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Bangor , town (1981 pop. 12,174), Gwynedd, NW Wales, at the northern end of Menai Strait. Slate is shipped from adjacent Port Penrhyn. The cathedral, on the site of a 6th-century church, dates from the 11th cent. and has been rebuilt several times. Bangor is the seat of a constitutent institution of the Univ. of Wales.

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A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | | Â© A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Bangor [Ir. bánchor, ‘white choir’ (?); beannchar, ‘pointed arrangement’]. Name of at least six places in Ireland and Wales. Two of the best known are: (1) a town in Northern Ireland, 12 miles NE of Belfast, the site of a monastery founded by St Comgall; (2) a hamlet in Dyfed (formerly Cardiganshire), 4 miles E of Newcastle Emlyn on the River Teifi, one of several reputed burial-places for Taliesin.

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See James Hamilton , Bangor Abbey Through the Centuries (Bangor, Northern Ireland, 1980).

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A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Â© A Dictionary of British Place-Names 2003, originally published by Oxford University Press 2003. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Bangor Gwyd. Benchoer 634. ‘Wattled fence’. Welsh bangor. The reference is probably to the wattled fence that enclosed the monastery founded in 525.

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