Scaithin was an early
Medieval
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Irish saint
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.
Biography
Scaithin was the builder of an
oratory on
Inishbofin, Galway
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Name
The island ...
, used into the 20th century as a children's burial ground. His feast day is 2 January. Scoithín is a variant form of the name, and is that of a saint with links to
County Kilkenny
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, where his seven sons became bishops.
See also
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Mathias of Inis Ní
Mathias of Inis Ní was a Medieval Irish saint.
Biography
Inis Ní (Inishnee Island) is located in Bertraghboy Bay in Connemara, Ireland, and contains the remains of a chapel and well dedicated to Mathias, the probable founder of the Christian ...
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Enda of Aran
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Enda was a warrior-king of Oriel in Ulster, converted by his sister, Saint Fanchea, an abbess. About 484 he established the first Iri ...
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Alonzo Bosco
Don Alonzo Bosco was a 16th-century Barbary corsair or Spanish pirate who, according to folk tradition on Inishbofin, Galway, settled on the island in the 16th century and built a castle where a Cromwellian-era ruined castle now stands. From ...
References
* ''Inisbofin:Guide to the Natural History & Archaeology'', Dave Hogan and Michael Gibbons.
* ''A Guide to Connemara's Early Christian Sites'', Anthony Previté,
Oughterard
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, 2008.
External links
* http://www.inishbofin.com/Earlychristian.html
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People from County Galway
Medieval Irish saints