The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . rch-Aeron Church and Llanaeron, belowwhich a rapid stream joins the Aeron. Here isone of the pleasantest loitering-places in thevale. Tri-Crug-Aeron, or Trichrug, another triple-cairned height, is the southern end of TalsarnMountain, that rises there to over a thousandfeet. Walking from the top of Trichrug east-wards, and down to Talsarn, a Cardigan poetonce wrote a song some lines of which still bearquoting:— Sweet Aerons vale, unknown in song, Demands the warbling lyre :Shall silver Aeron glide along, And not a bard inspire ?What bard that
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . rch-Aeron Church and Llanaeron, belowwhich a rapid stream joins the Aeron. Here isone of the pleasantest loitering-places in thevale. Tri-Crug-Aeron, or Trichrug, another triple-cairned height, is the southern end of TalsarnMountain, that rises there to over a thousandfeet. Walking from the top of Trichrug east-wards, and down to Talsarn, a Cardigan poetonce wrote a song some lines of which still bearquoting:— Sweet Aerons vale, unknown in song, Demands the warbling lyre :Shall silver Aeron glide along, And not a bard inspire ?What bard that Aeron sees can failTo sing the charms of Aeron vale ? There golden treasures swell the plains,And herds and flocks are there ; And there the god of plenty reignsTriumphant all the year ; The nymphs are gay, the swains are hale : Such blessings dwell in Aerons vale. The spectacle seen from Trichrug is well wortha climb, and may easily be had by taking thecross-road over the river at Newbridge, or PontNewydd up to Cilcennen. This road passes along. Photo by] U\R Hall, Aberystwyth. MONKS CAVE, CARDIGAN COAST. To face p. 360. THE CARDIGAN COAST NORTHWARDS 361 the western side of the hill, after leaving TyMawr, and half an hours climb brings one tothe cairns and remains of old burial-grounds. From Newbridge, about four miles from thestarting-point, you have another league to go toYstrad, where the church is worth a halt, if onlyto see the square pillars that divide its singleaisle and the tombs to the Lisburnes and J. M. Howell, an Aberaeron authority, remindsus of the great family of Dyffryn Aeron, theLloyds or Llwydiaid, memories of whose tenurefor hundreds of years are scattered all along thevale. Two of the most famous mediaeval Davidswrote poems to their descendants, man and , one of the family, was himself a poet inthe time of Owain Glyndwr, whose praise he was his father who built Pare Rhydderch inthe thirteenth century; and the house of PareRh
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