Secundinus, or Sechnall as he was known in Irish, was founder and patron saint of Domhnach Sechnaill, County Meath, who went down in medieval tradition as a disciple of St Patrick and one of the first bishops of Armagh. Historians have suggested, however, that the connection with St Patrick was a later tradition invented by Armagh historians in favour of their patron saint and that Secundinus is more likely to have been a separate missionary, possibly a companion of Palladius.
Monastic ruins in Dunshaughlin today
Dunshaughlin is a town in County Meath, Ireland. A commuter town for nearby Dublin, Dunshaughlin more than tripled in population between the 1996 and 2022 censuses. The town is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.
The Drumree Road in Dunshaughlin
Dunshaughlin GAA grounds
Entrance to Saint Seachnall's Church of Ireland, site of the village's original ecclesiastical foundation in the fifth century AD
Waterfall next to the old mill on the Killeen Road