Nem Moccu Birn
Encyclopedia
Biography
Nem was one of the few known successors of Enda of AranEnda of Aran
Saint Enda of Aran is an Irish saint in the Roman Catholic Church. His feast day is March 21.-Overview:...
, and appears to be the first such abbot listed in the Irish annals
Irish annals
A number of Irish annals were compiled up to and shortly after the end of Gaelic Ireland in the 17th century.Annals were originally a means by which monks determined the yearly chronology of feast days...
after Enda himself.
The noun
Noun
In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition .Lexical categories are defined in terms of how their members combine with other kinds of...
moccu in names such as Nem Moccu Birn indicates he was of a people called the Moccu Birn.
Annalistic reference
From the Annals of the Four MastersAnnals of the Four Masters
The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland or the Annals of the Four Masters are a chronicle of medieval Irish history...
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- M654.2. St Nem Mac Ua Birn, successor of Enne, of Ara, died on the 14th of June.
See also
External links
- http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/T100005A.html
- Catholic Encyclopedia 1908: "The Monastic School of Aran"
- Rev. Clifford Stevens, The One Year Book of Saints "St. Enda"