AMONG the most celebrated saints of Ireland, published by Usher, is
placed St. Cammin, who in his youth retired from the noise of the world
into the island of Irish-Kealtair, in the lake of Derg-Derch, or Dergid,
in the confines of Thomond and Galway. Here several disciples resorting
to him, he built a monastery, which, out of veneration for his
extraordinary sanctity, was long very famous among the Irish. The church
of that place still retains, from him, the name of Tempul-Cammin. His
happy death is placed in the Inis-Fallen annals, about the year 653. See
Usher's Antiqu. p. 503.
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