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Annals of Loch Cé (Annals of Lough Cé)

  • Early Modern Irish, Latin
  • prose
  • Irish annals
Manuscripts
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1293 (H 1. 19) [s. xvi]

Lacunose. Annals for 1014-1138, 1170-1316 and 1384-1571. Ends imperfect.

London, British Library, MS Additional 4792 = Milles collection vol. 39 [s. xvii]
Annals for 1568-1590.
Language
  • Early Modern Irish Latin
  • Early Modern Irish and Latin.
Provenance
Connacht
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Irish annalsannals and chronicles, Irish histories
Irish annals
id. 35113

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Hennessy, William M. [ed. and tr.], The Annals of Loch Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590, 2 vols, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, 54, London, et al.: Longman, 1871.  

An edition, with English translation, of the Annals of Loch Cé. To make up for the lacuna in the surviving text, sub annis 1317–1348, Hennessy supplied the text of the Annals of Connacht.

CELT – edition of vol. 1 (s. a. 1014-1348): <link> CELT – edition of vol. 2 (s. a. 1349–1590): <link> CELT – translation of vol. 1: <link> CELT – translation of vol. 2: <link> Internet Archive – multiple results: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Mc Carthy, Daniel P., The Irish annals: their genesis, evolution and history, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008.  
comments: Contents: Chronicles and annals: origins, compilation, taxonomy and nomenclature (p. 1); Witnesses to the annals: the primary manuscripts (18); Annalistic literature (61); World history in Insular chronicles (118); The Iona chronicle (153); The Moville and Clonmacnoise chronicles (168); Liber Cuanach and its descendants (198); The Armagh and Derry chronicles (223); The Connacht and Fermanagh chronicles (245); The Regnal-canon chronicles (271); Final compilation stages (304); Reliable annalistic chronology (342); Epilogue (355); Twelve centuries of Irish chronicling: from Bethlehem to Bundrowes (355); Necessity for a comprehensive analysis of chronicle features (357); Outstanding chronicle compilations (358); Manuscript witnesses to the annals (361); Survey of annalistic verse up to A.D. 1000 (364); The regnal-canon (368); Bibliography (375) and index (393).
O’Dwyer, B. W., “The annals of Connacht and Loch Cé and the monasteries of Boyle and Holy Trinity”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 72.4 C (1972): 83–101.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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February 2011, last updated: October 2024
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