Bordered by Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, and the sea, Pembrokeshire’s beaches are award-winning, with the tourist highlight of visiting the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Habitation was discovered to extend back 125,000 and 70,000 years, with numerous prehistoric sites and Neolithic remains. In 2018 a 1st-century Celtic chariot burial was discovered, the first such find in Wales. In 1972, a second reservoir for south Pembrokeshire, at Llys y Fran, was completed.<\/span><\/span>","A family seat,<\/strong> or simply a seat,<\/strong> was the principal manor of a medieval lord, often an elegant country mansion. It denoted the family held political and economic influences. ","Richard de Clare (1130-1176) was a famed archer, and was popularly called De Arcu Forti, meaning of the Strong Bow. When his father died, he was about eighteen","Normandy<\/strong> is the northernmost region of France and it makes up 30,627 square kilometers (11,825 square miles) of the country. Approximately five percent of France's population lives in Normandy and they are known as the Norman people","Ireland<\/strong> was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet. ","Wales,<\/strong> or Cymru<\/strong> a region of rugged mountains, Moors and forests, is noted for its large coal deposits. Its people are known for their strong Celtic heritage and renowned choral groups. This region was originally populated by an Iberian people, who were overrun by the Celts in the 6th century BC.","Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness.","The Irish Potato Famine<\/strong>, also known as The Great Famine<\/strong> or Great Hunger<\/strong> lasted from 1845 to 1850 and resulted in a great exodus of Irish refugees fleeing to Britain, Australia, and North America, one of the most dramatic waves of Irish migration in history. It was one of the world's worst disasters in world history - over one million people died in a five year span.","Grattan and the Irish Volunteer army obtained an independent parliament in 1782. Continued Irish unrest and Wolfe Tone's rebellion in 1798 led to the Act of Union in 1800 and Irish representation in British Parliament. Daniel O'Connell's agitation resulted in the granting of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s decimated the population and caused mass emigration. ",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/books.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/wales_pembrokeshire.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/castle1.webp","","","","","","","",null],"mode":"f","s":"Naugle","sU":"NAGLE","oC":"IR","o":"Irish","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"\/dpreview\/NAGLE\/IR\/Naugle\/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"\/dpreview\/ANDERSON\/SC\/Anderson\/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}
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