Glamorganshire

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• relationship: Morgan ap Rees' son, Samuel Rice, resided at Loughor, in Gower, Glamorganshire, and had a son, Morgan Rice, who was a merchant in London, and became Lord of the Manor of Tooting Graveney, and High She (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Morgan ap Rees' son, Samuel Rice, resided at Loughor, in Gower, Glamorganshire, and had a son, Morgan Rice, who was a merchant in London, and became Lord of the Manor of Tooting Graveney, and High Sheriff in the year 1772, and Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Surrey, 1776."

• attestation: Hughes lives at the Quakers' Yard: in the neighbourhood of Pontyprid, in Glamorganshire (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Hughes lives at the Quakers' Yard: in the neighbourhood of Pontyprid, in Glamorganshire."

• attestation: Craigfryn Hughes has sent me another tale about the fairies: it has to do with the parish of ILanfabon, near the eastern border of Glamorganshire (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Craigfryn Hughes has sent me another tale about the fairies: it has to do with the parish of ILanfabon, near the eastern border of Glamorganshire."

• attestation: Davies, of Lincoln College, Oxford — since then of Lincoln's Inn — relating to a Glamorganshire holy well, situated near the pathway leading from Coychurch to Bridgend (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Davies, of Lincoln College, Oxford — since then of Lincoln's Inn — relating to a Glamorganshire holy well, situated near the pathway leading from Coychurch to Bridgend."

• attestation: Let me here make it clear that so far we have had to do with four different wells ^, three of which are severally distinguished by the presence of a tree adorned with rags by those who seek health in (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Let me here make it clear that so far we have had to do with four different wells ^, three of which are severally distinguished by the presence of a tree adorned with rags by those who seek health in those waters; but they are all three, as the reader will have doubtless noticed, in the same district, namely, the part of Glamorganshire near the main line of the Great Western Railway."

• attestation: It was full of invalids coming from Pen ClawJ, in Gower, Glamorganshire, to try the water of the well (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "It was full of invalids coming from Pen ClawJ, in Gower, Glamorganshire, to try the water of the well."

• attestation: Perhaps it is best to begin with historical events, namely those implied in the encroachment of the sea and the sand on the coast of Glamorganshire, from the Mumbles, in Cower, to the mouth of the Ogm (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "Perhaps it is best to begin with historical events, namely those implied in the encroachment of the sea and the sand on the coast of Glamorganshire, from the Mumbles, in Cower, to the mouth of the Ogmore, below Bridgend."

• attestation: Gwenogvryn Evaui, that in Mid-Cardiganshire tlie term Garach y Rhibyn means a long roll w bustle of fern tied with ropes of straw and placed along the middle *f the lop of a hayrick, This is to form a (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "Gwenogvryn Evaui, that in Mid-Cardiganshire tlie term Garach y Rhibyn means a long roll w bustle of fern tied with ropes of straw and placed along the middle *f the lop of a hayrick, This is to form a ridge over which and on which the thatch is worked and supported: garack unqualified is, I am told, ■scd in this sense in Glamorganshire."

• attestation: As to Amman, it enters, also, into a group of Glamorganshire place-names; witness Aber Amman and Cwm AnmuiD, near Aberdare (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "As to Amman, it enters, also, into a group of Glamorganshire place-names; witness Aber Amman and Cwm AnmuiD, near Aberdare."

• attribution: To return again to the fairies, some of them are described as more comely and good-looking than the rest (pp (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "To return again to the fairies, some of them are described as more comely and good-looking than the rest (pp. 83, 250), but the fairy women are always pictured as fascinating, though their offspring as changelings are as uniformly presented in the light of repulsive urchins; but whole groups of the fairy population are sometimes described as being as ugly of face as they were thievish in disposition^those, for instance, of ILanfabon, in Glamorganshire (p. 262)."