Grassholm

Grassholm

Grassholm (Welsh: "Gwales" or "Ynys Gwales") is a small, uninhabited island situated 13 km / 8 miles off the southwest Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, lying west of Skomer. It is the westernmost part of Wales and is known for its huge colony of gannets. Grassholm has been owned since 1947 by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and was the first reserve the Society ever bought. [ [http://www.rspb.org.uk Royal Society for the Protection of Birds] ]

Boats sail to Grassholm from Martin's Haven on the mainland.

The island features in Welsh mythology as the place where the severed head of Bendigeidfran was kept miraculously alive for eighty years while his companions feasted in blissful forgetfulness. ["The Mabinogion:" [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mab/mab22.htm Branwen the Daughter of Llyr] , translated by Lady Charlotte Guest. Online at [http://www.sacred-texts.com/ www.sacred-texts.com] .]

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External links

* [http://www.gtj.org.uk/blowup.php?lang=cy&id=333&t=1 Aerial photograph of the island]


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