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Saint

Diarmait of Cluain Finn-⁠Aighne

An Irish bishop honored at Cluain Finn-⁠Aighne, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
September 28old style October 11
Era
unknown
Place
Cluain Finn-⁠Aighne

Life

Saint Diarmait of Cluain Finn-⁠Aighne is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland as a bishop.

The Donegal text calls him a son of Luchradh.

The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 28 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 28