Illogan (pronounced il'luggan, Cornish: Egloshalow[1]) is a village and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, two miles (3 km) northwest of Redruth.

[3] In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also includes Carn Brea, Illogan and several satellite villages, stood at 55,400[4] making it the largest conurbation in Cornwall.

[5] In 1931 the ruins of a Roman villa at Magor Farm were found by Nicholas Warren and excavated under the guidance of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.

The churchyard includes fifty-two Commonwealth War Graves.,[10] and the grave of Thomas Merritt, whose carols are sung by Cornishmen worldwide and who was commissioned to write the 1902 Coronation March for Edward VII.

[13] The town football club, Illogan RBL, has a reserve team that is very famous, as they beat Madron FC 55–0 in the Mining League, the worst-ever fair defeat.