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Image of Foel Llanfendigaid (Hillfort) by juamei

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Image of Foel Llanfendigaid (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

The fort occupies the top of the prominent rounded hill in the centre of the shot. Cardigan Bay stretches away behind.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.7.2015)

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Folklore

Foel Llanfendigaid
Hillfort

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.

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