Church of St Carannog
Llangrannog, Cardiganshire
Diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids
OS Grid Ref.: SN31655402
Lat/Lng: 52.1587152222,-4.46251862819
A form of the place-name suggests the dedication of the church to Carannog in around 1566. Older names of the church, in the form of Gogof (cave), are nonetheless suggestive of the the twelfth-century Latin Life of Carannog, which speaks of Carannog inhabiting a cave, with his monks, in Ceredigion.
The church was rebuilt in the 1880s.
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National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Stained Glass in Wales
S. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908), 89 View online
Hywel Wyn Owen & Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), 261
Iwan Wmffre, The Place-Names of Cardiganshire (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004), 293–4
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 193
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 60
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