What is recorded here

Llandovery Castle stands as a D-shaped stone ruin on a knoll above the River Towy, marked by a gatehouse with two towers and a well-tower. Richard Fitz Pons probably began the first earthwork in 1116, but John Giffard likely rebuilt it in stone after Edward I took it in 1277. Henry IV visited in 1400, Owain Glyndŵr besieged it in 1403, and Hywel ap Rhys burnt it in 1532. It was never repaired, leaving only curtain-wall remnants beside a filled ditch to hold the shape of repeated conquest.

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

Llandovery Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Landovery family, a Norman-Welsh lineage, and later held by the powerful Lord Rhys and his descendants of the House of Dinefwr. It is remembered as a key medieval stronghold in the struggle between Welsh princes and English expansion in south Wales.

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