Excerpt from The History of Ireland, From the Earliest Period to the Year 1245, When the Annals of Boyle, Which Are Adopted and Embodied as the Running Text Authority, Terminate, Vol. 2 of 2: With a Brief Essay on the Native Annalists, and Other Sources for Illustrating Ireland, and Full Statistical and Historical Notices of the Barony of Boyle The captivity of the Jews; and the fifth extended thence to the birth of Christ; it, therefore, accord ing to their calculation, commenced after A. M. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.