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Feardomhnach of Tuam, died 777. Feardomhnach may have been the successor of
Nuada ua Bolcain Nuada ua Bolcain (died 776) was Abbot of Tuam. ua Bolcain is the first recorded abbot of Tuam after Jarlath. There is some ambiguity as to his status, as he is listed as ''abbot of Tuaim Daolann'', but this seems to be a contraction of ''Tuai ...
as
Abbot of Tuam 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 ...
, though he is not explicitly listed as such. Nothing else seems to be known of him. Because the abbatical succession at Tuam is only partly preserved, the next known abbot was listed over one hundred years later. Events in
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in the year of Feardomhnach's death included: *
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defeats the Saxons led by Widukind. * The battle of Cuirreach between the Uí Failghe and
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. * ''Artghal, son of Cathal, King of Connaught, took the pilgrim's staff, and went to Hi (
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) on his pilgrimage.''


References

* ''Annals of Ulster'' a
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University College Cork
* ''Annals of Tigernach'' a

a
University College Cork
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 priests 777 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Ireland-reli-bio-stub