Perran

Perran Sands, by the village of Perranuthnoe, is dotted with bathers and surfers.

Historic walking trails: smugglers' routes in Cornwall 2011

He is supposed to have landed on these drifting sands that perpetuate his name, and to have founded his first cell here, the oratory that still remains in much mutilated ruin among the towans of Perran.

The Cornwall Coast

Perran in the Sands; in Perranwell, near Falmouth, and even further south in Perranuthnoe, which looks out across the waters of Mounts Bay.

Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway. George Basil Barham

Perranuthnoe, a little beyond the modern Acton Castle, whose situation is of great beauty, is locally known simply as Perran; the second half of its name seems to point to an earlier saint than Piran.

The Cornwall Coast

Perran in the name of the village meant the same as Piran, and the small church there was dedicated to that saint, who deserved to be called the St. Patrick of Cornwall, for he occupied the same position in the popular imagination here as that saint did in Ireland.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

But it is difficult to see why he should remain Kieran here, while he became Piran or Perran in connection with all his other

The Cornwall Coast

The next day I went for a few hours 'rest and change to the sea-side at Perran, but there was a burden of prayer on my soul.

From Death into Life Haslam, William 1880

The open-air preaching at Perran led to many similar services there, and at other places.

From Death into Life Haslam, William 1880

Robert made no reply, and presently father and son left the house and went back to Perran to their work, uncommunicative.

Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872

She had a straw hat with a very large brim, a plain brown holland dress, a brown holland parasol, and pretty white shoes; for nothing would ever induce Miss Shipton to put her feet into the yellow abominations which most persons wore at Perran in the summer.

Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872