whose sons invaded and possessed some parts of Britain, as Dabrieta in North Britain, the Isle of Man, and Gŵyr and Cydweli in South Wales; but were drove out of all the regions of Britain by Cunedda and his sons. This was in the year 460; one of the irruptions mentioned by Gildas. The Irish history is almost a blank about this time of confusion at the very dissolution of the Roman power in Britain. But in Flaherty (p. 429) I find one Loagair mac Neil that reigned from 428 to 463, and was succeeded King of Ireland by one Oillol Molt, son of a King of Conacht, who reigned twenty years. The above Clam Octor was either one of these, or perhaps one of the petty kings of Ireland. See Glam Hector, Ysgroeth, Builke, and Bethoun.

CLARACH (fl.), Ceretica.

CLARE (St.), died a martyr in Normandy. (Brit. Sanct., Nov. 4.) Parish of St. Clare's, Carmarthenshire.

CLAS (in Mr. Llwyd's copy), an island mentioned in the Triades, supposed by Mr. E. Llwyd to be Corfu, an island in the Ionian Sea on the coast of Greece. Vid. Clas Merdin.

CLAS MERDIN, or, as some MSS. have it, CLAS MEITIN, the first name of the isle of Britain (Tr. 1): perhaps the Clas of Myrddin (see Glas); perhaps corruptly for Glas; in the same sense as Latin writers called it Insula Carula, or the blue island. See Selden, Mar. Claus., 1. i, c. 2.

CLAWDD OFFA, Offa's Ditch, a deep trench and mound thrown up by Offa, King of Mercia, from sea to sea, to prevent the incursions of the Welsh, about the year 784; about which time also the Princes of Powys were obliged to remove their seats from Pengwern Bowys (Salop) to Mathravael. (Caradoc in Cynan Tyndaethwy.)

CLEDAWC ap Brychan, videtur idem quod Clydawc.

CLEDDAU DU, one of the rivers that go to Milford Haven; the other is Cleddau Gwyn. A hundred there called Dau Gleddau. (Caradoc in Llewelyn ap Iorwerth.)

CLEDDYF. Caergleddyf is Tenby. (Thomas Williams.)
CLEDDYF, a river.

CLEDDYFRUDD, a surname signifying a ruddy sword, i. e., bloody. Gwgon Cleddyfrudd ap Caradoc Freichfras. Vid. Rhudd.

CLEDFRYN YN RHOS, the Castle of Denbigh in Denbighshire. (Camden.)

CLEDRI ap Cadivor.

CLEDWYN ap Brychan Brycheiniog.

CLEGYR (Y), a gentleman's seat, Anglesey.

CLEGYR GWYNION (Y), Anglesey.

CLEIFIOG, a place near Holyhead (from clai).

CLEIRWY. Roger Vychan o Gleirwy.

CLEUDDYN. Ywain ap Cleuddyn.

CLEUGOCH (fl.): hence Abercleugoch, Carmarthenshire.

CLOCAENOG, a parish in Denbighshire, dedicated to St. Voddyd. (Br. Willis.) See Trillo Caenog.

CLODRUDD, a cognomen. Elystan Glodrudd, is also wrote Clodrydd.

CLOFF, lame. Arglwydd Gloff.

CLOGWYN CARNEDD Y WYDDFA, called also Clogwyn y Garnedd, the highest rock in the three kingdoms, famous for Alpine plants. (E. Llwyd.)

CLOGWYN DU (Y), ym mhen y Glyder, a mountain near Llanberis. (E. Llwyd.)

CLOGYRDDWR or CLEGYRDDWR, a gentleman's seat. (J.D.) Jones. CLOIT and CLOITH, in Doomsday Book, corruptly for the Clwyd river which runs by Rhuddlan.

CLONENAU, i. q. CELYNENNAU, enw lle.

CLORACH (n. 1.) in Mon., and a river. Rhyd Glorach.

CLOTVAETH Verch Brychan.

CLUD (qu. a river ?), a country in Maelienydd. Hence Einion Clud ap Madoc.

Priodawr clodfawr Clud ac Aeron.

Cynddelw, i Cadwallawn ap Madawc.

CLUN, a castle of the Normans in Elvel, A.D. 1142 (qu. ?). CLUN Castle in the Marches, taken by Lord Rys A.D. 1195, and burnt, in Shropshire. British, Colunwy.

CLWCH (n. 1.). Clwch Tyrnog, a place in Anglesey noted for chrystals.

CLWYD (fl.), a river of this name divides between Flintshire and Denbighshire, in Dyffryn Clwyd; Engl., the Vale of Clwyd. Another in Scotland called by Latin writers Glota, and the people bordering on it the Stradclwyd Britains; and by the Saxon writers, Stratclyde Weales, i. e., Welsh or Brutaniaid Ystrad

Clwyd, now called Clyde, which runs through Clyde's Vale to Dunbarton and Glasgow. See Ystrad and Strat.

CLYDAU, a parish in Pembrokeshire.

CLYDAWG (St.), or CLITAUC, son of Clitguin, Prince of South Wales: see his Life in Capgrave and in Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iii. He was buried, where he was killed, by the river Mingui (Mynwy), where a church was erected and dedicated to him by the Bishop of Llandaf. (Brit. Sanct.)

CLYDAWC ap Cadell, slain by his brother Meuric, A.D. 917. (Powel, Caradoc, p. 47.)

CLYDAWG ap Ithel, the 53rd King of Britain.

CLYDEI verch Brychan.

CLYDNO, the 54th King of Britain.

CLYDNO EIDDUN, a Prince of North Britain (qu. Edinborough ?), father of Cynon. (Tr. 53.)

CLYNENNAU or CELYNENNAU, a place in Caernarvonshire. Sir John Owen of Clenenney. (J. D.)

CLYNNOG or CELYNNOG (a place of holly), a church dedicated to St. Beuno in Caernarvonshire.

CLYNO ap Cynyr Farfdrwch.

CLYNOGWR, a parish (qu. ?) in Glamorganshire, or Glyn Ogwr. Vid. Ogur, river.

CLYWEDOG (n. fl.), fl., sonorus (qu.). Llanvair y Clywedogau; two rivers of that name there meet. Several of this name. [Watcin Clywedog, a poet.-W. D.]

CNEPPYN GWRTHRYNION, a poet of the country of Gwrthrynion. (Marunad Trahaern.)

CNWCCIN, a place not far from Oswestry (Dr. Powel, p. 381), where Madoc defeated the Marchers. A parish and church now called Knockin, Shropshire. The castle was founded 1242, says J. E., by John le Strange.

CNWCC GLAS, in Radnorshire, a gentleman's seat.

CNWCH (n. 1.). Pen y Cnwch.

COCH, properly red. Cantref Coch, formerly one of the seven cantrefs of Morganwg, is now in Gloucestershire, called Forest of Dean. (Price's Description.) Y Fron Goch; y Plas Goch; y Rhiw Goch; y Garn Goch; y Rhos Goch; yr Allt Goch; Traeth Goch, etc. Iorwerth Goch (n. pr. v.). Y Castell Coch ymhowys,

the Red Castle in Powysland, now called in English Powis Castle. It lies on an eminence above the river Severn, near the town of Welsh Poole, in the county of Montgomery, and hath a prospect that wants nothing (except a view of the sea) to make it complete. It is a grand, ancient house, built on a rock, in form of a castle, and hath been a stronghold in the time of the ancient Britains.

COCHWILLAN, a gentleman's seat in the parish of Llandygai, near Bangor Fawr. From hence came the famous John Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury [York.—W. D.]

COED, properly wood, in the composition of names of places, as Caer Penhwyl Coed; Llangoed, a church in Anglesey and Brecknockshire.

Llan-goed fal llwynau Godwin.-Hywel Dafydd.

Coedmor or Coetmor; Coed Llys; Ysgubor y Coed; Coed Gronwy; Dugoed Mowddwy; Llechwedd Hirgoed; Argoed; y Coedty; y Goedtref; Glascoed; Coed y Brain; y Perfeddgoed; y Glypcoed, Anglesey; Coed Celyddon, yn yr Alban; Coetalog, i. e., Coed halawg; Coedtraeth, near Tenby; Trawsgoed; Pen y Coed; Ty'n y Coed; Cantref y Coed, one of the eight cantrefs of Dyfed; Coed y Mynydd; Uwchcoed and Iscoed, etc.

COEDANE or COEDANAU, a chapel of that name in Anglesey. See Cad y Coedanau.

COED CELYDDON, near Litchfield.

COED CAE DU, in Trawsfynydd.

COED Y CRA, a gentleman's seat,-Ellises. (J. D.)

COED Y CYMMAR, Brecknockshire.

COED EULO: see Eulo.

COED GRONW, near Abergavenny. (H. Llwyd.)

COED YR HAF, one of the three commots of the Cantref of Pen

fro. (Price's Descript.)

COED LLWYFAIN: see Llwyfain.

COEDMOR (n. 1.). Llangoedmor, a church and parish, and a

gentleman's seat, in Cardiganshire. See Coetmor.

COED Y MYNYDD, in Tegeingl. (D. ap Edmund.)

COED RHYGYN, a house in Trawsfynydd.

COEDRWG, in Ial, a gentleman's seat.

COEDTRAETH, near Tenby, a place noted for trees appearing in

the sand at low water. (See Llwyd's Notes on Camden in Pembrokeshire.) This is by Camden erroneously wrote Croytarath. No wonder that the Romans wrote the names of our places so bad. COEDTY (Y), Glamorganshire.

COED Y LLAI, a gentleman's seat. (J. D.)

COED YSPYS. A battle fought here, where the Normans were defeated by Cadwgan ap Bleddyn of Powys, who the same year, with Gruffydd ap Cynan, Prince of North Wales, had taken their castles in Cardigan and Dyfed, A.D. 1092. (Powel.)

COEG. Gallwyn Goeg.

COEL (n. pr. v.). Camden derives it from Calius, as Howel from Halius, sunbright, used in Britain before the Roman invasion.

COEL, Son of Cadell ap Geraint, the 45th King of Britain.

COEL, Earl of Gloucester, the 85th King of Britain, father of Elen (i. e., Helena Augusta), his only child, called by the Britains Elen Lwyddawg, or the Prosperous, the wife of Constantius, and mother of Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome.

COEL GODHEBOG, or Coel Hen, priodawr o'r Gogledd, the son of Tegfan ap Deheufraint, was a Prince in North Britain, father of Cenau, from whom descended several great warriors, Padarn Beisrudd, Pabo Post Prydain, Urien Reged, Llywarch Hen, etc. These two Coels are confounded together by some of the poets, etc., who have misled Geo. Owen Harry and several other writers. See Hanes 24 Brenhin.

COEL ap Meurig, the 78th King of Britain.

COEL MORIADAWG.

[COELBRYN. Capel Coelbryn in Brecknockshire. A Roman causey thereby. Arch., i, p. 297.-W. D.]

COETEN ARTHUR, i. e., King Arthur's Quoit. By this name a great many of those ancient monuments in Wales are called, which by the moderns are supposed to have been the altars of the Druids; but in some places they are called cromlech, pl. cromlechau. One of them at Llanvihangel Tre'r Beirdd, in Anglesey, is called Coeten Arthur; another, near Harlech, etc., etc.

COETMOR, a place in Carnarvonshire, i. e., Coed Mawr; and Llangoedmor, a parish in Cardiganshire. Hence Catmore in Rutland. Pugh of Coetmor.