PLINLIMMON (Plynlimmon, Pumplumon, Pumlumon, Penlumon: Pumlumon is the name used locally:

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• PUMP

pump means five: lumon,

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• CHIMNEY (through the Fr. cheminee, from caminata, sc. camera, a Lat. derivative of caminus, an oven or furnace)

chimney,

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• FLAG (or " FLAGGE," a common Teutonic word in this sense, but apparently first recorded in English)

flag or

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• BEACON (from the O. Eng. beacn, a sign, cf. " beckon," another form of the same word)

beacon;

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• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen,

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• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head)  , a mountain of Wales of the height of 2463 ft., equidistant (about to m.) from Machynlleth and Llanidloes . Much inferior in elevation to Snowdon or Cader Idris, Plinlimmon is certainly the most dangerous of the Welsh hills because of its quaking bogs . The scenery is comparatively poor, consisting chiefly of sheep-downs (in Montgomeryshire) and barren turbaries (in Cardiganshire) . If the name means " five-beacons," only three of these are high, with a carnedd (stone-pile, probably a military or other landmark, rather than the legendary barrow or tomb) on each of the three . Plinlimmon is notable as the source of five streams—three small: the Rheidol, the Llyfnant and the Clywedog; and two larger and famous: the Wye (Gwy) and the Severn (Hafren) . The morasses of Plinlimmon saw many a struggle, notably the war to the knife between Owen Cyfeilog (ft. c . 900), prince of Powys, and Hywel ab Cadogan . Here also Owen Glendower unfurled the banner of Welsh independence; from here, in 1401, he harassed the country, sacking Montgomery, burningWelshpool, and destroying Cwm Hir (long " combe," or valley) abbey, of which some columns are said to be now in Llanidloes old church . On the side of Plinlimmon, some 2 M. from the Steddfagurig inn, is Blaen Gwy (the point of the Wye), the course of the streamlet being traceable up to Pont-rhyd-galed (the hard ford bridge), some 4 M. distant from the inn . Near this bridge are numerous barrows and cairns, on the right from Aberystwyth . There are slate quarries, with lead and copper mines . Machynlleth (perhaps Maglona in Roman times) has Owen Glendower's " senate house " (1402), and is known as the scene of Glendower's at-tempted assassination by Dafydd Gam .

Llyn

pen rhaiadr (the waterfall-head pool), or Pistyll y llyn (pool spout), is some 6 m. south of Machynlleth . Llanidloes has a trade in Plinlimmon slates and minerals besides flannel and wool manufactures .