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(Corcair, or Quorrair) is the name of several Irish virgin saints, of whom only two are clearly traceable:

1. Commemorated March 8 or Aug. 8, is said to have been the sister of St.Finnian and daughter of Corpreus, of a princely family in Ulster, and to have lived in the middle of the 6th century.

2. Commemorated July 21 as the patron saint of Kilcorkey, in County Roscommon.