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Dec 2, 2017 · St. Brendan is recorded to have been born in 484 AD, in Ciarraighe Luachra, near Tralee, a port town in the southwestern Irish county of County Kerry, which is part of the province of Munster. The records also indicate that the future saint was baptized by Saint Erc, another Irish saint, at Tubrid, near Ardfert.
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After being banished from the Court of Cruachan, Ciar sought refuge in Munster. There he gained the territory for the first branch of Ciarraige, which he called Ciarraige Luachra. [1]
Uí Dhúnchadha of the Ciarraighe Luachra of Kerry A 6/7 th C. tract refers to the high king of Luachair and Loch Léin (embraced as Iarmumu or West Munster) and describes the equal standing between them.
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St Brendan is chiefly renowned for his legendary journey to The Isle of the Blessed (also called Tír na nÓg) as described in the ninth century Voyage of St Brendan the Navigator. Many versions exist of this story, that tell of how Brendan set out onto the Atlantic Ocean with sixty pilgrims (other versions have fourteen, plus three unbelievers who j...
In his later life, St. Brendan travelled to Wales and the holy island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland. It is said to have left traces of his apostolic zeal at Kil-brandon (near Oban) and Kil-brennan Sound. After a three years' mission in Britain he returned to Ireland, and did more proselytizing in various parts of Leinster, especially at D...
In 1976, Irish explorer Tim Severin built an ox leather curragh and over two summers sailed her from Ireland via the Hebrides, Faroe Islands and Iceland to Newfoundland to demonstrate that the saint's purported voyage was feasible. On his voyage, he encountered various sights such as icebergsand sea animals such as whales and porpoises which he sug...
The Brendan Voyage is an orchestral suite for Uilleann Pipes,written by Irish composer Shaun Davey in 1983 and based on Tim Severin's book of the same name.
Bray, Dorothy. "Allegory in the Navigatio Sancti Brendani," Viator 26(1995): 1-10.Donnchadha, Gearóid Ó. St Brendan of Kerry, the Navigator. His Life & Voyages. Open Air, ISBN 1851828710Esposito, M. "An Apocryphal Book of Enoch and Elias as a Possible Source for the Navigatio Sancti Brendani," Celtica5 (1960): 192-206Illingworth, Robin N. "The Structure of the Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan by Benedeit." Medium Aevum55(2) (1986): 217-29.All links retrieved February 11, 2022. 1. Biography from "A Little Book of Celtic Saints:" Saint Brendan the Navigator 2. Brendan's Fabulous Voyage
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Brendan of Clonfert (c. AD 484 – c. 577) is one of the early Irish monastic saints and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He is also referred to as Brendan the Navigator, Brendan the Voyager, Brendan the Anchorite, and Brendan the Bold. The Irish translation of his name is Naomh Bréanainn or Naomh Breandán.
Brendan was born in 484 among the people called Ciarraighe Luachra, who lived near the port of Tralee, in County Kerry, in the province of Munster, in the southwest of Ireland. In 512, he was ordained to be a priest.
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St. Brendan of Ardfert and Clonfert, known also as Brendan the Voyager, was born in Ciarraighe Luachra, near the present city of Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, in 484; he died at Enachduin, now Annaghdown, in 577. He was baptized at Tubrid, near Ardfert, by Bishop Erc.
