Colman mac Cathbaid is a sixth-century Irish saint who was an abbot and bishop of

Kilroot , translit_lang1 = Irish , translit_lang1_type = Derivation: , translit_lang1_info = , translit_lang1_type1 = Meaning: , translit_lang1_info1 = Church of the redhead , image_s ...

(Co. Antrim), a minor see which was afterwards incorporated in the Diocese of Connor. He may have given his name to Kilmackevat (Co. Antrim). In the ''Life of Mac Nise'' in the

Codex Salmanticensis The ''Codex Salmanticensis'' (Brussels, Royal Library 7672–4) is a medieval Irish manuscript containing an extensive collection of Irish saints' Lives, now in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels. It was culled by the compilers from various so ...

, the young Colman is saved from death by Bishop Mac Nisse of Connor, and instructed in the Holy Scriptures. Colman was a disciple of St. Ailbe. At the direction of Ailbe, Colmán founded a church on the northern shore of Lough Laoigh. According to Bishop Healy, Colmán of Kilroot was the uncle of

Colmán of Dromore Saint Colmán of Dromore, also known by the pet form Mocholmóc, was a 6th-century Irish saint. Life Colman was a native of Dalriada, born roughly a generation after Patrick's apostolate to Ireland, and was baptized by a bishop, bearing his ow ...

. Colman's feast has been kept on 16 October.''The Irish ecclesiastical record'', Vol. 5, 1869, p. 304
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Colman Of Kilroot Medieval Irish saints 6th-century deaths 6th-century Christian saints Medieval saints of Ulster People from County Antrim 6th-century Irish bishops Year of birth unknown