LLANDOVERY CASTLE

Site Details

NPRN
92751
Map Reference
SN73SE
Grid Reference
SN7675734226
Unitary (Local) Authority
Carmarthenshire
Old County
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandovery
Type of Site
CASTLE
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

Llandovery Castle is a motte and bailey castle first mentioned in 1113. The site was formed by scarping a natural hillock into a citadel and small bailey. Further enclosures may have existed to the north where the cattle market later stood. An outer bank to the west was levelled to make way for a car park in 1967-8. Extensive remains of masonry walls and towers occupy the motte, and a shell keep enclosure is represented by half-buried footings.
RCAHMW, 08 May 2008.