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celebrated author of Ogygia. ‘This fact was ascertained 
by comparing these entries with the known autograph of 
O'Flaherty. The volume, 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 Raidinus, 
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 or Kinronan, or 
Boox or THE O’DuicEnans, 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. exiii. 
+ See Mr. Mason’s Catalogue of the Irish MSS. in Trinity College. 
