Manchán of Lemanaghan

[2] There are variant traditions concerning the saint's pedigree, possibly owing to confusion with one of several churchmen named Manchán or Mainchín.

[2] Manchán's church, Liath Mancháin, was located in the kingdom of Delbnae Bethra[1] and its remains now lie approximately two kilometres from Pollagh.

There he asked for the monk's prayer and when he emerged from battle victorious Diarmuid granted St. Ciarán the land of "the island in the bog," now known as Leamonaghan.

An Old or Middle Irish nature poem described as a comad and beginning "I wish, O Son of the living God ... a hidden little hut in the wilderness" is attributed to him.

The purpose was to bring death to a large segment of the lower classes of the Irish population (see also Féchín of Fore).

[1] Perhaps St. Manchán is best known for Saint Manchan's Shrine which containing his relics, and is now preserved in the Catholic Church at Boher, County Offaly.