Archived: 7 November 2026
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Year EvidenceFor 630 CE, the evidence is annalistic rather than narrative, and the surviving notices are short. The Annals of Ulster provide a year-heading for AD 630 and attach to it only one battle notice and one death notice. That limits what can be said securely about the year itself. The surviving record here is not a continuous chronicle of political life, but a sequence of dated items whose scope depends on each annal's own entry for the year.The same year is represented more fully in the Annals of Tigernach and in the Annals of the Four Masters, both of
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Archived: 7 November 2026
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Year FrameFor 629 CE, the annalistic record opens only a narrow window. One Tigernach entry is placed under T629 and reports a battle at Ard Corann. A separate comparative notice says that the same event appears in the Annals of Ulster as 629, while Tigernach places it in 630. That is enough to discuss the year, but only by staying close to the wording of the texts and not by filling the gap with invented detail.The year can therefore be treated as a dated notice rather than a full narrative. The surviving wording names a battle, identifies a victor, and
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Archived: 7 November 2026
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Year DatingThe clearest single marker for 628 comes from the Annals of Ulster, which labels the entry as the Kalends of January and states that it is AD 627, alias 628. In that same notice the year is attached to a sequence of events: a battle at Bolg Luatha, another at Both, the slaying of Suibne Menn, the repose of Colum son of Bairdéne, the killing of Cuiméne son of Colmán, the devastation of Laigin by Domnall, and Domnall son of Aed son of Ainmire beginning to reign. This is the firmest chronological anchor among the excerpts.That same cluster is
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