Llechryd, Ceredigion, Wales Genealogy

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Llechryd is a village and ecclesiastical parish in Dyffryn Teifi in Ceredigion, Wales.

History
In 1833: "LLÊCHRHYD (LLÊCHRYD), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of TROEDYRAUR, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 3 miles (S.E.) from Cardigan, containing 392 inhabitants. This place is by some historians supposed to have been the scene of a sanguinary engagement which took place between Rhys ab Tewdwr, sovereign of South Wales, and the three sons of Bleddyn ab Cynvyn who, in a previous insurrection, had compelled that sovereign to seek refuge in Ireland. Rhys returning thence, in 1087, with a powerful army to recover possession of his dominions, landed on the neighbouring coast, and was met at a place called Llêchryd by the sons of Bleddyn, who resolved to give him battle..." [From Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]

For more information see Llechyrd at Genuki.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Llechryd at Vision of Britain]