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Saint

Bairrfionn of Achadh Chaillten

An Irish saint honored at Achadh Chaillten, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
November 8old style November 21
Era
unknown
Place
Achadh Chaillten

Life

Saint Bairrfionn of Achadh Chaillten is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland.

The Donegal text calls him a son of Aedh and places Achadh Chaillten in Ui-⁠Drona, west of the Bearbha (Barrow), in Ui-⁠Reithe, south of Leithghlinn. He was of the race of Eochaidh Finn-⁠Fuath-⁠Airt, from whom Brighit descends.

The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 8 November. The Martyrology of Tallaght, from the early ninth century, lists a similar name on the same day. The date is that of the old Irish calendar, that is, in the old style.

The sources consulted record nothing more about him.

Commemorated the same day November 8