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Saint

Diarmaid of Disert Diarmada

An Irish bishop honored at Disert Diarmada, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
June 21old style July 4
Era
unknown
Place
Disert Diarmada
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Saint Diarmaid of Disert Diarmada is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland as a bishop.

The Donegal text calls him a grandson of Aedh Roin and places his see in Leinster; he is said to have been of the race of Fiatach Finn, monarch of Erin.

The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 21 June. 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.

The sources consulted record nothing more about him.

Commemorated the same day June 21