St Molua was an Irish priest of the 6th century who like Columba and Gall trained in the monastery at Bangor,[2] County Down (about twelve miles from Belfast).
His father is believed to have been Coche or Carthach of the Corca Oiche, a sept associated with the Ui Fidgenti from the Limerick area.
[3] Molua had his oratory on Friar's Island, later replaced by a stone church[1] near the present village of Killaloe.
He was kind to animals as well as humans and it was said that when he died all living creatures bewailed him.
[1] His monastery in Clonfert-Mulloe in Osraige produced the scholar Laidcenn mac Buith Bannaig.