my-server
← Wiki

Cele Dabhaill mac Scannal

Cele Dabhaill mac Scannal (858 – 14 September 927) was the Abbot of Bangor, County Down.

The Annals of the Four Masters contain the following notice of Cele Dabhaill's pilgrimage, sub anno 926:

Celedabhaill, son of Scannal, went to Rome on his pilgrimage from the abbacy of Beannchair; and he composed these quatrains at his departure:

An entry of the following year notes:

Celedabhaill, son of Scannall, successor of Comhgall of Beannchair, throughout Ireland, bishop, scribe, preacher, and learned doctor, died on his pilgrimage at Rome, on 14 September, and in the fifty-ninth year of his age. Of the year of his death was said:

External links

  • http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005B/index.html