102 Mr. Petrie on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. 



Diaptnaic ocup 6lachmac, oa mac Qeoa 

 Slaine. V. bliaona xx. on 6uiDe ChonailL 

 CO pup raaich pinachca, mac TTloliDUin, mic 

 Qeoa Slaine in 6op)me oo TTIolinj. Ceopa 

 bliQona xxx. o pup mairh in 6opime co each 

 Qltnaine i copchaip pepjal, mac ITloliDum. 

 Se bliaona x. o chach Qlmcane co each 

 UchbuiD. XI. bliaoam o ehach Uchbaro 

 CO bap Heill Ppappaij, TTlic Pepjaile. V. 

 bliaona I. o bap Heill ppoppaij co hec 

 Concobaip, TTJic tDonochaoa oeup CCpcpi, 

 eoraopbai pocpaic. 



* * * Oeup Dm, ip m aimpip pin do ehocotp 

 buaiD mapcpa .i. Cippianup ocup Copntliup. 

 piche bliaoain epa, o'n wt.maD injpeim co 

 jabail Gpeno do Chopmac h-Uct Cumo, ip 

 m cpep bliaoam placha ProM Imperatoris. 

 V. bliaona xx. lap pin in nomao mjpeim sub 



battle of Moira to the Buidhe Chonaill,^^ [a 

 plague,] of which died Dermot and Blathmac, two 

 sons of Aodh Slaine.** Twenty-five years from 

 the Buidhe Chonaill until Finachta, the son of 

 Moclduin, the son of Aedh Slaine, remitted the 

 Boru to Moling." Thirty-three years since the 

 Boru was remitted to the battle of Almhain, in 

 which Fergal, the son of Moelduin, was slain.™ 

 Sixteen years from the battle of Almhain to the 

 battle of UchbadhJ'' Forty years from the battle 

 of Uchhadh to the death of Niall Frassach, son of 

 Fergal.'^ Fifty-five years from the death of Niall 

 Frassach to the death of Conchobhar, the son of 

 Donnchadh,^' and of Artri, coarb of Patrick. 



* * * * At this period" Cyprianus and Cor- 

 nelius'* received the victory of martyrdom. 

 Twenty years from the seventh persecution*' until 

 Cormac Ua Cuinn assumed the government of 

 Ireland, in the third year of the reign of Probus 

 the Emperor." Twenty-five years after that the 



^ This would place the first appearance of the Buidhe Chonaill in the year 662, which is one year earlier than tjie 

 date given in the Annals of Ulster. This dreadful plague, which raged all over Europe, was preceded by an eclipse, 

 which the Annals of Tighearnach and Ulster record to the hour. Dr. O'Conor proves that the true year was 664, which 

 is the date given by Tighearnach. 



" They died in 465, according to the Annals of Tighearnach. 



« Finachta abdicated, and became a clergyman, in 687, according to the Annals of Ulster, which agrees with the 

 year of his remission of the Boru to Moling, the great patron saint of Leinster. 



*> This would place the battle of Almhain in the year 720, which is one year earlier than the date given in the 

 Annals of Ulster, and two years earlier than the year given by Tighearnach. 



3» This would place the battle of Uchbadh in the year 736, which is too early by a year or two. The Annals of 

 Ulster place tliis dreadful battle in 737, and Tighearnach in 738, which Dr. O'Conor proves to be the true date. 



^* That is, in the year 776, one year earlier than the date in the Annals of Ulster. 



" That is, according to this calculation, in 831, which is one year earlier than that in the Annals of Ulster. " A. D. 

 832, Artri Mac Concobhair, Abbot of Armagh, and Concobar Mac Donnchadh, King of Tara, died in the same month." 



" There is something omitted here in the original, as is obvious from the context. After carrying on the chronology 

 from the period of St. Patrick to the death of Artri, Archbishop of Armagh, the writer here commences in a very abrupt 

 manner a second series of foreign chronology, from the period of Cyprian, the martyr, down to the mission of Palladius 

 and Patrick to Ireland. 



^ St. Cornelius was martyred in 252, St. Cyprian in 258. 



'^ The seventh persecution was commenced in the beginning of 250. 



^Probus, the emperor, succeeded in 276, and died in 282. This would fix the first year of the reign of Cormac Ua 

 Cuinn in the year 279 ; and from the commencement of the seventh persecution to the third year of the reign of Probus 

 would be twenty-nine, not twenty years. 



