CARTHAGH (CARHACH, MO-CHUTA), santo. Fu dapprima abate dell'antico monastero di Rathan (ora Rahan),

CARTHAGH (CARHACH, MO-CHUTA), Saint. He was first abbot of the ancient monastery of Rathan (now Rahan), in central Ireland. During the Paschal controversy between the Celtic Church and the Roman Church, he, who is believed to have adhered to the Roman system, was expelled from Rathan in 636 and went south to found Liss-mòr (Lismore), which soon became one of the greatest monasteries in Munster. There he died, according to the annals, in 637. In the 12th (or perhaps 11th) century, a Latin Life of C. was written at Liss-mòr, which has come down to us and from which other Irish and Latin versions have been derived, all of them very interesting, along with the Life, for ecclesiastical history and topography, but rather of the 12th than of the 7th century. Tradition attributes to C. a metrical Rule in Gaelic which probably belongs to the beginning of the 9th century.