Llantrisant, Anglesey

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Llantrisant
Location within Anglesey
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Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HOLYHEAD
Postcode district LL65
Dialling code 01407
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53°19′26″N4°27′32″W / 53.324°N 4.459°W / 53.324; -4.459
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Llantrisant ( Loudspeaker.svg Welsh pronunciation ; Welsh for "Parish of the Three Saints") is a hamlet in Anglesey, Wales. It is in the community of Tref Alaw. [1]

Its parish church is dedicated to Saints Afran, Ieuan, and Sanan. [2] The parish's former church is now a protected building. Browne Willis [3] and Sabine Baring-Gould [4] 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". [4] ) 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. [3]

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References

  1. "Llantrisant, Isle of Anglesey (Sir Ynys Mon)". Ordnance Survey.
  2. Church in Wales. "Ss Afran, Ieuan and Sanan (New Ch), Llantrisant". 2014.
  3. 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.
  4. 1 2 Baring-Gould, Vol. I, p. 116.