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unusual facts about Coman of Kinvara


Ailbhe of Ceann Mhara

Ailbhe was a cleric of the church of Coman of Kinvara, and his obituary demonstrates that a church was already in existence in Kinvara by the early 9th-century.


The Voyage of the Uí Chorra

As a final act of contrition, on the advice of St. Coman of Kinvara, the keeper of the last church they repaired, the three brothers set out on an Atlantic Ocean voyage on a small boat (a currach), accompanied by five others (a bishop, a priest, a deacon, a musician and the craftsman who built the boat).


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