Mo Lua of Killaloe

Saint Molua (died 609), (also known as Lua, Da Lua),

Little is known about Molua other than he was a monk, a builder and possibly a hermit. which bears his name Lua. Molua had his oratory on Friar's Island, later replaced by a stone church near the present village of Killaloe. Like most Irish saints he appears to have been very hospitable, believing that in entertaining others he was entertaining Christ. He was kind to animals as well as humans and it was said that when he died all living creatures bewailed him.

Legacy Molua's principal disciple was Saint Flannan, who succeeded Molua. His monastery in Clonfert-Mulloe in Osraige produced the scholar Laidcenn mac Buith Bannaig.