The Book of Cuanu is a lost
Irish
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Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
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Annal
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, which referred to events from the fifth to seventh centuries. It is referred to on over a dozen occasions in the
Annals of Ulster, its entries having been terse accounts of battles or notable deaths.
In a short study concerning it, Eoghan O Mordha states that
"... by making use of the specific placename evidence in the entries attributed to the Book of Cuanu, it can be argued that, because the Cuanu entries display a bias towards recording events which took place for the most part in Lagin or the midlands, the entries can be regarded as being written somewhere in this general area."
The identity of Cuanu is uncertain.
See also
*
Irish annals
*
Chronicle of Ireland
References
* ''The Placenames in the Book of Cuanu'', Eoghan O Mordha, in ''Seanchas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of
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'', pp. 189–191.
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External links
* http://evergreen.27names.org/academia/historicity.html
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