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.