Modiúit () was an early successor of Saint

Kerrill Saint Kerrill aka Caireall mac Curnain was a Christian missionary in what is now east County Galway, alive in the mid-to-late 5th century. His feast day is June 13th. To celebrate the parishioners walk four miles from St Michael’s Church, Gurt ...

, Bishop of the kingdom of

Soghain The Soghain were a people of ancient Ireland. The 17th-century scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh identified them as part of a larger group called the Cruithin. Mac Fhirbhisigh stated that the Cruithin included "the Dál Araidhi ál nAraidi ...

in what is now

County Galway County Galway ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region, taking up the south of the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht. The county population was 276,451 at the 20 ...

. Modiúit established a church at what is now Killamude, in the parish of

Ballymacward Ballymacward () is a village in County Galway, Ireland. It is on the R359 road (Ireland), R359 road, between that road and the rail lines traversing east–west. The village is from Ballinasloe and approximately from Galway city. The village ...

. Killamude derives from ''Cill Modiúit'' ('the church of Modiúit'). Its foundations can still be seen in the townland of Killamude West. His feast day was celebrated on February 12, and is listed as such in the

Martyrology of Tallaght The ''Martyrology of Tallaght'', which is closely related to the ''Félire Óengusso'' or ''Martyrology of Óengus the Culdee'', is an eighth- or ninth-century Irish-language martyrology, a list of saints and their feast days assembled by Mael ...

and the '' Félire Óengusso''. His diocese is thought to have been the extent of the

kingdom.

Sources

*Mannion, Joseph (2004). ''The Life, Legends and Legacy of Saint Kerrill: A Fifth-Century East Galway Evangelist''. . Medieval Irish saints Christian clergy from County Galway 6th-century Irish bishops {{Ireland-saint-stub