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===Land ownership=== Although the local area is not mentioned, an allegorical poem in the 13th century [[Black Book of Carmarthen]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Ode of Cyridwen|url=http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/bbc04.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608225359/http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/bbc04.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 June 2011|access-date=14 January 2019}}</ref> has been extrapolated by some writers to conclude that the area must have once been under the rule of {{ill|Cuhelyn the Bard|cy|Cuhelyn Fardd}},<ref>''A poem in praise of Cuhelyn Fardd in the Black Book of Carmarthen'', R.G. Gruffydd, in [[Studia Celtica]] 10/11, [[University of Wales Press]], 1975,</ref> a descendant of whom was later granted land in the nearby [[Preseli Hills]] by charter.<ref>''Baronia de Kemeys. From the original documents at Bronwydd.'', Sir Thomas Davies Lloyd (Bt.), London, 1862, p.48</ref><ref>''An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire'', Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, 1914, Volume 4, p 276</ref> In 1603, the antiquarian [[George Owen of Henllys|George Owen, Lord of Cemais]], described Nevern as one of nine Pembrokeshire "boroughs in decay".<ref>Owen, George, ''The Description of Penbrokshire by George Owen of Henllys Lord of Kemes'', Henry Owen (Ed), London, 1892</ref>
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