Llanbabo
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Llanbabo is a small village two miles north west of Llannerch-y-medd in Anglesey
, Wales
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The ancient church of St Pabo, Llanbabo
is dedicated to Saint Pabo: possibly Pabo Post Prydain
, one of the leaders among the Britons of the Hen Ogledd
following the withdrawal of the Roman legions. He is said to have founded a church here in 460, upon the site of which the present one is built, and to have been buried here along with his daughters. In 1868 the carved stone that covered his tomb (that had been exhumed in the 17th century and featured a robed man wearing a coronet alongside the words HIC JACET PABO) was still being pointed out in the church.
Llyn Alaw
lies nearby.
Anglesey
Anglesey , also known by its Welsh name Ynys Môn , is an island and, as Isle of Anglesey, a county off the north west coast of Wales...
, Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
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The ancient church of St Pabo, Llanbabo
St Pabo's Church, Llanbabo
St Pabo's Church, Llanbabo is a medieval church in Llanbabo, in Anglesey, North Wales. Much of the church dates to the 12th century, and it is regarded as a good example of a church of its period that has retained many aspects of its original fabric...
is dedicated to Saint Pabo: possibly Pabo Post Prydain
Pabo Post Prydain
Pabo Post Prydain was a king somewhere in the Hen Ogledd or Old North of sub-Roman Britain.According to the Old Welsh genealogies of British Library, Harleian MS 3859, he was a son of Cenau ap Coel Hen...
, one of the leaders among the Britons of the Hen Ogledd
Hen Ogledd
Yr Hen Ogledd is a Welsh term used by scholars to refer to those parts of what is now northern England and southern Scotland in the years between 500 and the Viking invasions of c. 800, with particular interest in the Brythonic-speaking peoples who lived there.The term is derived from heroic...
following the withdrawal of the Roman legions. He is said to have founded a church here in 460, upon the site of which the present one is built, and to have been buried here along with his daughters. In 1868 the carved stone that covered his tomb (that had been exhumed in the 17th century and featured a robed man wearing a coronet alongside the words HIC JACET PABO) was still being pointed out in the church.
Llyn Alaw
Llyn Alaw
Llyn Alaw is a man-made reservoir on Anglesey, North Wales. It is used to supply drinking water to the northern half of the island and does so at a rate of 35 million litres a day. It was created in 1966 on existing marshland....
lies nearby.