Oilleoc of Cluana Etchen

Oilleoc of Cluana Etchen is a saint whose festival appears in the Martyrology of Tallaght on 24 July. His place can no longer be recognised under the name given there. The day follows the Julian calendar.

Colgan conjectures that he may be the same as Allaecus (Alleoc), brother of Saint Gildas the Wise, although elsewhere he makes him brother of five other Irish brothers. O'Hanlon thinks it more likely that he is Elloc, one of the sons of Bracan, king of Britain, in which case he would have lived in the fifth century. One of these brothers, Coeman (Mochoemoch), is said to have come from Britain and founded a church at Kilcavan in the plain of Geashill, King's County; Elloc may have settled nearby at Kilmalogue and become the local patron. These are only conjectures. He is honoured in the Irish calendars, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.