312 CORNISH DEDICATIONS. 



Mr, Eees considers that the S. Michael's Mount, to which S. 

 Cadoc was travelling when he visited her on the way, is a hill 

 near Ahergavenny, in the neighbourhood of which is the parish 

 of Llangenen, in which, according to Mr. Theophilus Jones, is to 

 he found the Well of the saint, " and the situation of the oratory 

 may yet be traced." 



But as we are told that after she had been at Keynsham, 

 she tried to go back to her old home, but was not received there ; 

 it is more probable that she migrated to Cornwall, as most of her 

 family had been expelled Brecknockshire by Dyfnwall. The 

 legend says that S. Cadoc visited her on his way to S. Michael's 

 Mount. The cult of the archangel certainly did not invade the 

 Celtic church till the 8th century. At S. Keyne, near Liskeard, 

 she had relatives about her, S. Cleer=S. Clether, S. Pinnock= 

 Cynog, and presently S. Kea=Cynin, whom she probably followed 

 to the Fal, where she placed herseK at Kenwyn under his 

 direction. 



She was wont to sleep in her cell on a few branches laid on 

 the ground, but indeed, this was the usual bed of the period, 

 with heather or fern over the branches, and a skin thrown over 

 that. 



According to the legend, when death approached angels 

 visited her. One divested her of her coarse shift, and another 

 invested her in a fine linen garment, over which he threw a 

 scarlet tunic woven with gold thread in stripes. S. Cadoc 

 ministered to her when she died and buried her in her oratory. 



The legend is late, and like all such manufactured productions 

 devoid of historic details. It was not till 710 that S. Michael 

 was supposed to have appeared on the "tumba" near Dol, and 

 the foundation on S. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, was not made 

 till 1044. The anachronism, therefore, of making S. Cadoc in 

 the 6th century make a pilgrimage to S. Michael's Mount, whether 

 that in Normandy or that in Cornwall, is obvious. 



The dedications to S. Keyne are : — 



8. Keyne, by Liskeard, where is her famous Holy Well. 



Kenwyn Chapel, now a Parish Church. 



A Chapel at East Looe re-dedicated to S. Anne. 



