What is recorded here

Malefant Castle is a Late Medieval tower house belonging to the De Malefant family, now reduced to stone remains southeast of the church in Llanmaes. It stood as a defended hall for Glamorgan nobility, watching over a village where Bronze Age roundhouses and Roman pottery once marked continuous human presence. The castle is deemed of national importance, yet it sits on private land, denying entry to the very people whose ancestors may have lived beneath its shadow.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Llanmaes Castle;Malefant Castle as Tower House 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.

Llanmaes (Malefant) Castle was a medieval tower house, likely built by the de Audley family in the 13th or 14th century. It is remembered as a significant example of Welsh Marches architecture and as a site associated with local power struggles during the medieval period.

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