Four Comely Saints Explained

The Four Comely Saints (Irish: an Ceathrar Álainn) is a collective name for Fursey, Brendan of Birr, Conall, and Berchán, four saints in the early Irish Christian church.

At their reputed burial place on Inishmore is a ruined fifteenth-century church dedicated to them.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] A reputed miraculous cure at the adjacent holy well inspired John Millington Synge's play The Well of the Saints.[6]

Notes and References

  1. 1895 . Excursion to Aran Islands, Galway, &c, July 1895 . Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Dublin University Press . Dublin . XXV (V, 5th series) . III . 261 .
  2. Web site: Leabaancheathranaloinn . Placenames Database of Ireland.
  3. Web site: Templeanchaeathrairalainn. Placenames Database of Ireland.
  4. Note: the location of Claregalway given on logainm.ie is incorrect.
  5. Web site: Small-scale map of Oghil, Inishmore . Mapviewer . Ordnance Survey of Ireland . 23 April 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100529055024/http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx#V1,485174,710176,7 . 29 May 2010 . dead .
  6. Book: Synge, John Millington . The Aran Islands . Tim Robinson . Penguin Classics . 1992 . 139 . 0-14-018432-5 . 25 April 2010 .

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