Professors say two islands in Cardigan Bay are clearly marked on the Gough map held at Bodleian library
The Welsh coastline near Cardigan on the Ceredigion coast.It is believed to be the Welsh Atlantis, a lost land lying below the water at Cardigan Bay. For at least 800 years, tales have been told of the legend of Cantre’r Gwaelod, but evidence that it really existed has been scant.
The discovery has been made by Simon Haslett, honorary professor of physical geography at Swansea University, and David Willis, Jesus professor of Celtic at theHaslett, who went in search of lost islands in Cardigan Bay while he was a visiting fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, explained that the two islands are clearly marked on the Gough map, held in the collections of the university’s Bodleian library.
Two islands are depicted, each about a quarter the size of Anglesey. One island is offshore between Aberystwyth and Aberdyfi and the other farther north towards Barmouth, Gwynedd. “The two islands are clearly marked and may corroborate contemporary accounts of a lost land mentioned in the Black Book of Carmarthen.”
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