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Brendan, St (or St Brandan) (484–577)| Irish abbot and traveller. Born in Tralee, now in County Kerry, he is traditionally regarded as the founder of the monastery of Clonfert in County Galway (561), as well as other monasteries in Ireland and Scotland. The 8th-century Irish epic Voyage of St Brendan recounts his legendary journey across the Atlantic to a ‘land of saints’. His feast day is 16 May. |
| St Brendan is believed to have studied under the abbess St Ita in Limerick and abbot St Jarlath in Tuam. His first appointment as abbot was at Ardfert. |
| The location of the land to which St Brendan is supposed to have voyaged is unclear. Some authorities place it far to the north (the Hebrides, the Northern Isles, or even Iceland), while others have speculated that it may have been the Canary Islands. Some ancient maps show ‘St Brendan's country’ lying west of the Cape Verde Islands. |
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