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Saint

Daighre of Cluain Accair

An Irish saint honored at Cluain Accair, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
September 30old style October 13
Era
unknown
Place
Cluain Accair

Life

Saint Daighre of Cluain Accair is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland.

The Donegal text places Cluain Accair in Ardgail.

The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 30 September. The Martyrology of Tallaght, from the early ninth century, lists a similar name on the same day. The date is that of the old Irish calendar, that is, in the old style.

No further details of his life survive in the sources consulted.

Commemorated the same day September 30