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Began of Tamlacht Menainn

Bishop of Tamlacht Menainn

A hierarch of Tamlacht Menainn, commemorated in the Irish calendar; very little is recorded.

Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.

Feast
October 26old style November 8
Era
unknown
Place
Tamlacht Menainn

Life

Holy Hierarch Began of Tamlacht Menainn is commemorated on 26 October (old style, Julian calendar) in the Martyrology of Donegal. He is called a bishop, together with Meallan, at Tamlacht Menainn by Loch Bricrenn in Ui Eathach Uladh. The name survives only in the martyrologies, without synodal canonization; nothing else is known.

Commemorated the same day October 26