Llantrisant (;

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for " Parish of the Three

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") is a hamlet in Anglesey, Wales. It is in the community of Tref Alaw. Its parish church is dedicated to Saints Afran, Ieuan, and Sanan.Church in Wales
"Ss Afran, Ieuan and Sanan (New Ch), Llantrisant"
2014. The parish's former church is now a protected building. Browne Willis and Sabine Baring-GouldBaring-Gould
Vol. I, p. 116.
/ref> considered "Afran" to be a corruption of Afan, a saint of Ceredigion and

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. (The 16th-century Peniarth MS 147 concurs, listing the church as dedicated to "Sannan and Afan and Evan".) St Afan was related to the Cuneddan dynasty of

Gwynedd Gwynedd (; ) is a county and preserved county (latter with differing boundaries; includes the Isle of Anglesey) in the north-west of Wales. It shares borders with Powys, Conwy County Borough, Denbighshire, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and C ...

and was claimed as an ancestor by a 10th-century Ieuan martyred by Viking raiders.

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photos of Llantrisant and surrounding area on geograph
Villages in Anglesey Tref Alaw {{Anglesey-geo-stub