Saint Irchard (or Erchard, Erthad, Merchard, Yarcard, Yrchard) was a Scottish missionary and bishop.

Barrett's account

According to Dom Michael Barrett (1848-1924), a monk of the Order of Saint Benedict at St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus, Scotland, in his ''The Calendar of Scottish Saints'' (1919),

Butler's account

The hagiographer

Alban Butler Alban Butler (13 October 171015 May 1773) was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer. Biography Alban Butler was born in 1710, at Appletree, Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire, the second son of Simon Butler, Esq. His father died when ...

mentions the bishop briefly in his ''The Lives of the Primitive Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'',

Mackay's account

The local historian William Mackay (1848–1928) wrote in his ''Urquhart and Glenmoriston: Olden Times in a Highland Parish'' (1893),

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Irchard Medieval Scottish saints