The New International Encyclopædia/Daircell

DAIRCELL. An Irish saint of the seventh century; the illegitimate son of a farmer at Luachair, near Castle Ireland, Kerry. He was born in the wilderness and would have been killed at birth by his mother, had not a dove descended from heaven to protect him, or “gather him to her in her wings;” whence his name Daircell, meaning ‘a gathering.’