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]
References edit
- ^ "Excursion to Aran Islands, Galway, &c, July 1895". Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. XXV (V, 5th series) (III). Dublin: Dublin University Press: 261. 1895.
- ^ "Leabaancheathranaloinn". Placenames Database of Ireland.
- ^ "Templeanchaeathrairalainn". Placenames Database of Ireland.
- ^ Note: the location of Claregalway given on logainm.ie is incorrect.
- ^ "Small-scale map of Oghil, Inishmore". Mapviewer. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Archived from the original on 29 May 2010. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
- ^ Synge, John Millington (1992). Tim Robinson (ed.). The Aran Islands. Penguin Classics. p. 139. ISBN 0-14-018432-5. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
