Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Castell Tal-y-Fan
Welsh St. Donats, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Castle
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 28 April 1982
- Community
- Welsh St. Donats
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.48512, -3.41146
- SAM number
- GM421
- Cadw record number
- 3683
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of the remains of a medieval castle situated on a knoll of high ground 3.5km north-east of Cowbridge. It has artificially scarped slopes on all sides save the south, with a wide ditch running around the south, south-west and east. A curtain wall encloses the knoll and would have protected a keep and other associated castle buildings. It was strategically placed to protect the road running north from Cowbridge.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval defensive practices. The monument is well-preserved and an important relic of the medieval landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both structural evidence and intact associated deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Churchyard Wall and Gates of Church of St. OwainReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St. OwainReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ystradowen Castle MoundMotteunder 1 mi
- Church of St DonatReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.