Colmán mac Lénéni
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Colmán mac Lénéni, 530-c. 606, religious poet.
Believed to be born in Desmond (now County Cork), Colmán is regarded as the founded of Cluain Uama (Cloyne). His surviving verses date from the period 565-604, and are among the earliest examples of Irish writing in the Latin alphabet.
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- Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature, Robert Welsh, 1996. ISBN 0-19-280080-9
