Colgu
Colgu (d. 796) grandson of Duinechaid, lector of Clonmacnoise and, according to some sources, author of a devotional litany known as ‘Scuap Chrábaid’, may be the same Colcu with whom the English scholar Alcuin corresponded concerning the victories of Charlemagne, addressing him as…...
Colmán
Colmán (d. 604?) son of Léiníne, saint and poet, is patron of the church of Cloyne, east Co. Cork, which first attained more than local importance at the synod of Kells–Mellifont (1152), when it became the seat of a bishopric. Prior to this it is scarcely noticed in the annals,…...
Colmán
Colmán (d. 654) of the moccu Thellduib, bishop and abbot of Clonard and saint in the Irish tradition, belonged (as his kin-group designation indicates) to the minor dynasty of Uí Lóscáin of Leinster. He would therefore have been a member of the lineage attributed to St…...
Colmán
Colmán Elo
Colmán Elo (c.560–611) of the moccu Béognae was monastic founder of the church of Lann Elo (Lynally, near Durrow, Co. Offaly), whence he derives his epithet, which has caused some confusion in bringing about the creation of a separate Colmán Elo (or Ela). Some sources…...
Colmán (Mo-Cholm-Óc)
Colmán (Mo-Cholm-Óc) (fl. 6th cent.), bishop and patron of Dromore diocese, was born into the Dál nAraide (in modern Co. Antrim), according to one of his Latin Lives. He is named in the genealogies of the saints as ‘Mocholmóc m. Conrathain m. Corcrain’. The sources…...
Coloman (Colmán)
Coloman (Colmán) (d. 1012), an Irish pilgrim to the Holy Land, was mistaken for a spy because of his strange appearance, and was taken captive, tortured, and hanged at Stockerau, near Vienna, Austria, on 16 July 1012. Later tradition has it that he was the son of…...
Columbanus (Colmán, Columba)
Columbanus (Colmán, Columba) (c.540–615), missionary, is mainly associated with his monastic foundations at Luxeuil and Bobbio. Originally named Colmán, he was generally known to his contemporaries by the Latinised forms Columbanus or Columba. He has sometimes…...
Conláed (Conleth)
Conlon, Guiseppe Patrick
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Conolly, Thurloe
Conolly, Thurloe (1918–2016), artist, was born in Cork city on 21 July 1918, the younger of two sons to William Joseph Conolly, a structural engineer, and his wife Constance Elizabeth Conolly (née Jeffares). According to family lore, the Conollys were descended from the eighteenth-…...
Conway, Frederick William
Conway, Frederick William (1781/2–1853), journalist and book collector, was the son of Luke Conway, printer of the Connaught Gazette, a pro-government newspaper published at Loughrea, Co. Galway, for some months in 1797. From 1806 to 1812 he was a major contributor to the…...
Cooley, Thomas
Cooley, Thomas (1742–84), architect, was baptised 11 July 1742 in the church of St Katherine Coleman, London, the son of William Cooley, master mason, and his wife Mary. On 3 August 1756 he was apprenticed to George Wright, a carpenter. He served some of his apprenticeship with, or…...
Cooper, Austin
Cooper, Austin (b. c.1614, d. a.1690), gardener and strongman, inherited property from his father at Byfleet in Surrey. His father or another relative is said to have held a court appointment under Charles I. Cooper purchased land in England from a Cromwellian…...
Corbett, William Edward
Corbett, William Edward (1824–1904), engineer and architect, was born 19 April 1824 in Limerick city, son of Patrick Corbett, a member of an old Limerick family. Nothing is known of his mother. He is described as a civil engineer on his death certificate and obituaries, but there…...
Cormac
Cormac (fl. 6th cent.) of the Uí Liatháin was a pilgrim monk mentioned several times by Adomnán (qv) in his ‘Vita Columbae’. He appears in the genealogies as ‘priest’, son of Dímma, grandson of Commán, and belonging to the tribe of…...
Cormac
Cormac (d. 497), bishop and first abbot of Armagh. His genealogy gives his father's name as Colmán and describes him as bishop of Áth Truim in Brega (Co. Meath). He does not figure in Patrician hagiography, but in the annals and in the Martyrology of…...
Corneille, Rudolph
Corneille, Rudolph (fl. 1690–1717), engineer and architect, was born at Medemblik, Holland, son of Rudolphe Gideon Corneille and Anne Corneille, probably French huguenot refugees. He went to Ireland c.1690 as an engineer in …...
Corry, John
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Cotton, Henry
Cotton, Henry (1789–1879), theologian and bibliographer, was born in Bucks., England, son of the Rev. William C. Cotton of Chichley, Berks., educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1811; MA…...
Craig, Maurice James Waldron
Craig, Maurice James Waldron (1919–2011), architectural historian, writer and poet, was born 25 October 1919 at 11 University Square, Belfast, elder of two sons of James Andrew Craig, a leading ophthalmic surgeon, and Blanche Craig (née Alice Blanche Sara Waldron), an Englishwoman.…...
Crónán
Crónán (fl. 7th cent.) of Roscrea, saint in the Irish tradition, is frequently confused with Crónán son of Sinell (d. 665). Very little is known of this seventh-century saint, the recensions of whose Latin Life are of the eleventh or twelfth century. For what they are…...
Crone, John Smyth
Crone, John Smyth (1858–1945), physician, book collector, and antiquarian, was born 25 November 1858 in Castlereagh Road, Belfast, the eldest son of John and Isabel Crone. He was educated at McClinton's School, the RBAI, and…...
Cú-Chuimne
Cú-Chuimne (d. 747), monk and scholar of Iona, was (according to a note in Paris, Bibl. Nat., MS lat. 12021) joint compiler with Ruben of Dairinis, a monastery on the Blackwater river, of the Irish collection of canons known as ‘Collectio canonum Hibernensis’. The genealogies…...
Cumianus
Cumianus (d. c.735×744) of Bobbio, Irish pilgrim bishop, is known from copies of an inscription on the richly carved cover-slab of a now dismembered sarcophagus, which began: ‘Hic sacra beati membra Cumiani solvuntur’ (here are laid the holy remains of blessed Cumianus). It…...