Colmán mac Lénini
      
Life 530-?606; b. prob. Co. Cork; took clerical orders late in life; fnd. church at Cloyne (Cluain Uama); twenty lines of surviving verse; dated 565-604; among earliest examples of Irish writing in Latin alphabet; feastday 24 November. See James Carney, Three Old Irish Accentual Poems, Ériu 22 (1971). OCIL
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