Rectangular stone walled enclosure 28 metres by 14 metres, built onto rocks overlooking Porth Ysgaden. The enclosure is labelled as a boat yard on modern mapping and is depicted on the 1889 First Edition 25-inch Ordnance Survey map, where it is divided into 3 compartments. The Cadw listing description for the nearby lime kiln (NPRN 40645) some 65 metres to the northeast, notes that this also served as a coal yard and would have been associated with the kiln. A track running from the cove and beach to the enclosure and on to the top of the kiln for loading also forms part of this complex, with a windlass also noted on the First Edition Ordnance Survey Map.

This structure forms part of the small coastal industry at Porth Ysgaden, where coves either side of the headland provided safe harbours for boats and small ships to deliver goods to local residents, and to take away local produce, including salted herring (giving the Ysgaden placename).

Louise Barker, CHERISH project RCAHMW, January 2024

CHERISH PROJECT. Produced with EU funds through the Ireland Wales Co-operation Programme 2014-2020. https://cherishproject.eu/en/

Updated: Louise Barker, RCHAHMW, 9 August 2024.

Source:

https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=porth-ysgaden-near-tudweiliog

Cadw Grade II Listed Building (No. 4381): https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=4381

OS 1st Edition 25-inch map (published 1889): Caernarvonshire XXXIX sheet 2.

OS 2nd Edition 25-inch map (published 1900): Caernarvonshire XXXIX sheet 2.

OS 3rd Edition 25-inch map (published 1918): Caernarvonshire XXXIX sheet 2.