Fachtna mac Folachtan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fachtna mac Folachtan (died 723) was Abbot of Clonfert. Fachtna mac Folachtan is the third recorded abbot, including Brendan. Neither his immediate predecessors or successors are known with certainty. Preceded bySeanach Garbh Abbot of Clonfert ?–723 Succeeded byFiachna ua Maicniadh Annals of Ulster at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork Annals of Tigernach at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork Revised edition of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin. Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9 Lysaght, Eamonn (1978), The Surnames of Ireland. ISBN 0-7165-2278-0, pp.233-34. Related Articles