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Wed 11 Nov 2009Terrible deluge afflicts land during reign of Ó Comhain
NEWTONS OPTIC:An era of flooding and unrest is recorded in the Annals of the Fifth Master, writes NEWTON EMERSON
FOR AN account of Ireland’s last 800-year flood, we must turn to the Annals of the Fifth Master, which contain the following entry for the year AD 1209 (translated into English by Baile Nua Mac Eimear):
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