. Annals of Ireland : three fragments. f DUBLIN:^ríntel) at tj)c SSntbetsttg ^xe$$, FOR THE IRISH ARCH^OLOGICAL AXD CELTIC SOCIETY. i860. DUBLIN: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PKES8,BY M. H. GILL. • 1 ^ THE IRISH ARCH^OLOGICAL AND CELTIC SOCIETY. MDCCCLX. |atron: HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT. ^rjESÍbíní:His Grace the Duke of Leinstek. The Most Noble the Maequis of Kildare, M. R. I. A, The Right Hon, the Earl of Dunraven, M. R. I. A. The Right Hon. Lord Talbot de Malahide, M. R. I. A. Very Rev. Charles W, Russell, D. D., President of Maynooth College. €mxmii: Eugene Curry, Esq,, Re


. Annals of Ireland : three fragments. f DUBLIN:^ríntel) at tj)c SSntbetsttg ^xe$$, FOR THE IRISH ARCH^OLOGICAL AXD CELTIC SOCIETY. i860. DUBLIN: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PKES8,BY M. H. GILL. • 1 ^ THE IRISH ARCH^OLOGICAL AND CELTIC SOCIETY. MDCCCLX. |atron: HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT. ^rjESÍbíní:His Grace the Duke of Leinstek. The Most Noble the Maequis of Kildare, M. R. I. A, The Right Hon, the Earl of Dunraven, M. R. I. A. The Right Hon. Lord Talbot de Malahide, M. R. I. A. Very Rev. Charles W, Russell, D. D., President of Maynooth College. €mxmii: Eugene Curry, Esq,, Rev. Thomas Farrelly. Rev. Charles Graves, , , James Graves, A. Larcom, Major-General , Patrick V. Fitzpatrick, Esq. John C. OCallaghan, Esq, John ODonovan, Esq., , Geo. Petrie, Esq., , Rev. William Reeves, , Wilde, Esq., , , Rev. J. H. Todd, D,D,, Pres. | J. T, Gilbert, Esq., 2681 INTRODUCTORY >HE following Three Fragments of Annals, neverbefore published, were copied in the year 1643for the Rev. John Lynch, author of CambrensisEversus, by Dubhaltach Mac Firbisigh, or, as heanglicized his name, Dudley Firbisse*, from avellum MS., the property of Nehemias^ MacEgan,of Ormond, chief Professor of the old Irish or Brehon Laws; but theMS. from which the present text has been obtained, and which is nowpreserved in the Burgundian Library at Brussels (7, c. n. 17), isnot in Mac Firbiss hand, but in that of a scribe who copied imme-diately from his MS., as appears from several marginal name of this second transcriber nowhere appears. It is quite clear, * Dudley Firhisse.—For some account ofDudley Firbisse the reader is referred to Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach.—Introduction, p. vii. to OConor, of Belanagare, informs us, ina letter published by Dr. Ledwich in hisAntiquities of Ireland (2nd cd., Dub-lin, 18


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