What is recorded here

Four earthwork castles clustered at the north end of Bala Lake because rulers feared what moved through that valley. Tomen y Bala is the largest, a ninety-foot mound of packed earth and forgotten anger. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth broke its defences in 1202, yet the town beside it kept growing until English borough laws touched it in 1310. The castle did not disappear; it became the ground under which Bala still lays its streets.

Tomen Y Bala Castle is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of Gwynedd. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

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