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<< Our Photo Pages >> Ynys Leurad - Ancient Village or Settlement in Wales in Anglesey

Submitted by guile on Friday, 23 April 2010  Page Views: 7891

Multi-periodSite Name: Ynys Leurad Alternative Name: Ynys Lyrad - pre 20th. century spelling
Country: Wales County: Anglesey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Holyhead  Nearest Village: Valley
Map Ref: SH2764978895
Latitude: 53.278940N  Longitude: 4.586496W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ynys Leurad submitted by guile : From the south. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Anglesey (Sir Ynys Mon)
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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Ynys Leurad submitted by guile : 03.06.2010 Sunset over Ynys Leurad, viewed from Pont - rhydbont [4Mile Bridge] (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ynys Leurad submitted by guile : Looking westwards from Ynys Leurad straight at the Trearddur stone (situated in front of the old Stanley windmill SH267788) (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ynys Leurad submitted by guile : The large stone and circular collection of stones to be found on the west shore of the islet (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Ynys Leurad by Anonymous on Thursday, 24 November 2011
I live near to Ynys Leurad. Two things strike me as curious about the place name:
1) I do not understand why it is called 'Ynys' (Welsh for 'island') when clearly it is a peninsula;
2) Leurad refers to the farm opposite on Holy Island which is nowhere near !
Does anyone have a history of the Inland Sea (more accurately termed 'Y Lasinwen' ?
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Re: Ynys Leurad by guile on Friday, 04 June 2010
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Re: Ynys Leurad by guile on Friday, 23 April 2010
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There might be the remains of some old oyster beds on the eastern shore.
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