KEVERNE (ST.), a parish in the hundred of KERRIER,
county of CORNWALL, 9 miles (S. by W.) from
Falmouth, containing 2505 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £18. 11. 5.
The Rev. James Pascoe was patron in 1817. There is
a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A school
was founded and endowed, in 1698, by Sampson Sandys,
for teaching and apprenticing poor children, which has
received subsequent augmentations; the master receives
a stipend of £ 15 per annum; and there are six readingschools
hVthe parish, with small salaries forthe teachers.
In this parish also are three fishing coves, named Coverack,
Porthalla, and Porthonstock, at the first of
which there is a good pier for small vessels. A fair
for cattle is held on jthe first Tuesday after Twelfth-day.
The English channel bounds the parish on the east and
south: there is a signal station at the extreme southern
point, called Blackhead. Here was formerly a college
of Secular canons, dedicated to St. Achelran, and subsequently
a cell of Cistercian monks, subordinate to
Beaulieu abbey in Hampshire.