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Here he reckons inclusively, and refers to an event which 

 is thus described by the Four Masters at the year 1 137 : "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 : 



bJ. Op oo TTIaelbpigce h-Ua TTlaeluanaig, qui p cpibpic he 

 libpum .i. in nGpO TTlacha. Ocup in n-ampip Oonnchabha hUa 

 Cepbdill apopfg Gipgiall po pcpibaO, .1. mbliaoam Oan pepioe 

 t>eac pop Kal. Gnaip .1. lp in bliaOam po mapbaO Copmac mac 

 CapOaic pigCpcop TTluman -\ hGpenn ctp chena in na amprp. 



dceac po ti pigpa h©penn lp in nampip pem .1. TTlupcCpcac 

 mac Wei ua lochlamO Oilmen. CuulaO mac Conchobuip pig 

 UlaO. TTlupcach ua TTlaelpechlainO pig TTliOe. Oiapmaic mac 

 lTlupchaOa pig lagen. ConchobopuaOpiam pig TTluman. Caip- 

 oelbach ua Conchobaip pig Connachc. 



.i. mac uit> ip bema bo lb bipnn 



5iUa mac Liac mac mic "RuaiDpi hi comapbap pacpaic. 



bennachc ap cech oen legpap ppip m lebuppa, gebeopaicip 

 ap anmam in pcpibaeba, uaip lpmop hacecep ecip coppi cpac- 

 caO.— Fol. 156 b. ' 



* Rerum Hiberniear. 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 Purton Cooper's unpublished " Appendix A" to the Report of the Eng- 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. 



•j- Inquiry into the Origin, &c, of the Round Towers of Ireland, p. 303. 



