Molua

Saint Molua of Kilmoluagh was an early Christian missionary among the people of Soghain, in County Galway, in Ireland.

He was perhaps a native of that kingdom, being, by genealogy, a great-⁠great-⁠grandson of its founder; the historian Joseph Mannion noted that the short genealogy might show that he lived in the earliest period of Irish Christianity, perhaps as early as the late fifth century. He is believed to have been a kinsman of Saints Kerrill and Cuana of Kilcoonagh. He is credited with the erection of a cross at Crossmaloo, of which only the base and part of the shaft survive; it is believed to mark his grave and was once a resting place for funeral processions going to the church of Kilmoluagh, which he founded. The name Kilmoluagh no longer exists even as a townland name.

He is an Irish saint honoured locally, from the time of the undivided Church, without synodal canonization.