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PENMON

"PENMON, a parish in the hundred of Tindaethwy, county Anglesey, 3 miles N. of Beaumaris, its post town, and 6 from Bangor. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the coast opposite Puffin Island. There are remains of a priory, founded in the 6th century by Enion Frenhin. On Ynys Seiriol, or Puffin Island, are similar ruins, probably the original site of the aforementioned priory. There are some mill-stone quarries in the neighbourhood. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to that of Llanvaes, in the diocese of Bangor. The church, dedicated to St. Seiriol, is an ancient cruciform structure, and formerly belonged to the priory. The N. transept was rebuilt in 1854. The interior of the church contains an ancient font, a holywell, and monuments to the Bulkeleys of Penmon Park. The parochial charities produce about £5 per annum. On a bank opposite the church is the ancient pigeon-house, with a curious domical roof of Henry VIII.'s time; also a British figured cross, 10 feet in height, on the hills above and near it Hugh Lupus's Castell of Aber Lleinog." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

• Bibliography
• Business and Commerce Records
• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• Land and Property
• Maps
• Occupations

Bibliography

Bellerby, Rachel. St Seiriol and Penmon Priory . Country Quest. (Apr. 2004), p. 23-24

Carr, A D. The priory of Penmon. Journal of the Welsh Ecclesiastical History 3 (1986), p. 18-30

Holme, Geoffrey G. Guide to Penmon church and priory. Llanfairfechan : J. G. Hughes, Caxton Press, 1935. 28p

Morris, Jeff. The history of the Penmon and Beaumaris lifeboats. Coventry : Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society, 1997. 49p

Business and Commerce Records

Church History

Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP, 1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

Penmon Parish; Statistics; Area 7180 acres; Population 116 males, 110 females, total 226

• Penmon Parish Church     (Diocese of Bangor)             Attendance - usual - afternoon 80       Informant; Wm Griffith, Registrar

Church Records

Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at Anglesey Record Office.

Description and Travel

Beach and lighthouse at Penmon - a photograph by Simon Evans

Penmon Priory - on the Castle Wales site

The Beaumaris site - Penmon Priory and Dovecote

A Castle Wales site - Aberlleiniog Motte, Penmon
"A fine motte with a hint of a bailey to the south. This one is a documented Norman castle..."

Holy Penmon - on the Anglesey History site

Puffin Island - on the Wikipedia site

Penmon - on wicipedia (Welsh)

St Seiriol's Well, Penmon - on the Gathering the Jewels site

Penmon - on BBC Wales (Welsh)

Held at Anglesey Record Office (NRA);

• Penmon lighthouse;- 1835-42: journal and letter books of George Burrell, superintendent of the building of the lighthouse

Gazetteers

A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833

Land and Property

Held at Anglesey Record Office (NRA);

• Penmon land tax;- 1723-1869: assessments
• Penmon Parish;- 1693-1995: records
• Penmon window tax;- 1756-65: assessments

Maps

Occupations

The Beaumaris Lifeboat  site  - Penmon history from 1831

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