COED-EULO, a township, in the parish of HAWARDEN, hundred of MOLD, county of FLINT, NORTH WALES, 11 mile (W. by N.) from
Hawarden, containing, with Eulo, 1328 inhabitants. This place is remarkable in history as the scene of a signal defeat
sustained by a chosen body of English troops, despatched by Henry II., in 1157, whilst advancing with a formidable army to
the conquest of Wales, from his encampment on Saltney marsh, with a view to effect a general engagement with Owain
Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, who had posted his forces at Basingwerk. This detachment, having been unexpectedly
attacked, whilst passing through a deep and narrow defile here, by a strong body of Welsh troops, lying in ambush, and
headed by Davydd and Cynan, sons of Owain, was seized with a panic, which, added to the difficulties of the situation,
rendered them unable to resist the impetuosity of their assailants, who mercilessly slaughtered the majority of them, and
the few that escaped retreated in discomfiture to the main body of the army. Potteries for the manufacture of coarse
earthenware, and kilns for making fire-bricks and tiles of superior quality, a considerable quantity of which is shipped
to various ports on the Welsh coast and to Ireland, have for some years been carried on here to a great extent, and afford
employment to a great proportion of the inhabitants: the clay is found on Buckley mountain, and, when manufactured into
bricks, is calculated in a superior manner to resist intense heat. At Buckley, in this township, a handsome chapel, with a
tower at the west end, in the later English style, was erected in 1822, towards defraying the expense of which the
Incorporated Society for the erection and enlargement of churches and chapels granted £4000: it is a chapel of ease to
the rectory of Hawarden. Here are also two large schools for the education of children of both sexes, with a house for a
resident clergyman, as master, which were built in 1819, at an expense of £1200, being part of a sum of £2000 raised by
subscription for that purpose; they are conducted on the National plan. Situated in a woody glen, at the distance of
about a quarter of a mile to the north of the road leading from Chester to Holyhead, are the picturesque remains of Eulo
castle, which was an appendage to that of Mold, but of unknown origin, and of which a more detailed account is given in
the article on HAWARDEN.