| Saint Mo Ling | |
|---|---|
 Relief of St. Mo Ling in the parish church of St Mary and St Michael in New Ross | |
| Born | 614 Sliabh Luachra, County Kerry |
| Died | 697 |
| Feast | 17 June |
Saint Mo Ling (614–697), also named Moling Luachra, was the second Bishop of Ferns in Ireland and has been said to be "one of the four great prophets of Erin". He founded a monastery at St Mullin's, County Carlow. His feast day is 17 June. Traditions about him are preserved in two manuscripts, The Birth and Life of St. Moling, and the Borama, both of which expound on how he ended a cattle tributary imposed by the kings of Tara on the kings of Leighin, in retribution for an incident when the son of the king of Leighin went on a cattle raid to Clonfert, killing several princesses in the act.
See also
References
- Ó Riain, Pádraig (2011). A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Four Courts Press. pp. 487–490. ISBN 978-1-84682-318-3.
- Healy, John (1912). "Chapter XVIII: The School of Glendalough". Insula Sanctorum et Doctorum Or, Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars (6 ed.). Dublin/London/New York: Sealy, Bryers & Walker/Burns & Oates/Benziger Brothers. p. 429. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
- "St Myllin's Church, Llanfyllin". Mathrafal Deanery. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- A Compendium of Irish Biography
- Ghosh, Shubha (30 October 2020). Forgotten Intellectual Property Lore: Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-78897-871-2.
External links
- Saint Moling et le Lépreux, a story about Mo Ling and a leper, edited from UCD Franciscan Manuscript A9 and translated into French by Paul Grosjean S.J. at Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae
Further reading
- Johnston, Elva (2004), "Mo Ling (d. 697)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.), Oxford University Press, retrieved 16 February 2011
- Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Daircell" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- "Daircell" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.