Mac Flaithniadh (died
778
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Year 778 ( DCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 778 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method ...
) 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.
References
*
* ''Annals of Tigernach'' a
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Textsa
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 abbots
778 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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