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The Annals of Tigernach (Author: Unknown)

Annal T1069

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T1069.1

Diarmaid son of Matadán son of Gadhra Ó Dunadaigh, king of the Síol Anmchada, was killed by Ó Matadáin.

T1069.2

A hosting by Murchadh son of Diarmaid son of Maol na mBó into Meath, and he burned Granard and St Fechín's Fore, and Ardbrackan. So St Fechín killed him, face to face, and along with him was a slaughter of Leinstermen and Foreigners.


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Annal T1070

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K. ui.

T1070.1

Murchadh son of Diarmaid son of Maol na mBó, king of Leinster and the Foreigners, died in Dublin.

T1070.2

Conchobhar son of the Cleric Ó Conchobhair, crown prince of Connacht, was killed by the Uí Fallomhain.

T1070.3

Glún Iarainn Ó Maol na mBó was killed by the men of Meath.

T1070.4

Murchadh Liathach Ó Conchobhair, crown prince of Connacht, was treacherously killed by the Conmaicne.

T1070.5

Conn son of Mac Cuinn, king of Teffa, was killed, with many others, by the men of Brefne.

T1070.6

Muircheartach Ó Conchobhair, king of Offaly, was blinded by his own brother.

Annal T1071

T1071.0

Kalends of January on Saturday and 26 thereon.

T1071.1

Ruaidhrí Ó Canannáin, king of Tír Conaill, was killed.

T1071.2

Ó Maolruanaidh, king of Ulster, was killed.


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T1071.3

The son of Righbhardán, son of Cú Corne, king of the Éile and the son of Giolla Brighde Ó Maolmhuaidh, king of the Fir Ceall, were slain.

Annal T1072

T1072.0

Kalends of January on Sunday and 6 thereon.

T1072.1

Diarmaid son of Maol na mBó, king of Britons and the Hebrides and Dublin and Mog Nuadata Half was killed by Conchobhar Ó Maolseachlainn in the battle of Odba, and an innumerable slaughter of Foreigners and Leinstermen around him.

T1072.2

Ó Flaithrí, king of Ulster, and his son Aisidh, king of the Uí Gabla, were burned in a house set on fire and a multitude besides.

Annal T1073

T1073.0

Kalends of January on Tuesday and 18. thereon.

T1073.1

Conchobhar Ó Maolseachlainn, king of Tara, waas treacherously killed by his own brother's son, Muircheartach Ó Maolseachlainn. His head was taken by force out of his grave from Clonmacnois to Kincora by Toirdhealbhach Ó Briain on Good Friday. Through the virtue and miracles of God and St Ciarán, the same head was brought back again from the south on Sunday,


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with two rings of gold.

Annal T1074

T1074.0

Kalends of January on Wednesday and 19 thereon.

T1074.1

Dunan the archbishop of Dublin rested in peace.

T1074.2

Dunchadh Ó Ceallaigh, overking of the Uí Maine, was killed per dolum by his brother.

Annal T1075

T1075.0

Kalends on Thursday and 10 thereon.

T1075.1

Ó Canannán, king of Cenél Conaill, died.

T1075.2

Gofraidh king of the Foreigners died.

T1075.3

A hosting by Toirdhealbhach Ó Briain to Ardee, accompanied by the choice of the men of Ireland, to demand hostages from the Airgialla and the Ulaid. But he returned without hostages or pledges, after some of his people had been killed.


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Annal T1076

T1076.0

Kalends of January on Friday, and 21 thereon.

T1076.1

Murchadh son of Flann Ó Maolseachlainn, was treacherously killed by Olaf son of Maelán, king of the Galenga, in the bell-house of Kells, and straightway, through a miracle of St Columcill's, Olaf himself was killed by Maolseachlainn son of Conchobhar.

Annal T1077

T1077.0

Kalends of January on Sunday, and 2 thereon.

T1077.1

Clonmacnois was burned, excepting the church of St Ciarán's Gapling a bell.

T1077.2

Murchadh son of Conchobhar Ó Maolseachlainn was treacherously killed by the men of Teffa.

T1077.3

Gormfhlaith daughter of Ó Fócartaigh and wife of Toirdhealbhach Ó Briain died and coutless wealth was left by her [gap: extent: unknown] with its churches.


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Annal T1078

T1078.0

Kalends of January on Monday and 13 thereon.

T1078.1

Lethlobhar Ó Laidhgnén, king of Oriel, died, and Conchobhar Ó Briain, king of the kindred of Eoghan, and Domhnall son of Tighearnán Ó Ruairc, king of the Conmaicne, all were slain.

T1078.2

Cennfaeladh son of Dungalach, king of Muscraighe Tíre, glory of Munster, died.

Annal T1079

T1079.0

Kalends of January on Tuesday and 24 thereon.

T1079.1

Ceallach Ó Ruanadha, chief poet of Ireland, rested.

T1079.2

Aodh Ó Flaithbheartaigh, king of the west of Connacht, was killed by Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair.

T1079.3

The rifling of Croaghpatrick{folio 19a1}by Toirdhealbhach Ó Briain and the rifling of Loch Bennchoir by the same king.

T1079.4

A hosting by Toirdhealbhach Ó Briain as far as Dublin and


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the men of Meath, and Maolseachlainn, son of Conchobhar, with St Patrick's successor and the Keeper of the Staff of Jesus, submitted to him.

Annal T1080

T1080.0

Kalends of January on Wednesday and 15 thereon.

T1080.2

The men of Teffa and the Muinter Geradáin and the Cairbre Uí Ciarda went on a raid into Offaly, and reached the glebe of Cell Achaid where a defeat was inflicted upon them, and Ó Ciarda and the son of Mac Finnbair, chief of the Muinter Geradáin, and a great multitude, were slain.

Annal T1081

T1081.0

Kalends of January on Friday and 12 thereon.

T1081.1

The son of Amalgaidh Ó Flainn, chief of the Calraighe, was killed by Maolseachlainn son of Conchobhar.

T1081.2

Aran of the Saints was rifled by the Foreigners.


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Annal T1082

T1082.0

Kalends of January on Saturday and 27 thereon.

T1082.1

Domhnall son of Tadhg Ó Conchobhair, crown prince of Connacht, was treacherously killed by Cathal son of Aodh Ó Conchobhair.

T1082.2

Cathal Ó Conchobhair with a great army around him, was killed by Ruaidhrí son of Aodh of the Gapped Spear.

Annal T1083

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K. i.

T1083.1

Aodh Ó Maolseachlainn, king of Ailech, died.

T1083.2

The Meranach, grandson of Eochaidh, king of Ulster, was drowned at Limerick.

T1083.3

Tadhg Ó Taidhg, successor of St Flannán of Killaloe, rested.

Annal T1084

T1084.0

Kalends of January on Monday and 20 thereon.

T1084.1

Killaloe and Tomgraney and Mayno in Orbraige were burned by the Conmaicne.


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T1084.2

Conchobhar Ó Cétfadha, glory of Munster, died.

T1084.3

The king of Brefne, Donnchadh son of Art, called 'the Cock', son of Fergal Senior Ó Ruairc, marched with the people of East Connacht and Cairbre and the Gailenga into Leinster. But Muircheartach

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Ó Briain, king of Munster, with the men of Munster, the Foreigners, Leinster and Ossory, overtook him, and fought the battle of Monecronock, and therein were slain Donnchadh Ó Ruairc, king of the east of Connacht, and Cennétig grandson of Brian, crown prince of Ireland, and Conglach son of Murchadh Ó Conchobhair Failghe, and four thousand others were lost there. The head of the son of the Cock, king of Brefne, was taken to Limerick.

T1084.4

A great pestilence in this year, which killed a fourth of the men of Ireland. It began in the south, and spread throughout the four quarters of Ireland. This is the causa causans of that pestilence, to wit, demons that came out of the northern isles of the world, to with, three battalions, and in each battalion there were thiry and ten hundred and two thousand, as Oengus Óg, the son of the Dagda, related to Giolla Lugan, who used to haunt the fairy-mound every year on Halloween. And he himself beheld at Maistiu one battalion of them which was destroying Leinster. Even so they were see by Giolla Lugan's son, and wherever their heat and fury reached, there their venom was taken, for there was a sword of fire out of the gullet of each of them, and evey one of them was as high as the clouds of heaven, so that is the cause of this pestilence.


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Annal T1085

T1085.0

Kalends of January on Wedenesday, and eleven on it and that is the 1085th year since the birth of Christ.

T1085.1

The son of Domhnall Ó Ruairc, king of the Uí Briúin of Brefne, was killed per dolum.

T1085.2

A great tribulation of disease on Toirdhealbhach Ó Briain, and such was its greatness that his hair was struck off him.

Annal T1086

T1086.0

Kalends of January the 5th, the moon 12 15, the second bisextile year.

T1086.1

Maol Íosa Ó Brolchán, Venerable elder of Ireland, and arch-sage of wisdom: so great was it that he himselve made books and treatises replete with acuteness and intellect, and he died in the graces of God.


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T1086.2

Toirdhealbhach Ó Briain, king of the greater part of Ireland, died but in the 22d of his reign—so his life ended, and he departed after repentance. His son Tadhg died in one month.

T1086.3

The rout of the Crinach, inflicted by the Foreigners and the Leinstermen on Maolseachlainn son of Conchobhar, wherein there fell Maol Ciaráin Ó Cathasaigh and Maolmuaidh king of Fir Cell and others.

T1086.4

The White Fox i.e. Cinaeth Ó Catharnaigh, and his son, and Ó Muireadhaigh, chief of the Muinter Tlamain, were treacherously killed by Maolseachlainn son of Conchobhar, at the lake of Magh Luatha.

T1086.5

Ó Baoighealláin, king of Airghiall, was slain by the Conaille.

Annal T1087

T1087.0

Kalends of January the sixth day, the third of the moon.

T1087.1

Maolseachlainn son of Conchobhar, king of Tara, was killed through guile.


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T1087.2

The battle of Cunghill in Corann between Ruaidhrí of the Yellow Bitch son of Aodh of the Gapped Spear, grandson of Conchobhar, and Aodh son of Art the Proud, grandson of Ruairc, king of Connacht,{folio 19a2} and there fell therein Aodh Ó Ruairc, and Muireadhach Ó hEolais and Sitric son of Cú Slébe O Fearghail, and the son of Gofraidh Ó Siridén and many others. Tis by Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair that this battle was delivered.

T1087.3

The battle of Raith Etair between the Leinstermen and the men of Munster, and the Leinstermen were routed. Muircheartach Ó Briain was the victor.

Annal T1088

T1088.0

Kalends of January on Saturday and 4 thereon.

T1088.1

The rout of Inis Adarcach inflicted by Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair on Muircheartach Ó Briain, wherein such a slaughter of Munster was made that its fleet was not allowed to pass further, and Ruaidhrí also slaughter the crews of the same Muircheartach's fleet, which had come round westward over the sea to ravage Connacht.


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T1088.1

Huc usque Tigernach scribsit .o. quieuit.

T1088.2

The plundering of Corcomroe thrice by Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair and the Connachtmen, and on the third occasion there fell three nobles of Connacht, namely, the son of Cathal Ó Mugrón, chief of Clan Cathail, and Cú Sinna son of Muircheartach chief of Clann Tomaltaigh, and the son of Giolla Críost, chief of Corco Achlann. 1

{folio 19a2}

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T1088.3

Domnall son of Lochlann and the people of Tyrconnell and Tyrone went to ravage Connacht, under a promise of help from Muircheartach Ó Briain, king of Munster. But he did not fulfil it, so Domhnall and his army marched to Ráith Cruachan, and there he came up with Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair and overpowered him, so that he gave them all a fortnight's billeting. And both of them invaded Munster, and ravaged it as far as Emly and Loch Gur and Bruree and Drumain Hui Clérchín, and they destroyed Limerick and brought the head of the 'Cock' Ó Ruairc from the Hillocks of Singland, and destroyed Kincora, and captured five score warriors, both Foreigners and Gaels, and took their hostages, and brought thereout the son of Mathgamhain Ó Cennétigh, so that many kine and gold and silver and drinking-horns were given in lieu of him and in lieu of the son of Congalach Ó hÓgáin and the son of Eochaidh Ó Loingsigh, who was in the same capture, etc.


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T1088.4

Dubh Chobhlaigh daughter of Aodh Ó Conchobhair, died.

T1088.5

Mór daughter of Tairdhealbhach Ó Briain, wife of Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair, died.

T1088.6

Ó Maoilghirigh, chief poet of Ulster, died.