Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ..with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families . m of the sea, where two stone castles have newly been erected ; one calledDeudraeth, belonging to the sons of Conan, situated in Eivionyth [the river Glaslyn wasthe division between the ancient coraots of Anhithvy to the south, and Eifionydd to thenorth : both the castles here mentioned were in the latter (in Carnarvonshire), but the situa-tion of the castle then called Deudraeth is not now discoverable, un
Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ..with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families . m of the sea, where two stone castles have newly been erected ; one calledDeudraeth, belonging to the sons of Conan, situated in Eivionyth [the river Glaslyn wasthe division between the ancient coraots of Anhithvy to the south, and Eifionydd to thenorth : both the castles here mentioned were in the latter (in Carnarvonshire), but the situa-tion of the castle then called Deudraeth is not now discoverable, unless it was the site ofCriccieth Castle. Its site could not be on Penrhyn Deudraeth, unless the comot ofEifionydd reached as far as Traeth-bach], towards the northern mountains; the othernamed Carn Madryn, the property of the sons of Owen [Gwynedd], built on the other sideof the river towards the sea, on the headland Lhyn. Contracting our survey, we come back by Pwllheli, on the south coast—a good specimenof a Welsh market town in a distant region, which the coming of a railway must have con-siderably surprised, as well as improved. Near this place is the old demesne of Bodcgrocs,. Madryn Castle: Seat of Capt. T. Love D. Jones-Parry, once the home of the Grithth family; Bodvel, the birthplace of Mrs. Piozzi ; and inland,on the road to Nefyn, is another venerable spot, Boduan. Nearer Criccieth we seeBroom-Hall, the property of Mr. Evans ; Hendre; Gwynfryn ; and nearer still to Snovvdondistrict, Bryn-Kir, Warn, Penymorfa, Glasfryn, Plas-hen, Tanyrallt, the residence of the lateMr. Madock, and Aberdtma?it, the residence of Mrs. Jones-Parry. This region from earlytimes has been one of great celebrity. It constituted the heart of Eifionydd, and wasinhabited by powerful and warlike clans, frequently in a state of turmoil and hostility. The sons of Conan, and the sons of Owain, as Giraldus calls them, were for many agesdistinct and separate, apparently never better pleased than
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