Irish Chronicle
Archived: 10 November 2026
Abstract
This study examines the evidence for Ireland in 616 CE as preserved in a small group of annalistic entries. It separates notices securely placed in that year from nearby material assigned differently in other annals. The year is marked by clerical deaths, a murder, the death of Fergus son of Colmán Mór, a ravaging of Armagh, and an earthquake in Gaul in Tigernach, while Inisfallen and Chronicon Scotorum provide partially overlapping but not identical chronologies. The result is a careful year-by-year account that preserves what is directly stated and leaves gaps unfilled within the limits of the surviving annal entries.