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gers, who compiled the following Annals, (such as it was in their 

 power to collect), and that Ferall O'Gara, aforesaid, rewarded them 

 liberally for their labour. j'O i'.mu-j. 



" This collection is divided into two parts, and from the beginning 

 to the end has been transcribed in the convent of the brothers of 

 Dunagall, who supplied the transcribers with the necessary viands. 

 The first volume was begun in the same convent, A.D. 1632, when 

 Father Bernardin O'Clery was guardian thereof. 

 '-- " The antiquaries and chronologers who were the collectors and 

 transcribers of this work we attest to be Brother Michael O'Clery ; 

 Maurice O'Maolconary, the son of Torna, who assisted during a 

 month ; Fergus O'Maolconary, the son of Lochlan also, and both 

 those antiquaries were of the county of Roscommon ; Cucogry 

 O'Clery, another assistant, was of the county of Dunagall, as was Cu- 

 cogry O'Duigenan of the county of Leitrim ; Conary O'Clery likewise 

 of the county of Dunagall. vi io jfpvno.) ^mh ni ^suncnfjA 



" The old books they collected were the Annals of Clonmacnois, 

 an abbey founded by holy Kiaran, son of the Carpenter; the Annals 

 of the Island of Saints, on the Lake of Rive ; the Annals of Senat 

 Mac Magnus, on the Lake of Erne (now called the Ulster Annals ;) 

 the Annals of the O'Maolconary s ; the Annals of Killronan, com- 

 piled by the O'Duigenans. These antiquarians had also procured the 

 Annals of Lacan, compiled by the Mac Firbisses, (after transcribing 

 the greater part of the first volume,) and from those Lacan Annals 

 they supplied what they thought proper in the blanks they left for 

 any occasional information they could obtain. The Annals of Clon- 

 macnois, and those of the Island of Saints, came down no farther 

 than the year of our Lord 1227. 



" The second part of this work commences with the year of our 

 Lord 1208 ; and began to be transcribed in the present year, 1635, 

 when Father Christopher Dunlevy was guardian, and these Annals 



