Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.
The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.
Cadw says the pay and display car park is managed by a third party and that it has no control over the tariffs or parking duration; it is the roadside strip between Penmon Priory and the dovecote, paid to the attendant in the toll hut beside the dovecote, which also collects the toll for the private road on to Penmon Point. No official tariff is published, so the status is recorded as unknown; visitors and an unofficial guide report about £3.50 per car for the day, cash only, with the same ticket covering the drive to the point.
Driving pin: the roadside parking strip, 29 m west of Cadw's marker on the dovecote. Cadw's postcode LL58 8RW centres about a mile short of the site, so continue along the road towards Penmon Point. Walkers arrive on the Wales Coast Path.
Penmon Dovecote, Colomendy Penmon, is a bird box on a truly epic scale beside the lane to Penmon Point on the eastern tip of Anglesey. It is hard to believe this massive square limestone building with its domed stone roof and open cupola was built to house pigeons and doves, but Sir Richard Bulkeley raised it around 1600 beside his Priory House, and its tiers of paired nest holes gave room for up to 1,000 nests, an important source of meat and eggs. Inside the vaulted dome a round stone pillar about 12 feet high once carried a revolving ladder for reaching the nests, and a roofless corn barn abuts it. Penmon Priory, its cross and St Seiriol's Well stand across the road, with the lighthouse a mile on along the toll road. Reviewers count the hundreds of nest holes, now home to nesting swallows, and make an afternoon of all four. One tip: the roadside parking is charged at the toll hut, cash only, and there are no toilets.
Free entry
Open 10am to 4pm all year, last admission 30 minutes before closing; closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January; the exterior can be viewed during reasonable daylight hours at any time. No admission charge. Cadw may close monuments at short notice in extreme weather.
The dovecote stands on the roadside and is entered through its doorway, with uneven floors and the ruined stair inside; the ground may be slippery or muddy. No toilets or facilities; the nearest are at the Pilot House cafe at Penmon Point. Drones are not permitted.
Photo: Penmon Dovecote's square limestone walls and domed stone roof with its small cupola, beside the roofless barn under a blue summer sky. Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dovecot,_Penmon_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7327699.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.
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12 miles (19 km) to Llangoed or 15 miles (24 km) to Beaumaris from Pentraeth, with tidal sections near Red Wharf Bay and before Beaumaris (check tide times); from Trwyn Du at Penmon Point the route follows the road for a mile to Penmon Priory, with the dovecote across the road; infrequent buses, parking in Pentraeth. Free.
