Dale of the Blackbird

There was an old thatched cottage at the southern end of the village called Cwm-y-Fwyalchen, (which means dale of the blackbird).

According to British History Online, it was ‘an ancient thatched house at the hamlet of Ffilog on the west side of the Llanishen Road’.

Was this the same house called Mwylach-Bwlch shown on the 1880 Ordnance Survey map near the Birchgrove School on Pantbach Road?

In the 1851 Census, a cottage called the Blackbird Inn (next door to Birchgrove), had Thomas Howell as head of the family with his wife Blanch and an adult daughter. They also had 3 lodgers.

This image, courtesy of Cardiff Library, shows Cwm-y-Mwyalchen Cottages at the Filog. It must be the same one.

The current Post Office on the corner of Pantbach Road sits in the middle of the cabbage patch in the photograph!

Does anyone know any more about this old part of the village?

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