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Venerable

Dabheog

Founder of the monastery at Lough Derg in Ireland.

Feast
December 16old style December 29
Era
5th century
Place
Lough Derg

Life

Saint Dabheog (Beoc, Beanus, Mobeoc) founded a monastery on an island in Lough Derg in County Donegal, Ireland, in the fifth or sixth century.

The sources give no other details. He is a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 16 December (New Calendar).

Commemorated the same day December 16