22 Jan, 26 Sept: St Colmán moccu Béognae (d. 611), founder of Lann Elo/ #Lynally, Co. #Offaly. Author of 'Alphabet of Piety'? St Columba saved him from drowning. St Columba's nephew? Described as "beautiful" in MartG. 📷and 🖇️link: Standing Stone IE #medievalsky www.thestandingstone.ie/2009/12/lyna...

3 Oct: Nativity of St Colmán Elo/Colmán moccu Beognae (d. 611) of Lann Elo/ #Lynally, Co. #Offaly. Remembered as 2 people! Nephew of St Columba/Colmcille. Wrote Apgitir Chrábaid (earliest surviving Old Irish prose) & perhaps The Hymn of St Secundinus in praise of St Patrick! #medievalsky

Lynally Church Ruins, County Offaly, Ireland

Jan 22: Feast of Colmán moccu Béognae (†611), founder of Lann Elo (Lynally, Co. Offaly); author of the devotional text the 'Alphabet of Piety'; by the ninth-century his true identity was lost & he had been divided into at least two different saints

RIA MS 3 B 23, p. 47: opening of Apgitir Chrábaid

16 April: Feast Dy of St Tetgal mac Colbraind (d. 709) of Lann-Elo/ #Lynally, Co. #Offaly. Commemorated on an early medieval slab in Clonmacnoise (Dr Elva Johnston), also in Co. Offaly, so not far from Lynally. Lynally founded by St Colmán Elo (d. 611). www.thestandingstone.ie/search?q=clo...

22 Jan, 26 Sept: Feast Days of St Colmán moccu Béognae (d. 611), founder of Lann Elo/ #Lynally, Co. #Offaly. Author of 'Alphabet of Piety'? St Columba saved him from drowning. St Columba's nephew? Described as "beautiful" in MartG. 📷and 🖇️link: @StandingStoneIE www.thestandingstone.ie/2009/12/lyna...

Lynally Church Ruins, County Offaly, Ireland

Lynally Church Ruins, County Offaly, Ireland

Lynally Church Ruins, County Offaly, Ireland

On this day in 1788, Margaret Geoghegan Rothery died aged 68. She was buried at Lynally, Co. Offaly (King's). Find out about the church ruins at Lynally in the Journals: tinyurl.com/roth1788

Learn about the Journals at MemsDead.com

#OTD #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #Offaly

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