St #Ailbe is associated with the founding of a monastery in #Emly in Co #Tipperary and he is the patron saint of the Archdiocese of #Cashel and Emly which was the premier diocese in the south of #Ireland up until the Middle Ages; Emly remained a cathedral city until the 16th century.

The Latinised version of ‘Ailbe’ is ‘Elvis’. The king of rock and roll was called after an Irish saint…