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Ian Taylor
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Exploring the holy wells and healing wells of North Wales - Fforio'r ffynhonnau sanctaidd a ffynhonnau iachaol Gogledd Cymru

Folklore & history / llên gwerin & hanes

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Æternum, by Penelope Trappes
7 track album
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October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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
July 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The well was restored in the 2010s but has been allowed to deteriorate again, probably now fenced off from the coastal path.
July 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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.
July 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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
June 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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.
June 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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
May 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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.
May 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM