Saint Cellach of Glendalough

Saint Cellach or Ceallach was an early medieval saint associated with Glendalough in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Saint Ceallach of Glendalough
Bornunknown
ResidenceCounty Wicklow
DiedDisert Cellaig, south east of Glendalough
Venerated inCatholic Church
Feast7 October

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


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