Tor-Mohun.
[St. Ives is named from Iä, who was one of the missionary band that
accompanied St. Kiaran, alias Piran, from Ireland in the fifth century.
The Cornish have consecrated almost all their towns to the memory of
these Irish saints: "witness," says Camden, "St. Burian, St. Ives, St.
Columb, St. Mewan, St. Erben, St. Eval, St. Wenn, and St. Enedor." It
appears that these missionaries landed in Cornwall at Pendinas,
hill-head, now called St. Ives; for in the Legend of St. Ives,
contained in _Nova Legenda Angliæ_, we read that "Tewdor was king at
that time, and had a palace at Pendinas; and that Dinan, a greate lord
of Cornwall, at the request of St. Iä, built a church at the same
place." See Butler's _Lives_, March 5th; and Haslam's _Perranzabuloe_,
p. 55.]
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