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Teidm tregait isin bliadain sin i n-Ard Macha coro marbh ár. Mael Brigte m. in Gobann, fer leiginn Aird Macha, do éc de; & Scolaighi m. Clercen sacart Ard Macha, & Cenn Faelad ant Shabaill .i. anmchara toghaidhe, mortui sunt.

Does nt look like proper Irish, maybe Google Translator.

Fan go bhfeicfidh muid

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Created: By mostly unknown authors in Irish monastic scriptoria and medieval Irish clerics. Date range:
c. 550-c.1588, various and mostly unknown.
Use of language
Language: [LA] A large portion of the earlier part of the annals is in Latin.
Language: [GA] Most of the later annals are in Old, Middle, and Early Modern Irish with very many Latin words and formulae

I don't think that's Google, as the spelling is off in quite a few of the words (possible older spellings, or spellings that have had the séimhiú left off? Some also look to be abbreviations). The last two words are Latin: Mortui sunt, which I think means means either "they died" or "they are dead" (it's been 30 years since my last Latin class).

Redwolf

Its a listing in the Annals of Ulster...Who was King or sacart (priest?) Ard Maca etc ..in this case Solaighi

Is this close???

A plague of colic in this year in Ard-Macha, which killed a great number. Maelbrigte Mac-an-gobhan, lector of Ard-Macha died of it; and Scholaighi son of Clerchen, priest of Ard-Macha, and a choice soul-friend, died.

johndmize wrote:Is this close???

A plague of colic in this year in Ard-Macha, which killed a great number. Maelbrigte Mac-an-gobhan, lector of Ard-Macha died of it; and Scholaighi son of Clerchen, priest of Ard-Macha, and a choice soul-friend, died.

I would say that this is one case in which the dreaded "a" word definitely means "confessor."

Redwolf