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
