More information : 79132131. Lanheverne, "the old Celtic name of the Church of St Keverne, is still applied to the Churchtown lands. The name implies the Lan or Monastery of St Keveran". (1-2) (SW 79042122)Monastery (NR) (Site of). (3) Borlase equates "Lanachebran", where there were Secular Canons in the time of Edward the Confessor, with St Keverne. However he considered that the ruins at Tregonning (a cell and grange, see SW 72 SE 12) incorporated part of the Collegiate church. (4) Given that there was a pre-Conquest collegiate monastery at St Keverne, there is no ground or documentary evidence to establish its site. The unsupported published site is in St Keverne church town and to that extent is probably nearer the original than the now current tradition that it was at Tregonning. (5) St Keverne is listed as the site of a pre-Saxon graveyard on the evidence of the Domesday "Canoci Sancti Achebranni tenent Lannachebran". This appears to refer to the church of an unknown Celtic saint possibly named 'Akebran'. (6-7)
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