Cell Íte
Community ID: 
 
1145
 
Alternate Names: 
 
Cluain Credail / Itae Cluano / Ceall Ide / Killeedy / Cluain-chredail / Killitte
 
Region: 
 
Limerick
 
Medieval Location: 
 
Uí Conaill Gabra, foot of Sliabh Luachra (south border)
 
Modern Location: 
 
Baronies of Upper and Lower Connello, now Killeedy Townland and parish, barony of Glenquin, Limerick.
 
Corporate Status: 
 
Double monastery
 
Dedication: 
 
Íte
 
Notable Heads: 
 

Íte (Ita) abbess by 546, d. 570 / Cathasach, abb., d. 815 / (Cellach mac) Finnachta, abbot, d. 834

 
Notable Members/Residents/Guests: 
 

Cummíne Fota (the Tall) mac Fiachnai meic Fiachrach Gairine meic Duach meic Maine meic Coirpri meic Cuirc meic Luigdech, begotten by incest, abandoned at Cell Íte, found and raised at Cell Íte. See Félire Óengusso céli dé: The Martyrology of Oegnus the Culdee, 242-3.

 
Manuscript Sources: 
 

CodKil [UN=4L002] 56 b.

 
Published Primary Sources: 
 

B&A 1898 [PN=4I027], 16; Book of Fermoy, 159;
Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings, 130;
The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 309, 310;
Annala Rioghachta Eireann. Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616. Edited from mss. in the Library of the Royal Irish academy and of Trinity college, Dublin, with a translation, and copious notes,, i. 184, 422;
Félire Óengusso céli dé: The Martyrology of Oegnus the Culdee, 42-4, 242;
Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae: ex codice olim Salmanticensi nunc Bruxellensi, 485;
Martyrology of Donegal: A Calendar of the Saints of Ireland, 428;
Acta sanctorum: veteris et maioris scotiæ sev hiberniæ sanctorum insulae, Partim ex variis per Europam MS. Codd. exscripta, partim ex antiquis monumentis & probatis Authoribus eruta & congesta; omnia Notis & Appendicibus illustrata, 66;
Life of Saint Ita

 
Miscellaneous Information: 
 

double monastery / Brendan of Clonfert and Mochoemog said to have been trained in school for boys here

 
Contributors: 
 
R. Eickwort
 
Length: 
 
982