[7] See Perran-Zabuloe, with an Account of the Past and Present State of the Oratory of St Piran in the Sands, and Remarks on its Antiquity. By the Rev. Wm. Haslam, B.A., and by the Rev. Collins Trelawney.
St Kieran, the favourite Celtic saint, reached Scotland from Ireland, the precursor of St Columba, (565 A.D.) “The cave of St Kieran is still shewn in Kintyre, where the first Christian teacher of the Western Highlands is believed to have made his abode.”—Wilson’s Prehistoric Annals.
There is a curious resemblance between the deeds and the names of those two saints.
[8] See Appendix B.
[9] See Appendix C.
[10] Tintagel is the usual name. Gilbert, in his “Parochial History,” has it, “Dundagell, alias Dyndagell, alias Bosithney;” in “Doomsday-book” it is called “Dunecheine.” Tonkin writes “Dindagel or Daundagel,” and sometimes Dungiogel. “A King Nectan, or St Nectan, is said to have built numerous churches in several parts of Scotland, as well as in other parts of the kingdom of the Northern Picts.”—Wilson’s Prehistoric Annals of Scotland.
[11] It is called indifferently Nectan, Nathan, Nighton, or Knighton’s Kieve.
[12] Rambles beyond Railways. By Wilkie Collins. Mr Collins was curiously misled by those who told him the tradition. The building which these strange solitary women inhabited was St Nectan’s, or, as he and many others write it, St Nighton’s, Chapel, and not a cottage. They died, as Mr Collins describes it; but either he, or those from whom he learned the tale, has filled in the picture from imagination. I perceive, on referring to Mr Walter White’s admirable little book, “A Londoner’s Walk to the Land’s End,” that he has made the same mistake about the cottage.
[13] Appendix D.
[14] Parochial History, vol. iii. p. 423.