Venerable
Raoiriu
A venerable father honored in the Irish tradition.
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- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Raoiriu was an early Irish missionary, around the year 500, from the province of Connacht and the Cinel Dobtha people. He founded Teampall Raoileann on the east bank of the River Suck. He was a kinsman of Saints Berach and Midabaria and seems to have belonged to the second or third generation of saints who evangelised Ireland. He was one of the first Christian missionaries among the eastern Uí Maine.
In the sixth century King Cairbre Crom of Uí Maine gave Teampall Raoileann to Clonmacnoise. Only the foundations of a later church, built over the original, remain on the site.