HE was an Englishman, who, passing into Ireland, became a monk in the
abbey of Megeo, or Mayo, founded by Colman of Lindisfarne, for the
English. Gerald was advanced successively to the dignity of abbot and
bishop, and founded the abbey of Elytheria, or Tempul-Gerald in
Connaught, that of Teagh-na-Saxon, and a nunnery which he put under the
care of his sister Segretia. He departed to our Lord in 732, and was
buried at Mayo, where a church dedicated to God under his patronage
remains to this day. See Colgan.