Saint Finian the Leper (Irish: Fíonán Lobhar) was an early Irish saint credited by some sources with founding a church and monastery at Innisfallen in Killarney.
He was a strict Irish abbot, whose monks followed a vegetarian diet.
[3] For a period of time, he stayed in Clonmore, later becoming the abbot of Swords Abbey near Dublin.
[1] He may have returned to Clonmore in his later years, and was called Lobhar, "The Leper".
Following the custom, he acquired the name when he contracted leprosy from a young boy, whom he had cured of the disease.