Ronan

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Rónán (anglicized Ronan) is an Irish language male given name meaning "little seal" (Rón meaning "seal", and -án being a diminutive suffix). Often pronounced 'Rowan'. It may refer to:

[edit] People (medieval)

  • Rónán mac Colmáin (fl. 7th century), king of Leinster. Called Rónán mac Aédo in the tale Fingal Rónaín.
  • Rónán, Irish churchman from Gaul, a proponent of the Roman dating of Easter and rival of Fínan, bishop of Lindisfarne, at the Synod of Whitby (664)
Saint Rónán
  • St Ronan of Locronan (fl. c. 6th century), early Irish saint and hermit at Locronan and Quimper, Brittany. Feast day: 1 June.
  • St Rónán mac Beraig (d. c. 665), founder of Druim Inesclainn (Drumshallon, Ireland). See Féchín of Fore.
  • St Rónán Finn son of Sárán (fl. 7th century), patron saint of Lann Rónáin in the parish of Magheralin (Co. Down), brother to St Cairnech and the saint responsible for bringing a curse upon Suibne. He was later also conflated with Rónán mac Beraig.
  • St Rónán (died 737), abbot of Kingarth (Bute, Scotland), possibly the patron saint of Kilmaronock (Dunbartonshire) and Innerleithen.
  • St Ronan's School, Hawkhurst, Kent.
  • St. Ronan's Well, a novel by Sir Walter Scott (1824)

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