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The lighthouse in 2009. In 1995–6, Llanelli Borough Training, with the support of the Burry Port Yacht Club, restored the lighthouse and Trinity House donated a new light. [2] The restored lighthouse is operated by Carmarthenshire County Council and was formally opened on 9 February 1996 by Councillor David T. James, the Mayor of Llanelli. [2]
The first lighthouse in the Aran Islands, built on the highest point of Inishmore. [4] Inishowen East: Inishowen: Donegal: North Channel: 1837: 1961: Squat tower separate from the active West Inishowen Lighthouse. [4] Kilcredaun Head: Carrigaholt
At the Reformation, the town was at the centre of the parish known as Llandeilo Fawr. It was in the Diocese of St Davids and part of the archdeaconry of Carmarthen. In 1560, the bishop of St Davids recorded the population of Llandeilo Fawr as 620 households (perhaps amounting to 2,790 people), many of whom would have lived in Llandeilo itself. [13]
After ownership under mounting debts, the estate was put up for sale in 1798. [ 6 ] In 1803, the house was bought by John Philips, a lawyer from Llandeilo, on behalf of his brother Thomas, a surgeon returning home after a 30-year career as a surgeon with the East India Company .
The fort at Carmarthen dates from around 75 AD, and there is a Roman amphitheatre nearby, so this probably makes Carmarthen the oldest continually occupied town in Wales. [ 9 ] Carmarthenshire has its early roots in the region formerly known as Ystrad Tywi ('Vale of [the river] Tywi') and part of the Kingdom of Deheubarth during the High Middle ...
A settlement, later known as Old Carmarthen, is known to have existed prior to the construction of the castle and the adjoining Anglo-Norman town of New Carmarthen, which were developed from the early 12th century. [37] New Carmarthen was administered as a borough from at least the 13th century. The borough boundary was tightly drawn around the ...
Although removal was on the agenda at Cardiff, where a statue of Picton and his portrait were taken off display, [5] in the case of the Carmarthen obelisk the report did refer to an explicit attempt to remove it from the townscape, but instead gave details of an online petition which objected to the monument's commemoration of Picton. The ...
Carmarthen's medieval bridge. A stone bridge crossing the River Tywi at Carmarthen, nine miles from the river's mouth at the Bristol Channel, [2] was first recorded in 1233. [1] There was definitely no bridge at Carmarthen in 1188 when Giraldus Cambrensis visited. It is believed that a bridge was built during the 1233 siege of Carmarthen. [3]