Tag: religion

• What is a Llan?

  

  Recently a friend from Germany made a quick visit to Wales and noticed the large number of villages and towns had the prefix of Llan. Later he asked me what it meant. Being Welsh, I’d not thought too much about this beyond the obvious the use of Llan almost invariably denoted a church. I had…

  Paul Challinor

  March 24, 2026

  Ancient Churches, History, Wales

  christianity, History, ireland, religion, saints