What is recorded here

Castell Cricieth stands as a ruined thirteenth-century castle on a rocky headland overlooking Tremadog Bay, where Llywelyn ap Iorwerth first raised stone before Edward I captured it in 1283. Its twin-towered gatehouse still touches the sky, but the outer walls have surrendered to moss and memory after Owain Glyndŵr took the place in 1404. The castle served as a prison for high-status captives, including Scottish prisoners of Edward I, until decay turned it into the romantic ruin that J.M.W. Turner sketched in 1798.

Castell Cricieth is shown as a castle on the public map of Gwynedd. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Built by Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd, in the early 13th century, Castell Cricieth is remembered as a key stronghold in the Welsh struggle for independence against English rule and for its strategic position overlooking Cardigan Bay.

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