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"Anaile" is one of the names given for the thirty-second abbot of the monastery at Clonmagnoise (alternately Cluain Mic Nois, or Cluain Mhic Nóis in Irish, meaning "Meadow of the Sons of Nós", or perhaps, albeit less likely, Cluain Muccu Nóis "Meadow of the Pigs of Nós") situated in County Offaly, Ireland on the River Shannon south of Athlone. Alternately he appears to be referred to as "Ioseph" in the Annals of Inisfallen.

Very little is known about this abbot. Even his date of death seems a subject for speculation being variously reported as A.D. 799 and March of 794. The significance of this is that if he died in 799, this would likely make him abbot at the time of the first recorded viking raid in Ireland upon "Rechru" alternately argued as being either Rathlin Island or possibly modern Lambay.

Beyond this we know only that he was "of the Ui Bruin sept", a term indicating his familial origins lay with one of the Irish kinfolk of the Uí Briúin which was divided into multiple septs, the major ones being: The Uí Briúin Ai, The Uí Briúin Bréifne, The Uí Briúin Seóla, or The Uí Briúin Umaill.

From: Page 87, "RECORDS RELATING TO THE DIOCESES OF ARDAGH AND CLONMAGNOISE" by The Very Rev. John Canon Monahan, D.D., V.F. Dublin, M.H. Gill and Sons, O'Connell Street, 1886

ANAILE succeeded, and was the thirty-second Abbot. He died, a.d. 799. He was of the Ui Bruin sept."

From: p.403, "Annals of the Four Masters" Author: [unknown] Translated by John O'Donovan, Electronic edition compiled by Emma Ryan ,Second draft, revised and corrected, Proof corrections by Emma Ryan, Marcos Balé, CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts; a project of University College, Cork, College Road, Cork, Ireland (2002)

M794.3 Anaile, Abbot of Cluain Mic Nois, who was of the Ui Briuin, died.

As cited on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonmacnoise "Annals of Inisfallen" AI794.3 Ioseph, abbot of Cluain Moccu Nóis, dies.

"The Annals of Ulster", Author:[unknown], Electronic edition compiled by Pádraig Bambury, Stephen Beechinor from Mac Airt & Mac Niocaill's translation (1983). http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A/

"U795.3 The burning of Rechru by the heathens, and Scí was overwhelmed and laid waste."