Siôn Abel

Siôn Abel (fl. 18th century) was a balladeer who lived in Montgomeryshire (Sir Drefaldwyn, now part of Powys).

Abel's work includes the song "Cerdd yn Erbyn Medd-dod, Celwydd a Chybydd-dra" (Song against Drunkenness, Lies and Miserliness), published by H. Lloyd of Shrewsbury in a booklet of three ballads, recorded as No. 154 in J. H. Davies's Bibliography of Welsh Ballads. Also attributed to him is "A Christmas Carol, 1783, o waith fy hen feistr", in the Welsh metre known as tri-thrawiad, which is followed by the note: "Yr hen Siôn Abel a'i canodd" (by old Siôn Abel).