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 CORNWALL ingly placed church, dating from the fourteenth century, and containing a monument to Sir Roger Teinleo. Judging from a mention in Domesday, there must have been an earlier church here. South Petheywhi {zi m. S. of Launceston) is supposed to be a foundation of St. Padarn's, the great patron of Llanbadarn-Vawr ; but it must be confessed that Pethcrwin sounds a little more like a corruption of Pedrcdin or Pedrwn, the name of Padarn's father. That resemblance may be merely accidental ; Mr. Baring-Gould is probably right when he says that Petherwin is Padarn's Gwynedd. But Professor Rhys associates the word Gwynedd with the tribe of Veneti, and it does not appear why this district of Dumnonia should be called Padarn's Gwyn- edd. South Petherwin is the mother parish of Trewen, and the manors both belong to the Bishops of Exeter. North Petherwin is in Devon. Phillack (i m. N. of Hayle) is a parish that includes part of Hayle. The dedication of the church is now to St. Felicitas, but must origin- ally have been to St. Piala, the sister of Gwinear, who came from Ireland with her brother early in the sixth century, landing near Hayle, from whence they are said to have proceeded to a village named Conetconia. They were mar- tyred soon after by Tewcirig. Conetconia is usually identified with the old manor of Con- arton (in Domesday Conarditone), whose name still survives at Connerton or Connordown. 216