`Pentre Bryn y Bwa Bach' - that is the old name for Llandecwyn and my Granmother would always say when she was going up to Llandecwyn, ''I am going to Pentre Bryn Bwbach''.
They have shortened the name and at times they would say, ''We are going up to Pentre''. There is a farm called Pentre Farm up there and there was another Pentre called Pentre Bach by Coedty and of course Pentre Eisingrug. This, I'm sure, was the busiest place at the time with the main road coming over the top.
When we were young the old people would call the Penrhyn People `Cocos' and 'Cockletown' for Penrhyndeudraeth and `Brain Harlech' for the people of Harlech.
My grandmother would tell us about Dorti'r Wrach the old witch. It was said that she was put in a barrel and pushed down from the rocks into Llyn Tecwyn, the upper one, and when we went up as children we would put a piece of slate with our name on it on her grave which is not far from the gate, and they said if you did not put your name on her grave it would give you bad luck.
Porthmadog bought the right to have water from Llyn Tecwyn Ucha in 1880 and the pipes today are on the railway side of bont Briwet.