The Gatehouse website record for Rheidol Castle

In the community of Aberystwyth. In the historic county of Cardiganshire (Modern authority of Ceredigion, preserved county of Dyfed).

CARN record of Medieval castle, presumably the Palace of Rheidol mentioned in a poem of 1244, which was a moated house finally demolished in 1968. An old print (Henry Gastineau 1830) shows a small square tower of 3 storeys, with a first floor entry of a door with a pointed arch attached, to a small hall block, itself attached to a slightly large building. The impression is very much like that of a northern pele tower. Lewis wrote " Near Aberystwith is Plâs Crûg, in the last century a very perfect specimen of an early fortified house, but which now presents very little of the original structure." Davis writes that this was perhaps the work of Llywelyn Fawr when he occupied the territory of Maelgwn ap Rhys in 1208. He also writes some authorities consider it to have been nothing more than an C18 folly!
Ironically the site is now occupied by the The National Monuments Record of Wales.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SN58958115

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 7421 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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