What is recorded here
Old Cilgwyn stands in Newcastle Emlyn as a Post Medieval dwelling, its walls holding the shape of hands that built and lived there long before records. It may have sheltered lovers, argument, birth and burial, though none of those events survive in the facts provided. The house still belongs to the valley, waiting for someone willing to imagine what it witnessed.
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Old Cilgwyn, Newcastle Emlyn as Dwelling 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.
Old Cilgwyn, Newcastle Emlyn was a medieval hunting lodge associated with the de Harcourt family in the 13th century. It is remembered as part of the historical landscape of the Lordship of Emlyn and for its connection to the early Norman administration in west Wales.
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