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still pointed out, and where a chapel was afterwards erected, of 

 which now hardly a trace remains. In the life of S. Ailbe of 

 Emly we are told that the father of David gave up his son to 

 be educated by him ; * but in that of S. Colman of Dromore 

 we are informed that S. David was his pupil at a very early age. 

 It is possible that he may have passed through the hands of 

 more than one in childhood. When he had arrived at an 

 age approaching manhood, he returned to Wales and was 

 trained at Ty Gwyn for the monastic life. 



The received opinion has been that this was Ty Gwyn ar Daf 

 or Whitlands in Carmarthenshire. But Mrs. Dawson in the 

 " Cambrian Archseologia," for 1898, has made out a strong case 

 for Ty G-wyn near Forth Mawr. Certainly the references we 

 have to the White House in the lives of several of the Saints 

 apply far more closely to this site than to that on the Teify ; 

 and there is extant no evidence that Whitlands was a monastery 

 before the Norman invasion of South Wales in the 1 2th century. 

 Ty Gwyn lies on the slope of the noble Carn Lliddi, facing 

 south, just above the termination of the Via Julia at the sea, 

 and opposite where was the probable site of the Eoman station 

 Ad Menapiam. 



As well as we can judge, the following was the order of 

 Teachers and of the great Colleges in South Wales. 



S. Dubricius at Hentland in Herefordshire and Moccos. 

 He is said to have been ordained by S. Grermanus, but 

 this is hardly possible, as Germanus visited Britain the 

 the second time in 447 and Dubricius was alive in 520. 

 S. Mancen, Maucen or Ninidh, established by St. Patrick 

 at Ty Gwyn 459-480. He had as disciples, Tighernach 

 (d. 544), Endeus (d. circ. 545), Cairpre (d. 560), 

 Eoghain (d. circ. 550), Finian (of Moville ?), and 

 Faulinus. 

 S. Iltyd at Caerworgon (Llantwit) and Inis Fyr, 464-500, 

 had with him Paul of Leon (d. 573), Samson (d. 565), 

 Gildas (d. 570), David (d. circ. 550), Brioc (d. 515?). 



*Cod. Salaman. p. 832. In the life of S. Ailbe it is not expressly said that 

 he baptised David ; it is implied in that of S. Colman of Dromore, that he raised 

 him to a new life by the waters of baptism. 



Colman was a son of Sant ; David of Sandde. But the Irish say Sant was 

 the mother of Colman. 



