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Kings: C

[Iodadh Ogham Character]Ciar Dubh, Ciarán, Keiran, Kieran, Piran, Pirran, Peran, Perran, Kiarfal (Dark, Black, Mouse-Colored)

Darerca was my mother;
She was not an evil woman;
Beoid, the carpenter, was my father;
He was of the Latharna Molt.
– Chronicum Scotorum

Delbna bEthra: Five Trees
Clonmacnoise, Offaly: She went to the cairn of Fiachu: Raven, kindled a fire, out of which burst five streams of flame. From these descend the five Delbnas: Fair Shapes. The jetted fountains of fire-mist winding up in spiral whirls to the sky that guard the Fountains of Youth.

(pron. KEE-ar GOO, KEE a rawn, KEER-an, PEER-an, PER-an) God of the Eoganacht [Yew-dynasty] of Munster. His twin brother is Declan. His holy well and yew tree are at Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly, Ireland. It has three stone heads that are kissed. When he was thirty-three years old he became a saint who traveled to Cornwall and founded monasteries in Cornwall and Clonmacnoise. March 5, his feast day, is celebrated as the Cornish National Day. The Cornish flag bears the cross of St. Piran. In one story as Ciar Dubh, Prince of Lomhann, he slew the yellow goddess Muileateach Sea House with the combined power of: Fionn: White, Dhuinne & Cearbhal, Diarmaid, Iall o’Buidhne: Iall of the Yellow & Iollainn: Dawn, Oisean: Little Fawn & Oscar: Deer Lover, Glaisean o’Damhach: of the Antlered Deer (GLAY-shen oh DAH-ack) & Ard Amhard: Great Height (pron. art AH-erd). Surnames: Carran, Carine, Craine, Mac Ciarain. His ruined monastery at Errillin is a field called the Bawn. Underneath the mound there is a chamber, admission to which is through an opening, now filled up. His ashtree is on the roadside and his well flowed from it before being moved. In the Icelandic Saga The Story of the Ere Dwellers his daughter is Rafarta. Latin: Beatisimus episcopus Ciaranus sanctorum Hibernie primogenitus. Leabhar na hUidhri: Book of the Dun Cow (pron. yower no hoodra) written by Mailmuri Mac Kelleher in Cloinmaise or Clonmacnois Monastery. Its name is because it was written on vellum made from the hide of Saint Ciarán’s cow. (54, 73, 88, 100, 189, 255)

Brothers: Bres Sreng: Moon Embroiderer, Elotha Ecne: Raven Knowledge, Coll: Hazel, Conall: Reed, Heulyn: Sunshine, Declan, Neb, Ovan, Donal: Dark One & Celta.(58, 72)


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