his sister Kiara, whose name has become Piala of
Phillack in Cornish, according to a phonetic and
constant rule. According to the legend he had over
seven hundred emigrants with him. He and his
party made their way from Hayle to Connerton,
where they spent the night, and then pushed south
to where now stands Gwinear. Here Fingar left
his party to go ahead and explore. He reached
Tregotha, where is a fine spring of water, and there
paused to refresh himself, when, hearing cries
from behind, he hurried back, and found that
Tewdrig, the Cornish king or prince, who lived at
Riviere, on a creek of the Hayle river, had hastened
after the party of colonists, and had fallen on them
and massacred them. When Fingar came up Tewdrig
killed him also. Piala, the sister, does not seem to
have been harmed; and as in the long-run the Irish
succeeded in establishing themselves firmly in the
district, she settled near Riviere and founded the
church of Phillack.
Ludgvan has a fine tower and some old crosses, the font also is early, of polyphant stone; but the church has been badly churchwardenised and meanly restored. It was founded by Lithgean, or Lidgean, an Irish saint, son of Bronfinn or Gwendron. There is a representation of the mother in the rectory garden wall, where she is figured holding what is apparently a tree in one hand and in the other a fleur-de-lis.
Hereabouts the whole country is devoted to early potatoes and spring flowers. In March the fields are white with narcissus or golden with daffodil, or
