According to Nollaig O Muraile, it is '"a collection of annals belonging to the 'Clonmacnoise group', covering the period from prehistoric times to 1150 but with some gaps, closely related to the 'Annals of Tigernach'. It survives in a paper copy made by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh c.1640 from an exemplar no longer extant." The Annals of Tigernach (abbr. ... Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh (1643–January 1671) was born in the parish of Lackan, in the Barony of Tireagh, Co. ... Events December 1 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king. ...
MacFhirbhisigh's copy was held by his friend (and possible pupil) Roderick O Flaherty in the late 1600's, but was in France for a time in the 1760's before its purchase by Trinity College Dublin in 1776. Edited and published by William M. Hennessy in 1866, it is accorded to be one of the more valuable Irish annals by virture of its computistical data which were frequently distorted in other such compilations. Roderick O Flaherty, aka Ruaidhri O Flaithbheartaigh, Irish historian. ... The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin or more commonly Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... This article is about the year 1776. ...
An number of Irish annals were compiled up to and shortly after the end of Gaelic Ireland in the 17th century. ... 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 Ulster are a chronicle of medieval Ireland. ... 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. ...
Source
"The Encyclopaedia of Ireland", ed. Brian Lalor, Dublin, 2003.
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