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Ty Hir

Thus an " extra " rent of ten shillings was collected from the men of commote Arllechwedd Isaf when it was discovered that the inhabitants formerly maintained a house called Ty Hir in the manor of Aber. The sheriff likewise discovered that the villeins of commotes Dinllaen and Gafflogion this account is from approx 1300 if this is the manor house then it would show that it was not distrode if it wasnt how many Tir Hirs were there. A Ty Hir is just as easily a tall house as a long house such a two winged Hall

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This picture drawn by Dr Jonathan Foyle for a Television program about Pen Y Bryn shows how Ty Hir may have looked. (Ty Hir means Long House or Tall house) and was a traditionally a farm stead house. it would usually have been the house for the Manor or Llys farm. The farmer would have lived at one end and his cows and other live stock would have been at the other. this may have been here till the mid 1500’s when Pen Y Bryn was built on top of it. The tower was by legend called Llywelyn’s Tower but what he would have used it for is a mystery

The late Professor Jones Pierce gives us the following information in the Caernarvonshire Transactions for 1962 - “That the Prince's farm consisted of 200 acres, comprising a farm that is now Pen-y-Bryn and Henfaes Farms that the community contributed 684 days work in autumn and 576 days in winter, an average of 52 1/2 days per family. In addition a joint render of 6 quarters of wheat, 12 of barley and 6 of oats for provender had to be made annually. A groom had to be maintained by the community throughout the year and a good horse had also to be maintained for the Prince's personal use. Subsistence had to be found for as many as 96 members of the Prince's staff, as well as fodder for their horses in winter. Minor dues were also to be rendered - such as the provision of fire wood for the Prince's Hall” so if Pen y Bryn was the farm the were was the Hall