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Tírechán was a 7th-century
Irish bishop from
north Connacht,
specifically the
Killala Bay area, in what is now
County Mayo.
Based on a
knowledge of Irish...
- 7th century
biographies by
Muirchu and
Tírechán.
However J.B. Bury,
infers that
there is a
missing p****age in
Tírechán about Crom Cruaich; L. Bieler, who...
- Cornish: Petroc.
Hagiography records other names he is said to have borne.
Tírechán's seventh-century
Collectanea gives: "Magonus, that is, famous; Succetus...
- proto-Celtic *don,
meaning "earth" (compare the Old
Irish word for earth, doman).
Tírechán described the sídh folk as dei terreni, "earthly gods". The name could...
- King of Tara from the Laigin. The
earliest reference to
Cairbre is in
Tírechán's Memoir of
Saint Patrick, a 7th-century
Latin text
found in the Book of...
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containing early texts relating to St Patrick, the 7th
century Irish bishop Tírechán, the
Irish monk Muirchú. The book
contains some of the
oldest surviving...
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legendary history and mythology.
Writing in the 7th century, the
Irish bishop Tírechán described the sídh folk as "earthly gods" (Latin: dei terreni). The 8th...
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named by Patrick's
earliest hagiographers, Muirchú
moccu Mactheni and
Tirechán. Both
writers had
Patrick come to
Ireland in Lóegaire's
reign and meet...
- Many were in fact
swallowed by oblivion; when we
examine the
writing of
Tirechan we
encounter obscure references to
tribes that are
quite unknown to the...
- of
circular huts
abutting it,
which showed evidence of
Bronze Age date.
Tírechán, a
native of Connacht,
wrote in the 7th
century that
Saint Patrick spent...
