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From: Pádraig Mór Ó Gealagain <>
Subject: Unusal Happenings -Snippets From the (Annals of Ulster - Book 1
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:55:32 -0500


From Book 1 of 2, of the Annals of Ulster (U = Ulster ) ;
(657, etc = 657 A.D) ; "[ xxx]" are inserted by me.

U.657 There was a cow in Láthair Briúin which gave birth to
four calves.
U.664 Darkness on the Kalends 1st of May at the ninth hour
[9:00A.M.], and in the same
summer the sky seemed to be on fire.
U.664 The plague reached Ireland on the Kalends 1st of
August.
U. 667 The plague still in Ireland.
U. 670 A great snowfall occurred. A great famine
U. 674 A thin and tremulous cloud in the shape of a rainbow
appeared at the
Fourth vigil of night on the sixth feria [day ]
preceding Easter, extending from
east to west through a clear sky. The moon became the
colour of blood.
U.677 A bright comet was seen in the months of September
and October.
U.680 A most severe leprosy in Ireland called bolgach
[Pox].
U.685 A great windstorm. An earthquake in the Island
U.691 A great windstorm on the sixteenth of the Kalends of
October 16 Sept.
caused the drowning of some six of the community
of Íona [The Monastery]
U.700 Famine and pestilence prevailed in Ireland for three
years, so that man
ate man
U.707 Two earthquakes in the same week in the month of
December in the northern
part of Ireland
U.709 A pestilence called bacach [Pox] with dysentery in
Ireland.
U.714 Great drought.
U.714 A bright night in autumn.
U.718 A shower of honey rained upon Othan Bec, a shower of
blood upon the foss
of Laigin [Leinster]. Hence Niall Frosach who
was born at that time, is so named.
U.718 An eclipse of the moon at its full.
U.719 A dry summer.
U.720 A rainy summer.
U.720 A great sea-flood in the month of October.
U.725 A dark and blood-red moon on the eighteenth of the
Kalends of January.
U.730 An earthquake on the sixth of the Ides 8th of
February, the fourth feria [day]
Wednesday.
U.748 Snow of unusual depth so that nearly all the cattle
of the whole of
Ireland perished, and the world afterwards was
parched by unusual drought
U.749 Ships with their crews were seen in the air above
Cluain Moccu Nóis { Monastery of
Clonmacnoise]
U.753 A whale was cast ashore in Bairche in the time of
Fiachna son of Aed Rón,
king of Ulaid [Ulster]. It had three gold teeth
in its head, each containing fifty
ounces, and one of them was placed on the altar
of Bennchor that year,
that is, in AD 752.
U.759 A stream with fishes burst forth from Benn [mountain]
Muilt.
U.760 A great snowfall on the fourth [day] of the nones,
[i.e.,] 2nd of
February.
U.760 Famine, and a great mast-crop [Various types of
Nuts].
U.762 A great snowfall, and a dark moon.
U.762 A bright night in autumn.
U.763 A dark sun at the third hour [9.00A.M] of day.
U.764 A great snowfall which lasted almost three months.
U.764 A great scarcity, and famine.
U.764 A bloody flux [discharge of excrement]throughout
Ireland.
U.764 Three showers fell in Crích Muiredaig in Inis Eogain
[Inishowen], i.e. a shower of
pure silver, a shower of wheat, and a shower of
honey.
U.765 A horrible and wonderful sign was seen in the stars
at night.
U.765 A shortage of bread.
U.772 The assembly of the 'hand-clapping' at which occurred
lightning and
Thunder like the day of judgment. The
'hand-clapping' on St Michael's Day
29 Sept.which called fire from heaven. The Irish
fasted two periods of three
days, with a single meal between them, through
fear of the fire.
U.773 Unaccustomed drought and heat of the sun so that
nearly all bread-grain
failed. Abundance of oak-mast [nuts] afterwards.
U.777 The whole winter in summer, i.e. heavy rain and
windstorm.
U.777 The bloody flux; also many other diseases-almost a
mortality. A great
murrain of cows [infectious disease caused by
parasites].
U.778 Ditto
U.779 The murrain of cows did not cease, and there was a
mortality of men from want.
U.779 The smallpox throughout Ireland.
U.779 A great windstorm at the end of autumn.
U.780 A great snowfall in April.
U.786 A pestilence called scamach [?].
U.788 The moon became red like blood on the twelfth of the
Kalends [1st. Month] of March.
U.799 A great snowfall in which many men and cattle
perished.
U.799 The 'hand-clapping' on St. Michael's Day, called the
'fire from heaven'.
U.804 Violent thunder, accompanied by wind and fire, on the
night before St.
Patrick's Day, which destroyed many persons,
i.e. one thousand and ten in
Corcu Baiscinn ; and the sea divided the island
of Fita into three parts,
and covered the land of Fita [?] with sand,
that is as much land as would
support 12 cows.
U.823 Fire from heaven struck the abbot's mansion in Ard
Macha [Armagh] and burned it.
U.825 A great pestilence in the island of Ireland affected
the old, the children
and the weak; there was great famine and
shortage of bread.
U.826 Great terror in all Ireland, i.e. from a warning of
plague given by
Iellán's son of Mumu [Munster].
U.855 There was snow to the height of men's belts on the
ninth of [before] the Kalends of
May 23 April.
U.866 Loch Léibinn [Lough Leven] was turned to blood, which
gave rise to clots of blood like
little lungs around its edge.
U.868 A great windstorm on the Feast of Martin, 11 Nov.
U.878 Great wind and lightning. A shower of blood fell and
clots of gore and
blood were found in the fields.
U.878 There was a lunar eclipse on the Ides, 15th of
October, the fourteenth
[day] of the moon, on the fourth feria about
the third watch; and a solar
eclipse on the fourth of the Kalends of
November 29 October, the
twenty-eighth of the moon, on the fourth feria,
about the seventh hour of
daylight, fifteen solar days having intervened.
U.879 Great scarcity of food for cattle in the spring.
Great profusion in the
autumn.
U.885 A child at Craeb Laisre spoke two months after its bi
rth, which had not
been heard of from ancient times.


















































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U. 878
Great wind and lightning. A shower of blood fell and clots
of gore and
blood were found in the fields."


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