(6TH CENT.)
[Irish Martyrologies. Sometimes called S. Domnoc.]
This saint, who is greatly reverenced in Ossory, was a pupil of S.
David in Wales, but a native of Ireland, a member of the princely
house of the Nialls, son of Saran, and fourth in descent from Eugene,
one of the sons of Neill Neigilliach. After having spent some time in
Wales in the little monastery cultivating flowers and vegetables and
bees, he returned to his native island. And as he mounted the ship,
his bees swarmed, and settled on the boat. So Modomnoc took the swarm
with him to the Emerald Isle. After his return home he served God at
Tiprat Fachtua, in the west of Ossory, near the Suir, now Tibrach, in
Kilkenny.