Áed Ua Forréid was Bishop of Armagh from 1032 to 1056.
A praise-poem in his honour, written sometime after his election and before 1042, exists in a single copy transcribed in 1628 by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (Dublin, Royal Irish Academy MS B.IV.2 (1080), fol.
In the Annals of Ulster, which derive from an Armagh chronicle,[3] in their prose notice of his death at 75 years of age, he is only "eminent lector of Armagh" (ard-fer leiginn Aird Macha).
[4] However, a verse cited in the same entry also describes him as "gentle bishop".
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