Derwe

Martyr Derwe belonged, according to tradition, to the company of Irish who settled in Penwith and Carnmarth in Cornwall. She was perhaps killed: her martyrium stood in Camborne parish at Mertherderwa (now Menaderva), where there was a chapel dedicated to Saints Hia and Derwe. The writer who preserves these accounts thinks she is the same as Der-⁠chartain of Oughterard in Kildare, whose name means "daughter of the rowan" and whose day in the Martyrology of Donegal is 8 March (old style), her death being about 560; the identification is not certain. Nothing is known of her history. She is a saint of the undivided Church.