Irchard

Saint Irchard (or Erchard, Erthad, Merchard, Yarcard, Yrchard) was a Scottish missionary and bishop.

Barrett's account

According to Dom Michael Barrett (1848-1924), a monk of the Order of Saint Benedict at St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus, Scotland, in his The Calendar of Scottish Saints (1919),

Butler's account

The hagiographer Alban Butler mentions the bishop briefly in his The Lives of the Primitive Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints,

Mackay's account The local historian William Mackay (1848–1928) wrote in his Urquhart and Glenmoriston: Olden Times in a Highland Parish (1893),