PENMYNEDD (PEN-MYNYDD), a parish, in the union of BANGOR-AND-BEAUMARIS, hundred of TYNDAETHWY, county of ANGLESEY, NORTH
WALES, 2 miles (E.) from Llangevni, and 6 (W.) from Beaumaris  containing 611 inhabitants. The name of this place,
signifying literally a the summit of the mountain," is derived from the situation of its church on a lofty eminence. The
lordship originally belonged to the ancestors of Owain ab Meredydd ab Tudyr, husband of Catherine of France, Queen dowager
of Henry V., and grandfather of Henry VII., who was born here in 1385. The mansion of that family, called Pres Penmynydd,
preserves many vestiges of its former owners, and some remains of its ancient grandeur; the great mantel-piece of the
hall, some coats of arms, with dates of different parts of the building, and of successive repairs, 'are still in
existence. The last male descendant of this house, from which sprang the Tudor line of English sovereigns, was Richard,
sheriff of the county in 1657, on whose death the lordship or manor passed to Margaret, the sole heiress, who conveyed it
by marriage to Coningsby Williams, Esq., of Gldn-y-Gors, in this county, who held it during his life; it was afterwards
sold to Lord Bulkeley, whose representative still continues in possession of it. The parish, which is surrounded by those
of Llansadwrn, Pentraeth, Llanfinnan, LlanvihangelYsceiviog, Llanddaniel, Llanvair-Pwllgwyngyll, and Llandysillio, is
situated on the old Holyhead road, and comprises an extensive tract of land the whole, with the exception only of a very
small portion, inclosed and cultivated. By admeasurement it contains 3000 acres, of which 2000 are amble and pasture,
and about 1000 meadow and bog; the surface is elevated, with some eminences that command ex tensive views of mountain
scenery; in other parts it is undulated. There are two small rivers, the Braint and the Ceint, the former discharging
itself into the Menai strait, and the latter dividing the parish from that of Llanfinnan. There was a fair on Easter
Monday, principally for hiring servants, but it has been discontinued for many years. This place constitutes a prebend in
the Cathedral Church of Bangor, valued in the king's books at £8. 5. 7i., and in the gift of the Bishop. The living is a
perpetual curacy, endowed with £450 royal bounty; net income, £89, with a glebe-house; patron and appropriator, the
Prebendary. The church, dedicated to Credivael, a saint who flourished about the close of Abe fifth century, and first
presided over the college of Ty' Gwkn, is a very ancient structure, thought to have been built in the year 900: it is 63
feet long by 24 broad, and contains a superb altar-tomb of white alabaster, without arms or inscription, removed hither on
the dissolution of the abbey of Llanvaes, and supposed to have been erected to the memory of some of the Tudor family; it
supports the effigies of two recumbent figures, one a warrior in complete armour, with a helmet of conical form, and the
other a female in flowing robes and a square hood; the heads are supported by angels, and the feet rest ups lions. There
are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Calvinistic Methodists. A day school, appertaining to dissenters, is
attended by about 30 children, who are paid for by their parents; and there are three Sunday schools, also connected with
dissentbrs, in which 250 males and females are gratuitously taught. Ten abushouses which had been previously founded here
under the will of Lewis Rogers, 'in 1617, were further endowed in 1623, by Lewis Owen, Esq., of Twickenham, in the county
of Middlesex, with some tithes in EgiwyoRhos, which have long been held by the family of Mostyn, and are now possessed by
the Hon. Edward Mostyn Lloyd Mostyn, whose agent pays £60 annually for the support of the 10 almspeople, who are selected
from poor old men of this parish and Llanvihangel-Ysceiviog, Pentraeth and Llanfinnan. The almshouses consist of ten rooms
on a ground floor, all under one roof, and each has a small gardenwell cultivated; they are repaired by public
subscription. The churchwardens of the respective places on every vacancy select a candidate for the approval of the
trustees, who is subsequently ap.: pointed by the Bishop. The parish of Penmynedd is also entitled to send a poor man to
the almshouse at Bangor, under the will of Bishop Rowlands. A sum of £6 per annum is received from the Rev. Robert Wynne's
charity at Llantrisaint; a part to buy bread for 12 women on every' alternate Sunday, and the residue, together with a
rent-charge of 6s. ed. charged upon the tenement of March Ynys, to be distributed among the poor generally. Two other sums
of X.,22. 10. and £19: 10. were given by unknown donors for the use of the poor, but of the disposal of the first no
account can be given, and with the last, two cottages were erected or purchased, In which 3 widows reside rent-free, put
in by the parish.