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Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, “The Book of Ballymote: a genealogical treasure”, in: Ruairí Ó hUiginn (ed.), Book of Ballymote, 2, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2018. 1–32.

Of Chronicles 1–9 (and also 23-26), Ó Corráin said that in medieval Ireland, it provided the “sole literary model for detailed two-dimensional representation of peoples, dynasties and lineages, showing segmentation, eponyms, multiple lineage and sub-lineage founders, and their descendants, over many generations.”