Maolán was an early
Christian
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bishop in
Connacht
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, whose
feast day
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is given as 25 December. He is commemorated in the placnames ''Cill Easpaig Mhaoláin'' (the church of Bishop Maolán) or Killaspugmoylan, parish of Kilconickny,
Loughrea
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) and ''Cill Mhaoláin'' (the church of Maolán) or Kilmoylan, a parish four miles south of
Tuam
Tuam ( ; ga, Tuaim , meaning 'mound' or 'burial-place') is a town in Ireland and the second-largest settlement in County Galway. It is west of the midlands of Ireland, about north of Galway city. Humans have lived in the area since the Bron ...
.
See also
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Conainne
Conainne, also known as Dachonna, ( ) was an Irish missionary and saint. The Irish terms of endearment, ''mo'' and ''do'', were regularly added to the names of Irish saints and secular people, hence the origin of her diminutive pseudonym, Dachonn ...
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Ciarán of Clonmacnoise
Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise (c. 516 – c. 549), supposedly born Ciarán mac an tSaeir ("son of the carpenter"), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland and the first abbot of Clonmacnoise. He is sometimes called Ciarán the Young ...
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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 ...
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Kerrill
Saint Kerrill aka Caireall mac Curnain was a Christian missionary in what is now east County Galway, alive in the mid-to-late 5th century.
Origins
Caireall mac Curnain was a member of the Soghain people of Ireland, specifically those located in ...
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Soghain
The Soghain were a people of ancient Ireland. The 17th-century scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh identified them as part of a larger group called the Cruithin. Mac Fhirbhisigh stated that the Cruithin included "the Dál Araidhi ál nAraidi th ...
References
* ''Early Ecclesiastical Settlement Names of County Galway'',
Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig
Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig, M.A., is the former Chief Placenames Officer in the Placenames Branch in the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs (''An Roinn Gnóthaí Pobail, Comhionannais agus Gaeltachta'') in Ireland. He is a le ...
, in ''Galway:History and Society'', 1996, pp. 802–03.
People from County Galway
5th-century Irish bishops
Medieval saints of Connacht
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