Llantrisant, Anglesey
| Llantrisant | |
|---|---|
  Llantrisant 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 hamlet in Anglesey, Wales. It is in the community of Tref Alaw,[1] and was a community itself until 1984.[2]
Its parish church is dedicated to Saints Afran, Ieuan, and Sanan.[3] The parish's former church is now a protected building. Browne Willis[4] and Sabine Baring-Gould[5] 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".[5]) 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.[4]
In 1833 it was noted that copper ore had been found "in considerable quantities" near Meinir farm in the parish, but no mines had been opened.[6]
References
- ↑ "Llantrisant, Isle of Anglesey (Sir Ynys Mon)". Ordnance Survey.
- ↑ "Ynys Môn Registration District". Ukbmd.org.uk. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
- ↑ Church in Wales. "Ss Afran, Ieuan and Sanan (New Ch), Llantrisant". 2014.
- 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.
- 1 2 Baring-Gould, Vol. I, p. 116.
- ↑ A Topographical Dictionary of Wales via Google Books
