[984] Gray’s Buried City of Kenfig, pp. 59, 150.
[985] This information is confirmed by Mr Tennant, town clerk of Aberavon.
[986] See Francis’ Neath and its Abbey, where the charter of De Granville is given. It is only preserved in an Inspeximus of 1468.
[987] M. M. A., i., 112.
[988] Ruperra is not quite one mile from the river Rhymney. There is another site which may possibly be that of Castle Remni: Castleton, which is nearly 2 miles from the river, but is on the main road from Cardiff to Newport. “It was formerly a place of strength and was probably built or occupied by the Normans for the purpose of retaining their conquest of Wentlwg. The only remains are a barrow in the garden of Mr Philipps, which is supposed to have been the site of the citadel, and a stone barn, once a chapel.” Coxe’s Monmouthshire, i., 63.
[989] It is right to say that Colonel Morgan in his admirable Survey of East Gower (a model of what an antiquarian survey ought to be) does not connect this mound with the old castle which is mentioned, as well as the new castle, in Cromwell’s Survey of Gower. But even the old castle seems to have been Edwardian (see the plan, p. 85), so it is quite possible there were three successive castles in Swansea.
[990] Brut, 1113.
[991] Morgan’s Survey of East Gower, p. 24.
[992] Colonel Morgan’s Survey of East Gower.
[993] Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary.