Annala Rioghachta Eireann.
Subtitle: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland
By: by the Four masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616. Edited from mss. in the Library of the Royal Irish academy and of Trinity college, Dublin, with a translation, and copious notes, by John O'Donovan.
Contributors: O'Clery, Michael, 1575-1643; O'Clery, Cucogry, d. 1664.; O'Mulconry, Ferfeasa, fl. 1636.; O'Duigenan, Cucogry, fl. 1636.; O'Donovan, John, 1809-1861 ed.
Publisher: Hodges and Smith
Published: 1851
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: gle
Subjects: Ireland -- History -- To 1603.; Ireland -- History. -- Sources.
Other titles: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland
Work titles: Annals of the four masters.
Notes: Vols. 1-2, 3-6, paged continuously.

Irish and English on opposite pages.

Compiled in 1632-36 from ancient manuscripts, by Michael O'Clery, assisted by Conary, and Cucogry O'Clery, and Ferfeasa O'Mulconry.--according to the editor--the Four masters. (cf. also Nat. lib. of Ireland, Bibl. of Irish philology, p.251, but the Catalouge of Irish manuscripts in the Brit. Mus., v. 1, p. 20, gives Peregrine (Cucogry) O'Duigenan in place of Conary O'Clery, which agrees with Colgan's statement in his Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, 1645. (cited in Introd., p.xxvi, and Hyde's Lit. hist. of Ire.))

The last part, v.3-6, A.D. 1172-1616, was printed in 3 vols. in 1848, as the editor originally intended to publish only that portion not included by C. O'Conor in Rerum hibernicarum scriptores, t.III, 1826. In 1851, v.1-2 (to 1171) were issued with a revised introduction, and new title pages to the other volumes. (cf. Introd., p. xxxi and xxxix, and Martyrology of Donegal, p.xi) Apparently other parts, also, were revised. cf. Catalogue of the Bradshw collection of Irish books, v.1, p. 531 (no.3127)

Known also as the Annals of Donegal.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Introductory remarks. Annals to A.D. 902.; title: v. 2. 903-1171.; title: v. 3. 1172-1372.; title: v. 4. 1373-1500.; title: v. 5. 1501-1588.; title: v. 6. 1589-1616. Appendix [pedigrees and histories of famous Irish families]; title: v. 7. Index locorum. Index nominum.