Welsh Place-Name Society Annual Conference 2025 (Hybrid)

Venue: University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth (SY23 3HH) — and online

Host: Cymdeithas Enwau Lleoedd Cymru / Welsh Place-Name Society
Registration & tea/coffee: 10:00 · Welcome: 10:30
Translation: Talks marked * are delivered in Welsh; simultaneous Welsh→English translation is available online.
Lunch: Pen Dinas café (NLW). Travel info via Traveline Cymru; taxis by the station; ~20 minutes on foot to the Centre.

Programme & short notes

10:40–11:20 — Naomi Jones*
Enwau sy’n deillio o’r tir ac o’r bobl: casglu a safoni enwau tirweddol Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri
Names rooted in the land and people: collecting and standardizing the landscape names of Eryri National Park
Comment: A field-to-archive look at how community knowledge feeds official name standards in a protected landscape.

11:20–12:00 — Thomas Clancy
Authority and authenticity in place-names: some reflections from the Iona’s Namescape project
Comment: What counts as “authentic” in a multilingual island record - methodological lessons from Iona.

12:00–12:40 — Meirion Davies*
Caeau’n dweud hanes: atgofion llafar a thystiolaeth ddogfennol / Fields which tell a story: oral memories and documentary evidence
Comment: How oral history and documents meet on the map - micro-toponyms as memory keepers.

12:40–1:50 — Lunch (Pen Dinas café, NLW)
1:50 — Reconvene at the Centre

2:00–2:40 — Jenny Day*
Y llyn, y llan, y glyn a’r Groes Hen: olrhain enwau amryfal abaty Glyn-y-groes / Tracing the various names of Valle Crucis Abbey
Comment: One medieval site, many names - tracing layers of devotion, landscape and language.

2:40–3:20 — Nigel Beidas
Sheepfolds of the Carneddau
Comment: Reading upland husbandry through names - what sheepfold toponyms reveal about the Carneddau.

3:20 — Close of Conference

Contacts: enwaulleoedd@gmail.com · Website & social links on the Society’s poster.
Note: Registration is required; places are limited both at the Centre and online (first-come, first-served).

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Cynhadledd Flynyddol Cymdeithas Enwau Lleoedd Cymru - 4 Hydref 2025 (Hybrid)

Lleoliad: Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth (SY23 3HH) - a thrwy’r we
Cofrestru a the/coffi: 10:00 · Croeso: 10:30
Cyfieithu: Sesiynau â seren * yn Gymraeg; darperir cyfieithu ar-y-pryd o’r Gymraeg i’r Saesneg ar-lein yn unig.
Cinio: Caffi Pen Dinas (LGC). Gwybodaeth teithio: Traveline Cymru; tacsis wrth yr orsaf; tua 20 munud i gerdded i’r Ganolfan.

Rhaglen a nodiadau byr

10:40–11:20 — Naomi Jones*
Enwau sy’n deillio o’r tir ac o’r bobl: casglu a safoni enwau tirweddol Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri
Nodyn: O’r maes i’r safon - sut mae gwybodaeth gymunedol yn bwydo cofnodion swyddogol.

11:20–12:00 — Thomas Clancy
Authority and authenticity in place-names: some reflections from the Iona’s Namescape project
Nodyn: “Awdurdod” ac “awthentigrwydd” mewn cofnodion amlieithog - gwersi o Ynys Iona.

12:00–12:40 — Meirion Davies*
Caeau’n dweud hanes: atgofion llafar a thystiolaeth ddogfennol
Nodyn: Sut mae hanes llafar a thystiolaeth ar bapur yn cyfarfod ar y map - micro-doponymau fel cadwraeth atgof.

12:40–1:50 — Cinio (caffi Pen Dinas, LGC)
1:50 — Ailymgynnull yn y Ganolfan

2:00–2:40 — Jenny Day*
Y llyn, y llan, y glyn a’r Groes Hen: olrhain enwau amryfal abaty Glyn-y-groes
Nodyn: Un safle canoloesol, nifer o enwau - haenau ffydd, tirwedd a iaith.

2:40–3:20 — Nigel Beidas
Sheepfolds of the Carneddau
Nodyn: Darllen tir pori mynydd trwy enwau - beth mae toponymau beudai defaid yn ei ddangos am y Carneddau.

3:20 — Cau’r Gynhadledd

Cyswllt: enwaulleoedd@gmail.com · Gwefan a chyfrifon cyfryngau cymdeithasol ar boster y Gymdeithas.
Nodyn: Rhaid cofrestru; llefydd cyfyngedig yn y Ganolfan ac ar-lein (yn ôl y drefn gofrestru).