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Mac Moilo / Mapenoil / Mamhole

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 01978g
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Argoed
Unitary authority : Caerphilly
NGR : SO179031
Site Type (preferred type first) : Medieval Church

Summary :
The first reference to Macmoilo come in the charters attached to the Life of St Cadoc (Wade-Evans 1932, 153 no.2),

Description :
The first reference to Macmoilo come in the charters attached to the Life of St Cadoc (Wade-Evans 1932, 153 no.2), where Cadoc is alleged to have built a church with an altar within a rampart and sent his disciple Mac Moil to be its prior; The Life is dated by Wade-Evans (1944, xi) to c1110. Site now Ty'r Capel (Brook 1988, 77). Identified with placename Mamhole by Wakeman (in MS). OS fieldworkers unable to find any confirmation or site (OS card SO 21 SE 8).
Edith Evans, GGAT 73 Early-Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites Project, 2003-04 (Yr1)

Sources :
Evans, E M , 2003 , Early Medieval Ecclesiastical sites in Southeast Wales: Desk based assessment
Evans, E M , 2004 , Early Medieval Ecclesiastical sites in Southeast Wales: Rapid field survey of selected sites
01/Pm desc text/Gray M/1998/Settlement and Land Use in the Man-moel District of Gwent: Monastic and Post-monastic evidence/Monmouthshire Antiquary/Vol XIV pp14-24
Evans EM, 2003-04, GGAT 73 Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites Project

Events :
E001386 : Early medieval ecclesiastical sites in Southeast Wales desk based assessment (year : 2003)
E001417 : Field visit to Manmoel (year : 2004)

Related records
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 08378g

Compiled date : 12-03-2004


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