Place-Names of Carmarthenshire

Richard Morgan

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Welsh Academic Press
04 August 2022

Place names & gazetteers; British & Irish history

Place-Names of Carmarthenshire

is the first publication to investigate all major place-names in the historic county of

Carmarthen (1536-1974), including the westerly parts of the county transferred to modern Pembrokeshire after 1996.

Tracing the history of Welsh place-names casts light upon the ways in which our ancestors lived and how they thought about the world around them. The meaning of place-names, however, is not always easy to determine because their written and spoken forms have often changed over time and particularly when the language in a particular location switched from Welsh to English. Fortunately, Carmarthenshire was not so markedly affected in this respect as many other parts of Wales but it is still easy to be mislead by modern spellings:

Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen) does not recall the name of the mythological Myrddin (Merlin) in the Arthurian tales but is

derived from morddin (mor / 'sea' and din / 'fort') describing a

Roman maritime fort - the precursor of the medieval borough;

Llanboidy does not contain a llan ('church') but rather a nant ('stream') located near a beudy ('cow-shed');

Castelldwyran actually means 'Durant's castle', being composed of castell ('castle') and an Anglo-Norman personal name Durant, rather than dwyran ('two-thirds').

Illustrated with many images of the county, Place-Names of Carmarthenshire examines more than 920 place-names and

features a 1,000-entry Glossary of

place-name elements, personal names and rivers, and is the result of the author's detailed

research in archives and reference libraries.

By: Richard Morgan
Imprint: Welsh Academic Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 15mm
ISBN: 9781860571572
ISBN 10: 1860571573
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 04 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements List of illustrations Preface Introduction: Carmarthenshire Place-Names: study and survey Carmarthenshire Place-Names: research and analysis Map 1 Medieval Carmarthenshire Map 2 English influence before 1500 Selection of names Map 3: County boundary 1536-1974 Map 4: Unitary authorites from 2003 Editorial method Guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet Abbreviations and Bibliography Online Databases and Reference Resources Glossary: Common Place-Name Elements Personal Names and Surnames River-names A Aberarad to Ashfield B Babel to Bynea C Caeo to Cywyn D Dafen to Dynevor E East Marsh to Esgob F Faenor to Furnace G Ganol to Gwynfe H Halfpenny Furze to Horeb I Iddole to Is-morlais J Johnstown K Kidwelly to Kingsland L Lacques to Loughor M Mabelfyw to Myrtle Hill N Nant Aeron to Newton P Pantarfon to Pysgotwr R Ram to Roche Castle S Salem to Sylgen T Tachlouan to Tywi U Upper Brynaman to Uwch Sawdde W Waun Baglam to Wysg Y Ydw to Ystumgwili List of subscribers

Richard Morgan is a former archivist at Powys Archives and Glamorgan Archives. He co-authored the Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (2007, 2008) with Professor Hywel Wyn Owen, and is the author of Place-Names of Glamorgan (Welsh Academic Press 2018).

Reviews for Place-Names of Carmarthenshire

‘this painstaking, detailed and dependable study merits praise, not only for its academic rigour but also for its careful consideration to readability and accessibility. This is a scholarly work of great importance not only for the field of Welsh place-names but also for Welsh history and the language itself...I thoroughly endorse this work’ Guto Rhys, Journal of Celtic Linguistics ‘essential reading … the first publication to cover the main settlement names of the county and will serve as a book of reference for the future’ Heather James, Archaeologia Cambrensis