Craig-y-Dinas hillfort can be found due east of Dyffryn Ardudwy, overlooking Llyn Irddyn. It is at the summit of a prominent rocky outcrop (1150 feet) and is polygonal in shape and has dimensions of approximately seventy metres by forty metres (0.5 acres).
The following examination of the legend of Lady Godiva is by Edwin Sidney Hartland and appears in his ‘The Science of Fairy Tales’ (1891).
Situated in a copse approximately 200 yards West of Eglwys St. Dyfnog, with access via a gate in the graveyard, is Ffynnon Dyfnog, (the well of Saint Dyfnog) which is a rectangular stone bath (18 inches deep) fed by a spring.
Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch is a village in the Vale of Clwyd, approximately five kilometres to the South-East of Denbigh on the A525. The village church, Eglwys St. Dyfnog is a historic building, having a double nave, a 13th Century tower and an exquisite Medieval ‘Tree of Jesse’ window of superb design and glass quality.
Folklore / Folktales / Mabinogion / Welsh Folktales
by Ian · Published October 28, 2012 · Last modified November 23, 2018
Much of the Mabinogion saga is based in the Ardudwy region of North Wales. It was from the ‘Castle Rock’ or ‘Rock of Harlech’ (where Harlech Castle now stands) that the Welsh King Bendigeidfran first saw the Irish longboats of Matholwch loom into view with their shields turned upside down as a sign of peace.
The Groes Las settlement between Harlech and Llanfair was a domestic agricultural homestead in prehistory. It consists of the remains of a hut circle with walls approximately 3.0 metres thick and up to 1.2 metres high.
Ancient Sites / Standing Stones
by Ian · Published October 28, 2012 · Last modified November 23, 2018
This standing stone found close to Merthyr Farm, Harlech, is the tallest and most prominent of the five stones denoting the supposed prehistoric track way known as Fonlief Hir. The stone stands just over six feet tall and can be seen over a gate in the stone farm wall beside the road.
Ancient Sites / Burial Mounds / Stone Circles
by Ian · Published October 28, 2012 · Last modified November 22, 2018
Bedd Gorfal is also known as the Harlech stone circle and is situated close to the ancient Fonlief Hir track way. There are eight stones in the four metre diameter circle, five of them are easily visible and three are small and easily overlooked. The tallest stone is only about one metre tall, and it is split.
Fairies / Folklore / Folktales
by Ian · Published October 27, 2012 · Last modified November 18, 2018
According to ‘The Science of Fairy Tales’ (1891) by Edwin Sidney Hartland ‘A clergyman’s wife in Swedish Lappmark, the cleverest midwife in all Sweden, was summoned one fine summer’s evening to attend a mysterious being of Troll race and great might, called Vitra. At this unusual call she took counsel with her husband, who, however, deemed it best for her to go.
A private residence, Mortham Tower is a Grade I listed fortified courtyard house and pele tower dating from the time of King Henry VII (1485-1509), with a reputation for having been haunted 200 years ago. The estate was the seat of the Rokeby family after William of Mortham sold the estate to a Thomas de Rokeby and by 1286 the manors of Rokeby and Mortham were held by Alexander de Rokeby.
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