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as Ludewaii (Stapeldon 1324, Grandisson 1330), or as dedicated 

 to Sanctus Ludwanus (Bytton 1312, Stapeldon 1312, 1318.) This 

 settles the sex of the Saint. 



Mr. Copeland Borlase suggested that Ludgvan stands for 

 Llan Dwynwen, and was named after one of the daughters of 

 Brychan. This is quite inadmissable, as the church is out of the 

 district colonised by the family of that prince, and is in that of 

 the Irish settlers. 



Ludgvan is apparently Lithgean of Clonmore. His feast in 

 the Irish Calendars is on January 16, and the Ludgvan feast is 

 observed in the week of the festival of the Conversion of S. 

 Paul, January 25. Add eleven days to Jan. 16, required to 

 obtain O.S. Ludgvan feast and we have S. Lithgean's Day, 

 January 27. 



Of S. Lithgean not much is known. He was the son of 

 Laignech descended from Cucorb, King of Leinster, and belonged 

 to the clan of the Hy Cormaic, who occupied the country west of 

 the Wicklow mountains on the borders of Wicklow and Kildare. 

 The family cemetery is at Killeen Cormac, between Dunlavin 

 and Ballitore, and is known to archaeologists as having yielded 

 several Ogham inscriptions. His mother Melda or Bronfin was 

 sister to S. Ibar who was not on the best terms with S. Patrick, 

 and he was related to S. Cuach, Kieran's foster-mother, whom I 

 have identified with S. Kewe and S. Ladoca. She was buried in 

 the family cemetery at Killeen. More remotely he was related 

 to S. Piece of Sletty, the Cornish Peock. Lithgean had six 

 brothers, all saints, but the most important of them was S. 

 Abban, of Killabban. The manner in which the whole family 

 entered religion seems to point to its having been involved in the 

 banishment of the Cliu Clan for having embraced Christianity, 

 and to its being allowed to return on condition that the members 

 embraced the ecclesiastical profession. We find a Lithgean also 

 spoken of as brother of S. Achebran or Kevern and a son of 

 Bochra. We must not take the title of son or brother too 

 strictly, or these may be different persons. S. Lithgean had a 

 foundation at Clonmore in the territory of the Hy Pailghe or 

 Ophaly, but it cannot now be identified. He probably moved to 

 Cornwall about the same time as the rest from Ossory and 



