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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 397 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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, 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, 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 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 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, Carnarvonshire . One of the Wynns, the 3rd See also:Baron Newborough, was, at his wish, buried here .

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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 .

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