Llancanery Castell (The Gatehouse Record)

Comments

There is no such placename in the 50000 OS gazetteer, nor is an alternative welsh spellings apparent.
The source of the River Towy is at SN803630 well inside the Cambrian Mountains on the boundary of Ceredigion and Powys. It enters Carmarthen at about SN798492 some 30 miles from Carmarthen (and rather longer by the line of the river itself). Much of the upper course of the Towy is woodland but there are no obvious 'Bishop's Forest' 'Bishop's Wood' 'Coed Escob' or 'Fforest Escob' place-names. There does not appear to be a Llandewi or Afon Dewi near either of these places.
Gatehouse suspect this may be some garbled reference to Llandovery Castle which is about 24 miles from Carmathen and which Leland doesn't otherwise mention.

Sources of information, references and further reading

Further information may be available from the holder of the county Historic Environment Record.

Books
- King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 60
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol. 4 p. 179 online copy

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