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ST. JUST-IN-PENWITH— ST. KEA our English word play, guare also came to mean dramatic preformance ; and these rounds were used for the interludes and miracle plays so dear to the Cornish of the Middle Ages. We find the same word surviving in the name of Plan- guary, a small village near Redruth ; and these plan-an-gunre are quite common in Cornwall. This one of St. Just somewhat resembles the Gwennap Pit, and may have been a natural hollow artificially improved. St. Jnst-in-Roseland (2 m. N. of St. Mawes), being next to the parish of Gerrans, may claim to derive from Jestyn, son of Geraint, even more probably than the other St. Just. Roseland is a modern form of the earlier Rosinis, meaning " moorland-isle," and the neck of land is indeed very nearly insular. The church, interesting in itself, is delightfully situated ; the whole of this Falmouth district teems with almost unspeakable loveliness. St. Kea (about 2 m. S.W. of Truro) has an old ruined church of St. Kea, and a newer church built about a century since. Kea has sometimes been identified with the Kay of the Arthurian legends, but he seems rather to have been the Irish Kea or Kenan, the Ke of Brittany, who was converted when St. Patrick preached at Tara, and who came floating to Cornwall on a granite boulder. It was quite usual for Irish saints to arrive in this fashion. The spot where he made his settlement has an older name, Landege or Lanage ; perhaps there was a church here before he came. 139