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.infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:260px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:260px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:260px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wales_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Puffin Island is located in Wales"><img alt="Puffin Island is located in Wales" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Wales_location_map.svg/260px-Wales_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Wales_location_map.svg/390px-Wales_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Wales_location_map.svg/520px-Wales_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1047" data-file-height="1252" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:8.333%;left:49.444%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Puffin Island"><img alt="Puffin Island" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div>Puffin Island</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em"></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Geography</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anglesey" title="Anglesey">Anglesey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Puffin_Island_(Anglesey)&params=53.31667_N_4.01667_W_type:isle"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">53°19′00″N</span> <span class="longitude">4°01′00″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">53.31667°N 4.01667°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">53.31667; -4.01667</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Administration</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div><b>Wales</b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">County</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anglesey" title="Anglesey">Anglesey</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Demographics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">0 (uninhabited)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Puffin Island</b> (<a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a>: <i lang="cy">Ynys Seiriol</i>) is an uninhabited island off the eastern tip of <a href="/wiki/Anglesey" title="Anglesey">Anglesey</a>, Wales. It was formerly known as <b>Priestholm</b> in English (and <span title="Welsh-language text"><i lang="cy">Ynys Lannog</i></span>/<span title="Welsh-language text"><i lang="cy">Glannog</i></span> in Welsh). A hermitage was established here around the 6th century, and there are remains of a 12th-century monastery on the island. The island is also a <a href="/wiki/Special_Protection_Area" title="Special Protection Area">Special Protection Area</a> for wildlife. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Puffin_Island_(Anglesey)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Puffin_islandmap1947.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Puffin_islandmap1947.png/220px-Puffin_islandmap1947.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Puffin_islandmap1947.png/330px-Puffin_islandmap1947.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Puffin_islandmap1947.png/440px-Puffin_islandmap1947.png 2x" data-file-width="1041" data-file-height="765" /></a><figcaption>A map of the island from 1947</figcaption></figure> <p>Puffin Island is the ninth-largest island off the coast of Wales and marks the northeastern end of the <a href="/wiki/Menai_Strait" title="Menai Strait">Menai Strait</a>. Puffin Island's highest point is <a href="/wiki/Carboniferous_limestone" class="mw-redirect" title="Carboniferous limestone">carboniferous limestone</a>, at 192 feet (59 m) above sea level, having steep cliffs on all sides. It has an area of 69 acres (0.28 km<sup>2</sup>). The island is privately owned by the <a href="/wiki/Baron_Hill,_Anglesey" title="Baron Hill, Anglesey">Baron Hill</a> estate. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Puffin_Island_(Anglesey)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:View_on_Puffin_Island,_near_Anglesea.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/View_on_Puffin_Island%2C_near_Anglesea.jpeg/220px-View_on_Puffin_Island%2C_near_Anglesea.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/View_on_Puffin_Island%2C_near_Anglesea.jpeg/330px-View_on_Puffin_Island%2C_near_Anglesea.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/View_on_Puffin_Island%2C_near_Anglesea.jpeg/440px-View_on_Puffin_Island%2C_near_Anglesea.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="669" /></a><figcaption>View on Puffin Island, 1815</figcaption></figure> <p>The Welsh name, <i>Ynys Seiriol</i>, refers to Saint <a href="/wiki/Seiriol" title="Seiriol">Seiriol</a>. The son of <a href="/wiki/Owain_Ddantgwyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Owain Ddantgwyn">Owain Ddantgwyn</a>, a 5th-century ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Gwynedd" title="Kingdom of Gwynedd">Kingdom of Gwynedd</a>, and the brother of Saint <a href="/wiki/Einion_Frenin" title="Einion Frenin">Einion Frenin</a>, a 5th or 6th-century king in the <a href="/wiki/Ll%C5%B7n_Peninsula" title="Llŷn Peninsula">Llŷn Peninsula</a>, Seiriol founded and governed a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Class_(ecclesiastical_settlement)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Class (ecclesiastical settlement) (page does not exist)"><i> class</i></a> (ecclesiastical settlement) at <a href="/wiki/Penmon" title="Penmon">Penmon</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Anglesey" title="Anglesey">Anglesey</a>. In later life, he abandoned his responsibilities there to establish a <a href="/wiki/Hermitage_(religious_retreat)" title="Hermitage (religious retreat)">hermitage</a> on the nearby island, where his remains are thought to rest.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>King <a href="/wiki/Cadwallon_ap_Cadfan" title="Cadwallon ap Cadfan">Cadwallon ap Cadfan</a> of Gwynedd is said to have sheltered here in around 630 when fleeing an invasion from the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Northumbria" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Northumbria">Kingdom of Northumbria</a>. A monastery<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> existed on the island in the late 12th century and was mentioned by <a href="/wiki/Gerald_of_Wales" title="Gerald of Wales">Gerald of Wales</a>, who visited the area in 1188. He claimed that, whenever there was strife within the community of monks, a plague of mice would devour all their food. <a href="/wiki/Llywelyn_the_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Llywelyn the Great">Llywelyn the Great</a> issued two charters in 1221 and 1237 confirming the <a href="/wiki/Canons_Regular" class="mw-redirect" title="Canons Regular">Canons Regular</a>, in possession of the island and the church and manor of Penmon on the mainland of Anglesey. </p><p>The ruins of several ecclesiastical buildings are visible on the island, including the remains of a 12th-century church, which has a Grade I <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">heritage listing</a>. The central tower and the foundations of the <a href="/wiki/Nave_(architecture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nave (architecture)">nave</a> remain. The remains of the <a href="/wiki/Chancel" title="Chancel">chancel</a> and south transept have been covered by a 19th-century cottage and building.<sup id="cite_ref-BLB_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BLB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Much later a <a href="/wiki/Telegraphy" title="Telegraphy">telegraph station</a> was built on the northeastern tip of the island.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is now disused. </p><p>There is one identified shipwreck, a <a href="/wiki/Steamship" title="Steamship">steamship</a> named <i>The Pioneer</i>, which ran ashore in 1878 with a cargo of iron bars when the tow lines to it broke following its rescue from engine failure near <a href="/wiki/The_Skerries,_Isle_of_Anglesey" title="The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey">the Skerries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wildlife">Wildlife</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Puffin_Island_(Anglesey)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Wildlife"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:TrwynDuLighthouse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/TrwynDuLighthouse.jpg/220px-TrwynDuLighthouse.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/TrwynDuLighthouse.jpg/330px-TrwynDuLighthouse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/TrwynDuLighthouse.jpg/440px-TrwynDuLighthouse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="871" data-file-height="653" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Trwyn_Du_Lighthouse" title="Trwyn Du Lighthouse">Trwyn Du Lighthouse</a> near the island</figcaption></figure> <p>The island is a <a href="/wiki/Special_Protection_Area" title="Special Protection Area">Special Protection Area</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (SPA), particularly because of its <a href="/wiki/Great_cormorant" title="Great cormorant">great cormorant</a> colony of over 750  birds, which is over 10% of the national population, making it one of the largest colonies in the <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also has good numbers of <a href="/wiki/Guillemot" title="Guillemot">guillemot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Razorbill" title="Razorbill">razorbill</a>, <a href="/wiki/European_shag" title="European shag">shag</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kittiwake" title="Kittiwake">kittiwake</a> nesting,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in recent years small numbers of <a href="/wiki/Common_eider" title="Common eider">common eider</a> and <a href="/wiki/Black_guillemot" title="Black guillemot">black guillemot</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_puffin" title="Atlantic puffin">Atlantic puffins</a> from which the island gets its modern English name bred in considerable numbers at one time, with up to 2000 pairs recorded.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Brown_rat" title="Brown rat">brown rat</a> was introduced accidentally to the island, probably in the late 19th century, and reduced this population to a very few pairs. A programme of poisoning these rats started in 1998 by the <a href="/wiki/Countryside_Council_for_Wales" title="Countryside Council for Wales">Countryside Council for Wales</a> appears to have eradicated them, and the puffin population has shown an increase since that date.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At one time the island was heavily grazed by rabbits, but these were wiped out by an outbreak of <a href="/wiki/Myxomatosis" title="Myxomatosis">myxomatosis</a>, leading to the growth of dense vegetation, particularly common elder (<i><a href="/wiki/Sambucus_nigra" title="Sambucus nigra">Sambucus nigra</a></i>). </p><p>The strong currents around the island provide for an abundance of marine life, particularly on the north coast, where the depths reach 15 metres (8 fathoms). Many people enjoy fishing trips departing from <a href="/wiki/Beaumaris" title="Beaumaris">Beaumaris</a> in these waters, catching mainly <a href="/wiki/Mackerel" title="Mackerel">mackerel</a>, but many other species are caught. The abundance of fish feeds a large colony of grey seals, and bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises regularly visit the area. 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