Sennybridge Castle
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aka Castell Rhyd-Y-Briw & Castell Du
Powys, mid Wales
photograph copyright © by Paul M. Remfry
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Powys, mid Wales
photograph copyright © by Paul M. Remfry
Mike Salter, 1991Only fragments of the south wall of a courtyard with a projecting round tower about 7.8m in diameter now survive of a 13th century castle, alternately known as Castell Rhyd-Y-Briw. This may have been the castle begun by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd in 1262, and in 1271 was occupied by his ally Einion Sais, who is traditionally said to have had a second castle at Penpont where a tributary stream flows into the River Usk halfway between Castell Du and Brecon.
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