Brandubh of Tynagh, fl. c. 500
AD, Irish missionary.
Brandubh is listed the Irish genealogies as ''Brandamh Tighe nEathach m. Eachach m. Ainmireach m. Aengusa m. Lomáin'' (Brandugh of Tynagh son of Eochu son of Ainmire son of Aonghus son of Lomáin').
He founded the church of
Tynagh
Tynagh () is a village and Electoral division (Ireland), electoral division in south-east County Galway in Republic of Ireland, Ireland.
Origin of the name
Recorded as ''Tyneaach'' (1565), ''Teacneaghe'' (1543), ''Theaneac'' (1541), its current ...
sometime around 500 AD. Evidence suggests that Tynagh was originally a cult centre for the festival of
Lughnasa, later Christianised by Brandubh, who was cited as Lugh's son, thus betraying its true origins.
From about the 8th to the 17th centuries the region Tynagh is located was known as
Síol Anmchadha
Síol Anmchadha was a sub-kingdom or lordship of Uí Maine, and ruled by an offshoot of the Uí Maine called the Síol Anmchadha (''"the seed of Anmchadh"''), from whom the territory took its name. It was located in Connacht, Ireland.
Histor ...
See also
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Conainne
Conainne, also known as Dachonna, ( ) was an Irish missionary and saint. The Irish terms of endearment, ''mo'' and ''do'', were regularly added to the names of Irish saints and secular people, hence the origin of her diminutive pseudonym, Dachonn ...
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St Connell
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Kerrill
Saint Kerrill aka Caireall mac Curnain was a Christian missionary in what is now east County Galway, alive in the mid-to-late 5th century.
Origins
Caireall mac Curnain was a member of the Soghain people of Ireland, specifically those located in ...
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Téach
Teach is an Irish language term.
The following definition of the term has been given by Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig
''The word ''teach'', 'a house', is the only widely attested native Irish element to designate a church of monastic site in early ...
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Martyrology of Tallaght
References
* ''The Christian impact on early Ireland;placename evidence'', Deirdre Flannagan in ''Irland un Europa'', ed. P Ni Cathain and Michael Richter,
Stuttgart, 1984, pp. 25–51.
* ''Early Ecclesiastical Settlement Names of County Galway'',
Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig
Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig, M.A., is the former Chief Placenames Officer in the Placenames Branch in the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs (''An Roinn Gnóthaí Pobail, Comhionannais agus Gaeltachta'') in Ireland. He is a le ...
, in "Galway:History and Society - Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County", pp. 805–807, Dublin, 1996. .
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Christian clergy from County Galway
5th-century Irish priests