CARREGHOVA (CAREG-HWVA), a township, in that part of the parish of LLANYMYNECH which is in' the hundred of CHIRK, county of
DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, 6 miles (S. S. w.) from Oswestry, containing 362 inhabitants. It is situated between the rivers
Tanat and Vyrnwy, which unite here, and forms a detached portion of the county of Denbigh, lying between Shropshire and
Montgomeryshire. It is considered rich in mineral strata, which were formerly worked by the Romans, of whom various
remains, such as coins, a skeleton of a human figure, &c., have been discovered; but its greatest produce is a species of
light-coloured marble, streaked with red and white veins, and easily convertible into lime of superior quality, which, by
means of a canal, is distributed over a great part of Wales. A branch connecting the Montgomeryshire and Ellesmere canals
commences here, and proceeds through the township, crossing the river Vyrnwy by an aqueduct, and both are likewise
intersected by the road from Llanymynech to Welshpool. Of the castle which once stood here, on the banks of the Tanat,
little remains, except some vestiges of the fosse on the east side. It was captured in 1162, by Owain Cyveiliog and Owain
ab Madoc, two cousins, who retained possession of it about twenty-five years, when it was finally reduced by Cadwallon and
Gwenwynwyn, sons of Owain Cyveiliog, atter having slain Owain ab Madoc, their father's former colleague. At Gwern y vign,
within half a mile of the castle, a battle took place in 1202. The ancient mansion of Carreghova Hall has long since
disappeared, and has been succeeded by a modern farmhouse. There is a bequest of £1 per annum for eight poor maids, or
widows, frequenting the church of Llanymynech, by an unknown benefactor, which is paid by the rector. Offa's Dyke passes
near the eastern boundary of the township, which approaches close to the village of Llanymynech; and at its south-western
border, overhanging the river Vyrnwy, below where it is joined by the Tanat, rises a triangular mound, surrounded by a
deep fosse, called Clawdd Cech, or " the red dyke," which Sir Richard Colt Hoare supposes to be the ancient Mediolanum,
and not Meivod, ten miles higher up the river, as some have imagined; and this site agrees better with the relative
distances from Bovium and Rutunium in the Itinerary of Antoninus. This township separately supports its own poor: the
average annual expenditure is £77. 2.