ILLOGAN, a parish in the hundred of PENWITH,
county of CORNWALL, 2 miles (N. W.) from Redruth,
containing 5170 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter,
rated in the king's books at £22. 7 6., and in the patronage
of Lord de Dunstanville. The church is dedicated to
St. Illogan. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. Here is a small endowed school. An
almshouse for four poor aged women was founded in
1806. At Trevenson, in this parish, a new chapel has
been erected, and endowed with lands producing about
£42 per annum, by Lord de Dunstanville. At Basset's
Cove is a small haven for the importation ]of coal and
lime, and the exportation of copper- ore to the copper
works in Wales. A pier was erected in 1760, and has
since been greatly improved by a Joint Stock Company,
at an expense of £10,000. Cook's Kitchen, one of the
principal mines in Cornwall, is in this parish; on the
east a railway passes from the various mines in the
neighbourhood to Portreath, on the Bristol channel.
On the summit of Cam Bre Hill, the supposed site of a
Druidical temple, are the remains of a baronial castle,
which belonged to Sir John Basset, in the reign jjof
Edward IV. On the side of this hill Roman coins and
British gold coins have been discovered. The plague
raged at Illogan in 1591, and swept off about one hundred
persons.