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Anno Witnesses

Archived: 8 November 2026

Abstract

Year WitnessThe year 627 appears in the annals as a brief cluster of notices, not as a continuous narrative. In the Four Masters, the entry is explicitly marked as the Age of Christ 627 and as the fourth year of Domhnall. It then records the battle of Ath Abla, the death of Dicul son of Fearghus at the hands of the Munstermen, and the foundation of Inis Medcoit by Bishop Aedhan.Chronicon Scotorum also preserves a 627 entry, but its contents are different. In the supplied excerpt, the year is marked under the Kalends and then records the battle of Ard

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624 CE

Year Markers

Archived: 8 November 2026

Abstract

Year MarkersThe year 624 CE is fixed most clearly in the Annals of Ulster, where the calendrical notice gives AD 624 and immediately characterizes the year as dark. That opening does not narrate events in itself, but it does frame the notices that follow as belonging to that year. The same compilation then lists several deaths under the same year heading, allowing the year to be identified without importing material from elsewhere.The Annals of the Four Masters also mark the year explicitly, giving the Age of Christ, 624, and then noting the first year of Domhnall, son of Aedh, son

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