Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Pound
Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhandirmwyn, Llandovery, Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn, Carmarthenshire, designated on 25 February 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 25 February 1999
- Locality
- Rhandirmwyn
- Town
- Llandovery
- Community
- Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07779, -3.77373
- Cadw reference
- 21413
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated by roadside just S of Gorof y Melyn in Rhandirmwyn.
History
Small pound for stray animals, presumably C19, marked on later C19 O.S. maps.
Exterior
Pound, circular rubble stone enclosing wall some 1.7m high, one C20 opening in N side, entry on W with C20 wooden gate. Diameter of some 5m.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved and relatively rare surviving animal pound.
Nearby in the register
- Gorof MelynDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Pannau StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Pannau StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Pannau StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.