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"Be its name Cluain-Cain" (_fair cluain_), answered the angel.
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Having consecrated her virginity to God, she led an austere retired life at the foot of the mountain Luach, in the diocese of Limerick, and founded there a famous monastery of holy virgins, called Cluain-cred-hail.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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For four smiths came from the steading called Cluain
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"Cluain," said they, "went to his bed in health, and now he is dead; and Ciaran hath slain him with his word, for that he went not to reap for him."
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It was called Cluain-Feart, or the place of retirement till death, "&c ...
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He lived for a time on Cluain Iris, an island in Lough Erne, with a monk named Sinell, and then became a monk at Bangor.
St. Columban, abbot Argent 2006
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Now when the folk of Cluain went to awake him, thus they found him, without life.
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On the eighth of the calends of February Ciaran settled in Cluain, the tenth day of the moon, a Saturday.
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_Here endeth the life of Saint Ciaran, Abbot of Cluain meic Nois.
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In the text we shall see St. Mochuda, whose Life is a specially sane piece of work, cursing on the same occasion, first, King Blathmac and the Prince of Cluain, then, the rich man Cronan who sympathised with the eviction, next an individual named Dubhsulach who winked insolently at him, and finally the people of St. Columba's holy city of Durrow who had stirred up hostile feeling against him.
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous
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