Saint Cellach or Ceallach was an early medieval saint associated with Glendalough in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Martyrology of Tallaght refers to him as a Saxon.[1] He was a deacon, and lived to the southeast of Glendalough at a place called Disert-Cellaig which denotes a hermitage and implies that Cellach may have lived as a recluse.[2] In the Irish life of Saint Kevin he is mentioned as having been ordered to go to Disert Cellaig as a penance 'for his vanity.'[3] His feast day is 7 October.[4][5]
References
- 1.Plummer, Charles. Irish Litanies: Text and Translation, Henry Bradshaw Society, 1925, p. 113
- 2.Saint Oengus (the Culdee), Feĺire Ońgusso Ceĺi De.́, Harrison and sons, printers, 1905, p. 221
- 3.Crowe, Noelene Beckett (2020-04-18). "Prosopographica Glindelachensis: The Monastic Church of Glendalough and its Community Sixth to Thirteenth Centuries (Part 2 - published in 1989)". Glendalough Heritage Forum. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
- 4.John O'Hanlon, 1878: Lives of the Irish Saints, vol. 10, pp. 88–89
- 5.Journal, Vol. 13, Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1899, p. 492