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Saint

Cuana of Kilcoonagh

Saint of Kilcoonagh, venerated in the Western Church.

Era
5th century

Life

Cuana of Kilcoonagh was an Irish missionary active around the year 500 or after, in the north-⁠east of the parish of Ballymacward in County Galway. He founded the church of Kilcoonagh, now in the townland of Garrafine, of which only a small children's burial ground called Shanclogh survives.

He preached among the Soghain people, to whom he seems to have belonged himself. His genealogy shows him as a kinsman of Kerrill and of Molua of Kilmoluagh. He is an Irish saint venerated locally, from the time of the undivided Church, without synodal canonization.