Baring-Gould’s sources: Irish Martyrologies. Authority: — A life in Latin of much the same date and character as those of most of the Irish Saints.] Eogain or Eugenius was of a Leinster family by his father’s side, and of an Ulster one by his mother’s. In early childhood he was taken by pirates and carried to Britain, along with S. Tigernach.1 Nennius, Abbot of Bangor, pitied the two little captives, who were in the service of one of the Welsh princes, and begged them of him. They were given to him, and he took them to Bangor. But pirates attacked the abbey, and amongst the booty carried away Eogain, Tigernach, and a lad named Corpreus, afterwards Bishop of Coleraine. They were sold in Brittany, and were placed to work at a mill grinding com. But one day the king found the three lads reading. He at once ordered them to be released from their irksome labour, and to be sent back to Bangor, whence they had been stolen. After some years Eogain and Tigernach went to Ireland, and Eogain settled at Killmanach in Leinster, and spent in that monastery fifteen years of his life, with S. Kevin, his cousin. He afterwards founded the monastery of Ardstraw, and was consecrated bishop. The date of his death cannot be fixed with certainty, but it was probably not many years after 550.