Related Archive: Chronology studies

Dark Ireland

Archived: 8 November 2026

Abstract

Year MarkersThe annalistic record for 625 CE is compact, and its most explicit year-marker comes from the Annals of Ulster, which opens the entry with the kalends of January and then describes the year as dark. That same notice places several deaths in the year: Áedán son of Cumuscach, Colmán son of Comgallán, Rónán son of Tuathal, and Mongán son of Fiachna of Lurga. The entry also preserves a poetic aside attached to those deaths.A parallel compilation, the Annals of Inisfallen, presents the same year with a different selection of notices. Its 625 entry records the repose of Colmán Stélláin,

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624 CE

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

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