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Litan (died 900) 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 Tuam. Litan was the fifth known abbot of Tuam,
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, but nothing else appears to be known of him. He was the apparent successor of
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 ...
but because the sabbatical succession of Tuam is fragmentary, this is uncertain. The next person listed in connection with the monastery at Tuam would be in 947 but titled ''airchinneach'' ( Erenagh), and so was probably not its abbot. Events which occurred during his lifetime included: * 879 - Death of Conchobhar mac Tadhg Mor, ''King of the three divisions of Connaught''. * 881 - King Ainbhith of
Ulaid Ulaid (Old Irish, ) or Ulaidh (Modern Irish, ) was a Gaelic over-kingdom in north-eastern Ireland during the Middle Ages made up of a confederation of dynastic groups. Alternative names include Ulidia, which is the Latin form of Ulaid, and in ...
killed by the
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. * 888 - Death of Cerball mac Dúnlainge,
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. * 893 - Battle of Benfleet; ''A shower of blood was rained in Ard Cianachta.'' * 897 - ''The expulsion of the foreigners from Ireland, from the fortress of Ath Cliath.'' * 899 - Death of
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of Wessex, succeeded by his son,
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. * 900 - Diarmaid macCearbhall was driven from
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; Ceallach mac Cearbhall, made king in his place.


References

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

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University College Cork
of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin. * Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, {{DEFAULTSORT:Litan Christian clergy from County Galway 9th-century Irish abbots 900 deaths Year of birth unknown