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MacCotter, Paul, Colmán of Cloyne: a study, Cork Studies in Irish History, 4, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004.

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Colmán of Cloyne: a study
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Dublin
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Four Courts Press
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2004
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Colmán mac LénéniColmán mac Lénéni
(d. c. 606)
Colmán of Cloyne, Mac Lénéni, Colmán of Clúain Uama, Colmán mac Léníne
Early Irish poet; patron saint and founder of Cloyne (Clúain Uama); son of Lénín.
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Contents:

[1] “Introduction”
9
[2] “The historiography of Colmán”
1. The received picture; 2. Errors in the received picture; 3. The Leinster connexion
15
[3] “Colmán’s family origins”
1. Genealogies; 2. Colmán’s people: the Cattraige
21
[4] “The king and the saint”
1. Colmán in the tale of Conall Corc; 2. The political background: the Síl Cathail dynasts; 3. Colmán: patron of Síl Cathail
33
[5] “Colmán: fili and athláech
1. Colmán in the annals; 2. Colmán as fili; 3. Colmán as athláech; 4. Colmán in religion; 5. Colmán: a life in summary
41
[6] “Eóganacht Glennamnach: sponsors of a cult”
1. The Síl Cathail segment of Eóganacht Chaisil; 2. The northern lands of Síl Cathail; 3. Eóganacht Glennamnach
50
[7] “Literary evidence of Colmán’s cult”
1. Colmán in the martyrologies and Corpus sanctorum; 2. Colmán interred at Cloyne; 3. Colmán as Eóganacht patron: Dalcassian propaganda; 4. Colmán as poet in historical memory; 5. Colmán in Beatha Molaca
63
[8] “The church of Cluain Uama
1. The ecclesiastical town of Cluain Uama: foundation and early development; 2. Cluain Uama: topography; 3. The cult of Mac Léinín and the paruchia of Cloyne; 4. The Manaig families of Cloyne and its paruchia; 5. Cloyne and Emly; 6. Ailbe and Mac Léinín; 7. Emly: senior church of Munster
74
[9] “The diocese of Cloyne”
1. Paruchia and diocese; 2. Church government; 3. Church government in Cloyne; 4. The see of Cloyne before AD 1100; 5. The ‘reformed’ see of Cloyne
96
[10] “The legacy of Colmán Mac Léinín”
117
[Appendix A] “Bishops of South Munster before AD 1100”
122
[Appendix B] “Distribution of the cults of Colmán and associates, and Finbarr of Cork”
123
[Appendix C] “The poems of Colmán”
Tr. by Donnchadh Ó Corráin: 1. Luin oc elaib; 2. Dūn maic Daim; 3. Ó ba mac cléib and Indlith dūn; 4. Nī sēim anim; 5. Nī fhordiuchtror for duain indlis; 6. Ropo thānaise; 7. Do-aisic a dath.
129
“Maps”
1. Cluain Uama; 2. The paruchiae of Cloyne and Cork: respective cult sites; 3. Betagh locations, Cloyne; 4. Primary manors of the Anglo-Norman diocese of Cloyne
133
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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