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Multi-periodSite Name: Ynys Leurad Alternative Name: Ynys Lyrad - pre 20th. century spellingCountry: Wales County: Anglesey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Holyhead Nearest Village: Valley
Map Ref: SH2764978895
Latitude: 53.278940N Longitude: 4.586496W
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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A ruggedly beautiful small islet in clear sight of the Trearddur standing stone, Ynys Leurad offers excellent views of the inland sea across to Holy Island.
I am sure I have located one hut circle in the south of the islet, but the thick grass precluded any certainty and any hope of locating other huts. There is also a very suggestive cairn with a large stone at the waters edge on the western shore.
There is a good footpath around the perimeter of the islet, but the hummock of Ynys Leurad is heavily overgrown with gorse and thick grass that makes for awkward walking and prevented me from locating further features. There is the remains of an ancient ford at low water from the mainland to the island from the south east.
Access is good if a little damp and muddy at times, either from the south or the north using the Anglesey Coastal Path.
"Cytiau'r Gwyddelodd is one of several clusters of prehistoric type settlement features on Ynys Leurad which were investigated in 1874. The low offshore islet lies just off Anglesey in the Holyhead strait and was once the main crossing point between the two isles.
The southern settlement cluster comprised at least three buildings of which two were cleared in 1874. These were a 6.4-6.8m internal diameter roundhouse and a near square building, 3.4-3.7m across internally. Both were stone founded, the square building with 1.5m wide walling. Finds included a saddle quern and spindle whorls, but apparently no Roman material, as is often the case with similar settlements.
There were numerous other settlement features on the islet and these can be resolved into several discrete clusters rather than a single dispersed mass. One cluster can be discerned about 100m to the north. This included two roundhouses, 9.0m and 6.5m across. Other features on the isle included a ruined house and garden and an old storehouse. All these features are shown on early editions of the OS County series (Anglesey XI.12 1889, 1900, 1924).
Sources: Stanley in Archaeologia Cambrensis 4th series 9 (1878), 134-5
RCAHM Anglesey Inventory (1937), 115-6"
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