Clwstwr cytiau Pont y Teiryd

The remains of ancient roundhouses from the Bronze Age stand in a cluster at Pont y Teiryd near Llanfairfechan in Conwy County Borough. The site lies close to grid reference SH695735 on gently sloping ground above the river. Another local name for these ruins is ‘Cytiau’r Gwyddelod’, a traditional but misleading label. Cadw has listed the remains as a scheduled monument under reference CN184. They were first built around 1500 BC and abandoned when the Romans arrived in Britain. The same people who raised these huts also constructed burial chambers, standing stones, hill forts and cairns across Gwynedd, Anglesey, Conwy and Carmarthenshire. Visitors walk among low stone walls that once supported timber roofs. The largest hut circles measure about six metres across, with smaller ones scattered nearby. From the site there are wide views over the Conwy valley towards the mountains beyond. The grassy mounds and scattered rubble show how the settlement once looked.