PORT-PENRHYN, a sea-port, in the parish of LLANDEGAI, hundred of LLECHWEDD-UCHAV, county of CARNARVON, NORTH WALES, half a
mile (E.) from Bangor: the population is returned with the parish. The village, which is of recent origin, and partly by
payments from the parents, the master instructing 10 poor children gratuitously. Mr. Talbot gave the ground for the
erection of the school, which was completed in 1817, at an expense of £67. 2., of which £40 was a bequest of Frances
Gibbs, in 1794, remaining in the hands of the churchwardens and overseers, and the residue was made up by subscriptions. A
Sunday school for 60 persons, also, is maintained by voluntary contributions. Mr. John Clement, in 1784, left the sum of
£14. 9. 6., directing the interest to be laid out in bread for disowes its existence to the late Lord Penrhyn, by whom
it was selected as the shipping-place for the slates from his very extensive quarries in the Vale of Nantfrancon, in the
parish. It is very conveniently situated for that purpose on the Menai strait, closely adjoining the city of Bangor. About
the year 1790, his lordship constructed a commodious wharf at the mouth of the river Cegin, which here falls into the
strait, and in proportion to the extension and increased production of the quarries have been the subsequent improvements
of this port. Large quays, accessible at all states of the tide to vessels of considerable tonnage, and additional wharfs,
have been constructed, several sluices made, and spacious warehouses erected, for depositing the produce of the quarries.
A railway, six miles in length, has been formed from the quarries to the port, and every possible accommodation has been
provided for facilitating the business here transacted. The only article shipped is the slate, of which immense quantities
are sent coastwise, and several cargoes of roofing-slates are annually exported to America. The business transacted at the
port affords constant employment to more than two hundred men, making, with the number engaged in the quarries, nearly two
thousand four hundred persons occupied in these very extensive and important works. Port Penrhyn, for representative
purposes, is included within the new limits of the borough of Bangor.