• references, the earliest life of Fintán/Munna is believed to date around the year 800. Fintán was born of the dynasty of Niall, son of Tulchan (or Tulcan) and...
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    Taghmon Church (/ˈtækmən/) is a fortified church and National Monument in County Westmeath, Ireland. Taghmon Church is located 1.8 km (1.1 mi) east of...
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  • and hermit Fintán of Taghmon (died 635), Irish saint, abbot and abbey founder Fintan of Rheinau (803/4–878), Irish saint and hermit Fintan Connolly, Irish...
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    Taghmon (/tæˈmʊn/; Irish: Teach Munna, meaning 'house of Munn') is a village in County Wexford, Ireland. It lies on the R738 regional road, 14 km west...
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  • called Taghmon after the townland it occupies Fintán of Taghmon Taughmonagh This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Taghmon. If...
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    Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, the other patron saints being Brigid of Kildare and Columba. Patrick...
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    Holy Loch (category Articles using infobox body of water without pushpin map alt)
    known as Fintan, St Munn (Fintán of Taghmon), reflects devotion to an Irish saint who founded a church at Taghmon in Leinster. The remains of a 12th-century...
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    relied on reports of monks who still knew Columbanus. A description of miracles of Columbanus written by an anonymous monk of Bobbio is of much later date...
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    Kilmun (category Protected areas of Argyll and Bute)
    7th-century monastic community founded by an Irish monk, St Munn (Fintán of Taghmon). The ruin of a 12th-century church still stands beside the Kilmun Parish...
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  • and poet of the Early Middle Ages. Bertrand Russell dubbed him "the most astonishing person of the ninth century". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy...
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  • Adomnán (redirect from Adomnan of Iona)
    Adhamhnán), was an abbot of Iona Abbey (r. 679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the Life of Columba (Latin: Vita...
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    Hiberno-Scottish mission (category History of Christianity in Belgium)
    The Hiberno-Scottish mission was a series of expeditions in the 6th and 7th centuries by Gaelic missionaries originating from Ireland that spread Celtic...
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  • son of Feriach, grandson of Cellach Cualann, King of Leinster, received the monastic habit at the Abbey of Fintán of Taghmon in Wexford and came to Scotland...
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  • October 21 (redirect from 21st of October)
    Church) Fintán of Taghmon Hilarion John of Bridlington Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena Leticia Malchus of Syria Peter Yu Tae-chol Severinus of Bordeaux...
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    Kilmun Parish Church and Argyll Mausoleum (category Burial sites of the Campbells of Argyll)
    burial place of St Munn (Fintán of Taghmon), who is also the patron saint of Clan Campbell. In the north-west of the church is the mausoleum of Sir John Douglas...
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  • noble families of Gaul, and several of them held high ranks in the Church of Gaul. Palladius was the son of Exuperantius of Poitiers, of whom the contemporary...
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  • Hiberno-Latin (category Forms of Latin)
    Hiberno-Latin, also called Hisperic Latin, was a learned style of literary Latin first used and subsequently spread by Irish monks during the period from...
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  • Martyrs of Nicomedia (304–305) Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (320) Martyrs of Persia under Shapur II (4th century) Martyrs of Córdoba (850–859) Martyrs of Otranto...
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    Land; but, like many of his countrymen, he settled in Francia. Virgil served as abbot of Aghaboe, bishop of Ossory and later bishop of Salzburg. He was called...
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  • day is 17 February. Though he is sometimes confused with Fintán or Munnu, abbot of Taghmon, they are distinct. This tree, an acer pseudoplatanus, was...
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  • Sedulius Scottus (category Year of birth unknown)
    who lived in the 9th century. During the reign of the Emperor Lothair (840–855), he was one of a colony of Irish teachers at Liège. Sedulius is sometimes...
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    MacGorman (category Surnames of Irish origin)
    7th century, Suibhne mac Domhnall; grandson of Cormac mac Diarmata; came into conflict with Fintán of Taghmon (died 635), also known as Munnu. After allegedly...
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  • Dicuil (category Year of birth uncertain)
    dates of Dicuil's birth and death are unknown. Of his life nothing is known except that he probably belonged to one of the numerous Irish monasteries of the...
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    number of times in the late medieval period, in particular before 1381, the year of death of Pilib O'Ceinneidigh (Philip O'Kennedy), Lord of Ormond,...
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  • Dungal of Bobbio (fl. 811–828) was an Irish monk, teacher, astronomer, and poet. He was to live at Saint-Denis, Pavia, and Bobbio. He may be the same person...
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    Finnian of Movilla (c. 495–589) was an Irish Christian missionary. His feast day is 10 September. Finnian (sometimes called Finbarr "the white head", a...
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  • A list of people, who died during the 7th century, who have received recognition as Blessed (through beatification) or Saint (through canonization) from...
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  • Laurentius of Echternach, fl. 704–722, was a scribe from Echternach in modern Luxembourg. Laurentius wrote the Echternach martyrology in minuscule, and...
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  • Clara, a history of the world. Marianus Scotus is Latin for "Marian the Scot", although that term at the time was still inclusive of the Irish. He is...
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  • Killala Bay area, in what is now County Mayo. Based on a knowledge of Irish customs of the times, historian Terry O’Hagan has concluded that Tírechán was...
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