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sceiulant, Lord Newborough, it still continues ; 

 but there are now no remains of the abbey build- 

 ings. The monks had conveyed the coffin of their 

 founder from the town of Aberconwy, when they 

 were first removed to Maefnan, and at the disso- 

 lution of the latter, it was placed in Llanrwst 

 church, where it still continues. The new foun- 

 dation at Maenan preserved to the last the original 

 name, and the abbey was always called Conwy 

 abbey.® Of the original abbey in Aberconwy 

 there are now no remains. A long vaulted room 

 of good masonry, and worked with clay, but plas- 

 tered with lime, and a Saxon door were seen by 

 Mr. Pennant ; they were taken down about forty 

 years ago. In the churchyard, on the north side, 

 there is an ancient tombstone, ornamented with a 

 cross fleuris, but it has no inscription. A similar 

 one was found with a plain cross cut in, when 

 making some improvements in the Castle inn yard 

 in 1832, which is a part of the site of the abbey, 

 and under it a skull, with no other bones what- 

 ever. The foundation walls of different parts of 

 the abbey were also exposed at the same time. 



'^ Sec Tudyr Aled's Poems, and Leland. 



