Annals of Tigernach
The
Annals of Tigernach (
abbr. AT) is a
chronicle probably originating in
Clonmacnoise,
Ireland. The language is a mixture of
Latin and
Old and
Middle Irish. Much of the pre-historic entries come from twelfth century MS,
Rawlinson B 502. However, the chronicle's real importance is for the period
489-
766,
973â€"
1003 and
1018â€"
1178. These three fragments survive from the fourteenth century MS
Rawlinson B 488. The coverage of the period 766 to 973 is lost, but is thought to survive in abbreviated form in the
Chronicon Scottorum (abbr.
CT). The latter is defective for the period
718 to
804, but as much of its content is derived from the hypothetical
Chronicle of Ireland (itself partly derived from the
Iona Chronicle), of which the
Annals of Ulster (abbr.
AU) and
Annals of Inisfallen (abbr.
AI) are also derived, we have some idea of what the entries contained. Kathleen Hughes postulates that AU and AT diverged from the
Chronicle of Ireland sometime before the year
913.
* Hughes, Kathleen,
Early Christian Ireland: Introduction to the Sources, (London, 1972), pp. 99-162, esp. 99-116
*
Annals of Tigernach (no translation currently available) at
University College Cork CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts
