Eoghan ua Cathain

Eoghan Ua Cathain (died 980) was Abbot of Clonfert.

Surnames had come into use in Ireland from about the 920's, and the prefix Ua (later Ó) may indicate that Eoghan was among the first to use the surname Ua Cathain in the west of Ireland.

There is a gap of sixty-six years between recorded abbots, rendering the exact succession between Aedh and Eoghan uncertain.

References

• Annals of Ulster at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
• Annals of Tigernach at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
• Revised edition of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin.
• MacLysaght, Edward, The Surnames of Ireland, 1978
• Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9