Dallan forgaill biography of rory

&#;DALLAN, Saint (fl. ), commonly called in Irish writings Forgaill, in Latin Forcellius, was of the race of Colla Uais, and was born about the middle of the sixth century in the district of Teallach Eathach, which was then included in Connaught, but now forms the north-western part of the county of Cavan.

He was famous for learning in the reign of Aedh mac Ainmere, who became king of Ireland in , and he survived St. Columba. Three poems are attributed to him, a panegyric on St. Columba, one on Senan, bishop of Inis Cathaig, and one on Conall Coel, abbot of Iniskeel in Donegal.

The two first are extant in manuscript, and the ‘Amhra Choluimcille,’ as the first is called, has, been printed with a translation by O'Beirne Crowe from an eleventh-century text in ‘Lebor na huidri,’ an edition which has been severely criticised by Whitley Stokes (Remarks on the Celtic Additions to Curtius' Greek Etymology, Calcutta, ).

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