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celebrated author of Ogygia. This fact was ascertained 

 by comparing these entries with the known autograph of 

 O'Flaherty. The vokime, therefore, was formerly in the 

 possession of that eminent antiquary. 



The book is lettered on the back Tigernachi continuator; 

 and has hence been erroneously supposed to be the con- 

 tinuation of Tigernach's Annals, drawn up by Augustin Mac 

 Raith, (Magrath), called by Colgan and others Mac RaidinuSf 

 a canon of the Augustinian monastery of All Saints in Lough 

 Righ, in the River Shannon, who died A. D. 1405. And as 

 this chronicle extends to the year 1571, Mr. O'Reilly sup- 

 posed it to include a continuation of Magrath's work.* This 

 error, which the slightest inspection of its contents refutes, 

 was afterwards pointed out by Mr. O'Reilly himself;! and the 

 comparison of the book with a complete copy of the continua- 

 tion of Tigernach in the University Library, sets the question 

 entirely at rest. 



Mr. O'Reilly having satisfied himself that this chronicle 

 was not what it had hitherto been taken for, declares him- 

 self unable to say what it should be called ; but Mr. O'Dono- 

 van has now proved it to be the Annals of Kilronan, or 

 Book of the O'Duigenans, mentioned by the Four Masters 

 as one of the original sources from which they derived the 

 materials of their celebrated work. 



Mr. Todd then stated that extracts from what is called 

 the Book of Kilronan, in the hand-writing of Charles O'Conor 

 of Belanagare, are preserved in the Stowe Library; and that 

 a quotation from these extracts given by Dr. O'Conor in his 

 catalogue of the Stowe MSS., was not to be found in the 

 Dublin MS. of the Kilronan Annals. This fact appeared 

 at first sight to create a formidable difficulty in the way of 



* Transactions of the Hiberno-Celtic Society, in ann. 1405, p. cxiii. 

 t See Mr. Mason's Catalogue of the Irish MSS. in Trinity College. 



