The Annals of Inisfallen are a chronicle of the medieval history of Ireland. There are more than 2,500 entries spanning the
years between AD 433 and AD 1450, but it is believed to have been
written between the 12th and 15th centuries. It was written by the monks of Innisfallen Abbey, on
Innisfallen Island on Lough Leane, near
Killarney.
Kathleen Hughes has conjectured that the Annals are among those derived from the hypothetical Chronicle of Ireland.
As well as the chronological entries, the manuscript contains a short, fragmented narrative of the history of
pre-Christian Ireland, known as the pre-Patrician section. This section has many
elements in common with Lebor Gabála Érenn.
The annals are now housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. In 2001, Brian O'Leary, a Fianna Fáil
councillor in Killarney, called for the annals to be returned to the town.
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References
- Hughes, Kathleen, Early Christian Ireland: Introduction to the Sources, (London, 1972), pp. 99-162, esp. 99-116
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