Raglan Library

Raglan Library was a library located in Raglan Castle in the county of Monmouthshire in south east Wales.

[1][2][3][4] The library contained one of the most extensive collections of ancient Welsh manuscripts in history.

[5] This included works by Dafydd ap Gwilym,[6] Taliesin, Rhys Goch, Jonas of Menevia, Ederyn the Golden-tongued, Einion the Priest, Cwtta Cyvarwydd, Siôn Cent and Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug amongst others.

[7] It was destroyed and looted by parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell in August 1646, during the English Civil War.

[8][9] The destruction of Raglan Library was described as an "irrepairable [sic] loss to the literature of Wales".