His mother was Mella, his father Sillán, son of Conall, descendant of Rudraige Mór of Ulster. He was a monk and spiritual student of Saint Ciarán at Clonmacnoise. He founded a monastery to the west of Lemanaghan, Ireland, c.645 on land obtained by Saint Ciarán from the king of Connacht. The monastery has a healing well that came from a spring that opened when Manchán, out of water, struck a...