Cenn Fáelad (mac Ailella)

  • supp. fl. 7th century
  • scholars
  • Túaim Drecain, Daire Lúráin
Irish scholar. A peculiar tale which became attached to him in Irish tradition is that following an injury sustained in battle, he lost a portion of the brain known as the ‘brain of forgetting’ and thereby became a repository of knowledge and lore.