306 COBNISH DEDICATIONS. 



In Art, the Saint is represented with a stag at his side and 

 holding a bell. 



S. Kenwyn, Virgin. 



In Bishop Bronescombe's Register, the church of Kenwin is 

 called Key nwen. He dedicated it on September 27, 1259. It is 

 a chapelry in the parish of S. Kea or Landeghe. There was a 

 Cainwen, daughter or grand-daughter of Brychan, whom there 

 can be little doubt, is identical with S. Keyne. The festival of 

 Cainwen and of Ceneu (Keyne) was on the same day, October 8, 

 Keyne was often called Cainwyryf or Cain the Virgin, and 

 Cainwen signifies Cain the Spotless or White. See Keyne. 



S. Kerian, see Kieran. 



S. Kevern, Abbot, Confessor. 



Kevern is a corruption of Aed Cobhran or Akebran. The 

 hh in Irish is pronounced v. Aed the Crooked, son of Bochra, 

 would seem to have come to Cornwall along with the party of 

 Breaca, and with his master Senan. If he be, as I have little 

 doubt, the Gobran, Govran, or Gibrian who led a large party of 

 Irish to Eheims and were received by S. Eemigius in 509, then 

 he settled on the Cele that flows into the river Marne. His 

 brother, Tressan, planted himself near, but on the Marne itself. 

 The names of the party have been much altered in French 

 mouths from their original form in Gaelic. Tressan cannot be 

 easily traced to an Erse original. Helan is the Helen, who formed 

 one of the party iuLeland's list. German is the Cornish Germoc, 

 and was the son of Goil. Veran is probably Foran or Forannan. 

 Abran is possibly a reduplication of Aed Cobhran, Petran is 

 the diminutive form of Peter, and the holy woman of the 

 company Fracla is the Thecla of the list in Leland, Promptia is 

 probably Crewenna, and Possemna or Possenna is a corruption 

 of the feminine form of Croibsenaigh. In both these latter the 

 Gaelic hard C has been formed into P, as Ciaran and Ciara have 

 become Piran and Piala. 



