Carannog

Saint Carannog (Old Welsh:Carantog; Breton: Karanteg; Latin: Carantocus; Irish: Cairnech, also anglicised as Carantoc or Carantock) was a 6th-century Welsh saint, abbot and confessor. He is the founder of the Llan at Llangrannog in Ceredigion, Wales, as well as other monastic sites across Somerset, Cornwall, Brittany and Ireland.

Carannog's is one of six Welsh saints whose Vitae are potentially evidence of an Historical King Arthur written independently of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. He is venerated by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church.