Saturday, July 31, 2010

Plaque in Bagillt honours Welsh prince Dafydd ap Llywelyn

A plaque commemorating a medieval prince of Wales was unveiled in Flintshire by former Plaid Cymru leader Dafydd Wigley. The plaque on the wall of the Upper Shippe pub in Bagillt remembers prince Dafydd ap Llywelyn's birth place at Castell Hen Blas.

Chairman of the Dafydd ap Llywelyn Committee, Dr Craig Owen Jones, said: “'The committee has been striving to erect a monument to remember Dafydd since our inception at the Flintshire Eisteddfod in Mold in 2007."

Click here to read the article from the North Wales Daily Post