Welsh Journals

THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS OF RADNORSHIRE. THE ROYAL COMMISSION'S INVENTORY. By THE REV. BASIL EVAN JONES, M.A., LOCAL SECRETARY FOR Montgomeryshire TO THE Cambrian Archjsological Association. IN November and December 1911, I contributed a series of five articles to the Montgomeryshire Express on the Ancient Monuments of our county of Mont- gomery, as revealed by the Royal Commission's Inventory, published a few months previously. Since then the same Commission has published two more county inventories--those of the Ancient Monuments of Flintshire and Radnorshire. The latter has been issued quite recently, and I gladly resume my pen to discuss the volume and our neighbouring county of Radnor. If we dwell rather on the northern part of Radnor- shire, the bias can easily be explained by Montgomery- shire's contiguity thereto. Of southern Radnorshire we in this county know very little, except the general appearance of certain parishes on the left bank of the Wye, through which the Cambrian expresses whizz us. How many of us, for instance, could point straight away on the map of Radnor to the parishes of Rhulen, Llanfaredd, Llanddewi Fach, Bryngwyn, Cregrina, Colva, Llowes, Ednol, Llanbadarn y Garreg, New- church, Glascwm, or Bettws Diserth ? Northern Radnor was once called Malienydd, and it embraced the Montgomeryshire parishes of Kerry and Mochdre. There are still two Rural Deaneries in the Diocese of St. David's and Archdeaconry of Brecon called