Administration. An interesting mediaeval castle is at Harlech; and remains of four others are at Castell Prysor, Castell-y-Beri, Carndochon, and Murcaston. There were also in the county 69 blind persons, 20 deaf, 34 deaf and dumb, and 96 mentally deranged. many of these sites can provide source … line, which enters the county here from the north.

It contains thirty-four civil parishes and parts of two others, and thirty-seven ecclesiastical parishes and districts and parts of four others.

Acreage, 427,810 ; population, 49,212. NLW MS 16809D. per quarter. The vales and the sheltered portions of the coast contain some fertile fields, but even the best tracts elsewhere are comparatively sterile. The number of men employed in the leading industries was as follows:–Slate quarriers, 3959; agricultural labourers, 2872; farmers, 2433 ; and general labourers, 1056. A vast triangular group, with much tableland, commences immediately E of the preceding group, is separated from it partly by a narrow glen, partly by a wild peat morass, extends eastward to the vicinity of Bala, and culminates in Arenig at an altitude of 2800 feet. Its outline is somewhat triangular, with the sides facing the N, the SE, and the W. Its greatest length, south-westward, from the NE angle 2 3/4 miles beyond Gwyddelwern to the SW angle at Aberdovey, is 46 miles; its greatest breadth in the opposite direction is 29 miles; its mean breadth is about 15 1/2 miles; its circuit is about 140 miles, 30 of which are coast; and its area is 427,810 acres.

From Bala a branch of the G.W.R. The surface is very mountainous.

Slate is extensively quarried; limestone is much used for manure; copper ores occur in the vicinity of Towyn, Dolgelly, Barmouth, and Aberdovey; lead ores are found near Towyn, Llanaber, Dolgelly, Tremadoc, Llanelltyd, and Dinas Mawddwy; and small quantities of silver and gold have been found near Dolgelly.

Llangar, Merionethshire genealogy site with description, census transcripts, parish records, and many other resources. The inhabitants depend chiefly for support on sheep and cattle, on wool and the produce of the dairy. The records may reveal your ancestor’s name, marital status, spouse’s name, and father’s name, as well as when and where your ancestor got married. 1887-1914 (mostly 1887-1900). Upland farms are measured not by acres, but by the number of cattle or sheep they are considered able to maintain. National Library of Wales An online searchable index of Marriage Bonds and Allegations. About one-half of the entire area is waste or common. The market-towns are Corwen, Bala, Dolgelly, Dinas Mawddwy, Harlech, Barmouth, and Towyn; and there are upwards of 120 villages and hamlets.

Some forty-eight letters, some incomplete, 1920-1925, to D. C. Lloyd-Owen from Richard Bennett, Bangor and Caersws, concerning mostly Montgomeryshire genealogy (ff. Curious old mansions are at Llys Bradwen, Towyn, Sychnant, and some other places. Druidical remains are at Moel-y-Goedog, Cors-y-Gedol, Llwyngwril, and Trawsfynydd. There were 45,856 persons able to speak only the Welsh language, and 12,023 who could speak both Welsh and English.erioneth was known to the Romans as Mervinia, and to the ancient Welsh as Meironydd; and it is said to have derived its name from Meirion, son of Tibiawn, and grandson of Cunedda, a noble native chieftain who, in the 5th century, drove the Irish from the territory, and obtained in guerdon of his services extensive local possessions. The Cambrian railway coming in from Carnarvonshire goes along the coast past Harlech, Barmouth, Towyn, and Aberdovey to Glendovey Junction.

1-91), together with related genealogical papers (ff. Slates prevail through a great portion; a bluish grey limestone abounds in the NE ; and igneous rocks are largely protruded around the estuary of the Maw, particularly on its S side, and thence toward the NNE. The administrative county of Merioneth is co-extensive with the ancient or geographical county.

The cattle on the hills are small, but those in some of the low tracts are an old, large, black Welsh breed. Parish register copies (Merionethshire) in the library of the Society of Genealogists. The streams, likewise, abound in cascades; the estuaries of the Mawddach, the Traeth Bach, and the Dovey strike grandly inward from the sea, and the coast exhibits a constant succession of striking and varied views.The chief rivers are the Dee, draining all the NE region through the lake of Bala, along the exquisite vale of Edeyrnion, and past Corwen to the vicinity of Llangollen; the Dovey or Dyfi, running along much of the SE boundary under Arran-y-Gessel to the sea at Aberdovey; the Dysynni, descending from Cader Idris to the sea in the vicinity of Towyn ; the Maw or Mawddach, making two grand falls, expanding into estuary in the vicinity of Dolgelly, and going thence to the sea at Barmouth; the Glyn, with a fall of 200 feet; the Cynfael, with a fall of 40 feet; the Dwyryd, the Glaslyn, the Eden, and others. It is not divided for parliamentary purposes, and contains no parliamentary borough.

The chief occupations of women were–domestic service, with a total of 4248 ; millinery and dressmaking, 951. The general surface presents to a dull eye a bleak and dreary appearance, but presents to a quick one a vast amount of picturesqueness and romance. Both the glens and the mountain sides also are much better wooded than those of Carnarvonshire, and they derive from that circumstance, in combination with their own features, a richness of scenery which, in many parts, assimilates them to some of the most admired portions of Switzerland. "The County of MERIONETH is 108 Miles in Circumference, contains about 500,000 Acres, & divided into 6 Hundreds; in the North are 3 Market Towns, but none of them nor any other Town in this County, are represented in Parliament; has 37 Parishes & about 2590 Houses.

Merionethshire Welcome to our Merionethshire family history research page. Bibliography. The soils are various.

Hereri Mons; and the Sarn Hir Way or Southern Watling Street went thence by Caer Gai near Bala and through the Bwlch-y-Buarth Pass into Montgomeryshire.

There are also three short lines in the extreme south of the county.