Daircell, or Taircell

Life
?-696 [otherwise Moling]; saint and bishop, son of Faelan; born son of sister of Faelan’s wife; Moling had Goban [mythol. smith] construct a tabernacle of wood; honoured in Leinster; Yellow Book of Molling is lost, but a Latin MS of 4 Gospels attributed to him in held in TCD Library; Dublin copy of Annals of Tigernach [Tierney] says he died in Britain, 696; see Annals of Four Masters. ODNB

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