Scaithin

Scaithin was the builder of an oratory on Inishbofin, Galway, used into the 20th century as a children's burial ground.[http://www.inishbofin.com/early-christian/ "Early Christian", Inishbofin Community Centre] His feast day is 2 January. Scoithín is a variant form of the name, and is that of a saint with links to County Kilkenny, where his seven sons became bishops.

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• Mathias of Inis Ní
• Enda of Aran
• Alonzo Bosco

• Inisbofin:Guide to the Natural History & Archaeology, Dave Hogan and Michael Gibbons.
• A Guide to Connemara's Early Christian Sites, Anthony Previté, Oughterard, 2008. {{ISBN|978 0 9560062 0 2}}

• http://www.inishbofin.com/Earlychristian.html

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Category:People from County Galway

Category:Medieval Irish saints