Llantrisant, Anglesey
Appearance
Llantrisant | |
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Location within Anglesey | |
OS grid reference | SH363835 |
Principal area | |
Country | Wales |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | HOLYHEAD |
Postcode district | LL65 |
Dialling code | 01407 |
Police | North Wales |
Fire | North Wales |
Ambulance | Welsh |
UK Parliament | |
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
Llantrisant (; Welsh for "Parish of the Three Saints") is a settlement in Anglesey, Wales. It is in the community of Tref Alaw.
Its parish church is dedicated to Saints Afran, Ieuan, and Sanan.[1] The parish's former church is now a protected building. Browne Willis[2] and Sabine Baring-Gould[3] considered "Afran" to be a corruption of Afan, a saint of Ceredigion and Brecknockshire. (The 16th-century Peniarth MS 147 concurs, listing the church as dedicated to "Sannan and Afan and Evan".[3]) St Afan was related to the Cuneddan dynasty of Gwynedd and was claimed as an ancestor by a 10th-century Ieuan martyred by Viking raiders.[2]
References
- ^ Church in Wales. "Ss Afran, Ieuan and Sanan (New Ch), Llantrisant". 2014.
- ^ a b Baring-Gould, Sabine (1907). The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and such Irish Saints as have Dedications in Britain. London: Charles J. Clark, for the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. pp. 114–115.
- ^ a b Baring-Gould, Vol. I, p. 116.
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