Bangor Abbots
Archived: 2 November 2026
Abstract
In 667 CE, Ireland was still living through the human consequences of a great mortality that had begun several years earlier. The clearest annalistic entry assigned to this year records a plague in which four abbots of Bangor—Berach, Cuimíne, Colum and Aedán—died. It also records fighting at Áine between the Araid and the Uí Fhidgeinti, in which Eógan son of Crunnmael was killed, and the slaying of Bran Finn, king of the Déisi of Munster. These brief notices are unusually revealing: disease could strike centres of authority as well as households; local warfare continued amid loss; and Ireland remained a