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The Irish settlers in Penwith -- Difference between Irish and / Cornish languages -- The Irish saints of Penwith -- Other / saints -- Penzance -- S. Ives -- Restored brass -- Wreck of Algerine / pirates in 1760 -- Description of Penwith -- The pilchard / fishery -- Song -- Churches of the Land's End -- S. Burian -- S. Paul's / and Dolly Pentreath -- The Cornish language -- Cornish dialect -- Old / churches and chapels -- Madron -- Prehistoric antiquities.
The Land's End is properly Penwith, either Pen-gwaed, the Bloody Headland, or Pen-gwaedd, the Headland of Shouting. Probably it is the former, for it was the last place of refuge of the Ibernian population, and in the first years of the sixth century, even perhaps earlier, it was occupied by Irish settlers, and that there was fighting is clearly shown us in the legend of SS. Fingar and Piala. It must have been to the original people of the peninsula what Mona was to the Welsh.