Thus, he descended from the Corcu Duibne, i.e. of the race of Cairbre Musc, son to Conaire, who belonged to the posterity of Érimón.

[4] Finan seems to have only stayed at Kinnity for a short time before returning to Kerry, where almost all the events recorded in his life took place.

[11] John Healy (1890) disputed the common belief that the church and abbey on Innisfallen island in Lough Leane was founded by Finian Lobhar (Finan the Leper), which he considered improbable.

[12] It seemed to him much more likely that the Inisfaithlen mentioned in the biographies of Finan the Leper was the island off the coast of County Dublin that is now called by the Danish name of Ireland's Eye.

[13] St. Finian's Bay, an exposed stretch of the Atlantic shore north of Bolus Head, is also named after the saint.

In the Viking Age, when the Danes were raiding Ireland the monastery was moved to the mainland, and as of 1890 its dilapidated walls could still be seen in the sheltered corner at the head of St. Finian's Bay.