What is recorded here

Cardigan Castle, House, Stables appears in the national record as a Post Medieval stable, suggesting horses once breathed inside walls now forgotten by most visitors. The castle and house dominate imagination, but the stables remind that greatness also runs on feed, heat and muscle. A rider may have paused there before crossing Ceredigion, listening for hooves on stone while rain struck the roof.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Cardigan Castle, House, Stables as Stable from the Post Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Cardigan Castle was originally built in the 12th century by the Norman de Harcourt family and later held by the powerful Lords of Cardigan. It is important as a key medieval stronghold in Ceredigion and as the site of the Battle of Cardigan in 1403 during the Welsh rebellion led by Owain Glyndŵr.

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