Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.
The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.
Cadw names a pay and display car park managed by a third party, over whose tariffs and parking duration it has no control, so no tariff is recorded and the status is unknown. Visitors in 2025 and 2026 report about £3.50 for a car and £7 for a van, one says £4.00, paid in cash to the attendant in the hut at the dovecote end of the strip; the same ticket covers the private toll road on to Penmon Point and the lighthouse, and the charge applies even for a short stop. Park at the west end for the church and priory ruins, at the east end for the dovecote and the 90 m gravel path to the well. No toilets at the site; the Pilot House cafe at Penmon Point, a mile on, has toilets for customers.
Driving pin: the priory ruins and church a few metres inside the gate from the parking strip, 39 m from Cadw's own arrival point at the west end of the strip, 52 m from Penmon Dovecote's pin at the strip's centre and 53 m from Cadw's marker north of the church; the two Cadw places share one arrival. By road: continue about a mile past the LL58 8RW postcode centre towards Penmon Point. Walkers arrive on the Wales Coast Path; buses serve Llangoed.
Penmon Priory, Cross and St Seiriol's Well, Priordy a Chroes Penmon a Ffynnon Seiriol, are three for the price of one at this holy site near the eastern tip of Anglesey. St Seiriol founded a monastery here in the 6th century, and the healing well that bears his name lies a short walk north of the church beside the footings of what tradition calls his cell, in a chamber rebuilt in 1710. The priory became Augustinian in the 13th century, and from then dates its best-preserved building, the two-storey south range with the refectory below and the canons' dormitory above. The cruciform church of about 1140, with sumptuous Romanesque tower arches and a carved beast over its south door, still serves the parish, and inside it stands the 10th-century Penmon Cross, carved with frets and plaits, seen when the church is open. The dovecote is across the road. Parking costs about £3.50, paid to the attendant, and covers the toll road to Penmon Point; the priory is free.
Free entry
Open all year 10am to 4pm; no admission charge for the priory ruins or the well. The Penmon Cross stands inside St Seiriol's church, which still serves the parish and is opened by it, so the cross is seen when the church is open; Cadw refers visitors to the National Churches Trust for church visiting information, which was not found online. Cadw may close monuments at short notice in extreme weather.
Terrain level 1, accessible, for the priory and cross, with historic floors, narrow steps, high thresholds and low door frames in the ruins; level 2, easy, for the well, reached by a gravel path that can be muddy, through a narrow gate to a chamber with stone benches. Deep water at the fishpond and well. No toilets. Drones are not permitted.
Photo: The roofless refectory range of Penmon Priory beside Priory House and St Seiriol's Church with its pyramid-roofed tower, under a clear blue sky. Keith Ruffles, CC BY 3.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Penmon_Priory_-_panoramio.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0. 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) for the whole route from Pentraeth, with tidal sections at Red Wharf Bay and after Lleiniog (check tide times); from Penmon Point the route follows the road for a mile to the priory, dovecote across the road; buses from Llangoed via Beaumaris or Menai Bridge; parking in Pentraeth. Free.
