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  • d. 507/8?
  • Condere ... (Co. Antrim)
Mac Nisse (mac Faíbrig), early Irish saint of the Cruithne, patron of Condere (Connor, Co. Antrim), who is portrayed in the Tripartite Life of St Patrick as a contemporary of that saint.
  • s. xvii2
  • County Down
Pátruic Mac Oghannan/Oghannain, Irish scribe
  • 6th century? (unknown)
  • Cell Mac Reithe
patron saint of Cell Mac Reithe (Kilmacreehy, Co. Clare) and Cell mac nAingin (Ballynakill, Co. Galway)
one, two or even several legendary figures of the same name; if the available references are to one and the same person, he is a warrior, member of a fían, as well as a judge or sage, whose persona could be invoked as the author of a number of textual passages; Finn’s judge in the poem Fégthar tech Fhinn a nAlmhain. The tale lists mention an Aided Meic Samáin, now lost.
  • fl. early 15th century
Robeartus Mac Síthigh, Irish scribe, known as one of the three that wrote parts of the Book of Ballymote (RIA MS 23 P 12) under the tutelage of Domnall Mac Aedhagáin.
  • fl. early 18th century
  • Teach Challáin ... Stackallan (Co. Meath)
Irish scribe, of Stackallan (Co. Meath)
character in The trial of Mac Teléne.