HIS father, Conall Deyre, was lord of Ergall, a large territory in
Ulster, in which principality Enna succeeded him; but by the pious
exhortations of his sister, St. Fanchea, abbess of Kill-Aine, at the
foot of mount Bregh, in the confines of Meath, he left the world, and
became a monk. Going abroad, by her advice, he lived some time in the
abbey of Rosnal, or the vale of Ross, under the abbot Mansenus. At
length returning home, he obtained of AEngus, king of Munster, a grant of
the isle of Arra, or Arn, wherein he founded a great monastery, in which
he trained up many disciples, illustrious for sanctity, insomuch that
the island was called Arran of the Saints. His death must have happened
in the beginning of the sixth century. The chief church of the island is
dedicated to God in his name, and called Kill-Enda. His tomb is shown in
the churchyard of another church, in the same island, named
Teglach-Enda. See F. Colgan, March 21.