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Merionethshire

American  
[mer-ee-on-ith-sheer, -sher] / ˌmɛr iˈɒn ɪθˌʃɪər, -ʃər /

noun

  1. a historic county in Gwynedd, in N Wales.


Merionethshire British  
/ ˌmɛrɪˈɒnɪθˌʃɪə, -ʃə /

noun

  1. (until 1974) a county of N Wales, now part of Gwynedd

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Yorkshire next, with �1786 14s. 5d., and Essex next, with �1512 17s. 7d., down to Merionethshire yielding �3 0s. 1d. from her eight parishes, and Radnorshire �1 14s. 4d. from her seven.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by Masson, David

It rises in the bleak mountain-region of Merionethshire, the most intensely Welsh of all counties, above Bala Lake, which is commonly but incorrectly called its source.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various

The Saxons at length drove Cynddylan from Pengwern, and the bard retired to Llanfor, near Bala, in Merionethshire, where he died at the long age of 150 years. 

From The Poetry of Wales by Jenkins, John

David Lloyd, M.A., was born at Trawsvynydd, Merionethshire, in 1635, and educated at Ruthin School. 

From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Williams, Robert

This Henry Vaughan, a son of John Vaughan of Cathlin, Merionethshire, matriculated at Oriel on July 4, 1634.

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)