Ireland Genealogy: County
Cork Census & County Records
Traditionally, Saint Finbarre or Bairre, has been credited
with the foundation of the monastery of Cork. Little is known
factually about Bairre, as the extant lives were composed
long after his death, reputedly in the 7th century, and contain
mythical and folkloric elements. Indeed, Pádraig Ó
Riain, an eminent historian of early Irish history, has argued
persuasively that Saint Finbarre was not an historical personage,
but that the name Finbarre is another name for Saint Finian
of Moville whose cult spread south into Cork. Other historians,
while acknowledging that the lives give us little factual
information about Finbarre, feel that he may have been a historical
figure. The lives appear to have been composed in the context
of a power struggle between dioceses in the twelfth century.
Whatever conclusions are reached about the historicity or
otherwise of Saint Finbarre, his name has been given to many
places and institutions within the city, most notably to the
splendid Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral, which is built
on part of the site of the early monastic foundation of Cork.
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