The Annals of Boyle, also Cottonian Annals, are a chronicle of medieval Ireland. The entries span the years up to 1253. It is one of those which join the synopsis of the The Chronicle of Ireland, although in summary form compared to others. Generally a chronicle (Latin chronica, from Greek Χρόνος) is historical account of facts and events in chronological order. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... The entry for the year 432 in the Annals of the Four Masters, one of the works which is descended from the Chronicle of Ireland. ...

Robin Flower wrote in Revue Celtique 44 (1927) 344:

'The MS is the original chronicle of the Premonstratensian house of the Holy Trinity on the Island named after it in Loch Cé, founded on an earlier chronicle, perhaps that of Boyle. It remained in Holy Trinity till the secularization of that house, being used by the writers of the Annals of Loch Cé, who worked for the MacDermots. It passed into the hands of the Croftons with the other property of the house, and while in their hands was seen by Ussher, who probably gave it the name of Annals of Boyle under which it has passed ever since. From the hands of the Croftons it came into the possession of Oliver St. John, Viscount Grandison of Limerick, who gave it to Sir Robert Cotton before 1630, and with his library it came into the British Museum together with a number of other Irish manuscripts and manuscripts of Irish interest in 1753.'

The Annals used the Irish language, with some entries in Latin. Because the Annals copied its sources verbatim, the annals are useful not just for historians, but also for linguists studying the evolution of the Irish language. Boyle is the name of some towns: Boyle, Mississippi (and others) in the United States of America. ... The Annals of Lough Cé (also Annals of Loch Cé) cover events, mainly in Connacht and its neighbouring regions, from 1014 to 1590. ... This article is about the modern Goidelic language. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ...

See also

• Irish annals
• Annals of Clonmacnoise
• Annals of Connacht
• Annals of the Four Masters
• Annals of Inisfallen
• Annals of Lough Cé
• Annals of Tigernach
• Annals of Ulster
• The Chronicle of Ireland
• Chronicon Scotorum
• Leabhar Breac
• Leabhar Clainne Suibhne
• Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe
• Lebor Gabála Érenn
• Mac Carthaigh's Book
• The Chronicle of Ireland
• Fragmentary Annals of Ireland
• The Annals of Ireland (by Friar John Clyn)
• Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta
• Lebor Glinne Dá Loch
• Lebor Leacáin
• Lebor na Cert
• Lebor na hUidre
• Leabhar Leacáin
• Leabhar Uí Dhubhagáin

An number of Irish annals were compiled up to and shortly after the end of Gaelic Ireland in the 17th century. ... The Annals of Clonmacnoise chronicle events in Ireland from pre-history to A.D. 1408. ... The Annals of Connacht, covering the years 1224 to 1544, are drawn from a manuscript compiled in the 15th and 16th centuries by at least three scribes, all believed to be members of the Clan Ó Duibhgeannáin. ... Signature page from the Annals of the Four Masters Entry for A.D. 432 The Annals of the Four Masters or the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters are a chronicle of medieval Irish history. ... The Annals of Inisfallen are a chronicle of the medieval history of Ireland. ... The Annals of Lough Cé (also Annals of Loch Cé) cover events, mainly in Connacht and its neighbouring regions, from 1014 to 1590. ... The Annals of Tigernach (abbr. ... The Annals of Ulster are a chronicle of medieval Ireland. ... The entry for the year 432 in the Annals of the Four Masters, one of the works which is descended from the Chronicle of Ireland. ... Chronicon Scotorum is an Irish chronicle. ... Home little village of Mr Basil Dervan which is in the suburbs of tynagh Leabhar Breac (Speckled Book) is the name given to a manuscript compiled by Murchadh Ó Cuindlis of Bally Lough Deacker, at Duniry in eastern Clanricarde (now east Co. ... Leabhar Clainne Suibhne (The Book of Clan Sweeney) is the title of a 16th century Donegal manuscript written in Irish. ... Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe is the title accorded to a dunaire or poem-book of the Clann Aodha Buidhe Clandeboye (Clann Aodha Buidhe) Ó Neill. ... Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland) is the Middle Irish title of a loose collection of poems and prose narratives recounting the mythical origins and history of the Irish race from the creation of the world down to the Middle Ages. ... Mac Carthaigh’s Book is a collection of annals of the period AD 1114-1437 inclusive. ... The entry for the year 432 in the Annals of the Four Masters, one of the works which is descended from the Chronicle of Ireland. ... The Fragmentary Annals of Ireland are a Middle Irish combination of chronicle from various Irish annals and narrative history. ... Brother John Clyn of the Friars Minor, Kilkenny was a 14th century Irish monk and chronicler who lived at the time of the Black Death. ...

External links

• "Lake Islands and a Blind Harpist" from Reader's Digest Illustrated Guide to Ireland.[1]
• Cottonian Annals

Source

• Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature, Robert Welsh, 1996. ISBN 0-19-280080-9
• Charles-Edwards, T.M. (2006). The Chronicle of Ireland. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0-85323-959-2.