Texts

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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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.

Sources

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[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