Conghaltach Mac Etguini

Conghaltach mac Etguini (died 808) was

Abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The fem ...

of Clonfert. Conghaltach is described as

Prior Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior. In abbeys, a prior would be l ...

, not

, unless he held two offices at once, as did

Cormac mac Ciaran Cormac mac Ciaran (died 879) was Abbot of Tuam. Cormac mac Ciaran is the fourth known abbot of Tuam, since its foundation as a Christian monastery by Jarlath in the 520's, and the first one known by name in over one hundred years. According to h ...

and

Ruthmael Ruthmael (died 824) was Abbot and Bishop of Clonfert. References * ''Annals of Ulster'' aCELT: Corpus of Electronic TextsaUniversity College Cork* ''Annals of Tigernach'' aaUniversity College CorkCELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
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of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin. * Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, * Lysaght, Eamonn (1978), The Surnames of Ireland. , pp. 233–34. People from County Galway 8th-century Irish abbots 802 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Ireland-reli-bio-stub