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Litan (died 900) was abbot of Tuam.
Litan was the fifth known abbot of Tuam, County Galway, but nothing else appears to be known of him. He was the apparent successor of Cormac mac Ciaran but because the sabbatical succession of Tuam is fragmentary, this is uncertain. The next person listed in connection with the monastery at Tuam would be in 947 but titled airchinneach (Erenagh), and so was probably not its abbot.
Events which occurred during his lifetime included:
- 879 - Death of Conchobhar mac Tadhg Mor, King of the three divisions of Connaught.
- 881 - King Ainbhith of Ulaid killed by the Conaille Muirtheimne.
- 888 - Death of Cerball mac Dúnlainge, King of Osraige.
- 893 - Battle of Benfleet; A shower of blood was rained in Ard Cianachta.
- 897 - The expulsion of the foreigners from Ireland, from the fortress of Ath Cliath.
- 899 - Death of Alfred the Great of Wessex, succeeded by his son, Edward the Elder.
- 900 - Diarmaid macCearbhall was driven from Osraighe; Ceallach mac Cearbhall, made king in his place.
Preceded by Cormac mac Ciaran? | Abbot of Tuam ? - 900 | Succeeded by ? |
References
- Annals of Ulster at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
- Annals of Tigernach at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
- Revised edition of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin.
- Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9
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Archbishops of Tuam
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6th—12th centuries
12th—16th centuries
- Áed Ua h-Oissín
- Cadla Ua Dubthaig
- Felix Ua Ruanada
- Máel Muire Ó Lachtáin
- Flann Mac Flainn
- Walter de Saleron
- Tommaltach Ó Conchobair
- Nicol Mac Flainn
- Malachias Hibernicus
- Stephen de Fulbourn
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- Máel Sechlain Mac Áeda
- Tomás MacCearbhaill
- Eóin Ó Gráda
- Gregorius Ó Mocháin I
- Gregorius Ó Mocháin II
- Uilliam Ó Cormacáin
- Muircheartach mac Pilib Ó Ceallaigh
- John Babingle
- Cornelius
- Sean Mac Feorais
- Tomás mac Muircheartaigh Ó Ceallaigh
- John MacSeonin Burke
- Donatus Ó Muireadhaigh
- Walter Blake fitz John
- Uilliam Seóighe
- Philip Pinson
- Muiris Ó Fithcheallaigh
- Tomás Ó Maolalaidh
- Christopher Bodkin
- Arthur O'Friel
16th—21st centuries
- Nicholas Skerrett
- Maol Muire Ó hÚigínn
- Seamus Ó hÉilidhe
- Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire
- Malachy Ó Caollaidhe
- John de Burgh
- James Lynch
- Francis Burke
- Bernard O'Gara
- Michael O'Gara
- Michael Skerrett
- Philip Phillips
- Boetius Egan
- Edward Dillon
- Oliver Kelly
- John MacHale
- John McEvilly
- John Healy
- Thomas Gilmartin
- Joseph Walsh
- Joseph Cunnane
- Joseph Cassidy
- Michael Neary
- Francis Duffy
Italics indicate a person who was elected but not consecrated.