Béoáed
Béoáed mac Ocláin[1] was [bishop of Ardcarne (Ard Carna), County Roscommon.
Béoáed was bishop of Ard Carna in Maigh nAi (now Ardcarne, four miles due east of Boyle, County Roscommon. He is patron saint of Ardcarn, and his feast is celebrated on the 8th of March.
He was a friend of Saint Caillin.
The poem Imarcaigh sund ar gach saí says of him an díth sin mar t[h]or<t>aind te/that loss was like a fierce loud noise [?].
References
- p. 24, The History of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century, Hubert T. Knox, 1908.
- ↑ Also known as Aka Beoaedh, Béo Aedh, Aidus vivax, etc.
External links
- http://www.ucc.ie/celt/Imarcaigh.pdf
- http://www.cushnieent.force9.co.uk/CelticEra/Saints/saints_donan.htm
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