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Eoek is situated in the manor of Tregarrick, which, was once 

 the seat of the Tregarrick family. One of this race, it is 

 probable, erected the buildings on the rock as a summer-house, 

 which would afford extensive prospects, and would be a striking 

 ornament to the grounds ! " As regards the name, though there 

 was a Saint Eoche in the calendar, the saint is unconnected with 

 this place : the parish was called Eoche long before the saint of 

 that name was born. Tre-roach, or Tregarrick [Cornish, Tre — 

 dwelling; garrack — rock], the "Rock-town," before the Norman 

 Conquest, was in possession of a family, thence named Tre-roach, 

 afterwards called de E-upe or de Eupes (in Latin), and again, 

 after the T'rench, called de Eoach, of which family Ealph 

 de Eupe held in Cornwall three knights' fees of land in 1189. 

 John Tregarrick, who was member for Truro, 1383, is said to 

 have been the last inhabitant of the hermitage. Eoche rocks 

 are of white sparry quartz, mixed with schorl. Near by is St. 

 G-onnett's Well — a rock with a small hole, a few inches deep, 

 which always contains water, said to ebb and flow with the tide. 

 From this supply it is recorded that the maiden Gronnett 

 obtained water for the necessities of her father, a leper, who for 

 years remained shut up in the cell above. (A story founded on 

 the usual legend of St. Eoche). Carew writes of the well — 



You neighbours, scorners, holy, proud, 

 Goe people Roches cell ; 



Fare from the world, near to the heavens, 

 There Hermits may you dwell ! 



Is't true that spring in Rock, hereby, 

 Doth tidewise ebbe and flow : 



Or have we fooles with lyers met ? 

 Fame sales it, be it so. 

 This is the wishing well of Eoche, to which the village 

 maidens used to repair on Holy Thursday, to throw in pins and 

 pebbles and predict coming events by the sparkling of the 

 bubbles. 



From Eoche the party proceeded to Castel-an-Dinas. The 

 hill is of a conical form, 730 feet above the sea level, and was 

 crowned by a camp with four, or rather, two concentric circular 

 ramparts. The formation of the camp was described by Mr. 

 Jeffery, and its plan exhibited after a drawing and measurements 

 made by Mr. Henry Mc. Lauchlan, in 1849 (31st Annual Eeport 

 of the E.I.C. App. I.) 



