School: An Ráth Mhór (Clochar) (roll number 13742)
- Location:
- Rathmore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Sr. M. Dolores
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0451, Page 206
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- (continued from previous page)fairly assume that he succeeded the Abbot Colman and governed the See for forty years. Colman King of Connaught the uncle of Cummian and father of Guaire was slain in A.D 617 and Guaire if not actually king at this date was an influential chief, and his defeat with others at the battle of Carn Fearadhaigh in Limerick is noted by the Annalists in A.D. 662 and his death in A.D. 662 so that the two brothers, the Bishop and Chieftain were contemporaries ruling in South Connaught during a long and chequered career. This fact will help to explain the great influence which Cuimmian possessed and the leading position which he occupied in the Irish Church at that period. His fame as a saint and scholar spread throughout all Ireland and attracted crowds of Students to his great school at Clonfert. He appears as we shall see further on, to have taken a leading part in the Synod of Magh Lene, held about A.D. 630, and it was no doubt at the request of the Fathers of that Synod that he wrote his famous epistle on the Paschal question to the Abbot Segienus of Hy about the year A.D. 634. There is every reason to believe that Seienus and Cummian were if not personal friends at least well known to each other for the Columbian Abbey of Darrow in King's County was not far from Clonfert and the uncle of Segienus had been abbot of that house until he was transferred to Hy in the year AD 600. Segienus himself was very likely educated there under his uncle's care and perhaps succeeded him later on in the government of the Abbey. It is at all events certain that frequent intercourse existed between Hy and Durrow and that Cummian must have been well known at Durrow is manifest.There is a characteristic story of Cummian, Guaire and Caimin told by the Scholiast on the Felire of Aengus. The three half-brothers(continues on next page)
