Wikipedia's article on Teneu, also called Thenew, says the story appears in the Vita Kentigerni, the Life of St Mungo, written for Bishop Jocelin of Glasgow and revised around 1185 by Jocelyn of Furness. In it her father, whom Wikipedia names Lleuddun, sentenced her to death by throwing her from Traprain Law after she was found pregnant. She survived the fall and was set adrift in a coracle across the Firth of Forth to Culross, where St Serf's community sheltered her and she gave birth to Kentigern.
The Modern Antiquarian's Traprain page and other visitor sources repeat the tale. It is a hagiographical legend, written some six centuries after the events it claims to describe, and no independent evidence supports it. Her name survives in Glasgow as St Enoch, which Wikipedia says is a corruption of Teneu. There is a separate Glasgow record for the saint.
Traprain Law is a hill with a public path and is a Scheduled Monument.
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