Saint
Mael Poil
A saint honored in the Irish tradition.
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- Era
- 10th century
Life
Mael Poil was an Irish abbot of the ninth or tenth century. In 1978, in the church graveyard of Templemoyle near Athenry in County Galway, a gravestone was found with the Irish inscription OROIT AR MAELPOIL, 'a prayer for the devotee of Paul', together with a large bronze-coated iron handbell. The slab was probably set in honour of an important cleric of the place, perhaps an abbot of Tech Saxan. The name Maél Póil was very rare in the early period. No veneration as a saint is shown.