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Fantastic programme. I love the work you're doing. Makes me long to get over on to Ynys Mon for a few evenings come the autumn. Diolch

The well was restored in the 2010s but has been allowed to deteriorate again, probably now fenced off from the coastal path.

Gorad is possibly derived from "gored" - a fish trap / weir. Prior to the construction of the 1830 Embankment which led to a shift in the sandbanks, there was a direct path over the sand from Holy island to the mainland at this point. It is suggested that the monastery used the area to catch fish.

Williams uses the name Ffynnon Sadwrn to support the premise that St Mary's church was initially dedicated to St Sadwrn (of Llansadwrn, 3 or 4 miles to the NE of Llanfair PG ) prior to its rededication to St Mary.

Thanks are due to a local correspondent who alerted me to both the book and the well

Up until the start of the 20th century the well was believed to have healing properties. The two alternative names of the well are recorded in John L Williams's book Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll: Hen Enwau a Lluniau'r Lle.

Ieuen Llwyd Brydydd recounts the story of a rider thrown from his horse. His eye was damaged so severely that no surgeon could help him. But at the well God and the saint made him perfectly whole again

St Doged, or King Doged met an untimely end as recorded in the Mabinogion. Widowed Cilydd, father of Culhwch, was looking for a new wife seven years after his first wife died in childbirth. He was told he should slay Doged and take his wife which he duly did.