Kings: C

Caoimhín, Kevin, Caomhán, Ciabhan, Keenan, Ké, Quay (Beautiful) Cáemfind (Cherished One) Cáemgem (Gentle Birth) Coimhde, Coibhi, Coifi, Comdiu, Cóimhdhe (Diety of The Trinity)

Leabha: Chaomháin agus An Turas
Is ar Cheathrú an Chaisleáin – ar thalamh mhuintir Chooke – (Seoighe an Chaisleáin anois), atá Teampall Chaomháin, Leaba Chaomháin agus Reilig Inis Oirr. Bhí clú agus cáil chomh mór sin ar Naomh Caomhán lena linn agus ar feadh na gcéadta bliain ina dhiaidh sin gur ra Chaomháin a tugadh ar an oileán agus Caomhán irne ar an naomh féin. // Nuair a thug Ruaidhrí Flaithbeartaigh – a scríobh Stair Iar -Chonnacht i 1684, cuairt ar Inis Oírr timpeall lár na seachtú aoise déag, Inis Oirthir a bhí mar ainm ar an oileán ach deir sé go dtugtaí ra Chaomháin ar an oileán freisin. Sa Leabhar Breac agus i gcuid d’fhéilirí naomh na hÉireann tá tagairt do Chaomháin irne Airthir a raibh a lá fhéile ar an dara lá déag de Mheitheamh. Tugann an Flaithbheartach cuntas dúinn ar Leaba Chaomháin:- “ Ar fhaiche in amharc na farraige tá balla cearnach timpeall a thuama ar a bhfuil cloch mharmair, mar a luíonn na heasláin ar feadh na hoíche agus mar a bhfaigheann siad sláinte arís ó Dhia as a ucht. Chonaic mé duine ar tarraingíodh go míorúilteach, gan aon mhothú, óna shiúil, tré luí mar sin in áit adhlactha Chaomháin, dealg a dingeadh isteach inti agus trínar céasadh go doghrainneach é: maireann a rian i gcúinne a shúile fós” – Tearmann Chaomháin, Pub Mílaois na Gaeltachta: Gaeltacht i gCéin, Leitir Móir, Ireland. © April 1998 (091) 551386

St. Kevin’s Pilgrimage: Reilig Inis Oírr: Isle of Gold Relic

On your knees behind the bed say the Creed, 7 each of the following: Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory to God.
Walk around the bed from left to right.
On knees say Our Father, 3 Hail Mary’s & Glory to God.
Repeat steps 2 & 3 four times.
Say the Creed, 7 each: Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory to God.
Say the same prayers again behind the gable of the church & walk around it 7 times from left to right.
Finish the Pilgrimage with a few prayers in front of the altar.

Tempul-Cammin / Reilig Chaomháin: Kevin’s Temple is on Inishmore: The Island of the 7 Churches in Co. Galway [Part of the Aran Islands: Western Temple] St. Breaca: Freckled Trout, St. Ninnian Angus: Sun, St. Enda: Bird, St. Kevin: Beautiful, St. Kieran: Dark One, St. Finnian: White God, St. Columba: Holy Dove

(pron. kwee-VEEN, kee-VEEN, KEE-van, KAY-vawn) Codex Kilkenniensis says an angel appeared to his mother Coemella and prophesied his birth. King Guaire: Pure of Connaught & Cumian Fada are his half brothers. He was born at Rathdrum: Womb Ridge and was fed on the milk of a sacred cow. He studied with Eogan: Fish, Lochan: Lake, and Enna: Bird in Tallaght at the age of twelve under his Uncle St. Eugenius: Gold. He turned water into ale and bones into meat for the hungary. He then went to Disert Coemgen and an otter daily fed him sacred salmon. While still young, Kathleen: Grain Queen fell in love with him and followed him into the woods. He threw himself onto a bed of nettles, gathered a handful, and then scourged her with burning ones. He left in remorse and walked the Green Road to the Upper lake (Glendalough: Valley of the Two Lakes: County Wicklow, Ireland) where it remains dark for six months out of the year. While incubating in his beehive cell a blackbird laid an egg. Colman: Dove and Cainech: Water gave their son Foelan in fosterage to him and he fed him on doe’s milk.

Kevin the most beautiful of the young men of the world at that time, and he was as far beyond all other kings’ sons as the moon is beyond the stars. He went to Strand of the Cairn, between Dun Sobairce (pron. doon severick) County Antrim and the sea and sailed to the Land of Promise in a copper curragh: rowboat. He juggled nine willow branches. Mortal lover of the goddess Cliodna: Shapely One with beautiful curly hair. He brought her from the Land of Promise to Ireland. The son of the sea sent a great wave to fetch her back to the Immortal world and left him alone and dejected Arianrhod: Silver Wheel crowned him King Kevin of Gaule at her stone circle & gave him her harp. He established a monastery at Cléder, France. The fatal contest between King Arthur and Modred, his nephew, caused Keenan to return to Britain. A fragment of St Keenan’s bone is preserved in the cathedral of Saint-Brieuc.

He became hermit on Inish-Caltra / Inis Celtra / Kealtra / Iniscealtra / Iniscaltra: Hidden Island [a.k.a Inisfallen] a little green island at Loch Derg: Lake of the Red Eye, Killarney on the Shannon River near Galway, Ireland. He was visited by a cow there who licked him and then produced mass quantities of milk. His feast day is June 3rd & 14th. Glendalough: The Seven Churches of Saint Kevin of the East. The bell tower is seven stories high and it is said that seven pilgrimages there are equal to one to Rome. Psalter of Saint Caimin is in the Franciscan library at Killiney. Caomhánach: County Cavanagh, Northern Ireland named after him (58, 73 80, 145, 183, 229)

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