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	Bardsey Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The island became a place of pilgrimage, especially popular with pilgrims who would come to die and be buried on the isle, hence giving rise to the tradition that twenty thousand saints are buried on the island.
		Bardsey is also home to the Bardsey Island Apple, an apple originally unique to the island, although saplings can now be purchased.
		However, due to the island's isolated location, it was not officially identified and classified until Ian Sturrock sent a sample to the National Fruit Collection, in Brogdale, Kent in 1998.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bardsey_Island (276 words)

	Islands
		The islands are an important birdwatching centre with breeding sea birds in the summer and rare migrants in the spring and autumn.
		The islands are the property of the Crown (with the exception of Hugh Town, St Mary's, the property in which was sold freehold to the occupiers in 1949) and are administered by the Duchy of Cornwall.
		The island is served by passenger ferries from the port of Kinloch to Muck, Canna, Eigg, and Mallaig on the mainland.
	www.fatbadgers.co.uk /Britain/Islands.htm (5279 words)

	BBC News \| WALES \| Castaways sought for island life
		Bardsey is currently occupied by two nuns and trustees of the historic island are seeking hardy applicants to take on the challenge of joining them.
		Children are not excluded from life on Bardsey Island - known in Welsh as Ynys Enlli - as parents would be able to educate their children in the village school, which has not had its own teacher since 1947.
		Bardsey is steeped in history and even has its own "king", the Welsh opera star Bryn Terfel, who agreed to be patron of the island's trust.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/1087948.stm (610 words)

	Telegraph \| Travel \| Wales: A brief spell on Bardsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bardsey, a wild scrap of land in the Irish Sea, is straight from the pages of a medieval romance.
		Bardsey is not just whale-shaped; it has the profile of a cetacean in its 17th month of pregnancy.
		Bardsey is especially famed for its 16,000 breeding shearwaters, nesting in burrows and flying furiously at night in rasping covens.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2004/07/26/etbardsey2507.xml&sSheet=/travel/2004/07/26/ixtrvhome.html (1081 words)

	GENUKI: The National Gazetteer (1868) - Aberdaron
		BARDSEY ISLE, a small island in St. George's channel, near Cardigan bay, an extra-parochial district, locally in the parish of Aberdaron, in the hundred of DINLLAEN, county of CARNARVON, NORTH WALES, lying off the promontory of Lleyn, from which it is separated by Bardsey Race, three miles in breadth, containing 84 inhabitants.
		From the violence of the current which runs through the sound, it obtained the British name Ynys Enlli, or the island in the current, and by the Saxons it was, from its being a favourite retreat of the bards, named Bardsey, or the island of the bards.
		The south side of the island being the first headland that appears in navigating the channel, the erection of this lighthouse became an object of the greatest importance, and its completion has been attended with the utmost benefit to the numerous vessels connected with the port of Liverpool.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/wal/CAE/Aberdaron/Gaz1868.html (1274 words)

	Bardsey Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bardsey Island is a small island off the coast of the Llyn Peninsular in North Wales.
		It is also known as The Island of 20 000 saints since, it is said, the graveyard holds the bodies of 20 000 people who lived and prayed on the island over the centuries.
		The remoteness of the island and the treacherous waters that separate it from the mainland made it an ideal refuge.
	www.wellsprings.org.uk /wellspring_of_pilgrimage/bardsey.htm (381 words)

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		Indeed three trips to Bardsey was considered equal to a pilgrimage to Rome.
		On the island itself are the remains of the thirteenth century abbey as well as a large grave yard.
		The island is also of interest to ornithologists since it is a stop over for many migrating birds.
	www.bardseyapple.co.uk (366 words)

	Bardsey Island Apple Afal Ynys Enlli
		The old mother tree on the island grows in a slight recess on the side of the house.
		The shape of a free standing Bardsey tree is unknown.
		The vigour of the Bardsey trees growth is unknown.
	www.bardseyapple.co.uk /tree.html (569 words)

	Guardian \| Get away from it all on Merlin's island retreat
		The home of Merlin, King Arthur's resident wizard, the island now requires other tenants to share the 444-acre mix of rock and pasture with the floating population of basking seals, the passing dolphins, the 3,000 or so pairs of summertime Manx shearwaters, and the two live-in nuns.
		Bardsey was bought by a trust in 1979 and by 1986 had become a national nature reserve famous for the variety of its flora.
		Now the Bardsey Island Trust is anxious to find tenants of an adaptable and adventurous nature willing to commit the next 20 years of their lives to working and living on the island full-time.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4110022-103690,00.html (688 words)

	Britainnia History: Bardsey Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The island is known to the Welsh as Ynys Enlli.
		The foundation of the well-known monastery on Bardsey is ascribed to King Einion of Lleyn, great-grandson of Cunedda Wledig, in conjunction with St.
		Thus the isles of the Atlantic coast in Ireland and Scotland came to be the "Isles of the Saints," and thus may have arisen the first settlement of the islands of Bardsey, St. Tudwals and Priestholm.
	www.britannia.com /celtic/wales/history/bardsey.html (540 words)

	Who is the BBFO?
		Members of the Observatory and some of the locals from Gwynedd initiated the purchase of the island and formed the Trust, whose main aim is to conserve the rich heritage and natural history of the island.
		Breeding birds on the island are recorded by Observatory staff; an annual census is made of the number of species, and the numbers of pairs of birds.
		It is one of eight houses on the island and was built by the late Lord Newborough, the one-time owner of the island.
	www.bbfo.org.uk /who.htm (1880 words)

	The Lleyn Peninsula
		Afracious Fallows drove a stolen car round the traffic island in the centre of Abersoch until the petrol ran out, or until he was stopped by the police.
		Bardsey Island - a small island off the coast of the Lleyn Peninsula that is referred to several times in The Falls.
		Also, Peter Greenaway is a patron of the Bardsey Island Trust.
	vue.org.uk /lleyn.htm (216 words)

	News Wales > Environment > Bardsey Island - 18 years as animal sanctuary
		Bardsey Island comes of age on March 24 as it celebrates 18 years as a National Nature Reserve providing a peaceful sanctuary for birds, marine animals and plants.
		On the east side of the island, Bardsey mountain rises sharply from the sea to a height of 150m.
		Oystercatcher, stonechat and meadow pipits are commonly seen on a walk around the island and visitors might also catch a glimpse of little owls and peregrine falcon.
	www.newswales.co.uk /?section=Environment&F=1&id=6756 (544 words)

	Celtic Malts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bardsey Island, or Ynys Enlli, is also known as 'the island of saints' because legend has it that 20,000 saints are buried there.
		The monastic importance of Bardsey Island lasted until Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 1530s.
		Back in the realm of legends, Bardsey Island also appears in the Arthurian legends as the island where Merlin keeps the 'Thirteen Treasures of Britain' in a glass house.
	www.celticmalts.com /journal-a8.htm (1969 words)

	Wales on the Web Bardsey island — A Movie of the Scenic Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Bardsey Island Trust was set up in 1979 to preserve the unique natural and spiritual heritage of the place.
		On approaching the Island it is difficult to miss the square tower lighthouse which, at 30m is the tallest in Britain.
		Bardsey is rich in both marine and plant life which will enchant and delight those who visit.
	www.worldwidewales.tv /html/movie-230.php (534 words)

	Welcome... Croeso... - Days Out - Ynys Enlli/Bardsey Island
		The waters around Enlli are indeed very dangerous, especially through the Bardsey Sound, which is the stretch of water between Bardsey and the mainland.
		Bardsey is two miles off the end of The Llyn Peninsula, and is about 60 miles from Ireland, the eastern mountains of which can be seen from the top of Mynydd Enlli (Bardsey Mountain) and Braich-y-pwll (the tip of the peninsula) on a clear day.
		Only having 3 1/2 hours on the island we unfortunately were unable to climb the mountain so a return trip is a must.
	www.llyn.info /days_out/ynys_enlli.htm (409 words)

	Bardsey Island - TheBestLinks.com - Bird, Merlin (wizard), Pilgrimage, Welsh language, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bardsey Island - TheBestLinks.com - Bird, Merlin (wizard), Pilgrimage, Welsh language,...
		Bardsey, Bardsey Island, Bird, Merlin (wizard), Pilgrimage, Welsh language...
		Bardsey Island (Welsh: Ynys Enlli) lies off the Lleyn peninsula, in Gwynedd, Wales.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bardsey.html (221 words)

	Prince of Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After a 70-year break from the monarchy, the tiny island of Bardsey off the Llyˆn Peninsula has decided to restore the position of head of state.
		In a display of faultless democracy, the 480 members of the Bardsey Island trust have decided to have Terfel as their sovereign.
		Bardsey is reputed to be the burial place of 20,000 saints and is still thought of as a holy place of pilgrimage by some Christians.
	my.execpc.com /~thebaron/terfel/WME071699.html (460 words)

	Wales on the Web: Natural history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bardsey Island is 2 miles off the Llyn Peninsula and is very rich in natural wildlife.
		This is the website for Bardsey Island which lies about two miles of the coast of Llŷn.
		This site concerning Bardsey Island, the historical and sacred island located off the coast of the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales, is the work of Celtlands.co.uk - a group of people interested in islands that have a Cletic heritage.
	www.walesontheweb.org /cayw/index/en/508/042925 (516 words)

	The bleak location of the Island moulded its inhabitants into a strong and sturdy people and they were accustomed to ...
		One day a warship anchored off-shore and as the men folk had never seen a warship so close to their island before, they went out in their boats to investigate, and Siôn Griffith was included in the party.
		Without any qualms he returned alone boldly to the island, but it did not take long for the women folk to realise what he had done with their partners.
		Siôn sensing the seriousness of the situation fled and hid in one of the caves until the coast was clear, and when the opportune moment arrived he somehow escaped to the mainland.
	www.rhiw.com /hen_luniau_pages/enlli_01/press_gang.htm (494 words)

	Prince of Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		BARDSEY is to remain without a monarch after Bryn Terfel rejected suggestions that he should become the island’s new king.
		The Bardsey Island Trust, which now owns the island, said it had never invited the bass baritone to become the island’s first king in 70 years.
		He said the media had run away with an idea that the opera star could become king of Bardsey, a title historically conferred on one of the islanders.
	my.execpc.com /~thebaron/terfel/WME090299.html (194 words)

	Wales
		The bottlenose dolphin is considered to support significant presence for the Pen Llyn a Sarnau (the SAC that includes Bardsey Island).
		Bardsey Island seems to be a particularly good habitat for Risso's, and in recent years, these dolphins have regularly been recorded close to shore during the summer months.
		Research off Bardsey Island has confirmed the importance of these waters as a feeding area for both these species.
	www.wdcs.org /dan/publishing.nsf/allweb/763B2126BACCF83F802568DD002AAB0A (877 words)

	Bardsey Island holiday cottages, self catering in Wales
		It is notable as a place of pilgrimage and is important both nationally and internationally because of its wildlife and history.
		Carreg Bach is the oldest dwelling on the island still in use today.
		There are wonderful views across the island and to the west towards the Wicklow mountains in Ireland.
	www.cottageguide.co.uk /carregbach (212 words)

	BBC - North West Wales Family History - Bardsey family histories
		Most of my Bardsey family trees are for folk who were there pre-1901, but I have added one tree for the last of the Bardsey families who have a long connection - that of the Evans family who spent the better part of the year at Dynnogoch on Bardsey.
		His departure from the island made the front page on some of the national newspapers including the Daily Sketch of 20th September 1925 whose headline said "King Love arrives on the Mainland".
		Pride of place in my hallway is a picture of all the families on the island with the lighthouse behind them and my father is one of them as a little boy.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/northwest/sites/familyhistory/pages/bardsey.shtml (2069 words)

	surfbirds.com - bird observatories of the British Isles
		The Island is 40 acres in area, with a cliff on the east side and fairly gentle slopes elsewhere leading to a rocky shoreline.
		The island is of hard volcanic rock and rises at the west side sloping gently to sea-level to the east.
		The Island was accorded SSSI status in 1995, acknowledging its importance in both the breeding and migratory aspects of its bird population.
	www.surfbirds.com /mb/Features/bird-obs-1104.txt (3582 words)

	ccw.gov.uk - Countryside Council for Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bardsey is steeped in history and has been an important as a place of pilgrimage over the centuries.
		The abbey is now a ruin but the peaceful atmosphere of the island still attracts hundreds of people every year.
		Today the whole island is managed as a single farm and is mainly grazed by sheep.
	www.ccw.gov.uk /news/index.cfm?action=Press&ID=572&lang=en (733 words)

	Welcome - Bardsey Island
		Your lasting reminder of Bardsey in your own garden.
		The Island lies across the Sound about two miles (3km)
		Bardsey welcomes many hundreds of day visitors during
	www.bardsey.org /english/bardsey/welcome.asp?pid=1 (99 words)

	Observer \| Are the Bardens of Bardsey barmy?
		The successful couple on The Island of 20,000 Saints must be, if not saintly, then at least keen to be cast away for 25 years (why the contract had to be so long was not explained).
		Simon Glyn, the Welsh director of the Bardsey Island Trust, the charity that administers the island, let slip, revealingly, that there were no Welsh applicants.
		For although they seemed likeable and humorous, there was a difficulty: Libby Barden's daughters, by her previous marriage, had decided to live with their father rather than join their mother on the island and we heard Libby crying at the thought of the separation.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4483792-102280,00.html (604 words)

	Long weekends - the Lleyn Peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The small island of Carreg Y Trai is also known as the "half-tide island" as it is submerged for half the tidal range.
		The south-western tip of the island is made up of deep gullies, large boulders and overhangs that drop down to similar depths.
		Strong tides around Bardsey Island and advice from local divers is a must for those new to the area.
	www.divernet.com /travel/leyn898.htm (1308 words)

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