Llyn Moel y Llyn – the hill’s haunting upland tarn – is, it would appear, referenced in Caer Arglwyddes, ‘The Lady’s Field’, sited below to the west. According to Dr Gwilym Morus: “I had a conversation with an old lady who’s father had been born at Cae’r Arglwyddes, and according to her the name of the farm refers to a ‘lady of the lake’ folktale about the small lake up on Moel-y-llyn”.
So, yet another reason to visit this enigmatic northern outlier of Pumlumon crowned by a quartet of Bronze Age cairns....