Kalends of January
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. AD 853.
Tuathal son of Mael Brigte, king of Uí Dunlaing, was wickedly slain by his own kinsmen.
Mael Sechnaill, king of Temair, marched against the men of Mumu to Inneóin na nDéise, and took hostages from them.
The successor of Colum Cille, an excellent scholar, suffered a violent death among the Saxons on the fourth of the Ides 12th of March.
Tigernach and Flann son of Conaing both raided Domnach Mór, but Flann gained the day.