# Litan

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{{hatnote|For the Canaanite sea monster Litan, see [Lotan](/source/Lotan).}}
{{hatnote|For the film of the same name, see [Litan (film)](/source/Litan_(film)).}}

'''Litan''' (died [900](/source/10th_century_in_Ireland)) was [abbot](/source/abbot) of [Tuam](/source/Tuam).  

Litan was the fifth known abbot of [Tuam](/source/Tuam), [County Galway](/source/County_Galway), but nothing else appears to be known of him. He was the apparent successor of [Cormac mac Ciaran](/source/Cormac_mac_Ciaran) but because the sabbatical succession of Tuam is fragmentary, this is uncertain. The next person listed in connection with the monastery at Tuam would be in 947 but titled ''airchinneach'' ([Erenagh](/source/Erenagh)), and so was probably not its abbot.

Events which occurred during his lifetime included:

* 879 - Death of Conchobhar mac Tadhg Mor, ''King of the three divisions of Connaught''.
* 881 - King Ainbhith of [Ulaid](/source/Ulaid) killed by the [Conaille Muirtheimne](/source/Conaille_Muirtheimne).
* 888 - Death of [Cerball mac Dúnlainge](/source/Cerball_mac_D%C3%BAnlainge), [King of Osraige](/source/King_of_Osraige).
* 893 - Battle of Benfleet; ''A shower of blood was rained in Ard Cianachta.'' 
* 897 - ''The expulsion of the foreigners from Ireland, from the fortress of Ath Cliath.''
* 899 - Death of [Alfred the Great](/source/Alfred_the_Great) of [Wessex](/source/Wessex), succeeded by his son, [Edward the Elder](/source/Edward_the_Elder).
* 900 - Diarmaid macCearbhall was driven from [Osraighe](/source/Osraighe); Ceallach mac Cearbhall, made king in his place.

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before=[Cormac mac Ciaran](/source/Cormac_mac_Ciaran)?|
title=[Abbot of Tuam](/source/Abbot_of_Tuam)|
after=?|
years=? - 900|
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==References==
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* ''Annals of Ulster'' at [http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at [http://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork]
* ''Annals of Tigernach'' at [http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at [http://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork]
*[http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Dan.McCarthy/chronology/synchronisms/annals-chron.htm Revised edition] of McCarthy's synchronisms at [Trinity College Dublin](/source/Trinity_College_Dublin).
* Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, {{ISBN|978-1-85182-196-9}}
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{{Archbishops of Tuam}}
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Category:Christian clergy from County Galway
Category:9th-century Irish abbots
Category:900 deaths
Category:Year of birth unknown

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