34] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 21st of
A great fit of sickness seized
3]
Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of Erinn, and removed
4]
him from his sovereignty.
Diarmaid Ua Briain, moreover,
5]
assumed the sovereignty of Mumha, in his presence, without
6]
permission.
A hosting by Domhnall Mac Lachlainn to
7]
Rath-Cennaigh, when Eochaidh Ua Mathghamhna, with
8]
the Ulidians, came into his house, and Donnchadh Ua
9]
Loingsigh, with the Dal-Araidhe, and Aedh Ua Ruairc,
10]
with the men of Breifne, and Murchadh Ua Maelsechlainn,
11]
with the men of Midhe. They all proceeded across Ath-Luain
12]
to Dun-Leodha, where Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair,
13]
with the Connachtmen, aud Niall, son of Domhnall
14]
Mac Lachlainn, with the chieftains of Clann-Conaill, came
15]
into his assembly.
They all went thence, afterwards, to
16]
Telach-Uí-Deghaidh, in Dal-Cais, where they and the men
17]
of Mumha made a year's peace; and Domhnall Mac
18]
Lachlainn went through Connacht, and from thence to his
19]
house.
Aedh, son of Donnchadh Ua hEochadha, royal
20]
heir of Uladh, mortuus est.
Ruaidhri Ua Canannain,
21]
royal heir of Cenel-Conaill, was slain by the
Cenel-Eoghain.
22] Muirchertach Mac Lachlainn, royal heir of Oilech, injuste
23]
interfectus est.
24] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 2nd of the
25]
moon; the age of the Lord fifteen years, and a hundred,
26]
and a thousand
Very severe weather, with frost and
27]
snow, from the l5th of the kalends of January to the l5th
28]
of the kalends of March, vel paulo plus,
which made great
29]
havoc of birds, and cattle, and people; and from which
30]
arose great scarcity and want throughout all Erinn, and in
31]
Laighen especially.
Diarmaid O'Briain, king of Mumha,
A murderous
2]
attack was made by the grandsons of Aedh, son of
3]
Ruaidhri, on Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobhair, king of
4]
Connacht, and he was wounded so that he was in extreme
5]
agony.
A victory by Domhnall Ua Briain and the Foreigners
6]
of Ath-cliath, over the Lagenians, in which Donnchadh,
7]
grandson of Mael-na-mbo, king of Uí-Ceinnsealaigh,
8]
and Conchobhar Ua Conchobhair, king of Uí-Failghe,
9]
with his sons, and a multitude besides, were slain.
Domhnall,
10]
son of Tadhg Ua Briain, royal heir of Mumha, was
11]
slain by the Connachtmen.
Muirchertach Ua Briain
12]
assumed his own sovereignty again, and went on a hosting
13]
into Laighen and Bregh.
The stone-church of Ard Brecain,
14]
with its full of people, was burned by the men of
15]
Mumha, and many churches besides in Feara-Bregh.
A
16]
great predatory excursion by Toirdhealbhach O Conchobhair
17]
and the Connachtmen, and they plundered Tuadh-Mumhan
18]
as far as Luimnech, and carried off countless cattle
19]
spoils and numerous prisoners.
Maelsechlainn Ua
20]
Maelsechlainn, royal heir of Temhair, occisus
est.
21] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 13th of
22]
the moon; the age of the Lord sixteen years, and a hundred,
23]
and a thousand.
Cellach, comarb of Patrick, went on a
24]
visitation of Connacht, for the second time, and obtained
25]
his full tribute.
Cill-Dalua, with its church, was burned.
26] Corcach-mor of Mumhan, and Imlech-Ibhair, and the oratory
27]
of Maelisa Ua Brolchain, and a part of Lis-mór; were
burned
28]
in the same year.
Achadh-bo-Chainnigh was burned.
29] Cluain-Iraird cremata est.
The Abbot's great house of
30]
Ard-Macha, with twenty houses about it, was burned in the
31]
beginning of the Lent of this year.
Ladhmann, son of
32]
Domhnall, king of Alba, was slain by the men of Moray.
33] Derbhail, daughter of Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain, mortua est.
1] The kalends of January ou the 2nd feria, the 24th of
2]
the moon; the age of the Lord seventeen years and a
3]
hundred, and a thousand.
Conchobhar Ua Cairellain was
4]
slain by the Feara-Manach.
The battle of Lecain was
5]
given by Brian, son of Murchadh, and by the sons of
6]
Cathal Ua Conchobhair, having the Connachtmen along
7]
with them, to Toirdhealbhach son of Diarmaid, and
8]
to the Dál-Cais; and the Dál-Cais were defeated and
9]
put to slaughter.
A victory over the Cenel-Eoghain of
10]
the Island, by the Cenel-Conail, when they were put to
11]
slaughter, and many of their chieftains slain.
12] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the
5th of
13]
the moon; the age of the Lord eighteen years and a
14]
hundred, and a thousand.
Laidhgnén Ua Duibhdhara,
15]
king of Feara-Manach, was slain by the Uí-Fiachrach,
16]
and by the men of the Craebh.
Diarmaid Ua Briain,
17]
king of Mumha, and of all Leth-Mogha, died at Corcach-mór
18]
of Mumha, after unction and penitence.
The value of
19]
one hundred ounces of the offering and mass cloths of Cellach,
20]
comarb of Patrick, were submerged in the
Dabhall;
21]
and he himself was endangered.
Paschalis, comarb of
22]
Peter, servus religiosus cum dilectione Dei et
proximi
23]
ad Christum migravit.
Maria, daughter of Maelcoluim,
24]
i.e. daughter of the king of Alba, wife of the king of the
25]
Saxons, mortua est.
A hosting by Toirdhealbhach Ua
26]
Conchobhair, king of Connacht, and by Murchadh O Maelsechlainn,
27]
king of Temhair, along with him, and by Aed
28]
O'Ruairc, into Mumha, as far as Glenn-Maghair; and he
29]
gave Des-Mumha to Mac Carthaigh, and Tuadh-Mumha
Another hosting by him to Ath-cliath,
3]
when he carried away the son of the king of Temhair,
4]
who was in the hands of the Foreigners, and the hostages
5]
of the Foreigners themselves, and the hostages of Laighen
6]
and Osraighe.
A wonderful story in this year, viz: a
7]
very great earthquake in Sliabh-Elpa, which extinguished
8]
many cities, and a multitude of people in them.
Another
9]
wonderful story also in Erinn, viz.:—a mermaid was
10]
caught by the fishermen of Lis-Airglinn, in Osraighe, and
11]
another at Port-Lairge.
Domhnall, son of Ruaidhri Ua
12]
Conchobhair, mortuus est.
Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, king
13]
of Connacht for a long time, died in pilgrimage in the
14]
thirty-sixth year after he was blinded—in
clericatu vitam
15]
feliciter finivit at Cluain-mic-Nois.
16] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the 16th of
17]
the moon; the age of the Lord nineteen years and a
18]
hundred, and a thousand.
Cenn-coradh was demolished
19]
by the Connachtmen.
Muirchertach O'Briain, king of
20]
Erinn, prop of the glory and magnificence of the West of
21]
Europe, after the triumph of sovereignty and penance, on
22]
the festival of Mochaemhóg, on the 6th of the ides of
March,
23]
in bono fine vitam finivit.
Cúchollchaille O'Baighelláin,
24]
chief ollamh of Erinn in poetry, and a man
distinguished
25]
for charity and hospitality, and for universal benevolence
26]
towards the needy and the powerful, was slain by the Feara-Luirg
27]
and Tuath-ratha, cum sua uxore et duobus filiis
28]
suis bonis, et cum xxxv. aliis, consisting both of his
family
29]
and guests, in the same house, the Saturday before Little
30]
Easter, on the festival of Becan, son of Cula.
Ruaidhri
31]
O'Tormair, airchinnech of Fathan-mor, quievit.
Conchobhar
32]
O'Gairmleghaigh, chief of Cenel-Moain, was slain
2] Niall, son of Domhnall Mac Lachlainn, royal heir of
3]
Oilech and Erinn, and the paragon of Erinn for figure
4]
and sense, for honour and learning, fell by the Cenel-Moain,
5]
in the 28th year of his age, on Monday as
regards
6]
the day of the week, on the tenth of the moon's age, the
7]
festival of the 'Three Innocent Sons,' in decimo
octavo
8]
kalendas Januarii.
9] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the
27th
10]
of the moon; the age of the Lord twenty years, and a
11]
hundred, and a thousand.
A hosting by Domhnall Mac
12]
Lachlainn to Ath-Luain, to assist Murchadh Ua Maelsechlainn
13]
against Connacht, and Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair
14]
made a false peace with them.
The victory of the
15]
plain of Cill-mór in Uí-Niallain was gained by Raghnall,
16]
son of Mac Riabhaigh, over the Uí-Echach, who were put
17]
to slaughter.
Cellach, comarb of Patrick,
went on a visitation
18]
of Mumha, when he obtained his full demand, and
19]
left a blessing.
Branan, son of Gillachrist, chief of Corca-Achlann,
20]
died.
Echmarcach Mac Uidhrén, chief of Cenel-Feraghaigh,
21]
was slain by the Feara-Manach.
The bridge
22]
of Ath-Luain was made.
22] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 9th of the
23]
moon; the age of the Lord twenty-one years, and a hundred,
25]
and a thousand.
Domhnall, son of Ardghar Mac
26]
Lachlainn, the most distinguished of the Gaeidhel of
27]
Erinn for figure, for family, for sense and prowess, for
28]
prosperity and for constancy, for the bestowing of jewels
29]
and food, died in Doire-Choluim-Chille in the 38th year
30]
of his reign, and in the 73rd year of his age, on the night
31]
of Wednesday particularly, and on the 4th of the ides of
32]
February, the festival of Mochuarog 'the Wise'.
A
33]
hosting by Toirdhelbhach Ua Conchobhair, accompanied
34]
by the men of Connacht, to Des-Mumha, and they plundered
35]
from Magh-Feimhin to Traigh-Lí, both church and
36]
territory, viz.:—seventy churches, vel paulo
plus.
1] A predatory hosting by Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair again
2]
into Des-Mumha, until he reached the termon of Lis-mór;
3]
and he obtained countless cattle spoils, and lost Muiredhach
4]
O'Flaithbhertaigh, king of the west of Connacht,
5]
and Aedh Ua hEidhin, king of
Uí-Fiachrach-Eighne.
6] The steeple of Telach-nImmuinne, in Osraighe, was cleft
7]
by a thunderbolt, and a stone flew from it, which killed
8]
a student in the church.
Cellach, comarb of Patrick,
9]
assumed the bishopric of Ath-cliath by the choice of
10]
Foreigners and Gaeidhel.
A gale of wind occurred on
11]
the nones of December, which knocked off the conical cap
12]
of the steeple of Ard-Macha, and caused a great destruction
13]
of trees throughout all Erinn.
14] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 20th of
15]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-two years, and a
16]
hundred, and a thousand.
Aedh Ua Ruaire, king of Conmaicne,
17]
fell by the men of Midhe, whilst taking a prey
18]
from them.
The shrine of Colman, son of Luachan, was
19]
found in the tomb of Lann, a man's cubit in the earth,
20]
on Spy Wednesday.
A hosting by Toirdhelbhach Ua
21]
Conchobhair to Loch-Sailech in Midhe, when Mac Murchadha,
22]
king of Laighen and the Foreigners, came into
23]
his house.
Mor, daughter of Domhnall Mac Lachlainn,
24]
wife of Toirdhelbhach Ua Conchobhair, died.
A great
25]
predatory expedition by Conchobhar Mac Lachlainn and
26]
the Cenel-Eoghain, until they arrived at Cill-ruaidh in
27]
Ulidia, and they carried off countless cattle spoils.
Aedh
28]
Ua Duibhdhirma, chief of the Bredach, and head of the
29]
hospitality of the North, and Domhnall his brother,
30]
mortui sunt.
31] The kalends of January on the 2nd feria, the 1st of the
32]
moon; the age of the Lord twenty-three years, and a hundred,
33]
and a thousand.
The Gailenga captured a house at
34]
Daimhliag-Cianain, against Maelsechlainn Ua Maelsechlainn,
An unprecedented attack was
6]
made on the comarb of Ailbhe, i.e.
Maelmordha, grandson
7]
of Clothna, viz.:—a house was captured against him in the
8]
middle of his own Imlech, and against the son of Cerbhall
9]
Ua Ciarmhaic, king of Ane; and seven persons were
10]
killed there. The good men escaped therefrom, however,
11]
through the grace of Ailbhe and the Church; but the
12]
Bernan-Ailbhe was, indeed, burned there. The person
13]
who captured this house, viz.:—the Gilla-caech Ua
14]
Ciarmhaic, (and he was by title a deacon), was slain
15]
before the end of a month afterwards and his head was
16]
cut off, for the profanation of God and Ailbhe.
Donnsleibhe
17]
Mac Cathalain, the prosperity and happiness of all
18]
Uladh, mortuus est.
Donnchadh Mac Gillapatraic
19]
Ruadh, king of Osraighe, a suis occisus
est.
Conghalach
20]
Ua Laithbhertaigh royal heir of Oilech,
occisus est.
21] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 12th of
22]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-four years and a
23]
hundred, and a thousand.
Toirfhinn Mac Turcuill, principal
24]
young lord of the Foreigners of Erinn, subita
morte
25]
periit.
Tadhg, son of Mac Carthaigh, king of Des-Mumha,
26]
died.
A great alarm was given to the king of Temhair
27]
on Easter Sunday, viz.:—his Easter house fell on him
28]
and on his household.
Luimnech was all burned, except
29]
a little.
Alexander, son of Maelcoluim, king of Alba, in
30]
bona poenitentia mortuus est.
The hostages of Des-Mumha
Ardghar, grandson of
5]
Aedh Ua Maelsechlainn, was slain by the people of Doire,
6]
in revenge for Colum-Cille.
7] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the 23rd of
8]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-five years, and a
9]
hundred, and a thousand.
The fifth of the ides of January,
10]
moreover, was on Friday, the first of the
moon, and
11]
on it the protecting ridge was raised over the great stone-church
12]
of Ard-Macha, after it had been fully covered
13]
with shingling by Cellach, comarb of Patrick, in the one
14]
hundred and thirtieth year since it had a complete shingle
15]
roof before.
Gillabraide Ua Ruairc was drowned in
16]
Loch-Ailinne.
A hosting by Toirdhelbach O'Conchobhair
17]
into Midhe, when he expelled Murchadh Ua
18]
Maelsechlainn from his sovereignty, and placed three
19]
kings over the men of Midhe. Domhnall, son of Murchadh,
20]
however, killed the third king, viz.:—Maelsechlainn,
21]
son of Donnchadh, before the end of a 'nomaidh'.
22] A hosting by Muirchertach O'Cerbhaill, king of the South
23]
of Fernmagh, to the men of Bregh; but Diarmait Ua
24]
Maelsechlainn, with the men of Midhe and the men of
25]
Bregh, met him, and Muirchertach was slain there, and
26]
a slaughter of his host was committedabout
him.
27] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 4th of
28]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-six years, and a
29]
hundred, and a thousand.
Enná son of Murchadh, king of Leinster, mortuus est.
A hosting by Toirdhelbhach
30]
O'Conchobhair to the Lagenians, and he received their
31]
pledges.
Ua Maelruanaigh, king of Feara-Manach, a suis
32]
occisus est.
Maelísa Ua Conne, the most learned of the
33]
Gaeidhel of Erinn in jurisprudence, and in the Ord-Patraic,
Corcach-mor
2]
of Mumha, with its churches, was burned.
Domhnall Ua
3]
Dúbdha was drowned after committing a depredation in
4]
Tir-Conaill.
Royal journey of Toirdhelbhach Ua Conchobhair
5]
to Ath-cliath and Laigen to his son, i.e. to
Conchobhar.
6] Great war in Erinn, so that the comarb of Patrick was
7]
obliged to be a month and a year absent from Ard-Macha,
8]
pacifying the men of Erinn, and imposing rules and good
9]
customs on all, both laity and clergy.
A treacherous depredation
10]
by Ruaidhri Ua Tuachair, in Airthera; but the men
11]
of Airthera overtook, and committed a slaughter of, the
12]
army of Ruaidhri; and he himself was there beheaded.
13]
A hosting by Toirdhelbhach Ua Conchobhair until he
14]
reached Glenn-Maghair, in
Des-Mumha, and he carried
15]
off countless cattle spoils.
16] The kalends of January on the 7th feria, the 15th of
17]
the moon; the age of the Lord twenty-seven years, and a
18]
hundred, and a thousand.
A hosting by Toirdhelbhach
19]
O'Conchobhair into Des-Mumha, until he reached Corcach-mor
20]
of Mumha, and he carried off the hostages of
21]
all Mumha.
The men of Airthera captured the house of
22]
Flann, son of Sinach, in Trian-Saxan, in Ard-Macha,
23]
against Raghnall, son of Mac Riabhaigh, on the night of
24]
the Monday of Shrovetide, and he was beheaded by them.
25] A battle between the Ulidians themselves, when two
26]
kings of Ulidia, viz.:—Niall, son of Donnsleibhe (and a
27]
slaughter of the Ulidians about him), and Eochaidh Ua
28]
Mathghamhna, were slain in the mutual wounding of
29]
the battle.
Gillachrist Ua hEighnigh, king of Feara-Manach,
30]
and chief king of Oirghiall, died in Clochar-Uí-nDaimhin,
31]
after choice penance.
The men of Mumha
Cerbhall, grandson of
6]
Faelan, (and a slaughter of the Uí-Faelain about
7]
him), fell by the Uí-Failghe in the middle of Cill-dara,
8]
defending the comarbship of Brigid.
Taillti, daughter
9]
of Murchadh Ua Maelsechlainn, wife of Toirdhelbhach
10]
Ua Conchobhair, died.
Gillabrighde Ua Forannain,
11]
airchinnech of Ard-Sratha, mortuus est.
12] The kalends of January on the 1st feria, the 26th of
13]
the moon; the age of the Lord, twenty-eight years, and a
hundred, and a thousand.
Bissextus et embolismus
14]
annus.
The men of Magh-hItha, i.e. with Domhnall Ua
15]
Gairmleghaigh, captured a house against the king of
16]
Feara-Manach, i.e. against Faelan Ua Duibhdhara, who
17]
fell by them, and many of the nobles of Feara-Manach
along with him.
A victory was gained by the cavalry
18]
of the son of Mac Lachlainn, i.e. Conchobhar son of Mac
19]
Lachlainn, over the cavalry of Tighernan Ua Ruairc, in
20]
which were slain Ua Ciardha, king of Cairbre, and Cathal
21]
Ua Raighilligh, and Sitric Ua Maelbrighde, and the son
22]
of Aedh Ua Dubhda, king of Uí-Amhalghadha, et alii multi.
An ugly, ruthless, unprecedented deed, which
23]
earned the malediction of the men of Erinn, both lay and
24]
clerical—for which no equal was found previously in
25]
Erinn—was committed by Tighernan Ua Ruairc, and by
26]
the Uí-Briuin, viz.:—the comarb of Patrick was
openly
27]
profaned in his own presence, and his retinue were
28]
plundered, and a number of them slain; and a young
29]
cleric of his own people, who was under a cuilebadh,
30]
was killed there. The evil consequence, moreover, that
A predatory hosting
8]
by Toirdhelbhach Ua Conchobhair into Laighen, until
9]
he reached Loch-Carman; from thence round Laighen to
10]
Ath-cliath, (and he committed a great destruction of cows
11]
along that route); and from Ath-cliath to his home
again.
12] The infamy of this hosting, moreover, rested on Tighernan
13]
O'Ruairc, with his people.
A depredation by the men of
14]
Fernmhagh in the territory of the Uí-Briuin, and they
15]
carried off great spoils; but Tighernan Ua
Ruairc, with
16]
the Uí-Briuin, and with another large army, overtook
17]
them at Ath-Fhirdheghaidh. A battle was fought
18]
between them on both sides. Tighernan and the Uí-Briuin
19]
were defeated, however, and four hundred of them
20]
were slain in the beginning, in
vindication of the
21]
honour of Patrick's people.
A hosting by Conchobhar
22]
Ua Lochlainn and the Cenel-Eoghain, and the Dal-Araidhe
23]
and Airghialla, into Magh-Cobha, when they
24]
carried off the hostages of the Uí-Echach. They afterwards
25]
turned to the left, into Feara-Bregh; and they lost
26]
a number of their people there, and committed a great outrage
27]
before God and men, viz.:—the burning of Ath-truim
28]
with its churches; and a great number of
persons suffered
29]
martyrdom in them.
Non impetrata pace Dei uel hominum
30]
retro ambulaverunt.
A peace of one year and a
31]
half, vel paulo plus, was made by the comarb
of Patrick
32]
between the Connachtmen arnd the men of Mumha.
1] The kalends of January on the 3rd feria, the 7th of the
2]
moon; the age of the Lord twenty-nine years, and a hundred,
3]
and a thousand.
Cellach, comarb of Patrick, i.e.
4]
the chief bishop of the West of Europe; a pure, illustrious
5]
virgin; the only head whom Foreigners and Gaeidhel,
6]
both laics and clerics, obeyed; after
having, moreover,
7]
ordained bishops and priests, and persous of every degree
8]
besides; and after having consecrated very many churches
9]
and cemeteries; after having bestowed jewels and wealth;
10]
and after having imposed faith and good manners on all,
11]
both laity and clergy; and after a life of mass-celebration,
12]
fasting, and praying, and after unction and
choice penance,
13]
resigned his soul into the bosom of angels and archangels,
14]
in Ard-Patraic, in Mumha, on the kalends of April,
15]
the 2nd feria, in the twenty-fourth year of
his abbotship,
16]
and in the fiftieth year of his age. His body was conveyed,
17]
truly, on the 3rd of the nones of April, to
Lis-mór-Mochuda,
18]
according to his own will; and it was waked
19]
with psalms, and hymns, and canticles, and was honourably
20]
interred in the tomb of the bishops, on, the day before
21]
the nones of April, on the 5th feria.
Muirchertarch,
20]
son of Domhnall, was ordained in the comarbship of
21]
Patrick, on the nones of April.
The house of Colum-Cille,
22]
in Cill-mic-Nenain, was captured by Tairchert
23]
against Aedh, son of Cathbhar Ua Domhnaill; and it
24]
was burned by him.
The castle of Ath-Luain was built
25]
by Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair.
Gillachrist, son of
26]
Mac Uidhrin, chief of Cenel-Feradhaigh, was burned in
27]
the house of his fosterer, in Tir-Manach, in
treachery.
28] Niall Ua Crichain, king of Uí-Fiachrach of Ard-sratha,
29]
was slain by the Uí-Ceinneidigh.
30] The kalends of January on the 4th feria, the l8th of
31]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty years, and a hundred,
Sord-Choluim-Chille, with its
2]
churches and relics, was burned.
Cúaibhne Ua Conchobhair,
3]
king of Uí-Failghe, died.
A battle between
4]
the men of Alba and the men of Muiriebh, in which
5]
4,000 of the men of Muiriebh, with their king, i.e.
6]
Aenghus, son of Lulach's daughter, and 1,000 of the men
7]
of Alba, fell in the mutual wounding.
A hosting by
8]
Mac Lachlainn and the men of the North of
Erinn, into
9]
Ulidia, and the Ulidians assembled to give them battle;
10]
but the Ulidians were defeated and slaughtered, together
11]
with Aedh Ua Loingsigh, king of Dal-Araidhe, and with
12]
Gillapatraic Mac Serridh, king of Dal-Buinne, and with
13]
Dubhrailbhe Mac Cartain, and many besides. They
14]
plundered the country, moreover, as far as the east of the
15]
Ard, both territory and church, and carried off a thousand
16]
captives, vel paulo plus, and many thousands
of cows and
17]
horses.
18] The chief men of Ulidia, however, came afterwards,
19]
with their king, to Ard Macha, to meet Conchobhar,
20]
and they made peace and took mutual oaths, and
21]
they the Ulidians left hostages.
A great crop of every
22]
kind of produce generally in Erinn this year.
23] The kalends of January on the 5th feria, the twenty-ninth
24]
of the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-one years,
25]
and a hundred, and a thousand.
A predatory hosting by
26]
Toirdhelbhach O'Conchobhair and the men of
the province
27]
of Connacht, into Mumha, when they plundered
Uí-Conaill-Gabhra.
A hosting by Conchobhar Ua Briain,
28]
and by the men of Mumha, into Laighen, and they took
29]
their hostages; and they proceeded from
thence into
30]
Midhe, and plundered the island of Loch-Seimhdidhe.
31] Their cavalry and the cavalry of Connacht met there,
32]
and the cavalry of Connacht were defeated, and the son
3] A hosting by Conchobhar Mac Lachlainn and the Ulidians,
4]
the men of the North of Erinn being with
them,
5]
into Connacht; but the Connachtmen made an attack on
6]
the rear of the army, in the vicinity of the Seghais, in
7]
which Conn Ua Maelgaeithi, and the Garbhanach Ua
8]
Baeighill, and a great many more, were slain. Notwithstanding
9]
this, however, they met together on the morrow
10]
at Loch-Cé, and made a year's peace.
A depredation
11]
by Tighernan Ua Ruairc and the men of Breifne, after
12]
the army had left, in Cuailgne, and they plundered
13]
Uí-Meith.
On their return, however, i.e. the return of
14]
the Ulidians and the men of the South of Airghiall),
15]
across Ath-Luain, to their houses, they met with the
16]
other depredators in Magh-Conaille.
A battle was fought,
17]
in which Raghnall Ua hEochadha, king of Uladh, and
18]
Cumhidhe Ua Crichain, king of Fernmhagh, and his son,
19]
and Donnsleible Ua hInnrechtaigh, king of Uí-Meith, et
20]
alii multi, were slain.
Maelisa Ua Foghladha, bishop of
21]
Caisel, in bona senectute
quievit.
22] The kalends of January on the 6th feria, the 10th of
23]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-two years, and a
24]
hundred, and a thousand.
The abbot's house of Cill-dara
25]
was captured by the Uí-Ceinnselaigh against the comarb
26]
of Brighid, and burned, and a large part of the church
27]
was burned, and a great many were slain
there; and the
28]
nun herself was carried off a prisoner, and put into a man's
29]
bed.
An engagement was fought by the people of Scrín-Choluim-Chille
30]
and Lochlainn Ua Baeighellain, in which
31]
the airchinnech of the Scrín, i.e.
Macraith Ua Niallain, and
32]
Lochlainn himself, were killed.
A hosting by Conchobhar
33]
Mac Lachlainn to Ath-Fhirdheghaidh, when Tighernan
34]
Ua Ruairc came into his house, and gave him
hostages.
35] The kalends of January on the lst feria, the 21st of
36]
the moon; the age of the Lord thirty-three years, and a
A hosting by Cormac Mac
2]
Carthaigh and Conchobhar Ua Briain, into Connacht,
3]
when they killed Cathal, son of Cathal Ua Conchobhair,
4]
royal heir of Connacht, and demolished Dun-Mughorn
5]
and Dun-mór, and plundered a great part of the
country.
6] A predatory hosting by Donnchadh Ua Cerbhaill and the
7]
men of Fernmhagh into Fine-Gall; but Torcaill overtook
8]
them at Finnabhair, and they fought a battle, in
9]
which Raghnall, son of Pol, was slain, and a great number
10]
of Foreigners along with him; and as regards the
11]
men of Fernmhagh themselves, they were subjected to
12]
great danger.
Conchobhar, son of Murchadh Ua Maelsechlainn,
13]
royal heir of Temhair, was wounded by the
14]
Lagenians, and afterwards slain by Foreigners.
Donnchadh
15]
Mac Gillacholmóg, royal heir of Laighen, was
16]
slain by the men of Midhe.
Fine-Gall was again burned
17]
by the men of Midhe.
Lusca, with its church full of
18]
people and treasures, was burned by the same party.
A
19]
great cow mortality occurred throughout all Erinn, for
20]
which no likeness was found since the great cow mortality
21]
came before that in the time of Flaithbhertach, son
22]
of Loingsech; and 432 years elapsed between
them.