Cardigan was the power base of Prince Rhys ap Gruffydd of the royal family of Deheubarth (South West Wales). Rhys was the last of the Welsh Princes of that lineage to rule an independent principality free of Anglo-Saxon or Norman control. It was at his castle here in Cardigan, in the year 1176, that Rhys hosted the very first truly "national" eisteddfod of Wales…

http://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/croeso/ardal/abert.htm

Even the local rag gets in on the act…

http://www.thisistivyside.net/tivyside/shows_and_eisteddfodau/


edit: also see (but not hear, unfortunately!)...

http://www.cliveband.com/Recordings/Keep_a_Welcome/Counting%20The%20Goats.htm



2nd edit: also:

Oer yw eira ar Eryri.
Cold is the snow on Snowdon.

Llongyfarchiadau llanciau Llanelli.
Congratulations to the young men of Llanelli (a town in Wales).