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- Mellifont Abbey
Bec(c) ‘the exile’, son of Airist, king of the Romans; in the Acallam na senórach he is said to have attempted the conquest of Ireland but drowned in a great wave that overcame Ireland: he died in the spot that came to be known as the estuary of Bec Loingsech (Inber Bic Loingsig) in Brega, later the site of the monastery of Drogheda (Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth).
- d. 550s
legendary seer, best known from literary sources as an Irish prophet associated with Díarmait mac Cerbaill
- s. xx–xxi
- 1924–2004
