ST TUDWAL'S ISLAND EAST
Site Details
- NPRN
- 33027
- Map Reference
- SH32NW
- Grid Reference
- SH3413125882
- Unitary (Local) Authority
- Gwynedd
- Old County
- Caernarfonshire
- Community
- Llanengan
- Type of Site
- ISLAND
- Broad Class
- Unassigned
- Period
- General
Site Description
St Tudwal's is a small island, only some 430m by 220m, lying off the south coast of the Llyn peninsula. The island was the setting for a monastic settlement from at least the thirteenth century (NPRN 401811). There are records of an Augustinian priory between 1291 and 1509-11. The island is known to have been farmed in the eighteenth century and the former chapel may have originated at this time (NPRN 97198). Plough cultivation ridges cover much of the summit of the island. Traces of an extensive networks of paths represent a monastic garden associated with a short lived monastic revival in 1886-7 (NPRN 401812).
Excavations on the Priory site in 1959-63 produced Roman material, tentatively associated with a timber structures.
Source: RCAHMW Caernarvonshire Inventory III (1964), 48-50
John Wiles, RCAHMW, 01.08.2007.
