Rose, Cornwall

Rose Cornish: Ros
St Piran's Round
Rose Location within Cornwall
OS grid reference	SW776548
Unitary authority	Cornwall
Ceremonial county	Cornwall
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom

Rose (Cornish: Ros)[1] is a hamlet in mid-Cornwall, UK. Rose is to the north-west of Goonhavern and east of Perranporth.[2]

Between Rose and Lower Rose is St Piran's Round (also known as Perran Round) (grid reference SW778545), a circular earthwork which could have originally been an Iron Age circular enclosure. It is considered to be the finest remaining example of a playing place or Plen-an-gwary – a medieval amphitheatre used for performing the Ordinalia, or Cornish miracle plays and hosting Cornish wrestling tournaments.[3]

An article in an 1880 edition of The Cornishman newspaper reports that the present use of the Newlyn Amphitheatre (or pit) dates from 1852. Before this it was, said to be a quarry[n 1] and it now has a small house inside the boundary, for use by the Methodists for tea-meetings.[4]

1. Could ″quarry″ be a misprint for gwary?

References

1. Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.
2. OS Explorer Map. Redruth & St Agnes (Map) (B2 ed.). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. 2013. ISBN 978 0 319 24034 2.
3. "St Pirans Round". Pastscape. English Heritage. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
4. "The Newlyn (East) Amphitheatre". The Cornishman. No. 104. 8 July 1880. p. 4.