Note 294 — RAGLAN CASTLE, Monmouthshire. (continued 3)

Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Salop, Wilts, Somerset, Devon, Brecon, Glamorgan, Caermarthen, Cardigan, and Radnor; together with the British Channel to some distance beyond the Holms. Near the latter is a Tower called “Kemey’s Folly.” Its founder, boasting to his father that the tower could be seen from thirteen counties, was answered—“I am sorry, my son, that so great an extent of country should be witness to thy consummate folly;” and from that day, we are told, the tower assumed the name which it still retains.