Mo Chuaroc moccu Neth Semon ( ) was an

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monk and scholar of the

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. He was a native of the

Youghal Youghal ( ; ) is a seaside resort town in County Cork, Ireland. Located on the estuary of the River Blackwater, the town is a former military and economic centre. Located on the edge of a steep riverbank, the town has a long and narrow layout. ...

area of what is now

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in southern

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. He studied with

Mo Sinu moccu Min Mo Sinu moccu Min, also known as Sinilis, Sinlán Moccu Mín (died 610) was an Irish scholar. Fifth abbot of Bangor, ''"Mo-Sinu maccu Min ... was the first of the Hibernenses who learned the computus by heart from a certain Greek. Afterwards, M ...

and later recorded what the latter taught, which is thought to have been an ''ordo numerorum'', a table of Greek numbers.

Sources

* 1. - MS m, Universitatsbibliothek, Wurzburg; see also below. * 2. - p. 113, ''Ireland and her neighbours in the Seventh Century'', by Michael Richter. * 3. - p. 14, "The Irish Tradition",

Robin Flower Robin Ernest William Flower (16 October 1881 – 16 January 1946) was an English poet and scholar, a Celticist, Anglo-Saxonist and translator from the Irish language. He is commonly known in Ireland as "Bláithín" (Little Flower). Life He wa ...

, 1947. 6th-century births Year of death unknown Medieval Irish writers Irish literature 6th-century Latin writers 6th-century Irish people Irish Christian monks People from Youghal 6th-century Irish writers {{Ireland-bio-stub