The most reliable Irish annal for the north. Its 1200 entries cover the war for Connacht between Cathal Crobderg and Cathal Carrach, in which William de Burgh backed Carrach while John de Courcy and the Ui Neill backed Crobderg; the raids of the English of Meath and Ulster; the deaths of kings, bishops and abbots in Tir Eogain, Airgialla and Breifne; and the doings of Aed O Neill. Dated by the year of the Lord with the feria, so its chronology is the standard against which the others are corrected.
About this source
- Title
- Annala Uladh
- Author
- Various; compiled by Cathal Mac Maghnusa
- Author's dates
- compiler died 1498
- Written
- compiled about 1498 from much older annals; the entries for 1200 derive from contemporary record
- Language
- Irish and Latin
- Covers
- 431 to 1540
- Kind
- Annals
The CELT text for 431 to 1131 follows Mac Airt and Mac Niocaill (1983) and for later years Hennessy and MacCarthy. The Annals of Tigernach, the sister compilation, break off in 1178 and give nothing for 1200.