The ''Annals of Loch Cé'' (also ''Annals of Lough Cé'') cover events, mainly in Connacht and its neighbouring regions, from 1014 to 1590. It takes its name from
Lough Cé in the kingdom of
Moylurg - now north
County Roscommon
County Roscommon () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is part of the province of Connacht and the Northern and Western Region. It is the List of Irish counties by area, 11th largest Irish county by area and Li ...
- which was the centre of power of the Clan
MacDermot. In the sixteenth century, King Brian MacDermot commissioned the Annals of Loch Ce, which remain among the most important written records of medieval Irish history.
[Inside a Medieval Gaelic Castle, Jarrett A.Lobell, Archaeology, p.26, March, April 2020 issue.] For its earliest centuries it used, among others, the
Annals of Boyle.
The largest part of the Annals are attributed to members of
Clan Ó Duibhgeannáin, with some emendations by the patron,
Brian na Carraige MacDermot, first MacDermot of the Carrick (died 1592). The text is in
Early Modern Irish
Early Modern Irish () represented a transition between Middle Irish and Modern Irish. Its literary form, Classical Gaelic, was used in Ireland and Scotland from the 13th to the 18th century.
Classical Gaelic
Classical Gaelic or Classical Irish ( ...
, with a portion of the text in
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
.
4 December 2021 the tradition of Irish Annals writing was revived by a calligrapher, scribe and paper/ ink maker. As the ''Annals of Loch Cé'' were the endpoint in the Vulgate tradition of annals-writing in Ireland, the team chose to bring copies of the parchments of their latter-day annals by boat to Holy Trinity Island on the lake, where the Premonstratensians had concluded their annals in 1590. This revised annal is called ''De Réir Book of Moytura'', now in its third year of keeping track of local, national and earth-wide goings-on.
See also
*
Irish annals
A number of Irish annals, of which the earliest was the Chronicle of Ireland, were compiled up to and shortly after the end of the 17th century. Annals were originally a means by which monks determined the yearly chronology of feast days. Over ti ...
External links
Annals of Loch Cé(first part, 1014–1348)
a
CELT
(second part, 1349–1590)
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CELT
*''De Reir Book of Moytura'' (2020 - ) revitalised Irish Annals https://www.brumoytura.org/annals
References
Irish chronicles
Irish-language manuscripts
16th-century history books
Medieval texts in Irish
Irish books
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