62 
Here he reckons inclusively, and refers to an event which 
is thus described by the Four Masters at the year 1137: “A 
great storm throughout Ireland, which prostrated many trees, 
houses, churches, and [other] buildings, and swept men and 
cattle into the sea, in Moy-Conaille” [the present county of 
Louth]. So far the writer of this manuscript is not only at one 
with himself, but also bears testimony, the more honourable as 
it is undesigned, to the correctness of our native chronicles : 
but there remains another subscription, which, as the colophon 
of the whole volume, exceeds the others in detail, and contains 
a number of collateral criteria for fixing its date. It has been 
already printed by Dr. Charles O’Conor, in evidence of the 
historic fidelity of the Irish annals,* and by Dr. Petriet for 
another purpose, but it may be well to adduce it a third time, 
in order to complete the present description : 
oi. Of vo Maelbmgce h-Ua Maeléanaig, qui pembpic he 
ubpum ..im nGpo Macha. Ocup in n-ampip Oonnchavha hua 
Cepbdaill apopis Cipsiall po pembad, .1. mbliaoain oan peproe 
veac pop Kal. Cnaip «1. 1p m bluadam po manbad Copmac mac 
Capoaie pisfpeop Muman 7 hEpenn ap chenam na ampip. 
Aceac po h pigpa hE€penn ip m nampip pe «1. Munefpcae 
mac Nel ua Lochtaino Ciluch. Cuulao mac Conchobuip m5 
Ulav. Mupcach ua Maelpechtamo pig Moe. Oiapmaic mac 
Munchada 15 Lagen. Conchobop ua bmiam ~15 Muman. Taip- 
oelbach ua Conchobaip 15 Connachc. 
1. mac md Ip dana ‘vo 1b bipnn 
Sila mac Liac mac mic Ruaiom hi comanbap Pacpaic. 
bennachc ap cech oen lespap pip mM lebup pa, Zebed paicin 
ap anmain m pepibaeoa, uaip 1p mon hacecep etip copp ] cpac- 
cao.—Fol. 156 db.” 
* Rerum Hibernicar. Scriptor. vol. i., Prolegom. pars ii. p. 143, where a 
fac-simile is given. It has also been partly given by O’Brien, in his Irish 
Dictionary, voce Curmac. A fac-simile is among the specimens of Irish MSS. 
in Mr. Purton Cooper’s unpublished “ Appendix A” to the Report of the Eng- 
lish Record Commissioners. 
{ Inquiry into the Origin, &c., of the Round Towers of Ireland, p. 303. 
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