Cylchgronau Cymru

The island was thus separated from the rest of the manor of Sully and has been held separately ever since. As to Barry Castle, Mr. Clark considers it to have been built (at least as regards the gateway) in the time of Henry III or Edward I, and there is no reason to doubt that it was built by one of the de Barry family. WORLETON AND ST. NICHOLAS. It is probably impossible now to ascertain what were the exact bounds of the manor of Worleton or Duffryn, because it was long in the same hands as a share of the adjoining manor of St. Nicholas, i.e., in those of the Button family. For many centuries Worleton was a manor of the Bishops of Llandaff, and, according to the Liber Landavensis, p. 157, formed part of a gift of King Judhail (Ithel) to Bishop Oudoceus. This would take the gift back to the seventh century, but it is very doubtful how far the statements in the Liber Landavensis as to the particular princes by whom gifts were made and the Bishops to whom they were made can be relied upon. This, however, is certain, that Worleton or Duffryn was claimed as an old possession of the See as early as the first half of the twelfth century. The Charter does not mention any such name as either Worleton or Duffryn, but the description of boundaries which it contains makes it clear that it included lands between the Nant Golych and what is now called on the Ordnance Map the Goldsland Brook." These would be the western and southern boundaries. How far it extended eastward and northward I have not been able to make out from the description. It seems as if it might be meant to include all or most of St. Lythans parish (and perhaps part of Wenvoe), the church of which seems to be indicated by the ecclesia Elidon of the charter.