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Title: Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ... with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families Year: 1872 (1870s) Authors: Nicholas, Thomas, 1820-1879 Subjects: Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, Reader Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Text Appearing After Image: DoLWiLYM : THE RESIDENCE OF Mrs. Schaw Protheroe [from a tlioto. by Allen). district by St. Clears, near which it receives two or three tributaries, to the sea at Llacharn(Laugharne), after running a course of about twenty-seven miles. In the deep and narrow 222 CARMARTHENSHIRE. valley of the Taf, not far from Llanboidy, is the mansion of Dohuilym, in as sweetly sheltereda spot as home of peace and quiet could well be placed. And on the estate is a finespecimen of those mysterious monuments of antiquity called cromlechs, a faithful engravingof which, from a photograph by the same hand, is here given. This noble monument lies inso distant and unfrequented a spot that it has nearly escaped observation, and has neverbefore, so far as known to the writer, been illustrated. We are indebted to Miss SchawProtheroe for information concerning the cromlech, and for the photograph here engraved. Near the village of Llanboidy is Afaesgwyn, the seat of W. R. H. Powell, Esq. ; andfurther down, on a

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