Someone on the list had asked about a marshy area in Llandygai. I could not
remember any at the time. After receiving the below answer to another
question I had, it jogged my memory. There is a little bridge that goes
over a stream created when 5 hamlets were covered over. The lake that was
covered still has a stream of water that comes out of it and goes across the
road. This area was wet. Please read below.
Arlene
"Regarding your interest in the song about 'Hogia Ty Hen' ('The Boys of
Ty
Hen'). Yes, I do know it and I have a copy of it in my collection. Ty Hen
was one of the five little hamlets that now lie under the slate tips of the
Penrhyn Quarry. As the quarry was developing at the end of the eighteenth
century, men flocked from many areas in North Wales to find work in the new,
exciting industry. They initially stayed in 'barracks' (as they called them)
during the week, returning to their homes for the weekend. Then, as the
industry expanded, the men built homes for themselves and their families
near their workplace. Little did they think that the waste tips were soon to
threaten those very hamlets - Ty Hen, Clwt Maen, Tan-yr-Hirdir, Y Ddôl and
Brynllys. These, as well as the original St Ann's Church and Llyn Meurig (a
lake 9 acres in surface area), were to disappear between about 1865 and
1900."