
Image Credit: Natural Resources Wales
Image Credit: Natural Resources Wales
The fort occupies the top of the prominent rounded hill in the centre of the shot. Cardigan Bay stretches away behind.
From the SSW.
Up here on Foel Llanfendigaid there are the traces of a hillfort – according to Coflein a ‘narrow stony rampart’ survives. Beneath the hill, on the seaward side, there is a cave, Ogof Owain.
Ogov Owain is apparently a natural fissure in a rock, about a mile north of the estuary of the river Dysynny, in the parish of Celynyn, in Merioneddshire. Tradition says, that Ednyved ap Aron, a gentleman of consideration, concealed Owain in it, after his military reverses.
The intrepid author and his friend sat on some stones after emerging, ‘proceeded to knock off the neck of a bottle of sherry’ and then toasted the king and ‘Prince Owain Glendwr’.
In v5 of the ‘Cambrian Quarterly’ 1833.
At the bottom of the page there is an aerial photo of the fort.