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- Tigernach, an early Irish personal name, may refer to: Tigernach of Clones (d. 549), patron saint of Clones Tigernach mac Fócartai (d. 865), king of Lagore...
- The monastery of Clones was established in the 6th century by St. Tighernach. Tighernach was of the family Uí Cremthainn: one of the many families that made...
- The Annals of Tigernach (abbr. AT, Irish: Annála Tiarnaigh) are chronicles probably originating in Clonmacnoise, Ireland. The language is a mixture of...
- taken captive to Brittany, together with Cairbre of Coleraine and St. Tighernach, who is best known as the founder of the abbey of Clones, County Monaghan...
- Tigernach Ua Braín (died 1088) was abbot of Clonmacnoise and abbot of Roscommon. He was once held to be the author of the Annals of Tigernach, hence its...
- Tigernach mac Coirpri (d. 549) was an early Irish saint, patron saint of Clones (County Monaghan) in the province of Ulster. Clones Clogher Devenish Island...
- Surnames. Retrieved 5 May 2011.[permanent dead link] Patrick Woulfe (1923). "Tighernach". Irish Names and Surnames. Retrieved 5 May 2011. Patrick Woulfe (1923)...
- giving various dates between 552 and 559. The earliest, the Annals of Tighernach, and the Annals of Innisfallen, give 558 A.D. as the date of the foundation...
- its main sights are ecclesiastical. The Abbey was formerly known as St. Tighernach Abbey, and was referred to locally as the "wee abbey". Parochial and monastic...
- given for the battle concerns the violation of sanctuary. The Annals Of Tighernach for the year 559, record the death of Curnan son of Aed, son of Eochaid...