Tulach Árd
Archived: 2 November 2026
Abstract
In 672 CE, Ireland’s annalistic record places a local northern battle, a royal succession, a destructive fire at Armagh and an unusually plentiful woodland harvest within the same year. None of these notices offers a full narrative, and none is dated to a particular month or day. They are brief entries preserved in chronicles copied much later, whose year-numbering is not perfectly uniform: the Annals of Ulster’s entry conventionally assigned to 672 even carries an internal AD 671 heading. The safest conclusion is therefore that these events belong to the annalistic year 672, rather than that their exact modern calendar
