levin Water, Scotland), 
slaughter of the Dal-Riada at, 115. 

Linn-ross (the part of the Boyne oppo- 
site Rosnaree, co. Meath), a fleet of 
Norsemen at, 145. 

Lis-Mor (co. Waterford), abbots of, 159, 
213; plundered, 139, 187. 

Llewelyn. See Leobhelin. 

Loch Ainnin (Lough Ennell, co. West- 
meath), 167, 215. 

Lochan Dilmada, slays Colman Rimidh, 
69. 

Loch Cairrgin (now Cargin’s Lough), co. 
Roscommon, 301. 

Loch Calgaigh (probably Lough Callow, 
co. Galway), 289. 

Loch Ceann, a lake which formerly existed 
to the north of Knockany, co. Limerick, 
155. 

Loch Cirr, near Armagh, 185. 

Loch Con, in Mayo, eruption of, 7, 

Loch Cuan (Strangford Lough), 167, 197, 
201. 

Loch-Dachaech (Waterford harbour), 175, 
189. 

Loch Decet. See Loch Tecet. 
Loch-Derg-dheire, or Loch-deirg-derc, an 
expansion of the Shannon, 185, 333. 
Loch Echach (Lough Neagh), 107, 143, 

199, 201, 207. , 

Loch Echtra, eruption of, 7. 

Lochene Menn, Abbot of Cill-dara, slain, 
113. 

Lochene, King of the Cruithne, death of, 
89. 

Lochene, son of Nechtan Cennfoda, slain, 
85. 

Loch Erne, 143, 201, 213. 

Loch Feabhail (Lough Foyle), 161, 177, 
205. 

Loch Fordremuin, in Kerry, one of the 
primitive Irish lakes, 7. 








INDEX. 


Loch Gabhar (Lagore, co. Meath), kings 
of, 149, 151, 159, 161, 183, 219; a battle 
at, 105; the islands of, spoiled, 151. 

Loch Gair (Lough Gur, co. Limerick), 299. 

Loch Gamhna (Lough Gowna, co: Long- 
ford), 201. 

Loch Garman (Wexford haven), the Fo- 
reigners of, 201. 

Loch Laigh (a lake in the par. and bar. 
of Burrishoole, co. Mayo), 151. 

Loch Laighline, eruption of, 7. 

Lochlann (Scandinavia), Amhlaibh, son 
of the King of, arrives in Ireland, 153 ; 
kings of, 307, 309. 

Loch Lebhinn (Lough Lene, co. West- 
meath), turned into blood, 161. 

Loch Longa (the ancient name of a small 
lough in the parish of Taghmaconnell, 
barony of Athlone, co. Roscommon), 
345. 

Loch Luimnigh (in other authorities 
called Loch Lurgan, i.e. Galway bay), 7. 

Loch Mesca (Lough Mask), eruption 
of, 7. 

Loch-mic-nen, Gillabraide Ua Ruaire 
drowned in, 325. 

Loch-Muighe-Huatha, 295. 

Loch Oirbsen (Lough Corrib), Foreign- 
ers settle on, 199. 

Loch Riach (Loughrea lake), cc. Galway, 
301. 

Loch Ribh (Lough Ree, an expansion of 
the Shannon), 145, 18], 193, 195, 199, 
201. 

Loch Rudhraidhe (“ Rury’s Lough,” now 
Dundrum bay), 7, 195. 

Loch Semdigh, or Loch Semhdile (Lough 
Sewdy, an ancient lake in the co. 
Westmeath), 69, 167. 

Loch-Suidhe-Odhrain (i.e. the lake of 
Suidhe Odhrain, or Seeoran, in the bar. 
of Clankee, co. Cavan), 281-283. 

Loch Teched (now Lough Gara), co. 
Sligo, 7, 99, 199. 

Loch Trethin (now Lough Drin, near 
Mullingar), 85. * 

Loch Uair (Lough Owel, co. Westmeath), 
Turges drowned in, 147. 





393 


Loingsech, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 191. 

Loingsech, King of Ireland, 111, 115. 

Loingsech, chieftain of Ui-Niallain, slain, 
229, 

Loingsech Ua Lethlabhair, King of Daél- 
Araidhe, dies, 199. 

Longobards, alleged defeat of, by Milidh, 
13. 

Lorcan, King of Bregh, 195. 

Lorcan, King of Cinel-Mechair, 251. 

Lorcan, King of Midhe, blinded, 159. 

Lorcan, son of Cathal, the son of, 179. 

Lorcan, son of Cellach, gains a victory 
over Gentiles, 149. 

Lorcan, son of Dunchadh, 185, 205, 

Lorcan, son of Faelan, 203. 

Lothra (Lorrha), co. Tipperary, burnt, 
145; pillaged, 283. 

Lough. For names beginning with 
Lough, see under Loch, 

Luachair, battle of, 41. 

Luachair-mér edir-da-inbher (Clonalvy, 
in the barony of Upper Duleek, co. 
Meath), battle of, 45. 

Lucaill Fota, death of, 75. 

Ludovicus Pius, dies, 143. 

Lughaidh (pron. Loo-ey), son of Laegh- 
aire, King of Ireland, 29, 37. 

Lughaidh, Bishop of Condere, 47. 

Lughaidh of Lis-mor, death of, 63. 

Lughaidh Mac Ua Oche, death of, 73. 

Lughbhadh, or Lughmhagh (Louth, co. 
Louth), abbots of, 141, 179; bishops of, 
131, 201, 275; plundered, 139, 143, 219. 

Luighne, or Luighne of Connacht (now 
the barony of Leyny, co. Sligo), kings 
of, 149, 193, 207, 217, 231, 233, 263, 
303; devastation of, 127; preyed by 
Aedh Ua Conchobair, 283. 

Luighne, in Meath (now the barony of 
Lune, co. Meath), Cernach, King of, 
249; “‘Sons of Death” of, 147. 

Luimnech (Limerick), kings of, 195, 199, 
203; the Foreigners of, 171, 193, 199, 
201, 211, 225; death of Gille, Bishop 
of, 343; a, battle at, 255; demolished, 
299, 


B94 


Luimnech Laighen (Luimnech of Lein- 
ster),situation of, 148, n. 2; death of St. 
Finnachda of, 149, 

Lulach, King of Alba, slain, 283. 

Lusca (Lusk, co. Dublin), bishops of, 33, 
169, 181, 199; the oratory of, burnt, 155; 
burnt, 335, 


Mac Amhalghadha,(Magawley), Cinaeth, 
slain, 311. 

Mac Amhalghadha, Cinaeth, 341, 

Mac Amhalghadha, Gillasiadnata, 339. 

Mac Airechtaigh, King of Calraighe, 281. 

Mac Aisitha, King of Gabhla, 291. 

Mac Bethadh, (Macbeth), King of Alba, 
slain, 285. 

Mac Caille, the Bishop, dies, 31. 

Mac Carron. See Mac Gargamhna. 

Mac Carthaigh (Mac Carthy), Ceallachan, 
347. 

Mac Carthaigh, Donnchadh, 325. 

Mac Carthaigh, Donnchadh, royal heir of 
Munster, 341. 

Mac Carthaigh, Cormac, King of Des- 
mond, 325, 333. 

Mac Carthaigh, Cormac, the son of, 327. 

Mac Carthaigh, Tadhg, King of Desmond, 
825. 

Mac Cnissi, or Mac Nissi, Bishop of Con- 
dere, 37. 

Mac Cochlain, Aedh, King of Dealbhna- 
Bethra, 335. 

-Mae Cochlain, Conchobhar, 
Dealbhna-Bethra, 839, 347. 

Mac Coisi, Erard, chief poetof the Irish,233. 

Mac Conghail (Mac Connell), Gillapadraig, 
lector and priest of Cluain-Iraird, 341. 

Mac Conmara(Mac Namara), Cumara,339. 

Mac Conmedha (Mac Namee), Amhlaibh, 

slain, 303. 

Mac Cuilind, death of, 49. See Cuindidh. 

Mae Cuinn, or Mac Cuinn-na-mbocht, 
Celechair, 335. 

Mac Cuinn-na-mbocht, Cormac, comarb 
of Ciaran, 307. See Cormac, son of 
Conn-na-mbocht. 

Mac Cuinn-na-mbocht, Gorman, ancestor 


of, 75, 


‘ 


King of 





INDEX. 


v 


Mae Cuinn-na-mbocht, Maelciarain, a 
priest, dies, 335. 

Mac Donnells of Scotland, the Mac Fir- 
bises poets to, Int. xi. SS 

Mac Duagh, founder of Kilmacduagh, 303, _ 

Mac Edigen, Diarmaid, son of, 833. 

Mac-Edigh, Kingof Dal-Araidhe, dies, 177. 

Mac Erca, ancestor of the Fir-Cera, 47. 

MacGillapadraig (now Fitzpatrick), Donn- 
chadh, King of Laighen, 273. 

Mac Firbis, Duald, biographical sketch of, 
Int. ix. sq.; list of the works of, xx. 

Mac Gargamhna (Mac Carron), Gilla- 
Ultain, 347. 

Mace Iarnan, chief of Cuirene, 271. 

Mac Gillamocholmog, Donnchadh, 335. 

Mac Gillamocholmog, Muircertach, King 
of Laighen, 309. 

Mac Laisre, Abbot of Ard-Macha, 77. 

Mac Laisre, Abbot of Bernchair, 89. 

Macleghinn, King of Airghiall, 261. 

Mac-Liag, Muircertach, chief poet of Ire- 
land, 257. ! 

Mac Lochlainn, Conchobhar, 331. 

Mac Lochlainn, the son of Domhnall, King 
of Ailech, 297, 307, 309, 323. 

Mac Lochlainn, the son of Donnchadh, 
817. 

Mac Lochlainn, Maghnus, slain, 329. 

Mac Lochlainn, Muircertach, son of Niall, 
347. i 

Mac Loingsigh. See Fergus, the son of 
Loingsech. 

Mac Murchadha (Mac Murrough), Diar- 
maid, 333; defeated by the Osraighe, 
335; attacks Conchobhar Ua Briain, id. 

Mac Namee. See Mac Conmedha. — 

Macnia, comarb of Buite (i.e. Abbot of 
Monasterboice), dies, 273. 

Mac Nisse, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 61. 

Mac Nissi. See Mac Cnissi. 

Macray, Rey. Dr., Int. xxii. 

Mac Tail, of Cill-Cuillin, 51. 

Mac Turcaill, Raghnall, King of the For- 
eigners of Ath-cliath, 343. i 

Mac Turcaill, the sons of, 347. 

Mac Uallachain (Mac Cuolahan), Gilla 
Finn, King of Sil-Anmchadha, 307, 








INDEX. 


Madydhan (Madden), son of Aedh, King 
of Uladh, slain, 201, 205, 209. 

Madudhan, son of Aedh, son of Maelmi- 
thidh, slain, 213. 

Madudhan, son of Domhnall, slain, 245. 

Madudhan, King of Sil-Anmchadha, slain, 
247, 

Madudhan, son of Muiredhach, King of 
Uladh, 151, 155. 

Maedhog, St., of Ferna, death of, 79, 97. 

Mael (or Mel), Bishop, dies, 31, 

Maelachaid, Abbot of Daimhinis, &c., 
martyred, 175. 

Maelachdain, two sons of, slain, 105. 

Maelaichen, Bishop of Ard-Macha, dies, 
175. 

Maelan, son of Congalach, slain, 227, 

Maelanfaidh Enaigh, slain. 

Maelbarrionn, priest of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 187. 

Maelbracha, son of Rimidh, death of, 77. 

Maelbresail, King of Cinel Conaill, slain, 
131. 

Maelbresail, King of Cinel Conaill, slain, 
179. : 

Maelbresail, King of Mughdhorn, mur- 
dered by Gentiles, 151. 

Maelbresail, descendant of Boghain, slain, 
89, 

Maelbresail, son of Maelduin, dies, 99. 

Maelbrighde, Bishop of Cill-dara, dies, 275. 

Maelbrighde, comarb of Patrick and 
Colum Cille, 173, 197. 

Maelbrighde, Archbishop of Munster, 177. 

Maelbrighde, King of Conaille, captured 
by Gentiles, 139. 

Maelbrighde, son of Mothlachan, 89. 

Maelbrighde-na-gamhnaidhe, Abbot of 
Cluain-muc-Nois, dies, 173. 

Maelcaich, King of the Cruithne, 81, 101. 

Maelcairerda, King of Ui-Briuin, 235, 

Maelcalgaigh, slain, 81. 

Maelciarain, Abbot of Cluain-Eois and 
Muccnamha, dies, 187. 

Maelciarain, King of Teabhtha, dies, 167. 

Maelcluiche, son of Conchobhar, slain, 185. 

Maelciarain, son of Conn-na-mbocht, dies, 
293, 





895 


Maelciarain, son of Ronan, murdered, 168. 

Maeleobha, Abbot of Ard-Macha, 167, 
171. 

Maelcobha, King of Ireland, 73, 75. 

Maelcobha, King of Uladh, slain, 89. 

Maelcoluim, son of Cinaedh, King of Alba, 
243, 271. 

Maelcoluim, son of Domhnall, King of 
Alba, slain, 211. 

Maelcoluim, son of Domhnall, King of 
North Britain, 235. 

Maelcoluim, son of Donnchadh, King of 
Alba, slain, 283, 285, 301. 

Maelcothaigh, son of Fogartach, King of 
Ui-Briuin, 131. 

Maelcraeibhe, King of Airghiall, 191. 

Maelcroibhe, King of Tortan, 191. 

Maelcréin, half-king of the Deisi, slain, 
155. 

Maelcron, King of Cinel Laeghaire, 179. 

Maeldobarchon, Bishop of Cill-dara, dies, 
By 

Maeldoid, son of Conaing, or Conall, slain, 
95. : 

Maeldoid, son of Finghin, death of, 99. 

Maeldoid, King of Midhe, death of, 93. 

Maeldreith, the battle of Cuil-Corra gained 
by, 93. 

Maelduin, slain, 81, 

Maelduin, King of Ailech, dies, 161. 

Maelduin, King of Calatruim, mortally 
wounded, 147. 

Maelduin, King of Cinel Cairpre, fice, 
Hy. 

Maelduin, King of Durlus, dies, 97. 

Maelduin, King of Moghdhorna, death of, 
73. 

Maelduin, son of Aedh Bennan, 87, 97. 

Maelduin, son of Conall Crandembna, 
death of, 109. 

Maelduin, son of Fergus, son of Baedan, 
murder of, 75. 

Maelduin, son of Fergus, slain, 87. 

Maelduin, son of Gilla~-Andrias, Bishop of 
Alba, dies, 283. 

Maelduin, son of Maelfitrigh, 105, 107. 

Maelduin, son of Muirghes, 148. 

Maelduin, son of Scannal, 101, 


396 


Maelduin Ua Ronain, mortal wounding of, 
101. 

Maelfabhaill, King of Aidhne, dies, 173. 

Maelfinnain, son of Flannagan, 175. 

Maelfinnen, son of Donnagan, chieftain of 
Ui-Cernaigh, slain, 189. 

Maelfinnia, comarb of Ciaran, 233. 

Maelfinnian, Bishop of Cenannus, 219. 

Maelfinnian (or Maelfinnain), King of 
Bregh, dies, 179. 

Maelfithrigh [Chief of Cinel Mic Erca], 
slain, 83. 

Maelfithrigh, ten descendants of, slain,121. 

Maelfothartaigh, Bishop of Ard-Sratha, 
105. 

Maelfothartaigh, King of Munster, 213. 

Maelfothartaigh, King of the Ui Tuirtre, 
death of, 101. 

Maelfuadhaigh, Abbot of Ard-Brecain, 
dies, 149. 

Maelfuataigh, King of Ciannachta, 97. 

Maelgarbh, King of Derlas, 199. 

Maelgarbh, a murrain, 231, 335. 

Maelgorm, King of Ciarraighe-Luachra, 
slain, 181. 

Maelguala, King of Munster, submits to 
Maelsechlainn L., 157. 

Maelisa, comarb of Patrick, dies, 301. 

Maelisa, Bishop of Alba, 271. 

Maelmaedhog, Archbishop, and Abbot of 
Gleann-Uisean, slain, 188, n. %, 

Maelmhuaidh (Molloy), King of Dealbhna- 
Bethra, 241. 

Maelmhuaidh, son of Bran, King of Ui- 
Echach, 223, 225. 

Maelmicduach, King of Aidhne, 193. 

Maelmilchon, 97. 

Maelmithidh, son of Flannagan, King of 
Bregh, 185, 191. 

Maelmochta, comarb of Ciaran, plun- 
dered, 339. 

Maelmochta, Bishop of Lughbhadh, dies, 
275. 

Maelmor Ua Machi, slays Tuathal Mael- 
garbh, 49. 

Maelmordha, King of Airther-Lifé, 189. 

Maelmordha, King of Laighen, 249, 253. 

Maelmordha, King of Rath-linne, 18). 





INDEX. 


Maelmordha, King of Ui-Cennselaigh, 
263. 

Maelmordha, King of Ui-Failghe, 193.. 

Maelmordha, son of Eremhon, 187. 

Maelmuire, Bishop of Ard-Macha, 235. 

Maelmuire, comarb of Patrick, 261. 

Maelmuire, son of Flannagan, King of 
Fernmhagh, slain, 187. 

Maelmuire, a learned poet, dies, 171. 

Mael-na-mbo, King of Ui-Cennsealaigh, 
slain, 245. : 

Mael-na-mbo, the son of, 275, 277, 279, 
281, 285, 289. See Diarmaid, son of 
Mael-na-mbo. 

Maelodhar, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 173. 

Maelodhar Caech, King of the Airthera, 
87. 

Maelodhran, slays the two sons of Blath- 
mac, 91; the mill of (now Mullen- 
oran, near Lough Owel, co. Westmeath), 
91, 93. : 

Maelogra, King of Loch Gabhar, slain, 
183. 7 

Maelpadraig, Bishop of Ard-Macha, dies, 
159. : 

Maelpadraig, a Bishop, and heir of Pat- 
rick, 201. 

Maelpadraig, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 169. 

Maelpadraig, Bishop of Lughmhagh, 201. 

Maelpadraig, King of Airghiall, mortally 
wounded, 169. 

Maelpedair, Abbot of Tir-da-glas, 175. 

Maelpetair, comarb of Brenainn of Cluain- 
ferta, dies, 233. 

Maelpoil, a Bishop, 193. 

Maelpoil, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 239. 

Maelruain, slain, 81. 

Maelruain, Abbot of Disert-Diarmada, 
dies, 171. 

Maelruan, Bishop of Lusca, dies, 169. 

Maelruanaidh, King of Midhe, 145. 

Maelruanaidh, King of Uladh, 245. 

Maelruanaidh, royal heir of the North of 
Treland, slain, 205. : 

Maelruanaidh, son of Ardgal, 243, * 


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INDEX. 


Maelruanaidh, son of Flann, 177, 177-9. 
Maelruanaidh Got, slain, 277. 
Maelrubha, founds the church of Apor- 
crossan, 103. 
Maelsamhna, comarb of Cainnech, 221. 
Maelsechlainn, son of Arcda, 217. 
Maelsechlainn, son of Conchobhar, king of 
Temhair, 293, 295, 297. 
Maelsechlainn I., son. of Maelruanaidh, 
King of Ireland, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 
157 ; the ghost of, 179. 
Maelsechlainn II.,son of Domhnall, King 
of Ireland, 223, 225, 227, 229, 231, 233, 
235, 237, 239, 249, 251, 255, 257, 259, 261. 
Maelsechlainn, son of Maelruanaidh, 
royal heir of Erinn, dies, 193. 
_ Maelsechlainn Ua Maeilruanaidh, King 
of Crimhthann, 269. 

Maelsechlainn, son of Niall, 163. 

Maelsechlainn Got, King of Midhe, 265. 

Maeltuile, Bishop of Ard-Macha, dies, 
271. 

Maeltuile, lector of Cluain-muc-Nois, dies, 
195. 

Maeltuile Ua Dunan, Bishop of Tulen, 

dies, 165. 

Maelumha, son of Baedan, death of, 73. 

Maenach, a Céle Dé, 193. 

Maenach, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
221. 
,Maenach, comarb of Finnen, dies, 213. 
Maenach, King of Munster, dies, 97. 
Maenach, King of Ui-Briuin, 93. 
Maengach, the victory of, 337. 
Maenghal, Bishop of Cill-dara, dies, 163. 
Maenghal, tanist-abbot of Cluain-muc- 
Nois, dies, 165. 

Maenghal, Abbot of Fabhar, 155. 

Maenmagh, a plain lying around Lough- 
rea, co. Galway, 333. 

Magawley. See Mac Amhalghadha, 

Mageoghegan, Conell, Int. xxxvi., xxxvii. 

Magh-Adhair (now Mopyre, par. of Tulla, 
co. Clare), the tree of, 229, 279. 

Magh-Ai (or Magh-nAei, a plain in the 
co. of Roscommon, between the towns 
of Roscommon and Elphin), 67, 133, 
251, 269, 313, 345. 





397 


Magh Ailbhe (pron. ‘“ Moy-alvy,” a plain 
in the south of the co. Kildare), 41, 43, 
236. 

Magh-nAirbh (an ancient plain in the 
present bar. of Crannagh, co. Kilkenny), 
279. 

Magh-Bile (Moyille, co. Down), death of 
Sineall, bishop of, 67 ; death of Sillan of, 
75; death of Cronan of, 9]; burned by 
Gentiles, 133. 

Magh-Buaighnighe, the victory of, 343. 

Magh-Cairbre (i.e. the plain of Carbury, 
the ancient name of the level part of the 
barony of Granard, co. Longford), 325. 

Magh Ceisi (the ancient name of a plain 
near Rahen, King’s co.), 205. 

Magh Cobha (a territory comprised in the 
present baronies of Iveagh, co. Down), 
169, 307-9. 

Magh Conaille, a plain in the co. Louth, 
130, n. 2, 331. 

Magh-Corainn (not identified), 247. 

Magh Cuilinn, battle of, 115. 

Magh Cuma (not identified), battle of, 
184, n. 3, 

Magh Delenn, situation of, 120, n. 6 

Magh-Duine, battle of, 207. 

Magh-Dumha (now Moy, bar. of Dun- 
gannon Middle, co. Tyrone), 157. 

Magh-nEdara. See Magh-Tuiredh. 

Magh-edir-di-glais (i.e. “the plain be- 
tween the two streamlets” not identi- 
fied), 169. ) 

Magh Ele (or Magh Eilne, a plain on the 
east side of the River Bann, near Cole- 
raine, co. Londonderry), a battle in, 117. 

Magh-Enir (a plain around the present 
church of Kilmore, near Armagh), a 
battle fought in, 135. 

Magheracloone. See Cluain-Airthir, 

Magh-Fea, i.e. Fea’s Plain, the name of a 
plain in the bar. of Forth, co. Carlow, 
7, 31. 

Magh-inis (Lecale, co. Down), Gentiles 
defeated in, 133. 

Magh-Itha, or Magh-Itha-Fothairt, a plain 
in the now barony of Forth, co. Wex- 
ford, 5, 99. 


398 


Magh-Latrainn, a plain in Dél-Araidhe, 
(comprised in the present bar. of Upper 
Glenarm, co. Antrim), 5, 

Magh Leécet, in Connacht, 75. 

Magh Lifé (“the plain of the Liffey”) in 
Kildare, 27. 

Magh Lena (Moylena, King’s co.), battle 
of, 181. 

Magh-Luirg (Moylurg, in Connacht), 
201, 325, 333. 

Magh Raighne (an ancient plain in the 
now bar. of Kells, co. Kilkenny), 199. 
Magh Rath (Moira, co. Down), battle of, 

85. 

Magh-Sere, a plain in Connacht, 5. 

Magh Treagha in Teathbha (Moytra, in 
the bar. and co. of Longford), 113. 

Magh-Tuiredh (Moy-tury, near Cong, co. 
Mayo), also called Magh-nEdara, 5. 

Mag Lainne, slain, 55. 

Magnus, King of Lochlann, invades Ire- 


land, 307; makes peace with Muircer-. 


tach Ua Briain, ib.; slain, 309. 

Mahee Island. See Aendruim. 

Maine, Abbot of Aendruim, death of, 
107. 

Maine, son of Cerbhall, slain, 45. 

Maine, son of Niall, death of, 23. 

Maine, son of Niall, son of Cernach, 117. 

Mainistir, or Mainistir-Buite (Monaster- 
boice, co. Louth), 135; Domhnall, Bishop 
of, 243; Flann, son of Cuana, Abbot of, 
149; Flann, lector of, 283; the steeple 
of, burnt, 305. 

Malachy, Archbishop of Armagh. See Ua 
Morgair, Maelmaedhoig. 

Manchan of Liath, dies, 99. 

Manchen of Menadrochit, death of, 93. 

Mar, Great Steward of, 252, n. %. 

Marcan, King of Ui Maine, slain, 93. 

Marcan, son of Cennedigh, dies, 247. 

Margarita, wife of Maelcoluim, son of 
Donnchadh, dies of grief, 301. 

Martan, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois and 
Daimhinis, dies, 161. 

Martin I., Pope, 89. 

Mathghamhain (pron. Mahoun), King of 
Munster, slain, 223. 





INDEX. 


Mathghamhain, son of Dubhgall, son of 
Amblaibh, slain, 249. 

Mauricius, death of, 69. 

Meath. See Midhe. 

Mel, Bishop. See Mael. 

Menadrochit (now Monadrehid, Queen’s 
co.), death of Lasren of, 69; death of 
Manchen of, 93. 

Merlechan, King of Gaileng, slain, 241. 

Midhe (Meath, anciently comprising the 

- present counties of Meath and West- 
meath, with a part of the King’s co.), 
taken from the Lagenians, 39; kings 
of, 67, 75, 79, 83, 85, 93, 109, 135, 145, 
159, 19), 193, 205, 207, 209, 221, 261, 
269, 303, 309, 311, 327, 341; half-kings 
of, 159, 209, 263: Couchobhat, royal 
heir of, $35; invaded 157, 233; plun- 
dered, &c., 143, 145, 157, 167, 203, 289, 
305 ; the men of, defeated, 137; the men 
of, invade Munster, 317; the hostages 
of, taken, 241, 265; divided into two 
principalities, 319. 

Midhe, the East of, 331. 

Midhe, the West of, 177, 283, 317 ; kings 
of, 265, 267,317. 

Milidh (Milesius), 11, 13. 

Milidh, the sons of, 11, 13. 

Minnbairenn, Abbot of Achadh-bo, death 
of, 11). 

Mobai Mac Hui Aldai, death of, 83. 

MobhiClairinech(aliasBercan),death of, 47, 

Mochaemhog of Liath Mér, death of, 91. 

Mochaius. See Mochae. 

Mochae, of Naendruim (or Aendruim, now 
Mahee Island, in Strangford Lough), 
death of, 33. a 

Mochae (the 2nd) of Naendruim, death of, 
89. 

Mochta, St., death of, 45. 

Mochta, lector of Ard-Macha, 167, 173. 

Mochta. See Carthach. 

Mochua Mac Cuist, death of, 101. 

Mochua, son of Lonan, dies, 95, 

Mochua. See Dachua. 

Mochuda. See Carthach. * 

Modharn, or Modhorn (the Mourne river, 
co. Strabane), 9, 269. 








INDEX. 


Moenu, Bishop of Cluain-ferta Brenainn, 

~ death of, 59. 

Moghdhorna (now the bar. of Cremorne, 
co. Monaghan), 73. See Mughdhorna- 
Maighen. 

Mogoboc Mac Ua Lamha, dies, 97. 

Moin-Daire-Lothair, battle of, 55. 

Méin-mér, near Mallow, co. Cork, 327. 

Moira, co. Down. See Magh-Rath. 

Molaise, St., of Daimhinis, death of, 57. 

Molaise. See Dalaise. 

Moling Luachra, dies, 113. 

Molua Mac Ui Oche, birth of, 51. 
Lughaidh Mac Ui Oche. 

Molyneux, Dr. Thomas, Int. xix. 

Monasterboice. See Mainistir. 

_ Mongan, son of Fiachna, killed, 79. 

Moninne. See Darerca. 

Moon, eclipses of the, 103, 111,127, 159, 263. 

Mor, daughter of Donnchadh, Queen of 
Ireland, 231. 

Mor, daughter of Tadhg, Queen of Ire- 
land, 233. 

Mor, Queen of Laighen-Desgabhair, dies, 
191. 

Mor, wife of Ruaidhri Ua Conchobhair, 
dies, 299. ; 

Mor Mumhan (?.e. Mor [Queen] of Mun- 
ster), death of, 83. 

Mortality, great, 99, 101, 181, 235. See 
Pestilences. 

Mortality of children, 107. 

Mortality of cows, 113, 117, 231. 

Mothla, King of the Deisi-Mumhan, slain, 
251. 

Mourne, co. Down. See Barchi. 

Mourne, river. See Modharn. 

Moville, co. Down. See Magh-bile. 

Moy. Fornames of places beginning with 
Moy (“a plain”), see Magh, and its 
compounds. 

Moy. See Magh-Dumha. 

Moy, river. See Muaidh. 

Moygoish. See Ui-Mig-Uais. 

Moytra. See Magh-Treagha. 

Muaidh (Moy) river, 9. 

Mucenamha, or Mucsnamha (Mucknoe, co. 
Monaghan), 139 187. 


See 





399 


Mucremhe, battle of, 35. 

Mughdhorna- Maighen (Cremorne, co. 
Monaghan), 227, 247, 307. See Mogh- 
dhorna. 

Mughron, Abbot of Hi, dies, 227. 

Mughron, half-king of Connacht, dies, 165. 

Mughron, King of the Three Comanns, 
slain, 189, P 

Mughron, King of Ui Maine, 185; 

Mughron, son of Diarmaid, 147. 

Muine-Brocan, in Meath, battle of, 209. 

Muinter-Anghaile, the tribe name of the 
O’Farrells of Longford, 345. 

Muinter-Blatinne, 75. 

Muinter - Cethernaigh, Congalach Ua 
Brain slain by, 349. 

Muinter-Cinaeith (or Munter-Kenny), a 
sept anciently seated in the present 
barony of Dromahaire, co. Leitrim, 307, 
333. 

Muinter-Eolais, the tribe name of the 
family of Reynolds, co. Leitrim, 307. 
Muinter-Geradhain (Muntergeran), a ter- 
ritory on the W. side of Lough Gowna, 

co, Longford, 325. 

Muinter-Laeghachain, plundered, 345. 

Muinter-Luanaim, a tribe seated anciently 
in Feara-Ceall, King’s co., 339. 

Muinter-Maeilsinna (a sept anciently 
settled in the present bar. of Kilkenny 
West, co. Westmeath), 235, 303, 343. 

Muinter-Tadhgain, a tribe inhabiting the 
territory forming the present barony of 
Kilcoursey, King’s co., 307, 341. 

Muinter-Tlamain (a tribe anciently set- 
tled in Westmeath), 289, 295. 

Muircertach (pron. Murtough), comarb of 
Patrick, dies, 337. 

Muircertach, son of Aedh, King of Midhe, 
221. 

Muircertach, son of Carthach Calma, 263. 

Muircertach, son of Conchobhar, 217. 

Muircertach, son of Congalach, slain, 215, 

Muircertach, son of Niall (¢.¢. Murtough 
of the Leather Cloaks), 197, 199, 201, 
203, 205. 

Muircertach Mac Erca, Kin? of Ireland, 
29, 31, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43. 


400 


Muircertach, son of Tighernan, 191. 

Muircertach, King of Breifne, 125. 

Muirchertach Nar, King of Connacht, 101. 

Muirecan, King of Nas and Airther Lifé, 
slain, 159. 

Muiredhach (pron. Murrough), a sage- 
Bishop, suffocated, 247. 

Muiredhach, comarb of Fechin, 229. 

Muiredhach, comarb of Patrick, dies, 217. 

Muiredhach, lector of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 293. 

Muiredhach, Abbot of Leithghlinn, 125. 

Muiredhach, son of Mughron, comarb of 
Ciaran, 265. 

Muiredhach, King of Connacht, a quo Sil- 
Muiredhaigh, dies, 115. 

Muiredhach, King of Laighen, dies, 169. 

Muiredhach, son of Bran, half-king of 
Laighen, dies, 129. 

Muiredhach, son of Ruaidhri, King of 
Laighen, death of, 137. 

Muiredhach, King of Uladh, slain, 135, 1438. 

Muiredhach, half-king of Uladh, slain, 175. 

Muiredhach, son of Rian, King of Ui- 
Cennsealaigh, 225. 

Muiredhach, son of Madudhan, 245. 

Muiredhach Tirech (pron. Murryagh 
Tiragh), King of Ireland, slain, 15. 

Muirenn, Abbess of Cill-dara, dies, 139. 

Muirenn, Abbess of Cill-dara, dies, 189, 


Muirenn, daughter of Congalach, comarb’ 


of Brigid, 225. 

Muirenn, daughter of Mac Colmain, Ab- 
bess of Cill-dara, 215. 

Muirgel, daughter of Flann Sionna, 197. 

Muirgel, or Muirgheal, daughter of Mael- 
sechlainn, 169. 

Muirgel, Queen of Laighen, 153. 

Muirgeilt, a mermaid, 57. 

Muirghes, son of Tomaltach, King of Con- 
nacht, 127, 129. 

Muirghius, son of Conall, slain, 121. 

Muirghius, son of Domhnall, King of Ui 
Maine, 231. 

Muirghius, royal heir of Connacht, 231. 

Muirigan Bocht, comarb of Patrick, 243. 

Muir romhuir, i.e. Mare rubrum, the Red 


Sea, 11. 





INDEX. 


Mullaghnoney. See Indein-na-nDési. 

Mumhain, or Mumhan, recte Mumha 
(Munster), kings of, 31, 59, 61, 63, 69, 
75, 79, 81, 83, 85, 91, 97, 99, 105, 109, 
113, 117, 119, 131, 143, 147, 151, 157, — 
205, 207, 211, 213, 215, 223, 313, 329, 
339; royal heir of, 341; queen of, 83; 
Maelbrighde, Archbishop of, 177; in- 
vaded, 181, 189, 297, 317; plundered, 
169; subjugated by Maelsechlainn L., 
155; the “ Law of Patrick” established 
in, 131; the men of, defeated by Con- 
nachtmen, 297, 321; the men of, invade 
Connacht, 343; the fleet of, defeated, 
185; a slaughter of Gentiles by the men 
of, 127; the hostages of, taken, 153, 155. 

Muna-Milain, 267. 

Mungairid(Mungret), co. Limerick, burn- 
ing of, by Gentiles, 141. 

Mungret. See Mungairid. 

Munster. See Mumhain. 

Munster, West. See Iar-Mumhain. 

Murchadh (pron. Murrough), gains a vic- 
tory over the Foreigners, 139. 

Murchadh, son of Aedh, King of Con- 
nacht, death of, 143. 

Murchadh, son of Bran, King of Laighen, 
121. 

Murchadh, son of Brian, 245, 249, 251, 

Murchadh, son of Dalach, 215. 

Murchadh, son of Diarmaid, King of the 
Ui Neill, mortal wounding of, 119. 

Murchadh, son of Diarmaid, slain, 289, 

Murchadh, son of Dunlaing, King of 
Laighen, slain, 275. 

Murchadh, son of Finn, King of Laighen, 
221. 

Murchadh, son of Maelduin, King of Cinel 
Eoghain, 131, 179. 

Murchadh, ze. Glun-hlIlair, 
Ailech, 219, 223. 

Murchadh, chief of Clann-Murchadha, 221. 

Murchadh Liathanach, royal heir of Con- 
nacht, slain, 291. 

Murchadh Midhe, the battle of Bile Tenedh 
gained by, 119. 

Murchadh, Abbot of Ros-Comain, dies, 
227. 


King of 

















INDEX. 


Muscraidhe-tire (the ancient name of the 
baronies of Upper and Lower Ormond, 
co. Tipperary), 233. 


Naemhan, chief artificer of Ireland, 248. 

Naendruim, or Aendruim (Mahee Island), 
death of Mochae of, 89; Cronan, Bishop 
of, 89; Cuimine, Bishop of, 95; Maine, 
Abbot of, 107. See Aendruim. 

Naiton, King. See Necton. 

Names, formation of, 72, n. 1. 

Nanny Water. See Anghi. 

Nas (Naas), Muirecan, King of, slain, 
159. 

Nathi (or Dathi), King of Ireland, Int. x., 
19, 21. 

Nechtan, son of Cananan, death of, 77. 

Nechtan, death of, 105. 

Necton (Naiton), King, expelsthe “family” 
of Hi, 119. 

Nel, son of Fenius, goes to Egypt, 9. 

Nenagh. See Aenach-Tete. 

Nessan, the leper, death of, 51. 

Nia, son of Cormac, slain, 123. 

Niall, son of Aedh, King of Uladh, 221. 

Niall, son of Aedh, 181, 185, 187. 

Niall, son of Aghda, slain, 237. 

Niall, son of Cernach Sotail, gains the 
battle of Imlech Fio, 109. 

Niall, son of Cinaedh, King of Umhall, 
dies, 149. 

Niall, son of Diarmaid, King of Midhe, 
dies, 185. 

Niall, son of Dubhtuinne, King of Uladh, 
257. 

Niall, son of Fergal, royal heir of Ailech, 
slain, 203. 

Niall, son of Gillan, death of, 155. 

Niall, son of Laeghaire, King of the Desi, 
dies, 173. 

Niall Caille, King of Ireland, 135, 136, 
139, 143, 145, 147. 

Niall Frosach, meaning of the name of, 
121. 

Niall Glundubh, King of Ireland, 189, 
191, 

Niall of the Nine Hostages, King of Ire- 
land, 17, 19. 





401 


Nimhedh (pron. “ Nivvy”), son of Agno- 
man, arrives in Ireland, 9. 

Nindigh, or Ninnigh, son of Duach, 47, 
53, 57. 

Norsemen, 141, 145, 153, 155, 209. See 
Foreigners, and Gentiles. 

North Britain, Maelcoluim, son of Domh- 
nall, King of, 235. 

Nua-chongbhail, now Oughaval, barony 
of Murrisk, co. Mayo, 337. 

Nuadha, Abbot of Ard-Macha, goes to 
Connacht, 127; dies, 2b. 

Nuadha, Bishop of Glenn-da-locha, 199. 

Nuadha, King of Gull and Irgull, slain, 
321. 

Nuadha, one of the Tuatha De Danann, 9. 

Nuadha Ua Lomthuili, 123. 

Nuarrach, the oratory of, burnt, 151. 

Nuts, profusion of, 305, 345. 


O’Aillein. See Ua Aillein. 

Oak crop, a great, 345. 

Oaths, anciently sworn by the elements, 
25, 27. 

O’Beccan, or Ua Beccan, Flann, Airchi- 
nech of Druim-cliabh, dies, 211. 

O’Begulain. See Ua Begulain. 

O’Boland. See Ua Beollain. 

O’Boylan. See Ua Baigheallain. 


O’Boyle. See Ua Baeighell and Ua 
Baighell. 
O’Breen. See Ua Brain. 


O’Brennan. See Ua Braenain. 

O’Brien. See Ua Briain. 

O’Brien, Bishop, Int. xxvi., xxvii., xxxiii., 
Xxxiv. 

O’Bric. See Ua Bric. 

O’Brollaghan. See Ua Brolchain. 

O’Caemhain, privileges of, Int. xiii. 

O’Caindealbhain (O’Quinlan), Aengus, 
King of Laeghaire, slain, 331. 

O’Cahalan. See Ua Cathalain and Ua 
Cathluain. 

O’Cahill. See Ua Cathail. 

O’Canannain, Maelcoluim, King of Cinel 
Conaill, 213. 

O’Canannain, Muircertach, King of Cinel 
Conaill, slain, 215. See be Canannain. 

D 


402 


O’Carey; or O’Keary. See Ua Ciardha. 

O’Carroll. See Ua Cerbhaill. 

O’Carthy. See Ua Carthaigh. 

O’Casey. See Ua Cathasaigh. 

O'Ceallaigh (O’Kelly), Ceallach, King of 
Bregh, slain, 345. 

O’Ceallaigh, Tadhg, King of Ui Maine, 
343. See Ua Ceallaigh. 

Ocha, a place near Tara, in Meath co., 
battle of, 29. 

O’Clery. See Ua Clerigh. 

O’Coffey. See Ua Cobhthaigh. 

O’Conaty. See Ua Connachtaigh. 

O’Concannon. See Ua Concennain, and 
Ui Diarmada. 

O’Confiacla. See Ua Confiacla. 

O’Conolly, or O’Connelly. See Ua Con- 
ghalaigh. 

O’Conor, or O’Connor. 
bhair. — 

O’Conor, Charles, of Belanagare, quoted, 
Int., xvii., xx., xxi., 15, m, 1, 25, n. 7. 
O’Conor, Rev. Dr., quoted, Int., xxvii., 

XXXiv., XXXV., XXXVi., 78, m. ?, 84, n. 3, 
86, n. 4, 104, n. %, 128, nm. %, 129, n. 8, 
148, n. 1, 152, n.1, 193, n. 6, 207, n. 7, 

228, n. 3, 267, n. 7, 268, n, ®, 312, nm 1, 

O’Cosgry. See Ua Cosgraigh. 

O’Criochain, King of Fernmhagh, slain, 
331. 

O’Cuilennain. See Ua Cuilennain. 

O’Curry, Professor, quoted, Int., xiv., 
XxXiili., xxxvi., 304, n. 4. 

O’Davoren, Donnell, Int., xv. 

O’Denny. See Ua Dunadhaigh. 

Odhbha (the ancient name of a mound 
near Navan, co. Meath), battles of, 73, 
291. 

Odhor, King of Calraighe, slain, 283. 

Odhran (pron, “ Oran”), of Letracha, 
death of, 49. 

O’Donegan. See Ua Donnagain, 

ODonnell. See Ua Domhnaill. 

O'Donoghue. See Ua Donnchadha. 

O’Donoyan, John, Lu.p., quoted, Int. 
xiv., xviii., ». 8, xxvii, xxxi., xxxii., 
XXXviii., 43, ., 44, n,%, 78, m2, 116, 
n, ®, 120, n. ©, 186, n. ?, 144, m. 2, 152, 


See Ua Concho- 





INDEX. 


n. 1, 252, m. 3, 274, n, 4, 280, m, ®, 288, 
n. 2, 300, n. %, 315, nm. %, 325, 2. 

O’Dooley. See Ua Dubhlaigh, 

O’Dowda. See Ua Dubhda. 

O’Dowdas, patrons of the Mac Firbises, 
Int., xi. 

O’Duff. See Ua Duibh. 

O'Duffy. See Ua Dubhthaigh. 

Oena (St. Endeus of Aran), Flann Ua 
Donnchadha, comarb of, 247. 

Oena Mac Ua Laighsi, Abbot of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, death of, 59. 

Oenagan, Airchinnech of Eglais-beg, 209. 

Oengus (or Aengus) Uladh, 99. 

Oengus, son of Carthach Calma, 259. 

Oengus,son of Donnchadh, King of Midhe, 
205, 207. 

Oengus, son of Flann, royal heir of Erinn, 
dies, 187. ‘ 

Oenric (the Emperor Henry IT.), 263. 

Oenric (Henry Il. of England), dies, 337. 

Oentraibh (Antrim), death of Fintan of, 
75. 

O'Fallon. See Ua Fallamhain. 

O'Farrell. See Ua Ferghail. 

Offaly. See Ui-Failghe. 

O'Flaherty. See Ua Flaithbhertaigh. 

O’Flaherty, Roderick, Int., xv., xvi., 
Xviii., xix., xxvii, xxxiii., xxxv. 

O’Flaithbhertaigh (O'Flaherty) Ruaidhri, 
slain, 343. 

O’Flanagan. See Ua Flannacain, or Ua 
Flannagain. 

O’Flannagain, the Spaillach, 321. 

O’Flannan. See Ua Flaithnain. 

O'Flattery. See Ua Flaithri. 

O’Floinn (O'Flynn), Eochaidh, a poet, 9. 

O'Flynn. See Ua Flainn. 

O’Fogarty. See Ua Fogartaigh. 

Ogaman (not identified), battle of, 97. 

Ogan, grandson of Corc, 267. 

O’Gara. See Ua Gadhra, 

O’Gormley. See Ua Gairmleadhaigh. ° 

Ogmha (pron. Ogva), one of the Tuatha 
De Danann, 9. 

O’Halligan. See Ua Ailecain. 

O’Hanly. See Ua hAindlidhe. 

O’Hanrahan, See Ua Anradhain. 








INDEX, 


O’Hanratty. See Ua Inreachtaigh, 

O'Hara, See Ua Eghra, 

O’Hart. See Ua hAirt. 

O'Hartagan. See Ua Artagan. 

O’Hea, or Hughes, See Ua Aecha, 

O’Heney. See Ua Eghnigh, or Ua Heni. 

O’Heraghty. See Ua Airechtaigh. 

O’Heyne. See Ua Edhin, or Ua hEidhin. 

O’Hoey, or Hoey. See Ua Eochadha, 

O’Hogan. See Ua Ogain. 

Oige, a Milesian king, dies, 13. 

Oilill, or Ailill, son of Dunchadh, son of 
Aedh Slaine, dies, 97. 

Oilill, son of Dunlaing, victor in the battle 
of Cill-Osnaigh, 31. 

Qilill, son of Dunlaing, King of Laighen, 

. slain by Norsemen, 163. 

Oilill, son of Feradhach, slain, 123. 

Oilill, King of Munster, dies, 113, 

Oilill Molt, King of Ireland, beg. of reign 
of, 27; defeats the Lagenians, ib, ; de- 
feated by the Lagenians, ib.; celebrates 
the ‘‘ Feast of Temhair,” 7d. ; slain, 29. 

OisineFoda, Abbot of Cluain-Iraird, death 
of, 93. 

O’Kane. See Ua Cathain. 

O’Kearney. See Sinnacha. 

O’Keary, or O’Carey. See Ua Ciardha. 

O’Keaveny. See Ua Gebheannach. 

O'Kelly. See O’Ceallaigh, and Ua Ceal- 


laigh. 
See Ua Cennedigh, 
O’Kennelly. See Ua Cinnfaeladh, 
O’Lachtnain, Muiredhach, King of Teabh- 
tha, dies, 213. 
O’Laeghachan, Ruare, King of Feara-Cul- 
-Teabhtha, dies, 211. 
Olaf. See Amhlaibh. 
O’Larkin. See Ua Lorcain. 
Olchobhar, King of Munster, 149, 151. 
Ollarbha (the mouth of the Larne River), 
a mermaid captured at, 57. 
O'Longain, or Long. See Ua Longain. 
O’Lynch. See Ua Loingsigh. 
O’Madden. See Ua Madudhain. 
O’Maenaigh (now Meany), Ferdomhnach, 
Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, dies, 211. 
O’Mahony. See Ua Mathghamhna. 





O’Maille (O'Malley), slain, 337, 

O’Malone, See Ua Maeileoin, 

O’Mannin, See Ua Mainnin. 

Omeith, or Ui-Meith-Macha (q. v,), plun- 
dering of, 138, n, 3, 189. 

O’Melaghlin, See Ua Maeilsechlainn, 

O’Melaghlin, Conchobhar, son of Domh- 
nall, 211. 

O’Melaghlin, Donnchadh, royal heir of 
Temhair, 209. 

O’Molloy. See Ua Maeilmhuaidh. 

O’Molloy, Mughron, King of Feara-Ceall, 
dies, 215. 

O’Monahan. See Ua Manachain. 

O’More. See Ua Mordha, 

O’Morgair. See Ua Morgair, 

O’Muldoon, or Meldon. See Ua Magili- 
duin. 

O’Muldory. See Ua Maeildoraidh., 

O’Muldory, Oengus, King of Cinel Conaill, 
215. 

O’Mulholland. See Ua Maeilcallain.* 

O’Mulmoghery. See Ua Maeilmocherghi. 

O’Mulrennin. See Ua Maeilbhrennain, 
and Clann-Conchobhair. 

O’Mulrooney. See Ua Maeilruanaidh. 

O’Murray. See-Ua Muiredhaigh. 

O’Naghten. See Ua Nechtain, _ 

Onchu, the battle of Cuil Corra gained by, 
93. 

Onchu, son of Saran, 97. 

O'Neill. See Ua Neill. 

O’Neill, Domhnall, son of Muircertach,207. 

O’Neylan. See Ua Niallain, 

O'Quill. See Ua Cuill. 

O’Quin. See Ua Cuinn. 

O’Quinlan. See Ua Cainnelbhain. 

Orcdoid, son of Sechnasach, slain, 95. 

O’Regan. See Ua Riagain. 

Oriel. See Airghialla.. 

Orlaith, daughter of Cennedigh, 205. 
Ormond, See Ir-Mumhain, and Ur-Mu- 
mhain. 

O’Rourke. See Ua Ruaire. 
O'Rowan, See Ua Ruadhain. 
O’Ryan. See Ua Riain. 
O’Shanahan. See Ua Seanchain. 
O’Sheridan. See Ua Siridén. 
sy 2D2 


404 

Osirice, son of Albirt, slain, 83. 

Osraighe (the tribes and territ. of Ossory), 
kings of, 71, 89, 95, 117, 145, 157, 165, 
171, 18], 183, 199, 201, 207, 223, 235, 
237, 241, 273, 275, 283, 309, 325, 345; 
defeated, 133, 309, 327, 335; victories 
gained by, 223, 265; invaded by Muir- 
certach, son of Niall, 203 ; ravaged by 
Maelsechlainn, 255; the hostages of, 
265, 279. 

Osric, murders Oswine, 91. 

Ossen, a bishop, death of, 109. 

Ossene, Abbot of ee dies, 
115, 

Oswine, murder of, 91. 

Oswiu, King of the Saxons, defeats 
Penda, 91; death of, 103. 

Ota, King of the Franks, defeated by 
Conrad II., 273. 

Othan Bec (i.e. Little Othan or Fothan, a 
sub-division of Fahan, bar. of Inish- 
owen, co. Donegal), a shower of honey 

- in, 119. 

Othan Mér (Fahan, co. Donegal), a 
shower of silver in, 121. 

Otir, son of Eirgni, slays the son of 
Ausli, 169. 

Otir, King of the Foreigners of Ath- 
cliath, slain, 345. 

O’Tolairg, or Ua Tolairg, Niall, chief of 
Cuirene, 213. 

O'Toole. See Ua Tuathail. 

Owles, co. Mayo. See Umhall. 


Parthalon (pron. Paralon), 5, 7, 9. 

Patrick, St., birth of, 15; brought a 
captive into Ireland, 2b.; released from 
captivity, 17; goes to St. Germanus, ib. ; 
returns to Ireland, 21; dies, 33; co- 
marbs of, 197, 218, 217, 237, 243, 247, 
261, 279, 287, 301, 311, 313, 329, 337; 
(see also under Ard-Macha, Abbots); the 
Gospel of, 31; the Law or Rule of, 125, 
127, 131; the shrine of, 129, 231. 

Patrick, St., Old, Bishop of Glastonbury, 
25. 

Penda (King of Mercia), slain, 91. 

Penda, the sons of, 111. 





INDEX. 


Peronne, death of St. Fursa in, 91. 

Pestilences in Ireland, 113, 125, 133, = 
285, 295, 303. See Plagues. 

Petrie, George, LL.D., works of, cited, 
216, n. 4, 346, ne. 

Pharaoh, ste’ to have rodlavel Milidh 
(Milesius), 11. 

Philippus, 113. 

Picts (of Scotland), kings of, 25, 2., 53, 
83, 102, 2. 2, 105, 157, 163, 165. 

Pigs, a mortality among, 335. 

Pilgrims, remarkable, 171, 177. 

Plagues, in Ireland, 9, 47, 51, 117, 257, 
275. See Pestilences. 

Pontic Province, earthquake in, 35. 

Port-Lairge (Waterford), Amhlaibh of, 
slain, 335; Imhar of, slain, 229; Mael- 
isa Ua hAinmire, bishops of, 337 ; the 
son of Raghnall, King of, 255; the For- 
eigners of, 187, 197, 199, 231. | 

Port Riogh (‘‘ King’s Fort”), on the Black- 
water, in Ulster, 15. 

Prodigies, 127, 169, 177, 185, 207, 261, 
281, 309. 

Prophecies of Bec Mac Dé, 137. 

Prophecy of St. Daciaroe, 135. 

Province of Conchobhar (i.e. Uladh, or 
Ulidia), 151. 


Radgand, the son of, slain, 115. 

Raen, King of the West of Midhe, 265, 267. 

Raghallach, King of Connacht, mortal 
wounding of, 89. 

Raghallach, son of Maelmhuaidh, slain, 
253. 

Raghallach, son of Uadach, slays Colman, 
son of Cobhthach, 77. 

Raghnall, son of Amhlaibh, slain, 227. — 

Raghnall, son of Gothfrith, dies, 243. 

Raghnall, the son of, 205. a 

Raghnall, the son of, King of Port-Lairge, a 
slain, 255. 

Rain, bloody, 111. 


Raithin (Rahin, King’s co.), expulsion ot 7 


St. Mochuda from, 85. ‘ 

Rath-Aedha-mic-Bric (now Rathhugh, or 
Rahugh, bar. of Moycashel, co. West- 
meath), 157. 








INDEX. 


Rath Brenainn (Rathbrennan, co. Ros- 
common), 67. 

Rath-cro (a place near Slane, co. Meath), 
175. 

Rathcroghan. See Cruachan. 

Rath-Edair (i.e. *‘ the fort of Edar,” situ- 
ated somewhere near the Hill of Howth), 

battle of, 297. 

Rath Fearadh (Rahara, co. Roscommon), 
129, n. 8, 

Rath-Guala (now probably Rathgaile, 
near Donaghadee), 77. 

Rath-linne (the ancient seat of the chiefs 
of the O’Mahony sept, co. of Cork), 
181, 

Rath-mor of Maghline (Rathmore, par. 
of Donegore, bar. of Upper Antrim, co. 
Antrim), battle of, 107. 

Raven, croaking of, an omen of destruc- 
tion, 123. 

Rechet. See Leghe and Rechet. 

Rechra (now Lambay Island), Tuathal, 
Abbot of, 151. 

Rechraith, now Raghra, near Shannon 
Bridge, King’s co., 299. 

Rechtabhra, Abbot of Corcach, 161. 

Rechtabhra, King of the Deisi, 165. 

Rechtabhrach, Abbot of Cluain-ferta- 
Brenainn, 151. 

Reeves, Rev. Dr., services rendered by, 
Int. lvii.; works by, cited, 37, n.4, 39, 
n. 11, 53, n., 54, n. 5, 65, n. 5, 85, n. 7, 86, 
n. %, 87, n. 11, 115, n., 118, n. 5, 133, n. 7, 
136, n. *, 138, n. %, 159, n. 6, 216, n. 1, 
248, n. 1, 278, n. 3 

Reflor, son of Neman, King of Scythia, 11. 

Regles-Finghin (the ‘‘abbey church of 
Finghin”), at Cluain-muc-Nois, 257. 

Riagan, King of Ui Cennsealaigh, dies, 
173. 

Riagan, half-King of Laighen, dies, 141. 

Richard, King of France (?), 267. 

Rigan, son of Fergus, slain, 147. 

Righbhardan (Riordan), King of Eile, 
slain, 285. 

Rigullan, son of Conaing, 81. 

Rinn-Luimnigh, a fleet assembled at, 325, 

Rivers, ancient Irish, 7, 





405 


Robhartach, Bishop of Cill-dara, 165. 
Robhartach, comarb of Colum Cille, 211. 
Robhartach of Finnglass, a bishop, dies, 161. 
Rodhri. See Ruaidhrigh. 

Roilt, a Foreigner, 197. 

Roisten, Abbot of Corcach-mér, death of, 
109. 

Romanus, Pope, 271. 

Rome, death of Donnchadh, son of Brian, 
in, 287. 

Ronan, Abhot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 131, 
145. 

Ronan, son of Berach, 99. 

Ronan, son of Colman, King of Laighen, 75. 

Ronan, son of Colman, 77. 

Ronan, son of Tuathal, 79. 

Ros-ailithri, now Rosscarbery, co. Cork, 
161, 331. 

Ros-cam, or Ros-Comain (Roscommon), 
Murchadh, Abbot of, 227, Aedh, Bishop 
of, 165; burnt, 279, 337; plundered, 
127, 269. 

Ros-cre (Roscrea), abbots of, 157, 171; 
Ua Baillen, Bishop of, 277; the steeple 
of, 337. 

Ros-ech (Russagh, co. Meath), Dubhcui- 
linn, Abbot of, 179. 

Ros-Guill. See Gull. 

Ross (co. Roscommon), the battle of, 313. 

Ross-Deala (now Rosdalla, parish of Dur- 
row, co. Westmeath), 281. 

Ros-Serc, a residence of the Mac Firbises, 
Int. xiii, 

Rothechta, son of Finnghuine, murder of, 
109. 

Ruadh-bheitheach (Roevehagh), co. Gal- 
way, 333, 339. 

Ruaidhri, vice-A bbot of Cluain-Iraird,and 
tanist-Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 143. 

Ruaidhri, son of Coscrach, 235. 

Ruaidhri, son of Mervyn, comes to Ire- 
land, 167. See Ruaidhrigh. 

Ruaidhri Ua Donnagain, 253. 

Ruaidhrigh (Rodhri), son of Mervyn, slays 
Horm, 155. See Ruaidhri. 

Ruare, son of Bran, King of Laighen, 159, 

Ruare, son of Tighernan, King of Breifne, 
177, 


406 


Ruirtech, the ancient name of the river 
Liffey, 7. 

Rule of Cele-Clerech, 181. 

Rule of Daire, 129. 

Rule of Patrick, 127. 

Rumian, Bishop of Cluain-Iraird, dies, 193. 


Sabhall (i.e. “the Barn”), a church which 
formerly existed at Armagh, 249. 

Saeltire, battle of, 85. 

Saerbrethach, Abbot of Corcach, 175. 

Saerbrethach, Abbot of Imlech-Ibhair, 
265. 

Saigher (Seir-Kieran, King’s co.), plun- 
dered by Gentiles, 145. 

Sailtin, battle of, 179. 

Sainngel (Singland, co. Limerick), 299. 

Samaoir (Erne) river, 7. 

Samuel, Bishop of Ath-cliath, 323. 

Saran Saebderg, slays Brandubh, King of 
Laighen, 71. , 

Saran Ua Critain, dies, 97. 

Saxolb, Lord of the Foreigners, 143. 

Saxons, kings of, 83, 103, 131, 223, 271; 
Dunstan, Bishop of, 231; Osirice, royal 
heir of, 83; depredations in Ireland by, 
23, 107; receive the faith, 67; a battle 
among, 105; brought to Ireland by 
Amihlaibh and Imhar, 163. 

Scanlan, King of Eoghanacht-locha-Léin, 
slain, 253. 

Scanlan Mér, King of Osraighe, 89. 

Scannlan, son Becin, King of the Cruithne, 
89. See Sganlan. 

Sciagh Nechtain (a place near Castleder- 
mot, co. Kildave), the foreigners defeat- 
ed at, 149. 

Scolaighe, King of Dealbhna Bethra, 175, 

Scolog. See Ua Flannagain, Niall. 

Scota, wife of Miledh (Milesius), 11, 13. 

Sérin of Adamnan (Skreen, co. Sligo), 225. 

Scrin of Colum Cille (Skreen, co. Meath), 
223, 231, 278. 

Scythia, Reflor, King of, slain, 11. 

Sea, an overflow of the, 121. 

fSechnall. See Secundinus. 

Sechnasagh, King of Cinel Boghain, 73. 

Sechnasach, King of Ireland, 99, 108, 





INDEX. 


Sechnasach, King of Ui Maire, 119. 
Sechnasach, son of Airmedhach, 107. 
Secundinus, (or Sechmall), St., 23, 25. 


Segan Mac Ui Cuinn, Abbot of Bennchair, 


99. 

Segene, Bishop of Ard-Macha, 109, 

Segene, Abbot of Hi, death of, 93. 

Seghais (now the Curlieu hills, co, Sligo), 
35, 85, 331. 

Seir-Kieran. See Saigher. 

Senboth Sine (now Templeshanbo, e6. 
Wexford), 71. 

Senchan, son of Colman Mor, 65, 

Senchua Ua nAililla (Shancoe, co. Sligo), 
death of Ailbhe of, 47, 

Senchus Mér, when written, 23. 

Sen Magh Halta (“the old plain of the 
flocks”), a plain near Dublin city, 9. 
Seth (or Scith, Island of Skye), the people 

of, 101. 

Sganlan, Bishop of Cill-dara, 169. 

Sgannlan, Bishop of Tamhlacht, 187. See 
Scanlan. ; 

Sgene Davilsir, wife of Aimergin Gluin- 
gil, 15. 

Shancoe, co. Sligo. See Senchua Ua 
nAililla. 

Shrine, of Adamnan, 139; of Ciaran, 177; 
of Colum Cille, 131, 167; of St. Patrick, 
129, 23). 

Sichfrith, Earl of Innsi-Ore, 253, 

Sichfrith, son of Imhar, slain, 171, - 

Sigfridh, son of Uathmaran, 199. 

Sil-Anmchadha (the tribe name of the 
O’Maddens, whose territory comprised 
the bar. of Longford, co. Galway, and 
a part of the King’s county), chiefof, 
245; kings of, 237, 247, 289, 807, 837; 
plunder Cluain-muc-Nois, 279. 

Sil Cuinn (“the race of Conn,” ie. the 
Ui Neill, or Hy Neill race), kings of, 121, 

Sil Dluthaigh, 85. 

Sillan, Abbot of Bennchair, death of, 78. 

Sillan, Bishop of Daimhinis, dies, 95. 

Sillan, of Magh Bile, death of, 75. 

Sil-Maelruain, or Sil-Maeilruanaidh (the 
tribe name of the O’Flynns, of Ros- 
common), 311, 333, 








INDEX, 


Sil-Muiredhaigh (pron. Sheel-Murray, 
the tribe name of the O’Conors of Con- 
nacht, and their correlatives), 115; 
kings of, 800, n. 5, 301, 803, 321; de- 
feated, 313, 333; battles gained by, 303, 
337 ; expelled from Connacht, 301. 

Sli-Ronain, a tribe anciently seated in the 
present co. Westmeath, near Lough 
Ree, 307, 347. 

Sin (pron. “ Sheen”) a fairy woman, kills 
-Muircertach Mac Erca, 43, 45. 

Sinainn, Sinuinn, or Sionann, (the river 
Shannon), 141, 151. 

‘Sinchell, Abbot of Cill-Achaidh-Droma- 
fata, death of, 51. 

Sineall, Bishop of Magh Bile, death of, 
67. 

Sinnach, St., of Inis Clothrann, dies, 121. 

Sinnach Finn, .e, “the fair Fox.” See Ua 
Catharnaigh, Cinaeth. 

Sinnach, Muiredhach, King of Teathbha, 
dies, 347. 

Sinnacha, i.e, “the Foxes,” or family of 
O’Kearneys of Teffia, in Westmeath, 

_ 279, 283. 

Sitric, son of Amhlaibh, 237, 249, 259, 
267, 269. 

Sitric, son of Imhar, 261. 

Sitric, grandson of Imhar, 197. 

Sitric Gaile, defeats Niall Glundubh, 
191, 

Sixtus, Bishop of Rome, death of, 23. 

Skye, Island of. See Seth. 

Slaibhre (not identified), battle of, 69. 

Slane, co. Meath, bishops of, 35, 209; lec- 
tor of, 209; the cross of, broken, 151; 
the belfry of, burnt, 209. 

Slanga, son of Parthalon, dies, 7. 

Slebhte (Sleaty, Queen’s co.), death of 
Aedh, anchorite of, 113. 

Slemhain (now Slewen, near Mullingar, 
co. Westmeath), battle of, 67. 

Slemhain of Meath, battle of, 33. 

Slemhains of Magh-Itha (the name of a 
place in the co. Donegal, near Lough 
Swilly), the Fomorians defeated at, 7. 

Sliabh-Beatha, now Slieve Baugh, be- 
tween Fermanagh and Monaghan, 20}, 





407 


Sliabh Bladhma (Slieve Bloom Moun- 
tains), 143. 

Sliabh Crot, a mountain in the bar. of 
Clanwilliam, co. Tipperary, 283. 

Sliabh Cua (Slieve Gua, co. Waterford), 
battles of, 65, 321. 

Sliabh Cualann (the Sugar-loaf Moun- 
tain, near Bray), eruption of strange 
water in, 161. 

Sliabh Donard, See Sliabh Slanga. 

Sliabh Ealpa (the Alps), Nathi, King of 
Treland, killed by lightning at, 21. 

Sliabh-Formail (now Sliabh-Ui-Fhloinn, 
i.e. O’Flyn’s Mountain, in the w. of 
the co. Roscommon), 279. 

Sliabh Fuaid (the Fews Mountains, near 
Armagh), 7, 117, 215, 307. 

Sliabh-Guaire, now Sliabh-Gorey,a moun- 
tainous district in the bar. of Clankee, 
co. Cavan, 283. 

Sliabh Mis,a mountain between Tralee 
and Killarney, 15. 

Sliabh Modharn, in the bar. of Cremorne, 
co. Monaghan, 7. 

Sliabh-Phelim Mountains. See Ebhlinn. 

Sliabh Rife (Mount Rhipheus, or the 
Ural Mountains), 11. 

Sliabh-Rusen (now Slieve Rushel, co, 
Fermanagh), 315. 

Sliabh Slanga (mow Slieve Donard), 
origin of the name, 7. 

Slieve Bawne, co. Roscommon, (Badhbh- 
ghna), 201. 

Sligech (Sligo) River, 9, 47. 

Snamh-aignech (Carlingford Lough), a 
battle between Foreigners at, 153. 

Snedgius, tutor of Cormac Mac Cuil- 
ennain, 171. 

Snow, great, 189, 213, 247, 277, 305, 313, 
317, 335. 

Sodomna, Bishop of Slane, martyred by 
Norsemen, 155. 

Soghan, or Soghan of Ui Maine, an 
ancient tribe and territory in the n.e. 
of the present co. of Galway, 281, 337. 

Sord. See Swords. 

South Bregh, kings of, 163, 187, 
Bregh. 


See 


408 


Southern Laighen, or Leinster. See 
Laighen Desgabhair. 

Spealan, King of Conaille, 195. 

Srath Caruin (in the valley of the Carron, 
in Stirlingshire, Scotland), battle of, 
87, 109. 

Srath Cluaidhe (the valley of the Clyde), 
Ardgal, King of the Britons of, slain, 163. 

Srath-Edairt (in Scotland), battle of, 95. 

Stackallan. See Tech-Collainn. 

Stain, a chief of the Finn-Ghenti, 153. 

St. Andrew’s. See Cinn-rimonaidh. 

St. David’s. See Cill-Muini. 

Strangford Lough. See Brena, and Loch- 
Cuan. 

Suairlech, Bishop and Abbot of Cluain- 
Traird, 163. 

Suairlech, Abbot of Indedhnen, 153. 

Suarlech, Abbot of Achadh-bé, 157. 

Suarlech, Abbot of Clonard, 157. 

Sugar-loaf Mountain. See Sliabh Cualann. 

Suibhne, vice-Abbot of Cill-dara, 171. 

Suibhne, son of Cuana, Abbot of Cluain- 
muc-Nois, 129. 

Suibhne, anchorite of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
173. 

Suibhne, Abbot of Daimhinis, 139. 

Suibhne, son of Joseph, Abbot of Glenn- 
da-locha, 141. 

Suibhne, Abbot of Hi, 95. 

Suibhne, son of Colman, King of Midhe, 67. 

Suibhne, son of Congalach, slain, 123. 

Suibhne Menn, son of Fiachna, King of 
Ireland, 75, 81. 

Sun, eclipses of the, 109, 121, 159, 167, 
169, 203, 263, 335. 

Swords, co. Dublin, Maelmuire Ua Cain- 
nén, Bishop of, 263. 

Symmachus, Pope, 35. 

Synods ; of Fiadh-mic-Aenghusa, 313; of 

. Inis-Padraig, 345 ; of Uisnech, 315. 


Tadhg, son of Brian, defeats his brother, 
Donnchadh, 253; slain, 263. 

Tadhg, son of Cathal, King of Connacht, 
"195, 213. 

Tadhg, son of Cathal, King of Connacht, 
255, 269, 





INDEX. 


Tadhg, son of Conchobhar, King of Con- 
nacht, dies, 177. 

Tadhg, son of Conchobhar, slain, 215. | 

Tadhg, son of Diarmaid, King of Ui 
Cennsealaigh, slain, 159. 

Tadhg, son of Faelan, King of Southern 
Laighen, 193. 

Tadhg, son of Lorcan, King of Ui-Cennse- 
laigh, dies, 269. 4 

Tadhg, son of Muirghius, slain, 127. 

Tadhg, King of Ui-Diarmada, slain, 221. 

Tadhg-an-teghlaigh, the grandson of, 
slain, 333. 

Tadhg Dubhsuilech, slain, 247. 

Taghmon, co. Wexford. See Teach 
Munna, and Fintan Munnu. 

Taillten (Teltown, co. Meath), battle of, 
33; the fairs of, 49, 171, 178, 197, 245, 
323; three persons burnt by lightning 
at, 155. 

Talamnach (or Tomaltach), the son of, 
slain, 121. 

Tallaght, co. Dublin. See Tamhlacht. 

Tamhlacht, or Tamhleachda (Tallaght, 
co. Dublin), meaning of, 9; Sgannlan, 
bishop of, 187. 

Tamhnacha, Fergal, King of, slain, 121. 

Tanaise, comarb of Comgall (i.e. Abbot of 
Bennchair), 213. 

Taprobane (Ceylon), visited by Milidh 
(Milesius), 11. 

Tara. See Temhair. 

Teabhtha, Teathbha, or Tephtha (Teffia, a 
territory comprising portions of the pre- 
sent counties of Longford and West- 
meath), kings of, 55,63, 69, 99, 131, 135, 
137, 167, 173, 177, 189, 191, 197, 211, 213, 
217, 222, n.1, 227,233, 235, 237, 239, 241, 
255, 257, 271, 273, 289, 295, 297, 303, 
305, 307, 341, 347; the men of, defeat- 
ed, 165; the churches of, spoiled, 143; 
a battle among the men of, 305; the 
hostages of, taken by Muircertach Mac 
Lochlainn, 347. 

Teach Munna (Taghmon, co. Wexford), 
Gentiles defeated by the‘‘ family” of, 137. 

Tech-Collainn (Stackallan, co. Meath), 
death of Cethernach, Bishop of, 277, 








INDEX. 


Tech nDuinn (i.e. ‘‘ Donn’s house,” now 
the Bull Island, off Bantry Bay), 13. 
Tech-inghine-Lingaigh (i.e. ‘the house 
of Lingach’s daughter,” in Ui Maine), 
169. 

Tech-Telle (Tehelly, King’s co.), Mael- 
ruain, Abbot of, 171. 

Teffia. See Teabhtha. 

Tehelly. See Tech-Telle. 

Teltown, co. Meath. See Taillten. 

Temhair, or Temoria (Tara, co. Meath, 
the ancient seat of the Irish Monarchs), 
the ‘* Feast” of, 25, 27; the battle of, 
225; Feidhlimidh, King of Munster, 
rests at, 143. 

Temple-Molaga, co. Cork, 162, x. ?. 

Tempol-Chormaic (Cormac’s Chapel), in 
Cashel, consecration of, 335. 

Tephtha. See Teabhtha. 

Terman-Dabheoc (now Termon-Magrath, 
bar. of Tirhugh, co. Donegal), plunder- 
ed, 315. 

Theodore, Bishop of Britain, dies, 111. 

Theodorus, Pope, 87. 

Thunder, great, 125. 

Tibraide, Abbot of Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, 
dies, 129, 3 

Tigernach, or Tighernach, Bishop of 
Cluain-Eois, 49, 215, 247. See under 
Cluain-Eois. 

Tighernach, the Annalist. See Ua Brain, 
Tighernach. 

Tighernach, King of Loch-Gabhar, 149, 
151, 159. 

Tighernach Ua Clerigh, King cf Aidhne, 
dies, 191, 

Tighernan, King of Cinel Conaill, slain, 
225. 

Tighernan, son of Sellachan, King of 
Breifne, dies, 173. 

Tipraide, Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 199. 

Tipraide, son of Calgach, 65. 

Tiprait Finghin (.e. ‘* Finghin’s Well”’), 
at Cluain-muc-Nois, 75. 

Tir-Conaill, in the co. Limerick. See 
Ui Conaill-Gabhra. 

Tir Conaill. See Cinel Conaill. 

Tir Conaille-Cerd, a battle in, 159. 





409 


Tir-da-glass (Terryglass, co. Tipperary), 
abbots of, 145, 175; burnt by Foreigners, 
175. 

Tir Eoghain. See Cinel Eoghain. 

Tlachtgha (now the Hill of Ward, co. 
Meath), burned, 181. 

Tnuthach, son of Mochloingsech, slain, 
117. 

Todd, Rev. J. H., p.D., services rendered 
by, Int., lvii. ; works of, cited, 4, n. *, 6, 
n. 8, 9, n. %, 12, n. 2, 83, n. 1, 48, n. 8, 72, 
n. 1, 107,n. 6, 132, n. %, 139, n.5, 148, n.}, 
150, n. ®, 160, nn. 1-4, 168, n. 6, 190, n. 4, 
214, n. 5, 266, n. 1, 

Toichtech, Abbot of Ard-Macha, 127. 

Toirrdhealbhach, (pron. Turlough), son 
of Murchadh, slain, 251. 

Tola, battle of, 59. 

Tolarcan, son of Anfrith, King of the 
Cruithne, 95. 

Tolomnach, King of Ui Liathain, 91. 

Tolorg, son of Allailedh, chief of Fealla, 
slain, 145. 

Tolua Fota, 74, n. 1. 

Tomaltach (or Talamnach), the son of, 
slain, 121. 

Tomar, the ring of, 235. 

Tomine, Abbot of Ard-Macha, dies, 97. 

Tomrair, Earl, tanist of the King of Loch- 
lann, slain, 149. 

Tonsure. See Coronal tonsure. 

Tonsure, female, Int. 1. ; 171, n. % 

Torach (Tory Island, off the coast of Don- 
egal), plundering of, 75. 

Torbach, Abbot of Ard-Macha, 127. 

Tore, the. See Dubhtuinne, King of 
Uladh. 

Torolb, establishes himself on Loch Echach. 
199. 

Tortan (the ancient name of a place near 
Ardbraccan, co. Meath), battle of, 47 ; 
Maelcroibhe, King of, 191. 

Tradraighe (Tradry, co. Clare), 283, n % 

Tragh-bhaile, the strand at Dundalk, 311. 

Tragh Brene (i.e. “ the strand of Brene,” 
on the eastern shore of Loch Swilly), 81. 

Treoid, or Treoit (Trevet, co, Meath), 151, 
243, 4 


410 


Trevet, See Treoid. 

Trian Corcaighe, Ailill, Abbot of, slain, 
181. 

Tribhus Fliuch. See Dunnchadh, son of 
Bran. 

Tuadhear, Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, 
dies, 171, 

Tuadh-Mumha, or Tuadh-Mumhain (Tho- 
mond), plundered, 319, 337. 

Tuaim Drubha, battle of, 35. 

Tuaim-greine (Tomgraney, co. Clare), the 
belfry of, 217; Domhnall, King of Sil- 
Muiredhaigh, interred in, 321. 

Tuatan, son of Diman, a druid, 55, 

Tuatha-De-Danann, overcome the Fir 
Bolg, 9. 

Tuathal, comarb of Ciaran, 221. 

Tuathal, Bishop of Daimhliag and Lusca, 
199. 

Tuathal, Abbot of Rechra and Dermhagh, 
dies, 151. 

Tuathal, son of Feradach, carried off by 
Gentiles, 139. 

Tuathal, son of Morgann, death of, 97. 

Tuathal, son of Ugaire, King of Laighen, 
213. 

Tuathal, grandson of Ugaire, slain, 253, 

Tuathal Maelgarbh, King of Ireland, 45, 
49. 

Tuathal Ua Faelchon, slain, 119. 

Tuathchur, King of Luighne, dies, 149, 

Tuath-ratha (now Tooraa), a territ. in- 
cluded in the bar. of Magheraboy, co. 
Fermanagh, 321. 

Tuath Tuirbhe, a bardicname for Bregia,69. 

Tulach-ard, battle of, 102, n. 2. 

Tulach-Garbha (now Tullaghan-garvey, 
bar. of Kilkenny West, co. Westmeath), 
275. 

Tulan, in Meath. See Tulen. ‘ 

Tulcadh (the Tolka River, near Dublin), 
253. 

Tulen, or Tulan (Dulane, near Kells, co. 
Meath), bishops of, 165, 193; plundered, 
211. 

Turges, or Turgesius, erects a fortress on 
Loch Ribh, 145; captured and drowned, 
147, 





INDEX, 


Ua Aedha (O’Hea, or Hughes), Fogartach, 
King of Feara-Luirg, 271. 

Ua Aghda (O’hAghda), Bec, the son of, 
271. : 

Ua Aghda, Gillacoluim, King of Teabhtha, 
255, 257, 271. 

Ua Ailchinnedh, Gillapadraig, Bishop of 
Cluain-ferta-Brenainn, dies, 347. 

Ua Aillein, the Geocach, 318. 

Ua Airechtaigh (O’Heraghty), Ailill, co- 
marb of Ciaran, 291. 

Ua Airechtaigh, Goll-Cluana, 329, 

Ua Airt. See Ua hAirt, 

Ua Aiteidh, Domhnall, 
Echach, 229. 

Ua Ancapaill (O’Ancapaill), Maelodhar 
Dall, lector of Cill-achaidh, 269. 

Ua Anradhain (O’Hanrahan), Maelbren- 
ainn, dies, 335. 

Ua Artagan (O’Hartagan), Cinaedh, chief 
poet of Leth-Chuinn, dies, 223. 

Ua Baeighell (O’Boyle), the Garbhanach, 
slain, 331. 

Ua Baighell (O’Boyle), Cinaeth, Bishop of 
Clochar, dies, 337. 

Ua Baeigheallain (O’Boylan), King of 
Airghiall, slain, 295. 

Ua Baighellain (O’Boylan), a poet, slain, 
321, 

Ua Baillen, Bishop of Ros-cre, dies, 277. 

Ua Begulain (O’Begulain), the deposing 
of, 241. 

Ua Beoilain (O’Boland), Pettademain, 
slain, 309. 

Ua Braenain (O’Brennan), Conghalach, 
the son of, 345. 

Ua Brain (O’Breen), Congalach, King of 
Breghmhaine, 349; the son of, 347. 

Ua Brain, Domhnall, King of Bregh- 
mhaine, 343-5. 

Ua Brain, Donnchadh, comarb of Ciaran, 
dies, 231. 

Ua Brain, Sitric, King of Breghmhaine, 
347. 

Ua Brain, Tighernach, the Annalist, dies, 
299. 

Ua Briain (O’Brien), Cennedigh, slain, 
295, 


King of Ui- 








INDEX. 


Ua Briain, Conchobhar, King of Munster, 
$29, 331, 833, 335, 339. 

Ua Briain, Conchobhar, King of Cinel 
Eoghain, slain, 293. 

‘Ua Briain, Diarmaid, 317, 319, 321. 

Ua Briain, Domhnall Ban, slain, 279. 

Ua Briain, Domhnall, i.e, Gerr-lamhach, 
319, 337. 

Ua Briain, Donnchadh, son of Toirrdheal- 
bhach, 283, 309. 

Ua Briain, Muirchertach (Murtough), 
King of Ireland, 279, 2y1, 295, 297, 301, 
307, 309, 313, 315, 317, 319; dies, 321. 

UVa Briain, Murchadh, subsidises Aedh Ua 
Conchobhair, 289; liberates captives, 
299. 

Ua Briain, Tadhg, taken prisoner by his 
brother, 348. 

UVa Briain, Toirrdhealbhach (Turlough), 
King of Ireland, 269, 283, 289, 298; dies, 
295; death of Mér, daughter of, 299. 

Ua Briain, Toirrdhealbhach, King of Ire- 
land, 339, 343. ; 

Ua Bric, or Ua Brice (O’Bric), Ceallach, 
325, 

Ua Bric, Muircertach, King of the Deisi, 
301. 

Ua Brolchain (O’Brollaghan), Mael- 
brighde, Bishop of Cill-dara, 305. 

Ua Brolchain, Maelisa, a professor of 
learning, 295. 

Ua Cainnelbhain (O’Quinlan), Cu-uladh, 
309. 

Ua Cainnén, Maelmuire, Bishop of Sord, 
263. 

Ua Canannain (O’Canannain), Donn- 
chadh, King of Cinel Conaill, 291. 

Ua Canannain, Flaithbheartach, King of 
Cinel Conaill, slain, 239. 

Ua Canannain, Flaithbhertach, King of 
Cinel Conaill, dies, 275. 

Ua Canannain, Maelisa, slain, 217. 

Ua Canannain, Niall, slain, 225. 

UaCanannain, Ruaidhri, gainsa battle, 205. 

Ua Canannain, Ruaidhri, King of Cinel 
Conaill, 237, 269, 291. 

Ua Canannain, Ruaidhri, King of Cinel 
Conaill, slain, 337, 





411 


Ua Carée (O’Caréc), slain, 327, 

Ua Carraigh, Muircertach, 259. 

Ua Carthaigh (O’Carthy), Muircertach, 
chief poet of Connacht, 289. 

Ua Carthaigh (O’Carthy), a poet, slain, 
331. 

Ua Cathail (O’Cahill), Gillamochonna, 
slain, 345. 

Ua Cathain (O’Kane), Eoghan, comarb of 
Brenainn of Cluain-ferta, dies, 229. 4 
Ua Cathalain (O’Cahalan), Ainmire, 

Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, 209. 

Ua Catharnaigh (O’Kearney), Cinaeth, i.e, 
the Sinnach Finn, King of Teabhtha, 
slain, 295. 

Ua Cathasaigh (O’Casey), Cormac, co- 
marb of Brigid, dies, 343. 

Ua Cathasaigh, Gairbhith, King of Bregh, 
dies, 285. 

Ua Cathasaigh, Flaithbhertach, 345. 

Ua Cathasaigh, Maelciarain, slain, 295. 

Ua Cathluain (O’Cahalan), Cathal, the 
son of, 343. 

Ua Ceallaigh (O'Kelly), Aedh, King of 
Ui Maine, dies, 335. 

Ua Ceallaigh, Conchobhar, King of Ui 
Maine, slain, 269. 

Ua Ceallaigh, Conchobhar, slain, 337. 

Ua Ceallaigh, Conchobhar, the grandson 
of, 341. 

Ua Ceallaigh, Diarmaid, slain, 287. 

Ua Ceallaigh, Diarmaid, dies, 341. 

Ua Ceallaigh, Donnchadh, King of Ui 
Maine, slain, 291. 

Ua Ceallaigh, Kochaidh, 315. 

Ua Ceallaigh, Flannagan, King of Bregh, 


Us Ceallaigh, Sinnach Soghain, slain, 825, 

Ua Ceallaigh, Tadhg, King of Ui Maine, 
slain at Clontarf, 251, See O’Ceallaigh. 

Ua Ceirchaerach, Cathasach, lector of 
Ard-Macha, dies, 339. 

Ua Cennedigh (O’Kennedy), Madudhan, 
299. 

Ua Cennedigh, Gillapadraig, taken pri- 
soner, 335. 

Ua Cennedigh, thesonof Gillacaeimbghen, 
337. 


412 


Ua Cerbhaill (O’Carroll), Finn, royal heir 
of Ele, slain, 343. 

Ua Cerbhaill, Galbrat, royal heir of Temh- 
air, slain, 285. 

Ua Cethnen(O’Cethnen), Flaithbhertach, 
comarb of Tighernach, 247. 

Ua Ciardha (O’Keary, or O’Carey) Fer- 
gal, King of Cairbre, slain, 277. 

Ua Ciardha, the Gillaclaen, King of 
Cairbre, slain, 349. 

Ua Ciardha, Maelruanaidh, King of 
Cairbre, 235. 

Ua Ciardha, Ualarg, King of Cairbre, 
slain, 249. 

Ua Cillin (O’Killeen), Cormac, a vice- 
Abbot, 297, 311. 

Ua Cillin, Cormac, Bishop, 217. 

Ua Cillin, Conall, comarb of Cronan of 
Tuaim-greine, 265. 

Ua Cinnfaeladh (O’Kennelly), submits 
to Toirrdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, 
325. 

Ua Clerigh (O’Clery), Comaltan, 217, 
225. 

Ua Clerigh, Comaltan, the son of, 235, 
237. 

Ua Clerigh, Muiredhach, King of Aidhne, 
233. 

Ua Clumhain, Gilla-Aenghusa, poet, 
dies, 341. 

Ua Cobhthaigh (O’Coffey), Gilla-na- 
ninghen, King of Umhall, slain, 303. 
Ua Concennain (O’Concannon), Aedh, 

King of Ui-Diarmada, dies, 321. 

Ua Concennain, Donnchadh, dies, 339. 

Ua Concennain, Muirghius, King of Ui- 
Diarmada, dies, 273. 

Ua Concennain, Muirghius, King of Ui- 
Diarmada, dies, 211. 

Ua Concennain, son of Tadhg, King of 
Ui-Diarmada, 303. 

Ua Conchobhair (O’Conor), Aedh, King of 
Connacht, 273, 277, 279, 281, 283, 285, 
287, 289. 

Ua Conchobhair, Aedh, son of Cathal, 
slain, 301. 

Ua Conchobhair, Brian, royal heir of 
Connacht, 267. 





INDEX. 


Ua Conchobhair, Cathal, son of Aedh, 293. 

Ua Conchobhair, Cathal, son Tadhg, slain, 
837. 

Ua Conchobhair, Cathal, the grandson of, 
slain, 335. 

Ua Conchobhair, Conchobhar, son of 
Ruaidhri, 309, 

Ua Conchobhair, Conchobhar, son of 
Toirrdhealbhach, 327, 341. 

Ua Conchobhair, Cuconnacht, the sons of, 
331, 333. 

Ua Conchobhair Domhnall, royal heir of 
Connacht, slain, 293. 

Ua Conchobhair, Domhnall, 
Connacht, dethroned, 311. 
Ua Conchobhair, Domhnall, the grandson 

of, 345. 


King of 


‘Ua Conchobhair, Donnchadh, King of 


Ciarraighe Luachra, slain, 339. See Ua ~ 
Conchobhair Ciarraighe. 

Ua Conchobhair, Maelsechlainn, King of 
Corcumruaidh, 267. 

Ua Conchobhair, Niall, royal heir of Con- 
nacht, 265. 

Ua Conchobhair, Ruaidhri, King of Con- 
nacht, 293, 297, 299, 301, 321; death of 
Mor, wife of, 299. 

Ua Conchobhair, Ruaidhri, son of Toirr- 
dhealbhach, apprehended by his father, 
339. 

Ua Conchobhair (Tadhg), King of Con- 
nacht, 263, 287. 

Ua Conchobhair, Tadhg, son of Ruaidhri, 
King of Connacht, slain, 305. 

Ua Conchobhair, Tadhg, son of Toirrdheal- 
bhach, dies, 341. : 

Ua Conchobhair, Toirrdhealbhach, King 
of Connacht, 311, 313, 315, 317, 319, 
321, 328, 325, 327, 331, 333, 339, 341, 
343, 345. 

Ua Conchobhair Ciarraighe (O’Conor 
Kerry), King of Ciarraighe-Luachra, 
289. 

Ua Conchobhair Ciarraighe, 325. 

UaConchobhair Failghigh (O’Conor Faly), 
Conchobhar, 299. 

Ua Conchobhair Failghigh Congalach, 
295, 











INDEX. 413 


Ua Conchobhair Failghigh, Cuaifne, 329. 
Ua Conchobhair Failghigh, King of Ui 
_ Failghe, 279. 

Ua Confiacla (O’Confiacla), Aedh, King 
of Teabhtha, 241. 

Ua Confiacla, Aedh, dynast of Teabhtha, 
beheaded, 275. 

Ua Confiacla, Domhnall, dies, 341. 

Ua Conghalaigh (O'Conolly), slain, 225, 

Ua Conghalaigh, Donnchadh, slain, 233. 

Ua Conghalaigh, Donnchadh, slain, 259. 

Ua Conghalaigh, Muircertach, 235. 

Ua Connachtaigh (O’Conaty), Serrach, 
slain, 343. 

Ua Cosgraigh (O’Cosgraigh), Conaing, 
Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, dies, 
237. 

Ua Cubhrain, slain, 343. 

Ua Cuilennain, King of Conaille, 219. 

Ua Cuill (O’Quill), Cennfaeladh, a poet, 
dies, 277. 

Ua Cuinn (O’Quin), Niall, slain, 251. 

Uadha, son of Aedh, King of Connacht, 
death of, 63. 

Ua Diugraidh, Conn, comarb of Caemh- 
ghen, 255. 

Ua Domhnaill (O’Donnell), Conchobhar, 
King of Ui-Tuirtre, 257. 

Ua Domhnaill (O'Donnell), Cucaille, King 
of Durlas, 239. 

Ua Domhnaill, Maelmordha, King of Ui- 
Cennsealaigh, dies, 323. 

Ua Domhnaill, Maelmordha, the sons of, 
309. 

Ua Donnagain (O’Donegan), King of 
Aradh-tire, slain, 269. 

Ua Donnagain, Maelsechlainn, King of 
Aradh-tire, slain, 323. 

Ua Donnagain, Ruaidhri, King of Aradh, 
slain, 253. 

Ua Donnagain, Ruaidhri, King of Aradh, 
dies, 303. 

Ua Donnchadha (O’Donoghue), Donn- 
chadh, King of Caisel, dies, 283. 

Ua Donnchadha, Flann, comarb of Oena, 
dies, 247. 

Ua Donnchadha, Macraith, King of 
Eoghanacht, 275. 





Ua Dubhanaigh (O’Dubhanaigh), Tua- 
thal, Bishop of Cluain-Iraird, 267. 

Ua Dubhda (O’Dowda), Aedh, King of 
the North of Connacht, 229. 

Ua Dubhda, Domhnall Finn, drowned, 
327. 

Ua Dubhda, Domhnall, the son of, 
337. 

Ua Dubhda, Gebhennach, dies, 243. 

Ua Dubhda, Maelruanaidh, King of Ui- 
Fiachrach-Muirisge, 243. 

Ua Dubhda, Maelsechlainn, dies, 243. : 

Ua Dubhda, Muircertach, King of Ui- 
Fiachrach, slain, 305. 

Ua Dubhlaigh (O'Dooley), King of Feara- 
Tulach, 341. 

Ua Dubhthaigh (O’Duffy), Muiredhach, 
Archbishop, dies, 349. 

Ua Duibh (O’Duff), son of Lennan, slain, 
325. 

Ua Duibhcinn (O’Deegan, or Deegan), 
Cathal, slain, 317. 

Ua Dunadhaigh (O’Denny), Cuconnacht, 
slain, 275. 

Ua Dunain, Maelmuire, Bishop, 313, 
$21. 

Ua Echtighern (now Ahern), Gillachrist, 
Bishop of Cluain-muc-Nois, dies, 
309. 

Ua Edhin, or Ua Eidhin (O'Heyne), 
Flann, slain, 327. 

Ua Edhin, Gilla-na-naemh, 301, 305-7, 

Ua Edhin, Gilla-ruadh, slain, 327, 

Ua Edhin, Maelfabhaill, King of Ui- 
Fiachrach-Aidhne, 277. 

Ua Edhin, Maelruanaidh, King of Aidhne, 
251. 

Ua Eghnigh (O’Heney), Gilla-Coluim, 
King of Airghiall, dies, 277. 

Ua Eghnigh, Niall, King of Feara-Man- 
ach, slain, 281. 

Ua Egnechain (O’hEgnechain), Mael- 
ruanaidh, King of Cinel Conaill, slain, 
215. 

Ua Eghra (O'Hara), Domhnall, King of 
Luighne of Connacht, 263. 

Ua Eghra, Domhnall, King of the Co-~ 
rann, 265. 


414 


Ua Eghra (O’Hara), Murchadh, and his 
wife, slain, 335. 

Ua Eghra, Taithlech, King of Luighne, 
slain, 303. 

Ua Eghra, Taithlech, 335. 

Ua Eghrain, Echtighern, comarb of 
Ciaran and Coman, dies, 28]. 

Ua Eochadha(O’Hoey, or Hoey), King of 
Uladh, 331. 

Ua Eochadha, Aedh, King of Uladh, 
slain, 323. 

Ua Eochadha, Conchobhar Cisenach, King 
of Uladh, slain, 311. 

Ua Eochadha, Donnechadh, King of 
Uladh, 307,317. 

Ua Eochadha, Donnsleibhe, 
Uladh, slain, 801. 

Ua Eochadha, Goll Garbhraighe, King of 
Uladh, slain, 311. 
Ua Eochadha, Niall, 

slain, 327. 

Ua Eochadha, the Meranach, King of 

* Uladh, drowned, 295. 

Ua Eolais, Duarcan, slain, 313. 

Ua Eolais, Muiredhach, slain, 297. 

Ua Eradain, Cumuscach, Abbot of Ard- 
Macha, 285. 

Ua Faillechain, Macraith, a ne dies, 
341. 

Ua Fallamhain (O’Fallon), the Craibh- 
dech, drowned, 301. 

Ua Fallamhain, Diarmaid, dies, 829. 

Ua Ferghail, or Ua Ferghaile (O’Ferrall, 
or O'Farrell), the son of Cucaille, slain, 
313. 

Ua Ferghail, Domhnall, plundered, 319. 

Ua Ferghail, Domhnall, King of the 
Fortuatha of Laighen, slain, 275. 

Ua Ferghail, the son of Gilla-na-naemh, 
slain, 313. 

Ua Ferghail, Sitric, slain, 297. 

Ua Fiachrach, Mac Iarainn, King of 
Ui-Enechlais, slain, 309. 

Ua Finn (0’Finn), Lethlobhar, King of 
Dal-Araidhe, slain, 225. 

Ua Finnallan (O’Finlan), Cearbhall, dies, 


King of 


King of Uladh, 


341. 
Ua Flainn (O'Flynn), Fiachra, slain, 311. 





INDEX. 


Ua Flainn, Gilla-na-naemh, slain, 333, 
Ua Flainn, Oengus, comarb of Brenainn 
of Cluain-ferta, dies, 273. 
Ua Filaithbhertaigh (O'Flaherty), Aedh, 
King of the West of Connacht, slain, 
293. 

Ua Flaithbhertaigh, Conchobhar, 827. 

Ua Flaithbhertaigh, Flaithbheartach, 301, 
805. 

Ua Flaithbhertaigh, Fisithbberiarts the 
killing of, 835. 

Ua Flaithbhertaigh, Muiredhach, King of 

Ui-Briuin-Seola, 271. 

Ua Flaithbhertaigh, Muiredhach, King of 
the West of Connacht, slain, 328, 

Ua Flaithbhertaigh, Ruaidhri, slain, 287. 

Ua Flaithbhertaigh, Serridh, slain, 221. 

Ua Filaithnain (O’Flannan) Loingsech, 
comarb of Ciaran and Cronan, dies, 275. 

Ua Flaithnen, comarb of Ciaran, 803,305, ° 
307. 

Ua Flaithri (O’Flattery), King of Uladh, 
burned, 291, 

Ua Flannacain (O’Flanagan), Eochaidh, 
the historian, 241. 

Ua Flannagain (O’Flanagan), Gilla-Pad- 
raig, King of Teabhtha, slain, 235. 

Ua Flannagain, Gillapadraig, King of 
Teabhtha, 271, 

Ua Flannagain, Niall, King of Teabhtha, 
slain, 273. 

Ua Fogartaigh (O’Fogarty), Fogartach, 
301, 

Ua Fogartaigh, Gillamuire, comarb of 
Brenainn, 315. 

Ua Fogartaigh, Maelisa, a bishop, dies, 
331. 


Ua Gadhra (O'Gara), Taithlech, King of 


Luighne, 217. 

Ua Gairmleadhaigh (O’Gormly) seizes the 
sovereignty of Cinel Eoghain, 341. 

Ua Gebheannach (O’Keaveny), royal heir 
of Ui Maine, 261. 

Ua Gerithir, Bishop of Cill-Dalua, dies, 
283. 

Ua Gillapadraig, Gillapadraig, King of 
Osraighe, slain, 345. 

Ua Gilla-Ultain, Imhar, slain, 303. 








INDEX. 


Ua hAindlidhe (O’Hanly), Mac Ilestair, 
taken prisoner, 333-5. 

Ua hAinmire, Maelisa, Bishop of Port- 
Lairge, dies, 337. 

Ua hAirt (O’Hart), Domhnall, King of 
Teabhtha, dies, 255. 

UVa hAirt, Maelruanaidh, King of Teabh- 
tha, dies, 297. 

Ua hAirt, Muircertach, King of Teabh- 
tha, slain, 305. 

Ua hEidhin, or Ua Heidhin (O'Heyne), 
Aedh, King of Ui-Fiachrach, 323. 

Ua hEidhin, or Ua Heidhin, Gilla-na- 
naemh, King of Connacht, 301, 305-7. 

: See Ua Edhin. 

Ua Heni (O’Heney), Domhnall, Archbi- 
shop, dies, 305. 

Ua Inreachtaigh (O’Hanratty), King of 
Ui Meith, slain, 331. 

Uaithne-fidhbhaidhe (pron. Ooney-feevy), 
299. 

Uaithne-tire (Owney, co. Tipperary), 299. 

Ua Lachtnain, Diarmaid, King of Teabh- 
tha, 239. 

Ua Laeghachain, Cumedha, King of Sil- 
Ronain, 307. 

Ua Laeghachain, Cumedha, 345. 

Ua Laeghachain, Gilla-na-naemh, 345. 

Ua Laidhgnen, Lethlobhar, King of Air- 
ghiall, slain, 293. 

Ua Leochain (O’Leochain), Senan, King 
of Gaileng, 249. 

Ua Leochain, Senan, the son of, 263. 

Ua Leochain, the Sinnach, King of Gai- 
leng, 233. 

Ua Loingsigh (O’Loingsigh, or O’Lynch), 
Donnchadh, King of Dal-Araidhe, slain, 
243. 

Ua Loingsigh, Domhnall, King of Dal- 
Araidhe, 257. 

Ua Loingsigh, Flaithbheartach, comarb 
of Ciaran, 310, n. 1, 313. 

Ua Loingsigh, the sor of Eochaidh, 299. 

Ua Longain (now O’Longan, or Long), 
Airchinnech of Ard-Patrick, killed by 
lightning, 315. 

Ua Lorcain (O’Larkin), Murchadh, King 
of Ui Muiredhaigh, slain, 309. 





415 


Ua Loreain, Muirghes, slain, 323. 

Ua Lothchain, Cuan, chief poet of Ireland, 
265. 

Ua Luanaim, Gillacainnigh, dies, 343. 

Ua Madudhain (O’Madden), King of Sil- 
Anmchadha and Ui Maine, slain, 337. 
Ua Maeilbhrennain (O’Mulrennin), Mur- 

chadh, and his wife, slain, 343. 

Ua Maeilcallain (O’Mulholland), Cucairid, 
269. 

Ua Maeilcallain, Dubhtaichligh, slain, 249. 

Ua Maeilcorghus (O’Maelcorghus), Ceall- 
ach, 239. 

Ua Maeildoraidh (O’Muldory), Aedh, King 
of Cinel Conaill, 233, 269. 

Ua Maeildoraidh, Domhnall, King of Cinel 
Conaill, 271. 

Ua Maeildoraidh, Maelruanaidh, King of 
Cinel Conaill, 247, 265, 267. 

Ua Maeildoraidh, Muircertach, King of 
Cinel Conaill, 269. 

Ua Maeildoraidh, Niall, King of Cinel 
Conaill, dies, 285. 

Ua Maeileoin (O’Malone), Gillachrist, 
Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois,815,325, 327. 

Ua Maeilgiric, a poet, dies, 299. 

Ua Maeiliduin (O’Muldoon, and lately an- 
glicised ‘‘Meldon”), Longarg, vice-A bbot 
of Cluain-muc-Nois, 261. 

Ua Maeilmacha (O’Maeilmacha), Tuathal, 
comarb of Patrick, dies, 247. 

Ua Maeilmhuaidh (O’Molloy), King of 
Feara-Ceall, slain, 295. 

Ua Maeilmhuaidh, Domhnall, slain, 339. 

Ua Maeilmhuaidh, Fergal, King of Feara- 
Ceall, dies, 277. 

Ua Maeilmhuaidh, Gillacoluim, King of 
Feara-Ceall, slain, 313. 

Ua Maeilmhuaidh, Maelmhuaidh, King of 
Feara-Ceall, 259. 

Ua Maeilmhuaidh, the son of Fergal, 
slain, 339. 

Ua Maeilmhuaidh, the son of Fergal, 347. 

Ua Maeilmhuaidh, son of Ruaidhri, 339. 

Ua Maeilmocherghi (O’Mulmoghery, or 
Early), Muircertach, Bishop, dies, 347. 

Ua Maeilruanaidh (O’Mulrooney, or 
Rooney), King of Uladh, slain, 291. 


416 


Ua Maeilruanaidh (O’Mulrooney), Donn- 
chadh, dies, 341. 

Ua Maeilruanaidh, Maelsechlainn, slain, 
239. 

Ua Maeilruanaidh, Maelsechlainn, 267. 

Ua Maeilruanaidh, Maelsechlainn, slain, 
325. 

Ua Maeilruanaidh, Maelsechlainn, King 
of Crimhthann, slain, 273. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn (O’Melaghlin), Aedh, 
King of Ailech, dies, 295. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Art, dies, 339. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Conchobhar, ng of 
Meath, 269, 285, 291. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Conchobhar, wastes 

’ Midhe, 305. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Conchobhar, son of 
Murchadh, slain, 335. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Conchobhar, grandson 
of Donnchadh, 339. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn Diarmaid, King of 

- Midhe, 327, 331. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Domhnall, King of 
Cinel Eoghain, slain, 289. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Domhnall, son of 
Flann, King of Midhe, slain, 303. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Domhnall, son of 
Murchadh, 321, 327, 335. _ 

Ua Maeilseachlainn, Domhnall, half-King 
of Midhe, slain, 263. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Donnchadh, z.e. Car- 
rach-Calma, slain, 219. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Donnchadh, King of 
Midhe, 305, 309, 311. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Maelruanaidh Got, 
slain, 225. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Maelsechlainn, 319. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Maelsechlainn, 343. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Muircertach, King of 
the West of Midhe, 311, 313, 339. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Murchadh, slain, 271. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Murchadh, son of Con- 
chobhar, 293. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Murchadh, son of 

_ Flann, 291. 

Ua Maeilsechlainn, Murchadh, King of 

_ Meath, 315, 317, 319, 321, 323, 327, 
333, 339, 341, 343, 347. 





INDEX. 


Ua Maeiltelcha, Diarmaid, a Bishop, 259. 

Ua Maeiluidhir, Branagan, chief criti 
of Midhe, 261. 

Ua Maenaigh. See O’Maenaigh. 

Ua Maighne (O’Maighne), Maelciarain, 
comarb of Colum Cille, martyred, 231. 

Ua Mainnin (O’Mannin), King of Soghan, 
slain, 337. 

Ua Manachain (O’Monahan), Donnchadh, 
comarb of Caemhghen, 241. 

Ua Manachain, Muiredhach, a bishop, 271. 

Ua Mannachan (O’Monahan), Donn, slain, 
343. 

Ua Mathghamhna (O’Mahony), King of 
Uladh, slain, 287. 

Ua Mathghamhna, Aedh, King of Uladh, 
317, 327. 

Ua Mordha (O’More), Laeighsech, King 
of Laeighis, dies, 347. 

Ua Morgair (O’Morgair), Maelmaedhoig 
(Malachy), Bishop of Ard-Macha, 337, 
345, 347. 

Ua Morgair, Mughron, lector of Ard- 
Macha, dies, 307. 

Ua Mughroin (O’Moran), Cathal, 313. 

Ua Mughroin, the son of Cathal, 297. 

Ua Muiredhaigh (O'Murray), chief of 
Muinter-Tlamain, slain, 295. _ 

Ua Muirigen, Cathal, King of Teabhtha, 
slain, 307. 

Ua Muirigen, Doukeath King of Teabh- 
tha, slain, 303. 

Ua Muirigen, Tadhg, King of Teabhtha, 
slain, 289. 

Ua Mutain, Mughron, comarb of Bairre, 
slain, 283. 

Ua Nechtain (O’Naghten), Uareirghe,dies, 
333. 

Ua Neill (O’Neill), Aedh, son of Domhnall, 
King of Ailech, 239, 241, 243, 246, n. 6, 


Ua Neill, Aedh, King of Ailech, 259, 269, 


271. 

Ua Neill, Domhnall. See Domhnall, son 
of Muircertach. 

Ua Neill, Flaithbhertach, King of Ailech, 
265, 269, 273.» See O'Neill. 

Ua Niallain (O'Neylan), Ailill, tanist- 
Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, dies, 303.; 











INDEX, 


Ua Ogain (O’Hogan), Cennfaeladh, comarb 
of Brenainn, 301. 

Ua Ogain, the son of Congalach, 299. 

Ua Raduibh (O’Rodiv), Ambhlaibh, slain, 
333. 

Uargaeth, of Sliabh Fuaid, 245. 

Ua Riagain (O’Regan), Mathghamhain, 
King of the South of Bregh, 267. 

Ua Riain (O’Ryan), Tadhg, King of Ui- 
Drona, 257. 

Ua Riata, King of Aradh, 329. 
Ua Ruadhain (O’Rowan), Cinaeth, tanist- 
Abbot of Cluain-muc-Nois, dies, 295. 
Ua Ruadhain, Flannchadh, comarb of 
Ciaran of Cluain-muc-Nois, 241. 

Ua Ruaire (O’Rourke), Aedh, King of 

: Breifne, slain, 255. 

~ Ua Ruairc, Aedh, King of Breifue, 285, 
287. 

Ua Ruairc, Aedh, King of Conmaicne, 
slain, 297. 

Ua Ruaire, Aedh, son of Art, 289. 


Ua Ruaire, Aedh, i.e. “the Gilla-srén- - 


mael,” 313, 317, 323. 
Ua Ruaire, Art, King of Connacht, 259, 
269, 271, 273, 277. 
Ua Ruaire, Domhnall, King of Connacht, 
slain, 307. 
Ua Ruairc, Domhnall, son of Donnchadh, 
slain, 311. 
Ua Ruaire, the son of Domhnall, King of 
Ui-Briuin, 295. 
Ua Ruaire, Donnchadh, slain, 295. 
Ua Ruaire, Donnchadh, 298, note}. 
Ua Ruaire, Donnchadh, King of Con- 
maicne, slain, 307. 
Ua Ruairc, Donnchadh Derg, King of the 
East of Connacht, slain, 273. 
Ua Ruaire, Fergal, King of Connacht, 
"ei 5, S07, 
Ua Ruairc, Gillabraide, drowned, 325. 
Ua Ruairc, Gillabraide, King of Breifne, 
287. 
Ua Ruaire, Niall, slain, 277. 
Ua Ruaire, Tighernan, King of Breifne, 
325, 331, 345, 347. 
Ua Ruanadha, Ceallach, a poet, dies, 293. 
Ural Mountains. See Sliabh Rife. 





417 


Ur-Mumhain (Ormond), 327. See Ir- 


Mumhain. 

Ua-Seanchain (O’Shanahan), Ruadhri, 341. 

Ua Siridén (O’Sheridan), the son of Go- 
fraigh, slain, 297. 

Ua Suairligh, the Bishop, dies, 267. 

Uathmaran, the son of, 207. 

Uathmaran, King of Ui-Failghe, slain, 177. 

Uathmaran, King of Luighne of Con- 
nacht, dies, 193. 

Uathmaran, King of Ui-Fiachrach- 
Aidhne, dies, 165. 

Ua Tuathail (O’Toole), Ugaire, slain, 335. 

Ua Uchtain, Maelmuire, comarb of Colum 
Cille, dies, 273. 

Ugaire, son of Ailill, King of Laighen, 
slain, 189, 

Ugaire, son of Dunlaing, King of Laighen, 
263. 

Ugaire, son of Tuathal, King of Laighen, 
225. 

Ui-mBairche (a territ. anciently compris- 
ing the present barony of Slievemarague, 
Queen’s co., and a part of the co. Car- 
low), 31, 275. 

Ui-Becon (a tribe anciently seated in 
Meath), 233. 

Ui-Breasail (a sept seated in the present 
bar. of Oneilland East, co. Armagh), 
175, 187. 

Ui-mBriuin Ai (a tribe descended from 
Brian, brother of Niall of the Nine 
Hostages, and seated in Magh Ai, co. 
Roscommon), 101, 235. 

Ui-Briuin-Breifne (the co. Leitrim), 
bishop of, 347; kings of, 147, 295, 311. 

Ui-Briuin-Cualann (a territ. comprising 
part of the present counties of Dublin 
and Wicklow); Gillausaille,King of, 267. 

Ui-Briuin-na-Sinna (co. Roscommon), 
Donn Ua Mannachan, King of, 343. 

Ui-Briuin-Seola (a tribe seated in the bar. 
of Clare, co. Galway), 93, 129: kings 
of, 131, 271. 

Ui-Caissin (the tribe name of the Mac 
Namaras of Clare), 259. 

Ui-Canannain (O’Canannan), 269. 

Ui Cennsealaigh firs star now Wex- 

E 


418 


ford co.), king’ of, 31, 89,131, 159, 163, 
165, 178, 175, 179, 201, 207, 223, 225, 
229, 237, 245, 263, 269, 323; plundered, 
255; the men of, defeated, 223. See 
Laighen Desgabhair. 

Ui-Cernaigh, Maelfinnen, chief of, slain, 
189. 

Ui-Conaill-Gabhra (Connello, co. Lime- 
rick), plundered, 327; King of, 267. 
See Tir Conaill. 

Ui Conaing, 85. 

Ui Cormaic of Maenmagh, (a tribe an- 
ciently seated in the now co. of Galway, 
near Loughrea), 151. 

Ui-Cormaic of Ui-Echach (a tribe an- 
ciently settled in the district around 
Newry, co. Down), 201. 

Ui Crimthainn (a territ. included in the 
present bar. of Slane, co. Meath), 


Cumuscach, King of, slain, 95 ; Fergus, | 


chief of, 189. 

Ui Cuirrbuidhe. See Ui Fothaidh. 

Ui-Diarmada (or descendants of Diarmaid; 
the tribe name of the O’Concannons, of 
Corcamoe, co. Galway), kings of, 221, 
233, 273, 303, 311, 321.) 

Ui-Drona (Idrone, co. Carlow), Tadhg 

Ua Riain, King of, 257. 

Ui-Echach-Arda (i.e. Nepotes Eochodii of 
Ardes, co. Down), 51. 

Ui-Echach-Uladh (a tribe anciently settled 
inthe present bar. of Iveagh, co. Down), 
descent of, 51; kings of, 147, 229, 241. 

Ui-Echach of Munster (the country of 
the O’Mahonys, in the s. of the bar. of 

_ Carbury, co. Cork), kings of, 223, 225. 

Ui-Enechlais, or Ui-Fenechlais (in the 
present bar. of Arklow, co. Wicklow), 
189, 309. 

Ui-Failghe (Offaly, in Leinster), kings of, 
69, 93, 177, 193, 203, 208, 225, 243, n. 2, 
255, 259, 279, 329. 

Ui-Fenechlais. See Ui-Enechlais. 

Ui-Fiachrach (now the bar. of Tireragh, 
co. Sligo), Int. xl.; battle of, 47 ; Ca- 
thal, son of Oilill, King of, 129, 

Ui-Fiachrach-Aidhne (ie. the race of 
Fiachra, brother of Niall of the Nine 


INDEX. 





Hostages, inhabiting the territ. of 
Aidhne (pron. “ Ani”), co-extensive 
with the diocese of Kilmacduagh, co. 
Galway), Int. xl. 95; kings of, 47, 165, 
225, 265, 277, 305, 323, 327, 345. A 


Ui-Fiachrach of Ardsratha (a district i in 


the now co. of Tyrone, along the river 
Derg), 271. 

Ui-Fiachrach-Muirisge (in the ‘60. of 
Sligo), Maelruanaidh Ua Dubhda, King 
of, 243. 

Ui Fidhgheinte (a territ. in the co. Lime- 
rick, formerly comprising a large dis- 
trict round the town of Croom), 101; 
kings of, 91, 113, 141, 223. a 

Ui-Fogharta (or Eile-Ui-Fhogartaigh,now 
Eliogarty, co. Tipperary), 285. See 
Eile. 

Ui Forga (a tribe anciently seated at 
Ardcroney, near Nenagh, co. Tipper- 
ary), 133, 333; Domhnall, King of, 
233. jai 

Ui Fothaidh (a tribe anciently settled in 


- 


the barony of Iffa and Offa West, co. 


Tipperary), 175. 


Ui Gabhla, a territory in the s. of the co. 


Kildare, 35. See Gabhla. 

Uige, a Milesian king, dies, 13. 

Ui Laeghaire (i.e. the descendants of 
Laeghaire, King of Ireland, who were 
seated in the present baronies of Upper 
and Lower Navan, co. Meath), deathof 
Ailill, King of, 87. 

Ui Liathain (an ancient territ. nearly co- 
extensive with the present barony of 
Barrymore, co. Cork), Tolomnach, King 


of, 91; the son of Raghnall, slain by the — 


men of, 255. 

Ui-Maighteachain, of Farbil, co. “West- 
meath, 26]. 

Ui-Maine (Hy Many, the tribe and territ. 


of the O’Kellys, situated partly in the — 


cos. of Galway and Roscommon), 47, 
169; kings of, 67, 81, 93, 111, 119, 181, 
133, 147, 185, 231, 251, 269, 291, 335, 
337, 343; chief of, 22]; royal heir of, 
261 ; defhatot: 337, 345; plunder Clon-~ 
fert, 275; plunder Clonmacnois, 287. 








INDEX, 


Ui Maine Mic Neill (i.e. the descendants 
of Maine, son of Niall of the Nine Hos- 
tages, who were settled in West Meath), 
Aedh Buidhe, King of, 69. 

Ui Meith (in Oriel), Ua Indreachtaigh, 
King of, 331. 

Ui Meith (or Ui-Meith Macha, a tribe 
seated in the present bar. and co. of 
Monaghan), defeated in battle by Fer- 
gal, 117. See Omeith. 

Ui-Mic-Uais, the old name of a district in 
the now co. of Londonderry, on the w. 
side of the River Bann, inhabited by 
the descendants of Colla Uais, 5. 

Ui-mic-Uais of Midhe (now the bar. of 
Moygoish, co. Westmeath), 209, 211; 
Furadran, King of, 89. 

Ui Muiredhaigh (the tribe name of the 
O’Tooles, who were seated in the s. of 
the co. Kildare), Murchadh Ua Lor- 
cain, King of, 309. : 

Ui Neill (Northern), z.e. the descendants 
of Niall of the Nine Hostages, seated 
in the North of Ireland, 55. 

Ui Neill (Southern), the descendants of 
Niall, settled in Meath, defeated, 35, 
41, 161, 219; victorious, 71, 141; in- 
vaded, 171; attacked by Cormac, son 
of Cuilennan, 181; plundered, 121, 
143 ; rescued from Danish oppression, 
227 ; kings of, 77, 123. 

Ui-Niallain (baronies of Oneilland, co. 
Armagh), Loingsech, chieftain of, 229, 

Uisnech (Usney hill, co. Westmeath), the 
synod of, 315. 

Ui Tuirtre (a tribe and territ. situated in 
the present baronies of Upper and 
Lower Toome, co. Antrim, 101; Con- 
chobhar Ua Domhnaill, King of, 257. 

Uladh (¢.e. that part of Ulster com- 

_ prising the present counties of Down 
and Antrim), kings of, 51, 57, 61, 85, 
89, 103, 117, 135, 143, 151, 155, 159, 
169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 191, 201, 205, 
209, 219, 221, 227, 241, 245, 257, 287, 
291, 295, 301, 307, 311, 317, 323, 327, 
331; half-kings of, 153, 163, 169, 175; 
the hostages of, taken, 243, 247, 257 ; 





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plundered, 347. See Ulidia, Ulidians, 
and Ultonians. 

Ulcha Derg Ua Caillaidhe, slays Cennfae- 
ladh, King of Connacht, 107. 

Ulidia (Uladh), the army of, struck by 
lightning, 73; preyed by Aedh Finn- 
liath, 153. See Uladh. 

Ulidians (the people of Uladh), attempt 
to establish themselves in Emhain, 61 ; 
defeated, 159, 241; Flaithbhertach, 
King of Ailech, slain by, 215; the hos- 
tages of, taken by Brian, 245. See 
Ultonians. 

Ulitan, Abbot of Cluain-Iraird, dies, 99. 

Ulitan, King of Ciannachta, slain, 97. 

Ultan, son of Dicuill, slain, 107. 

Ultan Mac Ui Conchobhair, Abbot of 
Ard-Brecain, death of, 95; Maelfin- 
nian, comarb of, 219. A 

Ultonians, or Ulidians, defeated, 135, 
175, 331; defeat the Foreigners, 127, 
133, 197; battles fought by, 115, 169, 
221; plunder Ard-Macha, 255; con- 
tention at Ard-Macha, between the 
Cinel Eoghain and, 173; dispersed by 
famine, 277; invade Munster, 317. 
See Ulidians. 

Umhall (the Owles, co. Mayo), the Gen- 
tiles slaughtered by the men of, 127; 
the men of, slaughtered by Gentiles, 
129; kings of, 129, 149, 303. 


Vartry, river. See Inbher Dea. 
Vigilius, Pope, 51. 

Vision of St. Fursa, 81. 
Vitalian, Pope, 93. 


Ware, Sir James, cited, Int. xxii., xxiv. 

Waterford Harbour. See Loch-Dacaech. 

Wheat, a shower of, 261. 

West of Midhe. See Midhe, West of. 

West Midhe (Westmeath), the Connacht- 
men defeated by the men of, 177. 

Wexford Harbour. See Inbher Slaini. 

Wind, great, 125, 167, 173, 257, 301, 311. 

Wonders. See Prodigies. 

Wonders of Erinn, 107, z. ©. 


York. See Caer Abroc. 








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Full text of "Chronicum Scotorum : a chronicle of Irish affairs from the earliest times to A.D. 1135 ; with a supplement, containing the events from 1141 to 1150"

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