Welsh Journals

THE CASTLE OF CAEREINION. THE site of this Castle, commonly called Penyvoel," occupies the crown of the steep and conical hill that rises to the height of 800 feet, in the middle of the narrow valley which lies between the Golfa Hill on the west and Powis Castle Park to the east and it stands in the jaws of the Lledan Pass from Caereinion to the Severn Valley. Historically, little is known about it, and that little is confined to the first three quarters of the 12th century, and relates only to the brief story of the Castle and of this anon. But the name itself is suggestive of a far earlier period. The Castle of Caereinion is no mere tautology no mere English prefix to explain the Welsh title. Castle and Caer each bespeaks its own story and while the Castell" or Castle" tells of the mediaeval fortalice, the Caer hands down the name of the builder of the previous British earthwork.