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This article is about the hamlet in Anglesey. For the town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, see Llantrisant. For the village in Monmouthshire, see Llantrisant, Monmouthshire.

Eglwys Llantrisant

Llantrisant (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]

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. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b Baring-Gould, Vol. I, p. 116.

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