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Piran or Pyran (Cornish: Peran; Latin: Piranus [6]), died c. 480, [1] [7] [8] [9] was a 5th-century Cornish abbot and saint, possibly of Irish origin. He is the patron saint of tin-miners, and is also generally regarded as the patron saint of Cornwall, although Michael and Petroc also have some claim to this title.
The town's modern name comes from Porth Peran, the Cornish for The Cove of Saint Piran who is the patron saint of Cornwall. He founded the St Piran's Oratory on Penhale Sands, near Perranporth, in the 7th century. The Oratory was buried under sand dunes for many centuries, being unearthed in the 19th century (reference required).
Perran Round (also known as St Piran's Round) is an amphitheatre in the hamlet of Rose, midway between the villages of Goonhavern and Perranporth, Cornwall, UK. It is described as the best surviving example of a plen-an-gwary , a medieval amphitheatre used for performing the Ordinalia , or Cornish miracle plays, [ 1 ] and Cornish wrestling ...
How Saint Piran, an Irishman known for his indulgence, captured the hearts and minds of the Cornish.
Like most churches in Cornwall, the original church was probably a small building with two cells, a chancel and nave and is one of three churches in Cornwall dedicated to St Piran. By around 1500 a three-stage unbuttressed tower and aisle on the north side had been added and the bells are dated 1636, 1688 and 1832. [ 4 ]
Rose (Cornish: Ros) [1] is a hamlet in mid-Cornwall, UK.Rose is to the north-west of Goonhavern and east of Perranporth. [2]Between Rose and Lower Rose is St Piran's Round (also known as Perran Round) (grid reference), a circular earthwork which could have originally been an Iron Age circular enclosure.
Arthur Langdon (1896) records three Cornish crosses at Bodmin; one was near the Berry Tower, [176] one was outside Bodmin Gaol and another was in a field near Castle Street Hill. [177] Carminow Cross ( illustrated Fig. g4 ) is a stone Celtic cross near a major road junction southeast of Bodmin.
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