Manorbier Castle Dovecote;Old Pigeon House — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Manorbier Castle Dovecote stands beside the Norman walls in Pembrokeshire, preserving the medieval and post-medieval purpose of keeping pigeons for the castle household. The old pigeon house still belongs to the same coastal estate where Gerald of Wales was born, linking ordinary food production to a place he called the most pleasant in Wales. People may have climbed its shelves at dawn, listened for the quiet rush of wings, and carried eggs or meat into the kitchens below. The dovecote turns a grand castle into a working home, where even noble people depended on small birds returning before dark.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Manorbier Castle Dovecote;Old Pigeon House as Dovecote from the Post Medieval; Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Manorbier Castle Dovecote, also known as the Old Pigeon House, was built in the medieval period, likely by the de Prendergast family, who held Manorbier Castle from the 13th to the 17th century. It is remembered as a well-preserved example of a castle-associated dovecote, reflecting the importance of pigeon keeping for food and status in medieval aristocratic life.

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