Saint Cellach or Ceallach was an early medieval saint associated with Glendalough in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Martyrology of Tallaght refers to him as a Saxon.Plummer, Charles. Irish Litanies: Text and Translation, Henry Bradshaw Society, 1925, p. 113 He was a deacon, and lived to the southeast of Glendalough at a place called Disert-Cellaig which denotes a hermitage and implies that Cellach may have lived as a recluse.Saint Oengus (the Culdee), Feĺire Ońgusso Ceĺi De.́, Harrison and sons, printers, 1905, p. 221 In the Irish life of Saint Kevin he is mentioned as having been ordered to go to Disert Cellaig as a penance 'for his vanity.' His feast day is 7 October.John O'Hanlon, 1878: Lives of the Irish Saints, vol. 10, pp. 88–89Journal, Vol. 13, Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1899, p. 492
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