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The Annals attributed to Tigernach
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2017
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Over a century ago the Rev. Charles O'Conor published in his corpus of Irish historical writers a collection of annals, the authorship of which he ascribed to a certain Tigernach ua Braein, abbot of Clonmacnois, who died in the year 1088. This ascription O'Conor apparently adopted from Sir James Ware, and it is not unlikely that Ware took it from the learned Irish scholar Dubhaltach mac Firbhisigh who was in Ware's employment. Mac Firbhisigh probably had good reason for describing Tigernach as abbot of Roscommon as well as of Clonmacnois. There had been for centuries a close connexion between the two monasteries, and both were favoured with the protection of the kings of Connacht. For the rest, government of more than one monastic community by the same individual was quite common. Ua Braein was one of the family names of the sept of Clann Murchada, which is mentioned several times in the Irish annals and elsewhere.
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1 Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Veteres.
2 Fo. 63, col. 3-5.
3 P. 95, col. 3-4.
3 ZCP, iii. 36 ff.; Études Celt., ii. 298 (see IHSt., i. 337).
page 155 note 1 Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall, p. 441.
page 155 note 2 Fo. 19r, col. 2, is marked near the top of p. 419 of vol. xvii. The next col. of the MS.—fo. 19V, col. 1—is indicated in vol. xviii, p. 12.
page 156 note 1 See Rev. Celt., xviii. 303.
page 156 note 2 ‘ The authorship and structure of the “Annals of Tigernach ” ‘, in Ériu,vii. 30-113.
page 156 note 3 Rev. Celt., xvii. 420.
page 157 note 1 Stokes understood little of computation or chronography, as the following extract will show : ‘ Kl. iii means a year in which the Kalends, or 1st, of January was a Tuesday, the 3d day of tfye week : such a year re-occurs in cycles of 28 years’ (Rev. Celt., xvii. 118). The truth is that in consecutive groups of 28, the years commence with the days of the week in the same order.
page 158 note 1 Demonstrated by me in Cath. BulL., xxix. 677-82.
page 158 note 2 Rev. Celt.,xvii. 339.
page 159 note 1 Cf. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ed. Thorpe, A.D. 975 : ‘ This year died Eadgar, of Angles ruler, West Saxons' friend, and Mercians' protector’.