Carneddau

The Carneddau from near Pentir. Yr Elen centre with Carnedd Llywelyn behind, Carnedd Dafydd right.

The Carneddau (lit. "the cairns"; Carneddau is a Welsh plural form, and is sometimes anglicised to Carnedds), are a group of mountains in Snowdonia, Wales. It includes the largest contiguous areas of high ground (over 2,500 or 3,000 feet (910 m) high) in Wales and England, as well as six or seven of the highest peaks in the country—the Fourteen Peaks. The range also encloses a number of lakes such as Llyn Cowlyd and Llyn Eigiau, and the Aber Falls waterfalls. It is delimited by the Irish Sea to the north, the Conwy valley to the east, and by the A5 road from Betws-y-Coed to Bethesda to the south and west.

It was in a bog in the northern foothills of Bera Mawr - at a place called Nanhysglain - where Prince Dafydd ap Gruffudd and his family were captured in June 1283. In October Dafydd was executed in Shrewsbury. This ended the 700 year rule of Gwynedd by the family descended from Cunedda Wledig.

The peaks in the central Carnedd ridge are:

• Pen yr Ole Wen (978 m)
• Carnedd Dafydd (1044 m)
• Carnedd Llewelyn (1064 m)
• Yr Elen (962 m)
• Foel Grach (976 m)
• Garnedd Uchaf (926 m)
• Foel-fras (942 m)

In September 2009 the peak referred to as Garnedd Uchaf was renamed Carnedd Gwenllian following a campaign by the Gwenllian Society to honour Princess Gwenllian, the daughter of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales.

The Carneddau range is home to the UK's only population of wild horses.

List of summits

Pen yr Ole Wen rising above Ogwen Cottage

Yr Elen, with Carnedd Llewelyn behind

Aber Falls, at the foot of the Carneddau

Peak	Elevation	Grid reference	Status
Carnedd Llewelyn	1064	SH683644	Nuttall, Hewitt, Marilyn
Pen Llithrig y Wrach	799	SH716623	Nuttall, Hewitt, Marilyn
Creigiau Gleision	678	SH729615	Nuttall, Hewitt, Marilyn
Tal y Fan	610	SH729726	Nuttall, Hewitt, Marilyn
Carnedd Dafydd	1044	SH663630	Nuttall, Hewitt
Pen yr Ole Wen	978	SH655619	Nuttall, Hewitt
Foel Grach	976	SH688658	Nuttall, Hewitt
Yr Elen	962	SH673650	Nuttall, Hewitt
Foel-fras	942	SH696681	Nuttall, Hewitt
Llwytmor	849	SH689692	Nuttall, Hewitt
Pen yr Helgi Du	833	SH698630	Nuttall, Hewitt
Bera Mawr	794	SH674682	Nuttall, Hewitt
Drum	770	SH708695	Nuttall, Hewitt
Drosgl	758	SH664679	Nuttall, Hewitt
Garnedd Uchaf	926	SH687669	Nuttall, Hewitt
Creigiau Gleision North Top	634	SH730608	Nuttall, Hewitt
Bera Bach	807	SH672677	Nuttall
Foel Meirch	795	SH656637	Nuttall
Craig Eigiau	735	SH713654	Nuttall
Carnedd y Ddelw	688	SH707705	Nuttall
Gyrn Wigau	643	SH730608	Nuttall
Craiglwyn	623	SH730608	Nuttall
Pen y Castell	623	SH721688	Nuttall
Foel Lwyd	603	SH720723
Moel Wnion	580	SH649697
Moel Eilio	546	SH747659
Craig Wen	543	SH729602
Foel Lûs	362	SH732761
Grinllwm	287	SH776624
Alltwen	255	SH745772
Penmaenbach	245	SH748780
Mynydd y Dref / Conwy Mountain	244	SH759778

External links

• Walks in the Carneddau