Mo Ling

{{Short description|7th century Irish saint}}

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|name= Saint Mo Ling

|image= New Ross Church of St. Mary and St. Michael Nave West End Relief of Saint Moling Detail 2012 09 04.jpg

|caption= Relief of St. Mo Ling in the parish church of St Mary and St Michael in New Ross

|birth_date= 614

|birth_place= Sliabh Luachra, County Kerry

|death_date= 697

|feast_day= 17 June

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Saint Mo Ling (614–697), also named Moling Luachra,{{cite book |last=Ó Riain |first=Pádraig |title=A Dictionary of Irish Saints |publisher=Four Courts Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-84682-318-3 |pages=487–490}} was the second Bishop of Ferns in Ireland and has been said to be "one of the four great prophets of Erin".{{cite book| last = Healy| first = John| chapter = Chapter XVIII: The School of Glendalough| title = Insula Sanctorum et Doctorum Or, Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars| url = http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41073/41073-h/41073-h.htm#CHAPTER_XVIII| edition = 6| location = Dublin/London/New York| publisher = Sealy, Bryers & Walker/Burns & Oates/Benziger Brothers| publication-date = 1912| page = 429|accessdate = 19 August 2014}} He founded a monastery at St Mullin's, County Carlow. Also in the 7th century, St. Moling is said to have had a church built at Mullennakill in County Kilkenny.{{cite book |last=Meehan |first=Cary |date=2004 |title=Sacred Ireland |url= |location=Somerset |publisher=Gothic Image Publications |page=352|isbn=0 906362 43 1 |access-date=}} His feast day is 17 June.{{cite web|title=St Myllin's Church, Llanfyllin|url=http://www.mathrafal.org/parishes/myllin.htm|website=Mathrafal Deanery|accessdate=19 April 2015}}[http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/SaintMoling.php A Compendium of Irish Biography] Traditions about him are preserved in two manuscripts, The Birth and Life of St. Moling, and the Borama, both of which expound on how he ended a cattle tributary imposed by the kings of Tara on the kings of Leighin, in retribution for an incident when the son of the king of Leighin went on a cattle raid to Clonfert, killing several princesses in the act.{{Cite book |last=Ghosh |first=Shubha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3MgBEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA120 |title=Forgotten Intellectual Property Lore: Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property |date=2020-10-30 |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |isbn=978-1-78897-871-2 |pages=120 |language=en}}

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