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Ffynnon Eilian

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NPRN302480
Map ReferenceSH49SE
Grid ReferenceSH4657093296
Unitary (Local) AuthorityIsle of Anglesey
Old CountyAnglesey
CommunityLlaneilian
Type Of SiteWELL CHAPEL
PeriodMedieval
Description
NAR SH49SE1

Water issues from a fissure in a north-facing crag in the cliffs close to the point where a nameless stream tumbles into the sea. This was the well of Eilian, saint of the nearby church and was said to have been visited on the saint's day.
There are traces of a rectangular building at the foot of the crag, some 6.0m east-west by 4.0m. This may have been a well chapel.

Sources: RCAHM Anglesey Inventory (1937), 61
Jones 'Holy Wells of Wales' (1954), 101-2, 141

John Wiles 05.09.07