A 'Landing Place' is annotated on OS 2nd edition 25in mapping with a small pier (?) to its eastern edge. Admiralty Sailing Directions dating to 1870 notes that it is '... it is resorted to by a few sloops with coal and limestone?' The Directions also note that this was one of the place to pick up a pilot for Porthmadoc - '...should, if the wind is blowing hard from the westward, obtain a pilot at Abersoch instead of trusting to the chance of getting one at the bottom of the bay'. A track is shown leading from the pier westwards towards the village centre and a limekiln on the early OS mapping (NPRN 518500). Modern aerial photography confirms that the foreshore continues in use as a dry berth for small craft with a slipway.

Sources include:
Admiralty, 1870, Sailing Directions for the West Coast of England from Milford Haven to the Mull of Galloway including the Isle of Man, pg61 and 63
OS 2nd edition 25in mapping
NAW Aerial Photography 2006-9

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, September 2014.