Kilkennin, Cardiganshire Genealogy

Wales  Cardiganshire Cardiganshire Parishes Kilkennin

History

"KÎLKENNIN (CÎL-CENIN), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of ILAR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 9 1/4miles (N. W. by N.) from Lampeter, comprising the Upper and Lower hamlets, each of which maintains its own poor, and containing 695 inhabitants. This place is remarkable in history as the scene of a slaughter committed, in 1210 by Rhys and Owain ab Grufydd, at the head of a chosen band of three hundred men, on a superior body of English and Welsh troops, under the command of their uncle Maelgwyn,...." [From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833] For more information see Cilcennin, Cardiganshire at genuki.org.uk

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