What is recorded here

Loughor Castle rose around 1106 when Henry de Beaumont reused the old Roman fort of Leucarum to control the River Loughor ford. The oval ringwork suffered repeated Welsh attacks, including capture by Llywelyn the Great in 1215, before John de Braose replaced older defences with a stone curtain wall. A later stone tower reinforced the site after the 1251 attack, but the castle faded into ivy-covered ruin. Its surviving mound, tower fragments and wall pieces still mark the place where a river crossing decided who could move through Gower.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Loughor 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.

Loughor Castle was built in the late 13th century by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, as part of the English conquest of South Wales. It is important as a key example of early English military architecture in Wales and played a strategic role in controlling the region during the medieval period.

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