Note 154 — Chapter V · SHIPBUILDING AND SEAFARING.
Reading edition
Annals of the Four Masters, A.D. 953 (= 955). Annals of Ulster, A.D. 963.
To this entry the annalist adds the following note: “Quod non factum est ab antiquis temporibus.”
Cf. Three Fragments of Annals (A.D. 873): “Bairith (O.N. Barthr), drew many ships from the sea westwards to Lough Ree…”