Qualla: Plas yn Rhiw https://qualla.com/plas-yn-rhiw en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Plas yn Rhiw https://qualla.com/plas-yn-rhiw Plas yn Rhiw: Introduction https://qualla.com/plas-yn-rhiw/ Three sisters bought it in 1939. The Keating sisters - Eileen, Lorna and Honora - had grown up in Nottingham, the daughters of a Welsh nationalist solicitor and an English mother, and they wanted somewhere remote and Welsh enough to live for the rest of their lives. They found Plas yn Rhiw, an early-17th-century manor house above the long sweep of Porth Neigwl - Hell's Mouth - on the southwestern Llyn Peninsula. The house had a date inscribed on a window lintel: 1634, the initials I.L. It had a small terraced garden running down the slope, mostly run wild. It had been empty for years. The sisters set to work, with advice on the garden from the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, the man behind Portmeirion. Slowly, room by room and bed by bed, they brought the place back.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/s/plas-yn-rhiw-wp/gcks-plas-yn-rhiw-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Plas yn Rhiw: The Site https://qualla.com/plas-yn-rhiw/ Plas yn Rhiw stands at the foot of Mynydd Rhiw, looking out across Porth Neigwl and Cardigan Bay to the Llyn Peninsula curving away to the south. The location has been inhabited for far longer than any of its visible buildings. Neolithic remains in the surrounding area date back ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/s/plas-yn-rhiw-wp/gcks-plas-yn-rhiw-the-site.mp3 0:06 2 full Plas yn Rhiw: The House https://qualla.com/plas-yn-rhiw/ The house itself is small. Its core is early 17th century, Tudor in spirit with later Georgian sash windows added. It stands in roughly one acre of garden, with a detached cottage, a summerhouse and a tool shed nearby. There is an old mill beside a small stream that once held roy...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/s/plas-yn-rhiw-wp/gcks-plas-yn-rhiw-the-house.mp3 0:06 3 full Plas yn Rhiw: The Sisters' Garden https://qualla.com/plas-yn-rhiw/ The Keating sisters were not professional gardeners, but they took their garden seriously. Clough Williams-Ellis, who lived not far away at Plas Brondanw and was busy creating his Italianate village at Portmeirion further up the coast, advised them. The result is a garden of nati...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/s/plas-yn-rhiw-wp/gcks-plas-yn-rhiw-the-sisters-garden.mp3 0:06 4 full Plas yn Rhiw: The Gift https://qualla.com/plas-yn-rhiw/ The sisters gave Plas yn Rhiw to the National Trust in the 1940s, in memory of their parents Constance and William Keating - while reserving the right to continue living in the house for the rest of their lives. They each did, until their deaths. They are buried in a churchyard n...

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