Natalis of Ulster

Saint Natalis of Ulster, also called Naile or Naal, was an Irish monk of the sixth century, a founder of monasteries in the north of Ireland, and he reposed in 564.

He was a son of Aenghus, third in descent from Lughaidh, king of Munster. He was a spiritual disciple of Saint Columba and raised monasteries throughout Ulster, serving as abbot at Inver in County Donegal, at Kinawley, at Inver Naile near Raphoe, and on Devenish Island, where he succeeded Saint Molaise. A holy well in his memory still exists beside Kinawley church, where the handle of his bell was preserved until the nineteenth century. A life of him, from about 1520, is collected in the Miscellanea hagiographica Hibernica.

He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 27 January (new style).