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Llanilar
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Llanilar () is a village and community in Ceredigion, Wales, about southeast of Aberystwyth. It is the eponym of the hundred of Ilar. The population at the 2011 census was 1,085. The community includes Rhos-y-garth.

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Place details

Locality
Llanilar
Region
Cymru / Wales
Country
United Kingdom
Population
1,085
Timezone
Europe/London

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Key facts

UK place.type
Village and community
UK place.country
Wales
UK place.static_image_name
Eglwys S. Ilar, Llanilar-by-OLU.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
St Hilary's Church
UK place.unitary_wales
Ceredigion

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
community
Official name
Llanilar
Located in
Ceredigion
Population
1055
Area
2828.02
Image
Llanilar - geograph.org.uk - 284180.jpg
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Commons category
Llanilar
historic county
Cardiganshire
P12749
Seti Zone
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Encyclopedic overview

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Llanilar () is a village and community in Ceredigion, Wales, about southeast of Aberystwyth. It is the eponym of the hundred of Ilar. The population at the 2011 census was 1,085. The community includes Rhos-y-garth.

==Name== In Welsh placenames, many smaller communities are named for their parish (llan), having grown up around the local church. This town's name honours its patron saint, although it is disputed whether that is the church's presumed founder Ilar (Welsh for "Hilary"), listed as a member of Cadfan's mission and a martyr but now almost totally forgotten, or the more famous Hilary who was bishop of Poitiers in France and is still celebrated by the Anglican and Catholic churches in Wales. (The confusion is not helped by Edward Williams's numerous forgeries which he included in the Iolo Manuscripts.)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Llanilar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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