Yr Eifl
Yr Eifl, sometimes called the Rivals in English, is a group of hills on the north coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales. On a clear day, the views from the highest summit reach as far as the Isle of Man, the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland and the Lake District, as well as the entire sweep of Cardigan Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,841 feet
- Description: hill (560.7m) in Gwynedd
- Also known as: “Rivel Mountain”, “The Rivals”, “Y Garn”, and “Yr Eifl (Garn Ganol)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tre’r Ceiri and Trefor Quarry.
Tre’r Ceiri
Archaeological site
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tre'r Ceiri is a hillfort dating back to the Iron Age. The name means "town of the giants", from cewri, plural of cawr, "giant". The settlement is 450 metres above sea level on the slopes of Yr Eifl, a mountain on the north coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, north-western Wales.
Trefor Quarry
Quarry
The Trefor Quarry railway was an industrial, 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in narrow-gauge railway connecting the Trefor granite quarry with the pier at Llanaelhaearn on the Llŷn Peninsula.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nant Gwrtheyrn and Llithfaen.
Nant Gwrtheyrn
Hamlet
Photo: Tom Parnell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nant Gwrtheyrn is a Welsh Language and Heritage Centre, located near the village of Llithfaen on the northern coast of the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, in northwest Wales.
Llithfaen
Village
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llithfaen is a village on the North West of Wales on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales. It is within the community of Pistyll near Caernarfon Bay. Pwllheli is the nearest town, approximately 8 miles away, and Caernarfon is 16 miles away.
Trefor
Village
Photo: David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trefor is a village on the northern coast of the Llŷn Peninsula, in Gwynedd, Wales. It had a population of 1,067 at the 2021 Census. Trefor is in the community of Trefor a Llanaelhaearn, and Llithfaen is nearby.
Yr Eifl
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Pistyll, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.97507° or 52° 58′ 30″ northLongitude
-4.43658° or 4° 26′ 12″ westElevation
1,841 feet (561 metres)Open location code
9C4QXHG7+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 319001802OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Yr Eifl” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Yr Eifl”
- Catalan: “Yr Eifl”
- Cebuano: “Yr Eifl”
- Dutch: “Yr Eifl”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل يار ايفل”
- Italian: “Yr Eifl”
- Swedish: “Yr Eifl”
- Welsh: “Yr Eifl”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Yr Eifl”. Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.