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Annals of Inisfallen (Author: unknown)

Annal AI1207

AI1207.1

The Kalends of January on Monday, and the twenty-ninth of the moon thereon.

AI1207.2

{Dáuíd Ua Duib Díthrib, bishop of Iarmumu, rested in Christ.

AI1207.3

The castle of Dún Lóich was built.

Les Mór with its churches was burned.

Annal AI1208

AI1208.1

The Kalends of January on Tuesday, and the tenth day of the moon thereon.

AI1208.2

The priest Ua Cuanacháin died this year in Cluain Uama on a pilgrimage.


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AI1208.3

Ua Maíl Fhábaill of Muscraige was slain by Mac na Sethar Ua B[...] through enmity.

AI1208.4

Gilla Colmáin Ua Riacáin, a noble priest of the community of Cluain Uama, died in Inis Faithlinn after a victory of piety, pilgrimage, and great tribulation.

Annal AI1209

AI1209.1

The Kalends of January on Thursday, and the twenty-first of the moon thereon.

AI1209.2

A hosting was made by Fíngen, son of Mac Carthaig, to Comán Cairrchi, and Ua Muirchertaig submitted to him. Fíngen had then a naval force on a circuit in Uí Ráthach, and they went into Dairbre, killed many thousands of cattle there, and put to death numerous people.

AI1209.3

Fíngen son of Mac Carthaig, high-king of Desmumu, was treacherously slain by the Uí Shúilliubáin. Diarmait, son of Mac Carthaig, took the kingship forthwith.

AI1209.4

Domnall Ua Rinn died this year.

AI1209.5

The foreign bishop was slain.

AI1209.6

{Fíngen, son of Fíngen Mac Carthaig, was slain by the foreigners of Corcach}.

Annal AI1210

AI1210.1

The Kalends of January on Friday, and the second day of the moon thereon.

AI1210.2

The king of England came to Ireland, and he accomplished little in Ireland apart from taking the hostages of Ua Conchobuir with him oversea and [securing] liberation for Muirchertach Ua Briain and the kingship of Tuadmumu for Donnchad Cairprech Ua Briain. Ua Néill, as well as Ua Conchobuir, submitted to the king of England, but two or three of the nobles of the foreigners were held by his followers as a guarantee of his safe return from the king. Messengers came to him (Ua Néill) to his house to seek hostages, and he said: ‘Depart, O foreigners’, ‘I will give you no hostages at all this time’. The foreigners departed, and he gave no hostages to the king.


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Annal AI1211

AI1211.1

The Kalends of January on Saturday, and the thirteenth of the moon thereon.

AI1211.2

Diarmait son of Mac Carthaig, {i.e. the son of Domnall}, was taken prisoner by the Sheriff in Corcach, and Donnchad Ua Meic Tíre was slain by the same foreigners.

AI1211.3

The son of Donnchad, son of Mac Carthaig, was blinded by Cormac Liathánach.

AI1211.4

Cormac Ciarraigech was blinded by the Sheriff in Corcach after he had been handed over by the Uí Shúilliubáin.

AI1211.5

Magnus Ua Caím was slain by grey foreigners.

Annal AI1212

AI1212.1

The Kalends of January on Sunday, and the twenty-fourth of the moon thereon.

AI1212.2

The kingship was taken forthwith by Cormac Liathánach, son of Mac Carthaig.

AI1212.3

Mac na Sethar Ua Flainn was slain by Cormac Liathánach.

AI1212.4

Domnall Ua Donnchada was slain by foreigners in the middle of Ua Muiredaig's stronghold. Muirchertach Ua Donnchada was [also] slain by the same foreigners, after he had been handed over by Ua Conchobuir, his own son-in-law. {These were two sons of Domnall Mór, and it was Aed, son of Conchobuir, who betrayed them}.

AI1212.5

Diarmait was once more set at liberty, and he and the Sheriff despoiled all Desmumu, spending twenty nights in Durrus. Cormac was in Inis Faithlinn during that time, and they departed again for Corcach. Cormac again came to collect the tributes(?) of Desmumu.

Annal AI1213

AI1213.1

The Kalends of January on Tuesday, and the fifth day of the moon thereon.

AI1213.2

Ua Mathgamna was taken prisoner by Cormac {Liathánach}.


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AI1213.3

Aed Ua hEtersceóil was slain by his own people.

AI1213.4

{Donnchad Ua Mathgamna and Thomas, son of Maurice, died}.

Annal AI1214

AI1214.1

The Kalends of January on Wednesday, and the sixteenth of the moon thereon.

AI1214.2

Muirchertach, son of Brian, was slain by the Sheriff and by Diarmait, son of Mac Carthaig.

Annal AI1216

AI1216.1

This is the nearest Kalend you find(?)
[...]
and the Kalend which follows the nineteenth, the Kalend of the year in which Séfraid Ó Donnchada's house was burned
[...]
little between them.

AI1216.2

The Kalends of January on Friday, and the ninth day of the moon thereon. The one thousandth two hundredth and sixteenth year from the Incarnation of the Lord.

AI1216.3

Death of the lord Pope Innocent.

AI1216.4

{A hosting by Tadc Mac Carthaig into Uí Meic Caille, and he took away cattle and stock, and the foreigners did him no hurt}.

Annal AI1217

AI1217.1

The Kalends on Saturday. A.D. 1217.

AI1217.2

The king of England died, and the son of the king of France came to England.

AI1217.3

{A hosting by the same Tadc into Uí Meic Caille, and his vanguard reached the Third of Corcach Bec and Cluain}.