See also:BARDSEY (i.e. " Bards' See also:Island ": cf. See also:Anglesey, " Angles' Island "; Welsh, Ynys Enlli, " isle of the current ")
, an See also:island at the See also:northern extremity of See also:Cardigan See also:Bay
.
The " See also:sound " between Aberdaron point and the island is some 4 M. wide
.
See also:Bardsey is included in See also:Carnarvonshire, See also:North See also:Wales (but traditionally in S
.
Wales)
.
On the N.W. See also:side it has high cliffs
.
It is about 22 M. See also:long by s m. broad, with an See also:area of some 370 acres, a third of which is hilly
.
See also:Barley and oats are grown
.
On the S.E. side is a fairly deep See also:harbour
.
On the N.E. are the ruins of the See also:tower of St See also:Mary's See also:abbey (13th See also:century)
.
There is no See also:Anglican See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, the inhabitants being Dissenters
.
They are farmers and fishermen
.
The See also:light-See also:house, with fixed light, 140 ft. high and visible for 17 m., is locally celebrated
.
The rectory of Aberdaron (on the mainland, opposite Bardsey), Penmachnoand Llangwnadl(Llangwynhoedl), in Lleyn (S
.
Carnarvonshire), belong to St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge
.
St Dubricius made the See also:sanctuary famous, and died here in 612
.
Here was the See also:burial-See also:place of all the monks whose See also:friends could afford to go thither with their bodies
.
All the See also:great abbeys of See also:England sent their See also:quota
.
Roads to Bardsey —with the monks' See also:wells, found at intervals of 7 to 9 m.—run from north, See also:east and See also:south
.
The remnant of priests fled thither (after the great See also:massacre of See also:Bangor-is-coed in 613, by Ethelfride of See also:Northumbria) by the road of the Rivals (Yn Eifl)
See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill, S
.
Carnarvonshire, on which Pistyll See also:farm still gives See also:food gratis to all pilgrims or travellers
.
A See also:part of the isle is one great See also:cemetery of about 3 to 4 acres, with See also:rude, rough See also:graves as See also:close to each other as possible, with slabs upon them
.
Though Aberdaron rectory does not belong to the isle, the farm " Cwrt
(See also:Court), where the See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot held his court, still goes with Bardsey, which was granted to John See also:Wynn of Bodvel, Carnarvonshire, after the See also:battle and partial See also:sack of See also:Norwich by the Puritans in the See also:Civil See also:War; passing through Mary Bodvel to her See also:husband, the See also:earl of See also:Radnor, who sold it to Dr See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson of See also:York
.
The See also:doctor, in turn, sold it to See also:Sir John Wynn, of Glynllifon and Bodfean See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, Carnarvonshire
.
One of the Wynns, the 3rd See also:Baron Newborough, was, at his wish, buried here
.
The See also:archaeology and See also:history of the isle are voluminous
.
See also:Lady See also:Guest's See also:Mabinogion See also:translation (i. p
.
115, ed. of 1838) gives an See also:account of the (legendary) Bardsey House of See also:Glass, into which See also:Merlin (Myrddin) took a magic See also:ring, originally kept at See also:Caerleon-on-See also:Usk
.
End of Article: