Cormac mac Connmhach (died 867) was a

scribe A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing. The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its promi ...

. Cormac mac Connmhach was alive three hundred years after the foundation of

Clonfert Clonfert () is a small village in east County Galway, Ireland, halfway between Ballinasloe and Portumna. The village gives its name to the Diocese of Clonfert. Clonfert Cathedral is one of the eight cathedral churches of the Church of Ireland, ...

Brendan Brendan may refer to: People * Saint Brendan the Navigator (c. 484 – c. 577) was an Irish monastic saint. * Saint Brendan of Birr (died 573), Abbot of Birr in Co. Offaly, contemporaneous with the above * Brendan (given name), a masculine given na ...

in 553. He is described as an ''oeconomus, scribe, and wise man'' and does not seem to have been either

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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. Of his scriptorial work, nothing is known to survive. Nor does it seem to be known from what people he originated.

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*''Annals of Ulster'' a
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of McCarthy's synchronisms at

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. *Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 9th-century Irish writers People from County Galway 867 deaths Year of birth unknown Irish-language writers {{Ireland-writer-stub