Baring-Gould’s sources: Irish Martyrologies. Authority: — A life written several centuries later, founded on tradition.] Cronan was a native of Ely O’Carrol, in Munster. When arrived at a proper age for embracing the religious state, taking along with him his maternal cousin, Mobai, he went to visit some holy men in Connaught After some stay he went with Mobai to Clonmacnois, but did not remain there long. Next we find him erecting several religious houses, in one of which, at Lusmag, in the barony of Garrycastle, King’s county, he spent a considerable time. Having given up this establishment to some monks, Cronan returned to his own country, and erected a cell near the lake, or marsh of Cree, which cell was called Seanruis. He was in this place about the time of the death of S. Molua, of Clonfert-molua; for it is related that this saint in his latter days visited Cronan at Seanruis, and demanded of him the Holy Eucharist, that he might take it with him. Cronan gave it him, and Molua recommended his monastery to his protection. How long Cronan remained at Seanruis is not recorded. The cause of his leaving it was this. Some strangers, who had come to pay him a visit, were not able to find it out, and in their wanderings remained a whole night on the bog without food or roof to shelter them. This so distressed Cronan, that he determined to quit this lonesome spot, and removed to the high road, where he erected a large monastery, which in course of time gave rise to the town of Roscrea. Here he spent the remainder of his life, employed in good works, and most highly esteemed. On one occasion he appeared to Fingen, king of Munster, who was bent on chastising the people of Meath on account of some horses that had been stolen from him. The king had a great veneration for the saint, whom we find, when very old and blind, on a visit to Cashel Not long after he died on the 28th of April, in, according to every appearance, some year of the reign of the said king Fingen, and consequently about S. PRUDENTIUS, B. OF TARAZONA.