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Fiachna’s Victory

Archived: 14 November 2026

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Year HeadingsAround 590, the annals preserve the notices under their own internal year labels rather than in a single shared chronology. In the Annals of Ulster, U590.0 is printed beneath the heading AD 589, and U591.0 appears beneath AD 590. Tigernach, the Four Masters, and Chronicon Scotorum likewise keep their own year blocks, so the notices for this period must be read within each work’s sequence and heading system, not as one uniform modern dating scheme.The Annals of Inisfallen excerpt places several notices in sequence under AI590 and AI591. AI590.1 records great snow, and AI590.2 records the battle of Mag

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586 CE

Baetán’s Assassination

Archived: 14 November 2026

Abstract

Year FrameThe printed year frames differ, but each text provides a way to locate notices for the period around 586 CE. In the Annals of Ulster, the relevant material appears under U586.0 and U587.0, printed as AD 585 and AD 586 respectively, and the cluster includes the killing of Baetán son of Ninnid and the note, “Or this year, the battle of Druim Meic Erca.” In Tigernach, the matching cluster appears under T586, where the same year block contains the rest of Carillan bishop of Armagh, the rest of Senach bishop of Clonard, the conversion of Constantine to lord, great

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