Eithene
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Eithene is a locally-revered Irish saint. Eithene and her sister Sodelbia are both commemorated in the Irish calendars on March 20.
They were daughters of Aidh, son of Caibre, King of Leinster, who ruled about the middle of the sixth century. They were alleged to have had a vision in which they cradled the infant Christ in their arms. In one of the legends contained in the Acts of Saint Moling, Bishop of Ferns, it is told that Eithene and her sister were visited by this venerable saint.
The abode of St. Eithene, called Tech-Ingen-Baithe, or the "House of the daughters of Baite" lay near Swords, in the present Barony of Nethercross, County Dublin. This saint is also venerated at Killnais, the former name of a townland in the same locality.
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
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