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Venerable

Curchach

An Irish saint honored at Cluain Lothair, commemorated in the Martyrology of Tallaght.

Feast
August 8old style August 21
Era
unknown
Place
Cluain-⁠Lothair

Life

Venerable Curchach was an Irish virgin, patron of Cluain-⁠Lothair in Breifne O'Ruairc. She is remembered in the Martyrology of Tallaght. Her day of commemoration is 8 August (the date in the Irish martyrologies, in the Julian calendar). No other details of her life have been kept. She is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day August 8