Aber Towy

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Leaving Peuliniog for the Laugharne Burrows, he crossed, as it seems, from Ginst Point to Aber Towy or Towy Mouth', which at low water are separated mostly by tracts of sand interrupted only by one or (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Leaving Peuliniog for the Laugharne Burrows, he crossed, as it seems, from Ginst Point to Aber Towy or Towy Mouth', which at low water are separated mostly by tracts of sand interrupted only by one or two channels of no very considerable width; for Aber Towy would seem to have been a little south-east of St."

• attestation: ' This Aber Towy appears to have been a town with a harbour in 1043 (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "' This Aber Towy appears to have been a town with a harbour in 1043. for we read in Bnti y Tywysi^ion of a cruel engagement fought there between Gniffytf ab Lewclyn and Howel ah Edwin, who, with Irish auxiliaries, tried to effect a landing."

• relationship: Aber Towy, *Towy Mouth,' and kills Cynlas son of Cynan, and Gwilenhin, king of Franc (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Twrch Trwyth next turns to bay at Aber Towy, *Towy Mouth,' and kills Cynlas son of Cynan, and Gwilenhin, king of Franc"