Church of St Cawrdaf
Llangoed, Anglesey
Diocese: Bangor/Bangor
OS Grid Ref.: SH61188057
Lat/Lng: 53.3038317,-4.08471680572
Church dedicated to Cawrdaf, although it has also been suggested that it was originally a joint dedication with Tangwm, Cawrdaf's brother.
Both Browne Willis and A.W. Wade-Evans agree on the dedication of the church, which is supported by place-name evidence. The place-name Llangoed is attested in the thirteenth century and alludes to the extensive medieval wood near Beaumaris, although the place-name ll. goed neu gowrda is attested in 1590, and Llan Gowrda als Llangoed is attested around the same time or early in the seventeenth century.Rice Rees' assertion of a joint dedication with Tangwn, repeated by Wade-Evans, appears to be fanciful.
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Sources
S. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908), 95 View online
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 216
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 503
Hywel Wyn Owen & Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), 259
Rice Rees, An Essay on the Welsh Saints or the Primitive Christian usually considered to have been the Founders of Churches in Wales (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1836), 270
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 94
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