Note 24 — Chapter IX · Place-name Stories

The original has Pelumyawc, p. 138, and the name occurs in the (Red Book) Bruts, p. 355, as Pelunyawc, and p. 411, as Pelunea(wc) between the commots of Amgoed and Velfrey. The identification here suggested comes from Mr. Phillimore, who has seen that Peuliniawc must be a derivative from the name Paulinus, that is of the Paulinus, probably, who is mentioned in an ancient inscription at Ỻandysilio. There are other churches called after Tysilio, so this one used to be distinguished as Ỻandysilio yn Nyfed, that is, Ỻandysilio-in-Dyfed; but the pronunciation was much the same as if it had been written Ỻandysilio yn Yfed, meaning ‘Ỻandysilio a-drinking,’ ‘whereof arose a merrye jest,’ as George Owen tells us in his Pembrokeshire, p. 9. It is now sometimes called Ỻandysilio’r Gynffon, or ‘Ỻandysilio of the Tail,’ from the situation of a part of the parish on a strip, as it were a tail, of Carmarthenshire land running into Pembrokeshire. ↑