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Betha Máedóc Ferna (I) ‘The life of (St) Máedóc of Ferns’

• Irish
• prose
• Irish hagiography

Short Irish Life of St Máedóc, founder and patron saint of Ferna (Ferns, Co. Wexford)

Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS A iv 1 (968) [c. 1627]

pp. 132–147

Language

• Irish

Form

prose (primary)

Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Subjects

Máedóc of Ferns

Máedóc of Ferns

(fl. 7th century)

founder and patron saint of Ferna (Ferns, Co. Wexford), later also a patron saint of Drumlane, Co. Cavan, and later still of Rossinver, Co. Leitrim.

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Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Plummer, Charles, Bethada náem nÉrenn: Lives of Irish saints, 2 vols, vol. 1: Introduction, texts, glossary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.

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183–190

[tr.] Plummer, Charles, Bethada náem nÉrenn: Lives of Irish saints, 2 vols, vol. 2: Translations, notes, indexes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.

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177–183

Secondary sources (select)

Plummer, Charles, Bethada náem nÉrenn: Lives of Irish saints, 2 vols, vol. 1: Introduction, texts, glossary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.

CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

xxxiii

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May 2014, last updated: January 2024