PENLLE'R CASTELL

Site Details

NPRN
300308
Map Reference
SN60NE
Grid Reference
SN66540960
Unitary (Local) Authority
Swansea
Old County
Glamorgan
Community
Mawr
Type of Site
CASTLE
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

The surviving remains of Penlle'r Castell consist of impressive earthworks with slight vestiges of the masonry which once crowned them. It has been suggested with reasonable confidence that this unconventional structure was founded by William de Braose II as a military frontier castle ca 1252.

RCAHMW 2000 'Glamorgan - the later castles', 273-9.

RCAHMW, December 2008