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{{Short description|Irish bishop}}
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'''Tírechán''' was a 7th-century [[Ireland|Irish]] [[bishop]] from north [[Connacht]], specifically the [[Killala Bay]] area, in what is now [[County Mayo]].
==Background==
Based on a knowledge of Irish customs of the times, historian Terry O’Hagan has concluded that Tírechán was probably from a wealthy, elite family. Sometime in the 650s, he was sent to [[Ardbraccan]] in [[County Meath]] as a
==Works==
Tírechán is known to have authored one work, the ''Collectanea''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.confessio.ie/more/tirechan_english# |title=Tírechán's text in English |website=Confessio.ie |access-date= 18 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.confessio.ie/more/tirechan_latin# |title=Tírechán's text in Latin |website=Confessio.ie |access-date=18 March 2021}}</ref> This is a biography of [[Saint Patrick|St. Patrick]] which
Tírechán says that he drew on the oral and written testimony of [[Bishop Ultán]].<ref>
▲Tírechán says that he drew on the oral and written testimony of [[Bishop Ultán]].<ref>Tirechan, Collectanea §1.</ref> Ultán was Tírechán's teacher. Tirechan wrote to promote the cult of Patrick, and he was especially critical of institutions associated with rival saints who possess foundations which Tirechan viewed as belonging to Patrick. He chastises the community of Columba and [[Clonmacnoise]] for appropriating foundations associated with Patrick.<ref>Tirechan, Collectanea §§ 22, 47</ref>
▲Tirechan has been credited, incorrectly, with authoring other texts. This includes the ''Catalogus Sanctorum Hiberniae'', which Grosjean dated it to c.900.<ref>'Edition et Commentaire du Catalogus Sanctorum Hiberniae Secundum Diversa Tempora ou de Tribus Ordinibus Sanctorum Hiberniae', by Paul Grosjean</ref> Eoin Mac Neill had assigned Tírechán as the author of ''Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii'',<ref>{{cite journal |last=Mac Neill |first=Eoin |title=The Origin of the Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland |volume=19 |pages=1-15}}</ref> however, this has been roundly rejected.
==''Floruit''==
Tírechán's ''Collectanea'' has been dated to between 688 and 693 by [[Thomas Charles-Edwards]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Charles-Edwards |first=Thomas |title=Early Christian Ireland |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2000}}, pp. 439-40.</ref> Tírechán mentions recent plagues that had afflicted Ireland.<ref>Tirechan, Collectanea §§8, 25.</ref> These probably refer
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