Llantrisant, Anglesey

Llantrisant
Llantrisant
Llantrisant shown 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
EU Parliament Wales
UK Parliament
Welsh Assembly

Llantrisant (Welsh for "Parish of the Three Saints") is a settlement in Anglesey, Wales.

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

  1. Church in Wales. "Ss Afran, Ieuan and Sanan (New Ch), Llantrisant". 2014.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. 1 2 Baring-Gould, Vol. I, p. 116.


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