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A sinner in the Vita sancti Columbae I.39, where he is foretold to die in bed with a meritrix; son of Gruthrech, at least according to the subheading in the text.
son of Agnoman
- fl. 9th century
Welsh monk and student of Elvodugus (Elfoddw); best known from the prologue added to the Historia Brittonum, in which he is credited as the author of that work.
- d. in or before 878
- Cornwall, Glastonbury, St Neot ... Cornwall
Saint associated with St Neot, Cornwall. According to his first Life, he was an English monk of Glastonbury abbey who retreated to a life of isolation and private prayer in what became the location for the foundation of his monastery in Cornwall; his relics are said to have been translated to St Neots, Huntingdonshire.
Ness See: Ness ingen Echach Sálbuidi
mother of Conchobar (mac Nessa), king of Ulster in the Ulster Cycle, by the druid Cathbad; daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide, a previous king of Ulster
patron saint of Mungairit (Mungret, Co. Limerick)
- d. 23 July 1944
Professor of art history at Boston College.
- d. 1988
Newby (Maurice) See: Muiris Ó Nuabha
- s. xx–xxi
- d. 2015
- 1936–2018
Irish scholar, professor of Early and Mediaeval Irish at University College Dublin.
