''Chronicon Scotorum'', also known as ''Chronicum Scotorum'', is a

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Irish chronicle.

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According to

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, it is "a collection of annals belonging to the ' Clonmacnoise group', covering the period from prehistoric times to 1150 but with some gaps, closely related to the '

Annals of Tigernach The ''Annals of Tigernach'' (abbr. AT, ga, Annála Tiarnaigh) are chronicles probably originating in Clonmacnoise, Ireland. The language is a mixture of Latin and Old and Middle Irish. Many of the pre-historic entries come from the 12th-centur ...

'. It survives in a paper copy made by

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c.1640 from an exemplar no longer extant." MacFhirbhisigh's copy was held by his friend (and possible pupil)

Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh Roderick O'Flaherty ( ga, Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh; 1629–1718 or 1716) was an Irish historian. Biography He was born in County Galway and inherited Moycullen Castle and estate. O'Flaherty was the last ''de jure'' Lord of Iar Connacht, ...

in the late 17th century, but was in France for a time in the 1760s before its purchase by

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in 1776. Edited and published by William M. Hennessy in 1866, it is accorded to be one of the more valuable Irish annals by virtue of its computistical data which were frequently distorted in other such compilations.

Gilla Críst Ua Máel Eóin Gilla Críst Ua Máel Eóin (anglicised as Christian Malone; died 1127) was an Irish historian and Abbot of Clonmacnoise. Family background Ó Maoil Eoin (now anglicised as Malone), denotes descent from a grandson of a person baptised in hon ...

has been associated with the text as its compiler, Stokes, George Thomas: ''Ireland and the Anglo-Norman Church. A History of Ireland and Irish Christianity from the Anglo-Norman Conquest to the Dawn of the Protestant Reformation'' (1889), p 360: "...The ''Chronicon Scotorum'' was originally compiled about the year 1150 by Christian Malone, Abbot of Clonmacnis,..." but if so, it was continued at some point after his death. His actual role in relation to the Chronicon is uncertain.

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*Mac Niocaill, Gearóid (ed. and tr.). ''Chronicon Scotorum''
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an
translation
available from CELT]. * William Maunsell Hennessy, Hennessy, William M. (ed. and tr.). ''Chronicum Scotorum. A Chronicle of Irish Affairs, from the earliest times to A.D. 1135, with a supplement containing the events from 1141 to 1150''. Roll Series 46. London, 1866. Reprinted: Wiesbaden, 1964
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*''The Encyclopaedia of Ireland'', ed. Brian Lalor, Dublin, 2003.

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