St Fagans is unusual among haunted places, because many of its buildings did not start out there. More than forty houses, chapels, shops and workshops have been taken down across Wales and rebuilt on the museum's parkland, and the ghost tours make much of the idea that some of the dead came with them.
Llainfadyn is one of the humblest. It is a single-storey cottage built of massive stones, the home of a slate-quarrying family from Rhostryfan in the hills near Caernarfon. The date 1762 is carved on the right-hand side of the fireplace lintel. Inside it is dark and crowded, with a loft where the children would have slept.
The VoiceMap audio tour "The Ghosts of St Fagans" says that staff and visitors have sometimes seen, but much more often heard, children playing in and around Llainfadyn, when there were no children nearby. It gives no dates or particular incidents. Families in cottages like this usually had many children, and many did not survive, which may be why the story attaches itself here.
It is recorded as a single strand of current museum lore.
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