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 QUETHIOCK— RIALTON PRIORY tion of the church is to St. Uny or Euny. This church, about a mile distant, is a com- paratively modern structure ; it contains a monument by Chantrey. Near is St. Uny's Well. The district is thick with mines, many disused ; and with their decay the rural population has decayed. The Druids' Hall is a good building, and there is the usual plentiful supply of Wesleyan chapels. Restorinel (i m. N. of Lostwithiel). Corn- wall possesses numberless camps or entrench- ments, but not many castles in our modern sense of the word. This is largely owing to its comparatively peaceful submission to Norman sway, for the Normans have been the great castle builders in England. This of Restormel (or Lestormel) cannot be older than the reign of Henry III., though it certainly marks an earlier foundation, its name being genuine Celtic. So far as record goes, the stronghold was first in the Cardinhams and Traceys, from whom it passed to the Earls of Cornwall. In the Civil War, though already ruinous, it still admitted of restoration and defence, being held by the Parliament and taken by Grenville. The circular keep, remaining, had an outer wall of about 9 ft. in thickness and 30 ft. high ; gatehouse and chapel can also be seen, and the whole is rendered picturesque with creeping ivies. The view from this hill is very beautiful. Rialton Priory (3 m. E. of Newquay), named Reiltone in Domesday, is now a farm- house, but still retains traces of its former state. p 225