Qualla: Rhoscolyn https://qualla.com/rhoscolyn en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Rhoscolyn https://qualla.com/rhoscolyn Rhoscolyn: Introduction https://qualla.com/rhoscolyn/ The name means The Moor of the Column. Rhos, in Welsh, is moor or heath. Colyn, by local tradition, refers to a pillar the Romans planted here to mark the edge of their territory -- the western frontier of empire, on a peninsula at the southwest corner of Holy Island, looking out across the Irish Sea. The Romans are gone, the column is gone, and the moor has been farmed for fifteen centuries. What remains is a community of about 540 people, a sixth-century saint's foundation, a holy well in a cleft of rock, and the kind of coastal light that has been bringing painters and walkers here for generations.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/w/rhoscolyn-wp/gckw-rhoscolyn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Rhoscolyn: St Gwenfaen on the Cliffs https://qualla.com/rhoscolyn/ Gwenfaen was a sixth-century Welsh saint, the daughter of a Brittonic chieftain named Paul Hen of Manaw -- Old Paulinus -- and sister to two more saints, Peulan and Gwyngeneu, who also settled on Holy Island. According to tradition she founded her church at Rhoscolyn around the y...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/w/rhoscolyn-wp/gckw-rhoscolyn-st-gwenfaen-on-the-cliffs.mp3 0:06 2 full Rhoscolyn: Borthwen Bay https://qualla.com/rhoscolyn/ The village's southern edge runs along Borthwen -- a small enclosed bay bordered by a public beach, the kind of place that catches the warmest sun on the island. There was once a lifeboat station here, opened in 1830 and closed in 1929; a navigational beacon on Ynysoedd Gwylanod,...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/w/rhoscolyn-wp/gckw-rhoscolyn-borthwen-bay.mp3 0:06 3 full Rhoscolyn: The Lost Crew https://qualla.com/rhoscolyn/ The most significant lifeboat incident in Rhoscolyn's history began on 3 December 1920, when the small coaster Timbo, bound for Ireland out of Holyhead, was overtaken by a storm off South Stack and began to drift down the Welsh coast. The Rhoscolyn lifeboat went out into the gale...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/w/rhoscolyn-wp/gckw-rhoscolyn-the-lost-crew.mp3 0:06 4 full Rhoscolyn: What the Saint Left https://qualla.com/rhoscolyn/ About a kilometre southwest of the village, in a cleft of rock above the cliffs of Porth Gwalch -- Hawk Bay -- lies St Gwenfaen's Well. It is medieval, possibly older, and contains a chamber with four stone seats in the corners. Traditional offerings were two white quartz pebbles...

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