Moling

Saint Moling (Mo Ling, also called Moling Luachra, Molling, Myllin or Dairchilla) was the second bishop of Ferns in Ireland. He was born in 614 in Wexford and reposed in 697. He was a monk at Glendalough and then abbot of Aghacainid (Teghmolin, now St Mullins in County Carlow), the monastery he founded. Later he succeeded Saint Aidan as bishop of Ferns. He is also said to have had a church built at Mullennakill in County Kilkenny.

He is called "one of the four great prophets of Erin". Traditions about him are preserved in two manuscripts, The Birth and Life of Saint Moling and the Borama; these tell how he ended a cattle tribute that the kings of Tara imposed on the kings of Leinster, in retribution for an incident when the son of the king of Leinster went on a cattle raid to Clonfert and killed several princesses. He is commemorated on 17 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.