Damnat

Saint Damnat (Damhnait, Davnet) was a nun who seems to have lived and died at Tydavnet (Tech nDamnat, "house of Damnat") at Sliabh Beagh in County Monaghan, Ireland. She is commemorated on 13 June and was greatly venerated in Cavan and Fermanagh.

Tradition speaks of her as a virgin and the founder of a church or monastery, which is thought to have stood in the graveyard of the present Catholic church in the village. A staff said to have belonged to her, now in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, was used in the past as a lie detector. In the mid-⁠seventeenth century John Colgan identified her with Saint Dymphna of Geel in Flanders, but George Petrie and John O'Donovan, in the 1830s and 1840s, doubted the link between the two names.