Ynys Mon is the Welsh name for which part of the Principality?
"Ynys Gored Goch Ynys Gored Goch (""Red Weir Island""), sometimes Ynys Gorad Goch, is a small island in the Menai Strait between Gwynedd and Anglesey in north Wales. It is situated in the stretch of the strait called the Swellies between Thomas Telford's Menai Suspension Bridge and Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge. The island is occupied by the main house and the converted smoke house where locally caught fish were processed. The island is private property and access is only by boat. The earliest known document relating to the island dates from 1590 when it is listed as belonging to the"
"Ysbyty Ifan is part of the Uwch Conwy ward for elections to Conwy County Borough Council. Ysbyty Ifan Ysbyty Ifan is a small, historic village and community in the Conwy County Borough of Wales. The population in 2011 was 196 in 76 households (29 household spaces had no usual residents), over 79% of the population were able to speak Welsh. Ysbyty Ifan, until about 1190, was known as Dôl Gynwal (Welsh for ""Cynwal's Meadow""). Then, it came to the attention of the Knights of St John, the Order of Hospitallers, who set up a hospital to care for pilgrims and"
"Ysbyty Ifan Ysbyty Ifan is a small, historic village and community in the Conwy County Borough of Wales. The population in 2011 was 196 in 76 households (29 household spaces had no usual residents), over 79% of the population were able to speak Welsh. Ysbyty Ifan, until about 1190, was known as Dôl Gynwal (Welsh for ""Cynwal's Meadow""). Then, it came to the attention of the Knights of St John, the Order of Hospitallers, who set up a hospital to care for pilgrims and also to be a hostel for them on their journeys (Ysbyty Ifan means ""hospital of St"
"Eifionydd Eifionydd () is an area in north-west Wales covering the south-eastern part of the Llŷn Peninsula from Porthmadog to just east of Pwllheli. The Afon Erch forms its western border. It now lies in Gwynedd. The commote of Eifionydd formed the northern half of the former minor kingdom of Dunoding within the Kingdom of Gwynedd. It traditionally took its name from Eifion, son of Dunod (who gave his name to the cantref) and grandson of Cunedda Wledig. The chief centre of the commote was at Criccieth, although there may have been an earlier royal residence at Dolbenmaen. Although it"
"Penmon Penmon is a promontory, village and ecclesiastical parish on the south-east tip of the Isle of Anglesey in Wales, about east of the town of Beaumaris. It is in the community of Llangoed. The name comes from (which can mean ""head"", ""end"" or ""promontory"") and ""Môn"", which is the Welsh word for Anglesey. It is the site of a historic monastery and associated 12th-century church. Walls near the well next to the church may be part of the oldest remaining Christian building in Wales. Penmon also has an award-winning beach and the Anglesey Coastal Path follows its shores. Quarries"
"Gwynedd Gwynedd (; ) is a county in Wales, sharing borders with Powys, Conwy, Anglesey, and Denbighshire over the Menai Strait, and Ceredigion over the River Dyfi. The scenic Llŷn Peninsula and most of Snowdonia National Park are in Gwynedd. Bangor is the home of Bangor University. In the northern part of the county, the other main settlements are Caernarfon, Bethesda, Ffestiniog, Llanddeiniolen, Llanllyfni, Porthmadog and Pwllheli. The largest settlement in the south is Tywyn. As a local government area, it is the second largest in Wales in terms of land area and also one of the most sparsely populated."
"Powys Powys (; ) is a principal area and county, and one of the preserved counties of Wales. It is named after the Kingdom of Powys which was a Welsh successor state, petty kingdom and principality that emerged during the Middle Ages following the end of Roman rule in Britain. Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), and a small part of Denbighshire – an area of 5,179 km² (2,000 sq miles), making it the largest unitary authority in Wales by land area and about the same size as the country of Trinidad and"
"that they lived in both south Wales and west Wales. The Brecon Beacons national park covers about a third of South Wales, containing Pen y Fan, the highest British mountain south of Cadair Idris in Snowdonia. Between the Statute of Rhuddlan of 1284 and the Laws in Wales Act 1535, crown land in Wales formed the Principality of Wales. This was divided into a Principality of South Wales and a Principality of North Wales. The southern principality was made up of the counties of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, areas that had previously been part of the Welsh kingdom of Deheubarth ('the"
"and May 2012. Uwch Conwy Uwch Conwy is the name of an electoral ward in the southern central part of Conwy County Borough, Wales. It covers three communities, of Bro Garmon, Bro Machno and Ysbyty Ifan. According to the 2011 UK Census the population of the ward was 1,465. The ward elects a county councillor to Conwy County Borough Council and, at the May 2017 election, the seat was won by Wyn Ellis Jones for Plaid Cymru. The seat has been represented by Plaid Cymru since 1999. Cllr Jones took the seat unopposed in May 2004, subsequently being elected unopposed"
"Ynysboeth Ynysboeth (or ""Ynys-boeth"", translated as either 'hot island' or 'burnt river meadow' in Welsh) is a local community within the Mountain Ash (""Aberpennar)"" postal district of the Cynon Valley (""Cwm Cynon"") in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, South East Wales. The community comprises the village of Ynysboeth itself, as well as the smaller neighbouring associated village of Tyntetown (or 'Tynte') to the north. Ynysboeth is located along the B4275 between Penrhiwceiber (around to the northwest), and Abercynon (around to the southeast), and is adjoined by the small village of Pontcynon to the south. Collectively the population of"
"constituency. On 20 June 2013, former party leader Ieuan Wyn Jones stood down from the Assembly as the member for Ynys Môn. Plaid Cymru's candidate Rhun ap Iorwerth was elected as the new Assembly Member for the constituency, receiving 12,601 votes (a 58% share) with a majority of 9,166 over the Labour candidate. Following the 2016 Welsh Assembly Elections, having gained one seat Plaid Cymru became the Assembly's second largest party and briefly became the official opposition to the Welsh Government with 12 seats. Plaid Cymru currently has ten Assembly Members, following Dafydd Elis-Thomas's resignation from the party in 2016"
"Ynyswen Ynyswen is a village in the community of Treorchy, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Ynyswen consists mostly of housing. It has an industrial estate which was once the site of Burberry's factory, one shop, and the Forest View Medical Centre. The area has several chapels and churches as well as Ynyswen Infant school and Ynyswen Welsh School. Ynyswen infant's school takes children until the age of 7. From then they must go to a different primary school: usually Penyrenglyn Primary School or Treorchy Primary School. Ynyswen Welsh School is a Welsh-speaking primary school that serves"
"Ynystawe Ynystawe (also ""Ynysdawe"" in Welsh; ) is a small village in the City and County of Swansea in Wales, in the electoral ward of Morriston. It is centred half a mile (1 km) north of Junction 45 of the M4 motorway, between Ynysforgan and Clydach in the lower Swansea Valley. The Welsh name ""Ynystawe"" or ""Ynysdawe"" derives from ""ynys"", meaning ""island"" or ""river-meadow"", and ""Tawe"", the name of the river running immediately to the east and which gives the Welsh name of Swansea, ""Abertawe"". The village occupies the steep south-east lower slopes of otherwise largely green Mynydd Gelliwastad, a"
"Uwch Conwy Uwch Conwy is the name of an electoral ward in the southern central part of Conwy County Borough, Wales. It covers three communities, of Bro Garmon, Bro Machno and Ysbyty Ifan. According to the 2011 UK Census the population of the ward was 1,465. The ward elects a county councillor to Conwy County Borough Council and, at the May 2017 election, the seat was won by Wyn Ellis Jones for Plaid Cymru. The seat has been represented by Plaid Cymru since 1999. Cllr Jones took the seat unopposed in May 2004, subsequently being elected unopposed in May 2008"
"defined as the region east of the River Conwy and west of the River Dee; and Ynys Môn (or Anglesey), a large island off the north coast. The division with the rest of Wales is arbitrary and depends on the particular use being made. For example, the boundary of North Wales Police differs from the boundary of the North Wales area of the Natural Resources Wales and the North Wales Regional Transport Consortium (""Taith""). The historic boundary follows the pre-1996 county boundaries of Merionethshire and Denbighshire which in turn closely follows the geographic features of the river Dovey to Aran"
"Ial Ial or Yale () was a commote of medieval Wales within the cantref of Maelor in the Kingdom of Powys. When the kingdom was divided in 1160, Maelor became part of Powys Fadog (Lower Powys or Madog's Powys). Iâl had its capital at Llanarmon-yn-Iâl at the site of a shrine to Saint Germanus of Auxerre (). The nearby castle was called Tomen y Faerdre. During the Conquest of Wales by Edward I, Iâl was taken very early on and added to the county of Shropshire, anglicised as Yale. However, it remained Welsh in culture and retained Welsh laws and"
"recorded as Latin ""Mona"" by various Roman sources. It was likewise known to the Saxons as ""Monez"". The Brittonic original was in the past taken to have meant ""Island of the Cow"". This view is untenable, however, according to modern scientific philology, and the etymology remains a mystery. Poetic names for Anglesey include the Old Welsh ""Ynys Dywyll"" (Shady or Dark Isle) for its former groves and ""Ynys y Cedairn"" (Isle of the Brave) for its royal courts; Gerald of Wales' ""Môn Mam Cymru"" (""Môn, Mother of Wales"") for its productivity; and ""Y fêl Ynys"" (Honey Isle). Numerous megalithic monuments"
"of the current ruler. Gwynedd was traditionally divided into ""Gwynedd Uwch Conwy"" and ""Gwynedd Is Conwy"" (with the River Conwy forming the dividing line between the two), which included Môn (Anglesey). The kingdom was administered under Welsh custom through thirteen ""Cantrefi"" each containing, in theory, one hundred settlements or ""Trefi"". Most cantrefs were also divided into cymydau (English commotes). Cantref of Ynys Môn ""Gwynedd above the Conwy"", or ""upper Gwynedd"" Cantref Arllechwedd Cantref Arfon Cantref Dunoding Cantref Llŷn Cantref Meirionnydd Also known as Perfeddwlad, or ""the Middle Country"" or ""Gwynedd Is Conwy"" (Gwynedd below the Conwy, or lower Gwynedd) Following"
"Ynysforgan Ynysforgan is a village in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales. It lies just off Junction 45 of the M4 motorway, geographically between Morriston and Ynystawe. The origins of its name are not known for certain but ""ynys"" is Welsh for a river-meadow (i.e., an ""island"" – the main meaning of ""ynys"" – in otherwise marshier ground beside a river) and Forgan is a mutation of the name Morgan; a reasonable translation of the name would therefore be Morgan's Meadow. The River Tawe flows past Ynysforgan so it is not unreasonable to speculate that it is the river in question. Several other"
"Yr Eifl Yr Eifl is a group of mountains on the north coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales. It has three summits, each quite separate from the others, and this is often supposed to be the source of the incorrect English name The Rivals. However, the name is merely an anglicised form of ""Yr Eifl"", meaning ""the forks"" or ""the strides"" (, plural ""geifl""). On a clear day, the views from the top summit reach as far as the Isle of Man, the Wicklow mountains in Ireland and the Lake District, as well as the entire sweep of"
"of Wales in 1283, ""Môn"" often had periods of temporary independence, as it was frequently bequeathed to the heirs of kings as a sub-kingdom of Gwynedd. The last times this occurred were a few years after 1171, following the death of Owain Gwynedd, when the island was inherited by Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd, and between 1246 and c. 1255, when it was granted to Owain Goch as his share of the kingdom. Following the conquest of Wales by Edward I, Anglesey was created a county under the terms of the Statute of Rhuddlan of 1284. Prior to this it had"
"sides. It has an area of . The island is privately owned by the Baron Hill estate. The Welsh name, ""Ynys Seiriol"", refers to Saint Seiriol. The son of Owain Ddantgwyn, a 5th-century ruler of the Kingdom of Gwynedd, and the brother of Saint Einion Frenin, a 5th or 6th century king in the Llŷn Peninsula, Seiriol founded and governed a ""clas"" (ecclesiastical settlement) at Penmon on the Anglesey. In later life, he abandoned his responsibilities there to establish a hermitage on the nearby island, where his remains are thought to rest. King Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd is said"
"area is historically a part of Glamorgan (Morgannwg). There is uncertainty over the meaning of the name of the village. ""Ynys"" means 'island' or 'river meadow' in Welsh and probably refers to such a meadow on the banks of the Clydach stream. The 'bŵl' element is more difficult. Some theories include 'bowl/ball' [see 'bŵl' GPC] possibly a reference to the shape of the river-meadow or to a handball game played locally). Locally, the village is often referred to as just ""Bwl"" or ""The Bwl"". Ynysybwl is located in the centre of the Llanwynno parish, at the point where the stream"
"Llanarmon Mynydd Mawr Llanarmon Mynydd Mawr, occasionally referred to as Llanarmon Fach, is an isolated rural parish in Powys, Wales. It was formerly in Denbighshire, and from 1974 to 1996 was in the county of Clwyd. It measures and has a population of 40. The scattered settlement lies on the south-facing slopes of the Berwyn Mountains in the high upper part of the Tanat Valley, at around 950 feet above sea level. Its name translates roughly as ""St Garmon's church [on the] Great Mountain"", distinguishing it from the village of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, 5 miles (8 km) away in the"
"speakers in Gwynedd declined between 1991 and 2001, from 72.1% to 68.7%, even though the proportion of Welsh speakers in Wales as a whole increased during that decade to 20.5%. The Annual Population Survey conducted in 2016, estimates that 71.0% of those in Gwynedd who are three-years-old and above can speak Welsh. Gwynedd Gwynedd (; ) is a county in Wales, sharing borders with Powys, Conwy, Anglesey, and Denbighshire over the Menai Strait, and Ceredigion over the River Dyfi. The scenic Llŷn Peninsula and most of Snowdonia National Park are in Gwynedd. Bangor is the home of Bangor University. In"
"of the River Clywedog ""(Welsh: Afon Clywedog)"" and River Elwy ""(Welsh: Afon Elwy)"" and the smaller right bank tributary of the River Wheeler ""(Welsh: Afon Chwiler)."" At its seaward end are the coastal resorts of Kinmel Bay ""(Welsh: Bae Cinmel""), Rhyl and Prestatyn whilst the towns of Abergele and St Asaph ""(Welsh: Llanelwy)"" lie just inland. The other principal towns of the vale are Denbigh ""(Welsh: Dinbych)"" and Ruthin ""(Welsh: Rhuthun)"". Most of the area falls within the modern administrative county (and unitary authority) of Denbighshire and a portion is in Conwy County Borough; much of it lies within the"
"out towards Penychain (holiday camp). Pwllheli Pwllheli () is a community and the main market town of the Llŷn Peninsula () in Gwynedd, north-western Wales. It had a population of 4,076 in 2011 of whom a large proportion, 81%, are Welsh speaking. Pwllheli is the place where Plaid Cymru was founded. It is the birthplace of the Welsh poet Sir Albert Evans-Jones (bardic name Cynan). The town's name means ""salt water basin"". The town was given its charter as a borough by Edward, the Black Prince in 1355, and a market is still held each Wednesday in the centre of"
"Machynys Machynys, or Machynys Peninsula is a coastal area just to the south of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, Wales. In the nineteenth century an industrial community lived here working at the brickworks and tinplate works that occupied the site. When the industrial activity ceased in the mid-twentieth century, the buildings were demolished and the site lay derelict. It has now been redeveloped as a golf course as part of the Llanelli Waterside regeneration plan. Machynys translates from the Welsh as ""Monk's Island"", and thus, local legend holds that the area was home to a monastery built by Saint Pyr in 513,"
"Mawddwy Mawddwy is a community in the county of Gwynedd, Wales, and is 88.3 miles (142.2 km) from Cardiff and 172.8 miles (278.0 km) from London. In 2011 the population of Mawddwy was 622 with 59.5% of them able to speak Welsh. Mawddwy was a medieval commote in the cantref of Cynan of the Kingdom of Powys. Cynan also contained the commote of Cyfeiliog. Other sources refer to Cyfeiliog as a cantref in its own right, possibly as a result of Cynan being renamed for the largest commote within it. The villages of Dinas Mawddwy, Mallwyd and Llanymawddwy are within"
"Montgomery Canal The Montgomery Canal (), known colloquially as ""The Monty"", is a partially restored canal in Powys, in eastern Wales, and in northwest Shropshire, in western England. The canal runs from the Llangollen Canal (at Frankton Junction) to Newtown, via Llanymynech and Welshpool. Originally the canal from Llanymynech to Newtown was known as the Montgomeryshire Canal, named after the county of Montgomeryshire it ran through, itself divided into Western and Eastern branches. At Carreghofa Locks near Llanymynech the Montgomeryshire Canal connected to the Llanymynech Branch of the Ellesmere Canal. These elements of the present-day Montgomery Canal were unified by"
"from Llanddona, Moelfre and Holyhead) was used to build Birmingham Town Hall and help with the reconstruction of Liverpool and Manchester following the destruction caused by World War II. The stone was also used in the construction of the Menai Suspension Bridge (completed in 1826) and the Britannia Bridge (completed in 1850). Penmon Penmon is a promontory, village and ecclesiastical parish on the south-east tip of the Isle of Anglesey in Wales, about east of the town of Beaumaris. It is in the community of Llangoed. The name comes from (which can mean ""head"", ""end"" or ""promontory"") and ""Môn"", which"
"Bwlch Mawr Bwlch Mawr is a hill near the northeastern corner of the Llŷn Peninsula in the community of Clynnog in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales. Its name is an odd one for a hill, as it means ""big pass"" in English. It forms the eastern half of a wider upland area, the highest point of which is the 522 m summit of Gyrn Ddu, though it is Bwlch Mawr on which the Ordnance Survey constructed a trig point. In common with a number of other isolated hills in Llŷn, Bwlch Mawr is formed by an igneous intrusion"
"of both the English monarchy and the Principality of Wales, which remained based in Gwynedd in the north west of the country. By the early 12th century, they covered the areas which would later become Monmouthshire and much of Flintshire, Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, Brecknockshire, Glamorgan, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. Some of the lordships, such as Oswestry, Whittington, Clun, and Wigmore had been part of England at the time of Domesday, while others such as the Lordship of Powys were Welsh principalities that passed by marriage into the hands of Norman barons. In ecclesiastical terms, the ancient dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph"