BANGOR-YS-COED, a village of North Wales, in a detached portion of Flintshire, on the Dee. Pop. 564. It was the site of one of the largest monasteries in Britain, founded before the year 180, and said to have contained in 596 no fewer than 2400 monks. Ethelfrid, king of Northumbria, in the beginning of the seventh century, massacred
1200 of these ecclesiastics, and destroyed their monastery. Bangorian Controversy. No traces of it are visible.