LLWYN CELYN, Abergorlech, Carmarthenshire 2019

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Notes on LLWYN CELYN, Abergorlech, Carmarthenshire 2019

After visiting another ruin, Cwm-Cwta, a mile or so away, I thought I would try to see if anything remained of Llwyn Celyn. There seemed nothing to see on Google Earth and my O/S map is 20 years old now and only showed an empty box or two at right angles. I was not going to bother. My first walk had been a little arduous and I had further visits planned for the day. I was pleased I convinced myself to take a look and much surprised. I always seem to need to convince myself these days that it is worth the effort to walk that extra mile. I tell myself that it is unlikely I’ll ever walk these footpaths again. That is sometimes and sometimes not the case.

Llwyn Celyn sits in a small wooden area and has much to admire. The house, I imagine, has only lost its roof in the last ten or fifteen years or so. It’s solidly built and more unusually has fared better than the outbuildings around it. I rested here a good half hour. There is always unease within me when I haven’t photographed for a long time; it’s mixture of anticipation, nerves of meeting irate landowners, and the fact that I simply haven’t bothered for such a long time that is there even a need for me to carry on documenting these houses?

A few exposures were made. I felt the old sense of good return. I was absorbed in my task, whilst the fog swept around the trees, the damp ground underfoot, the smell of the forest, of rotten fallen wood, of dew, of wet leaf and muddy stream.

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