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Venerable

Scoth of Clonmaskil

An Irish saint honored at Clonmaskil, of the 6th century, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
July 16old style July 29
Era
6th century
Place
Clonmaskil

Life

Venerable Scoth of Clonmaskil was an Irish virgin of Cluain-⁠mor-⁠Moescna (Clonmaskil). She is remembered in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal. Her day of commemoration is 16 July (the date in the Irish martyrologies, in the Julian calendar). No other details of her life have been kept. She is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day July 16