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Aberconwy Abbey is a Cistercian monastery founded in the mid-thirteenth century, originally established at Aberconwy before being relocated to Maenan in the Conwy Valley in 1269. The abbey was one of Wales's significant religious houses, benefiting from royal patronage and accumulating considerable land holdings across North Wales during the medieval period. The surviving remains include substantial stone foundations and architectural fragments that reflect the typical layout of a Cistercian community, with evidence of the church, cloister, and associated monastic buildings. The site was dissolved during the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and today the ruins represent an important archaeological record of medieval monastic life in North Wales.
Site of Aberconwy Abbey, Maenan is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN082. View the official record →
Aberconwy Abbey is a Cistercian monastery founded in the mid-thirteenth century, originally established at Aberconwy before being relocated to Maenan in the Conwy Valley in 1269. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CN082.
Site of Aberconwy Abbey, Maenan dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a abbey. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Site of Aberconwy Abbey, Maenan is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is CN082.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Llanrwst Bridge (4.3 km), Capel Gwydir Uchaf (4.8 km), Hafna Lead Mine Mill (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Site of Aberconwy Abbey, Maenan's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Site of Aberconwy Abbey, Maenan stands on Wenlock Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.