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Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales

by Jonathan Ceredig Davies

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Crugiau’r Ladis (Carmarthenshire)

On the mountain above the village of Caio, there are two peculiar heaps of stone known as Crugiau’r Ladis, concerning which there is the following curious tradition:—Two ladies from London were exiled from their homes, and lived in this district. The change of town life to country was so great, that they set to work and gathered heaps of stone together to build a Babel heavenward, from the top of which they could see London from the land of exile.

I heard a story when a boy that Derry Ormond tower, near Lampeter, was also built in order to see London.

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