Texts

Óentu Mail Ruain ‘The unity of Máel Ruain’

Early Irish
prose
Irish texts, Irish religious texts

listing 12 persons associated with Máel Ruain, founder of Tallaght.

Cf. Óentu Feidelmid.

Title

Óentu Mail Ruain

‘The unity of Máel Ruain’

also Lucht Óentad Máele Ruain ‘The folk of the unity of Máel Ruain’

Manuscripts

Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 3 = Detached folios from the Book of Leinster [s. xii]

p. 16c

Two versions.

Language

Early Irish

Date

“unlikely to be earlier than the second half of the ninth century” (Follett).⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Westley Follett, Céli Dé in Ireland (2006): 137.

Provenance

Munster

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

Related: The monastery of TallaghtThe monastery of TallaghtText on the precepts and religious habits of Máel Ruain, first abbot of Tallaght, and his pupil Máel Díthruib, of Terryglass.⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Westley Follett, Céli Dé in Ireland (2006): 101–102. Óentu FeidelmidÓentu Feidelmid

Classification

Irish textsIrish texts
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Irish religious textsIrish religious texts
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Subjects

Máel Ruain

Máel Ruain

(d. 792)

Founding bishop-abbot of the monastery of Tallaght (Ir. Tamlacht, Co. Dublin) and a pioneer and leader of a kind of monastic reform that inspired the emergence of the Céli Dé.

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