Country of origin
Read the full stories of 27 saints whose birth or early family origins are associated with present-day Ireland.
Showing 13–24 of 27. Read each story’s origin note for traditional or disputed accounts.
Monastic / Hermit · 23 November
Columbanus was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy.
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Martyr
Dymphna is a saint honoured in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions.
Ireland · Traditional attribution
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Monastic · 21 March
Saint Enda of Aran is an Irish saint. His feast day is 21 March.
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Monastic
Saint Féchín or Féichín, also known as Mo-Ecca, was a 7th-century Irish saint, chiefly remembered as the founder of the monastery at Fore, County Westmeath.
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Bishop · September 25
Finbar of Cork was Bishop of Cork and abbot of a monastery in what is now the city of Cork, Ireland.
Ireland · Present-day geography
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Monastic · 12 December
Finnian of Clonard – also Finian, Fionán or Fionnán in Irish; or Finianus and Finanus in its Latinised form – was one of the early Irish monastic saints, who founded Clonard Abbey in modern-day County Meath.
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Monastic
Fintan of Clonenagh was an Irish hermit and monk. He was an abbot and disciple of Columba of Terryglass.
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Monastic / Hermit · 6 March
Fridolin of Säckingen, also known as Fridold or Fredelinus, is a legendary Irish missionary, apostle of the Alamanni and founder of Säckingen Abbey on the Upper Rhine.
Ireland · Traditional attribution
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Monastic
Saint Fursey was an Irish monk who did much to establish Christianity throughout the British Isles and particularly in East Anglia.
Ireland · Traditional attribution
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Monastic or Hermit · January 15
Íte of Killeedy was an early Irish nun and patron saint of Killeedy.
Ireland · Present-day geography
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Monastic · 3 June
Saint Kevin of Glendalough is an Irish saint, known as the founder and first abbot of Glendalough in County Wicklow, Ireland.
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Monastic · 14 November
Lorcán Ua Tuathail, known in English as Laurence O'Toole and in French as Laurent d'Eu, was Archbishop of Dublin at the time of the Norman invasion of Ireland.
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