by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien) © 2000-2006 by
Kathleen M. O'Brien. All rights reserved. Version 2.0, updated
01 October 2006 What we know as a set of Irish Annals are
manuscripts that were each compiled during a particular time
period, usually using older material as sources. For example,
when the Annals of the Four Masters were written from 1632 to
1636, they covered events that occurred centuries and millenia
before (including legendary history). So, when an entry in this
set of annals refers to a person who lived in the year 738, the
spelling used for that person's name is very likely not using
the spelling that would have been used in 738. Standard forms of
this name (based on spelling systems of different periods) would
be: |Oghamic Irish (pre-700) nominative form:||[unknown]|
|Oghamic Irish (pre-700) genitive form:||[unknown]| |Old Irish
Gaelic (c700-c900) nominative form:||Ultán| |Old Irish Gaelic
(c700-c900) genitive form:||Ultáin| |Number of men found in the
annals with this name:||1