St. Pirans Day March 5th.

Nice to know of St Piran. I've never heard of him. I wonder if Carmarthenshire has a patron saint ... I'll have to find out.. I don't think so somehow. The saints are much older than most county boundaries.
I hope more Cornish people remembered their special saint :)

I bet they did Hywel, the Cornish people seem to be very pround of their county, and I believe some see Cornwall as a different country to England. I can understand that though, as all the names down there seem very foreign and to me, please forgive if this is nonsense, a lot of the place names, like Trewithen, and all the 'Pen...somethings'...seem more like Welsh than English. I love Cornwall and a few years ago we flew from Edinburgh to Newquay for a short break. It's a great way to get there from here as it's soooooo far away!

Karen, Cornish and Welsh have many similar words. They both, together with Bretton, derive from the same Celtic root. There are places in Brittany that sound quite Welsh/Cornish aswell.
The Irish, Scotish and Manx languages derive from a different root, and sound completely different.

Ah, good, I'm not as daft as I thought!

I never thought of you as daft :)

No of course not Hywel, tis only my family that thinks that!! ;))

Oh dear, just like mine lol

Ah, you got my joke! :))

;o)

The Cornish do celebrate St.Pirans very much so Hywel. and Karen they do have their own Cornish language although not spoken widely now but they are trying to teach it again, hence all these strange place names. Apparently St. Piran came over from Ireland originally.