THE STORY OF PEN PYCH

A long time ago, a Celtic tribe occupied the top of Pen Pych, raising their famous prize bulls along with their cattle in the valley below. One day during the Roman expansions, the Romans demanded for the Celtic to hand over their land. When the Celts refused this proposition, the Romans demanded for their bulls as an alternative offering, something the Celts was largely enraged by. Rather than handing them over, they cut the heads off of their bulls and put them on stakes, tossing the bull’s bodies off of the mountain. Hence, the name Pen Pych which is derived from Pen yr pump Pych meaning the head of the five bulls.