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Morlais Castle - Merthyr Tydfil.
Morlais come from mawr meaning great and glais, stream, and so means great stream.
Today the ruined Morlais Castle still commands a fine view, it is situated two miles north of Merthyr Tydfil on a limestone escarpment overlooking the Taf Fechan.
Morlais Castle, was probably built on the site of a former iron-age fort. There The remaining ruins of the castle, consisting mainly of the debris of the towers and the crypt, can still be seen today.
Originally Morlais Castle was built around 1270 by the Earl of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan, Gilbert de Clare. Its construction at the farthest reaches of his lands shows that he was probably planning raids into Vaynor and intending to try to take lands from Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Lord of Brecknock. It is thought that the castle was never properly finished. The violent dispute between these two Earls over the construction of Morlais Castle caused Edward I to intervene and put both in the Tower of London. The King himself did not want Morlais castle to be an important stronghold on the boundary between Glamorgan and Brecknock. and he asserted his Royal control over these two powerful Norman Lords
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