Tre-Fach Standing Stone

Also known as:
Y Garreg-Hir
Nearest town:
Fishguard (11km W)
OS reference:
SN064350
OS sheet:
145
Latitude:
51° 58' 45.09 N
Longitude:
4° 49' 9.55 W
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Image of Tre-Fach Standing Stone by Jane

The photographer at work at Tre Fach. Note Carn Ingli in the background...

Jane
Jane Jun 3, 2003
Image of Tre-Fach Standing Stone by Jane

Notice the peak of Mynedd Carningli looming over everything in the background

Jane
Jane Jun 3, 2003

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Tre-Fach Standing Stone

AdrianStallwood
AdrianStallwood Jan 13, 2025

A revisit tonight to this great stone with customary rubbish North Pembrokeshire weather.
The stone is a good size, standing 2.6 metres high and having an impressive bulk to it. Looking downhill towards the north, it could be said to resemble a broad shouldered hooded figure. Visiting is easy if you’re doing a pitstop, as there is a big pull in place on the road next to where the public footpath leaves the road.
(NB there is still some crappy rusting old fencing dug into the ground around it, and whilst not visually intrusive could be a hazard for dogs).
The stone is both aesthetically pleasing and nicely located. The views to the north are dominated by the ‘sleeping goddess’ sacred mountain of Carn Ingli and it’s Common, with the Gwaun Valley in between. Uphill to the south, although not visible, is Waun Mawn and a collection of standing stones and pairs in the basin to the north of Cerrig Lladron (the footpath heading south will get you there via a remote hill farm with some mad looking and barky Collies). The stone, or whatever it may have formed part of, could easily have been a marker or connection between two ritual centres. We, like everyone else, have never found anything that looks like the ruined cromlech that was supposedly spotted in 1914.
There is also apparently a possible Bronze Age cairn, the nicely named Carn Wrach (Cairn of the Witch) 460m to the southeast, but all that’s visible on the ground are lots of rocks which the farmer will no doubt start JCB’ing as he’s doing in the Tre-Fach stone field.

Tre-Fach Standing Stone

Jane
Jane May 31, 2003

A large standing stone, about 8 feet high, on private land, but only 15 ms from the road. On a steep hillside, this menhir is in a very dramatic position being overlooked by Mynedd Carningli. Very stately.

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