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3 unusual facts about Manchán of Min Droichit


Mainchín

Manchán of Min Droichit (d. 652), also Manchéne, scholar and abbot of Min Droichit (Co. Offaly).

Mainchín of Limerick

In Bruree, his feast day is commemorated on 2 January, but this date may have been erroneously taken from that recorded for St Manchán (Manchéne) of Min Droichit in the Félire Óengusso.

Manchán of Min Droichit

This anonymous work is uniquely preserved in a manuscript now held at Karlsruhe (Germany), but once in the possession of the Reichenau monastery.



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