FILLAN, SAINT or FAELAN, the name of the two Scot tish saints, of Irish origin, whose lives are of a purely legendary character. The St. Fillan whose feast is kept on June 20 had churches dedicated to him at Ballyheyland, Queen's county, Ire land, and at Loch Earn, Perthshire. The other, who is commem orated on Jan. 9, was specially venerated at Cluain Mayscua, Co. Westmeath, Ireland, and about the 8th or 9th century at Strath fillan, Perthshire, Scotland, where there was an ancient monastery dedicated to him. This monastery became a cell of the abbey of canons regular at Inchaffray, and was supposed to possess the Saint's crozier, the which is now deposited in the National museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
The legend of the second saint is given in the Bollandist Acta SS. Jan. 9; see also D. O'Hanlon, Lives of Irish Saints (Dublin, 1825).