Caldey Island is a monastic island of the Pembrokeshire coast. England

Monks first came to Caldey in the 6th Century. Pyro, the first abbot is remembered in the island’s Welsh name, Ynys Byr. Pyro was followed by St Samson, from the Celtic monastery at Llantwit Major. Viking raids may have ended this settlement in the 10th Century. In the 12th Century Benedictines from St…