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  • The Sons of Earcan of Brugh-Laogh, July 15

    Another of the interesting groups of Irish saints are commemorated on July 15. Sometimes in dealing with saints described as the sons or daughters of a particular person the sources preserve the names and number of the individuals involved, but in the case of the sons of Earcan of Brugh-Laogh, we do not have any further details. Canon O’Hanlon can only bring the recording of their names on the calendars:

    The Sons of Earcan, of Brugh-laogh.

    We find a festival entered, to honour Mac Ercain, at the 15th of July, and the Martyrology of Tallagh calls his place Bruigh-long, while that of Donegal spells it Brugh-laogh, and the sons of Earcan are set down, without any specification of their actual number or particular nnmes. Their place has not been identified.
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  • Saint Colmán of Clonpriest, July 12

    July 12 is the feast of a County Cork saint, Colmán of Clonpriest. He shares his feast day with a neighbouring Saint Ultán. In his entry below from The Lives of the Irish Saints, Canon O’Hanlon spends some time discussing possible locations where this saint flourished, but I have accepted Pádraig Ó Riain’s location of Bruchais as Clonpriest, County Cork, which is not one of the possibilities listed by O’Hanlon:

    St. Colman, Priest, of Cluain Bruchais.

    In the Martyrology of Tallagh, at the 12th of July, we find the simple entry, Colman, Bruicisi. It is stated by O’Clery, that this saint was Colman, son of Lughaidh, son to Aenghus, son of Nadfraech. This Aenghus was King of Minister and of Caiseal. The same authority states, that the present saint was venerated at Cluain Bruchais, but we are not informed where it had been situated. There is a townland Clonbrick, in the parish of Clonlea, barony of Tulla Lower and county of Clare; as also Clonbrick, in the parish of Solloghodmore, barony of Clanwilliam, and county of Tipperary. There is a Clonbrock (Upper and Lower), in the parish of Clonsast, barony of Coolestown, and King’s County; there is a Clonbrock, in the parish of Killabban, barony of Slievmargy and Queen’s County; there are two Clonbrocks, in the barony of Kilconnell, and county of Galway. One of the latter is in Ahascragh, and the other in Fohanagh parish. These are the only denominations discoverable on the Maps of Ireland, as likely to correspond with Cluain Bruchais. The Martyrology of Donegal records this saint at the same date, but somewhat differently from that of Tallagh, by calling him Colman, Priest, of Cluain Bruchais. The Bollandists, likewise, enter  Colman, with the addition of Brucais, at the 12th day of July.

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  • Saint Senan, July 10

    The name of a Saint Senan is recorded on the Irish calendars at July 10. The most famous saint of this name is the patron of Scattery Island but it is one he shares with at least twenty others. As Canon O’Hanlon explains, we have no other information about the saint Senan commemorated on July 10:

    St. Senan.

    The name of Senan is set down in the Martyrologies of Tallagh  and of Donegal, at the 10th of July. With other saints of this name, Colgan notes him, but without any further distinction. The Bollandists have an entry, at this date, regarding him.

     

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