It is possible to find this, and the other caches in the series on a circular walk of approximately 8 miles starting from the National Trust, Porth y Swnt Interpretation Centre in Aberdaron. Care should be taken when walking on the Wales Coast Path, which has a steep drop to one side, but offers stunning views across Cardigan Bay.
This was the last church visited by pilgrims on their way to Bardsey. The medieval church was a ruin by the 18th Century. The remains of shallow ridge and furrow crop-marks all around the Church are evidence of very intensive agriculture at some stage in the past. The Church is close to Ffynnon Fair (St Mary's Well) (PRN 3632), which was the last stopping place for pilgrims crossing to Bardsey Island. It is a pool tucked away in an inlet on the coast itself, a tidal rock pool that unusually contains fresh water due to a natural spring in the rocks. Medieval pilgrims viewed this pool, which was fresh despite being submerged with seawater at every high tide as being miraculous and was the last well to be visited before the hazardous crossing to Enlli. Some of the boats most probably sailed from this point. It is a short distance across Swnt Enlli (Bardsey Sound) to Bae Nant on the island and can be navigated at all stages of the tide.
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Caution should be taken when visiting the well as the rocks leading to it are very slippery and the sea in the cove can become very rough.
Roedd adfeilion y capel i’w gweld yn glir pan arluniodd Moses Griffith olygfa o Ynys Enlli o’r Tir Mawr yn 1773 ar gyfer ‘A Tour in Wales’ (Thomas Pennant). Erbyn hyn gwelir gwrymiau ar y tir gwastad lle’r oedd waliau’r capel. Madredd, sef man i gadw cyrff, oedd hwn cyn mynd â nhw drosodd i Ynys Enlli i’w claddu. Roedd hefyd yn fan lle gallai’r pererinion weddïo am fendith Mair y Môr cyn croesi’r Swnt peryglus ar derfyn eu pererindod. I lawr yn Ogof y Gath ar fin y dŵr o dan Gapel Mair mae Ffynnon Fair (PRN 3632) gyda’i dŵr croyw er bod y môr yn golchi drosti ar lanw. Yma daeth Mair ar gefn ceffyl gwyn gan adael olion carn ei cheffyl yn y graig a’i llaw hithau pan bwysodd ar y graig i yfed y dŵr rhinweddol.
Mae angen cymryd gofal wrth fynd i lawr y grisiau serth sy’n arwain i lawr at Ffynnon Fair.
Ffynnon ddymuno ydi hi a gwelir darnau arian yn ei gwaelod. Arferai merched ifanc fynd i lawr ati ac os gallent godi dŵr ohoni yn eu dwylo a’i gario i fyny heb golli diferyn a hynny heb yngan gair wrth neb byddai eu dymuniadau yn cael eu gwireddu.
Gallai’r pererinion groesi o Ffynnon Fair i Fae’r Nant ar Ynys Enlli ar unrhyw awr o’r dydd. Mae’r llanw yma yn caniatáu hynny.