Mynydd-y-Garreg

Governance

Mynydd-y-Garreg is in the Kidwelly community and shares with it a mayor and an elected council, Kidwelly Town Council.

Transport

By road, the village lies 1 km from the A484, which connects Llanelli and Carmarthen. For rail travel, Kidwelly railway station lies 4 km (2.5 miles) away by road. It provides a two-hourly daytime service on Mondays to Saturdays. Some trains reach as far as London and Manchester.

Bus services through Kidwelly provide links to Llanelli, Carmarthen, Swansea and other places.

Amenities

The village has a Welsh-medium primary school, Ysgol Mynydd-y-Garreg School.

The county mobile library service visits the village every Wednesday between 11.30 and 12.30.

The Bro Cydweli LMA group parish of the Church in Wales provides a bilingual afternoon service on the first and third Sundays of the month at St Teilo's Church, Mynyddygarreg. Saint Teilo (c. 500 – 9 c. 560) was a 6th-century British monk and early Welsh saint from Pembrokeshire.

The village has a local rugby union team called Mynydd-y-Garreg RFC. It offers training facilities and a playing field with a clubhouse.

The public house in the village, the Prince of Wales, had been recognised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide. Nonetheless, it had to close in 2017.

Notable residents

• Tom Beynon (1886–1961), a Presbyterian minister, author and noted historian; born and grew up in Mynydd-y-Garreg.
• Leslie Williams (1922–2006), a Welsh dual-code international rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer
• Gordon Lewis (born 1936), a Welsh former rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer with over 400 club caps
• Ray Gravell (1951–2007), Welsh national rugby union player; a road there was named after him, and after his death a sculpture erected in his honour at the Llanelli Scarlets' stadium Parc y Scarlets, where it stands on a plinth of stone quarried from the village.

Fossil remains

Smarts Quarry, half a mile to the east of the village, is a 2.6 ha Site of Special Scientific Interest notable for its quartzite fossil remains.

References

References

1. [http://www.mynyddygarreg.amdro.org.uk/ Minimal information in Welsh and English. Retrieved 28 June 2021.]
2. [https://www.carmarthenshire.gov.wales/home/council-services/libraries-archives/mobile-libraries/trimsaran-mynyddygarreg-ferryside/ Mobile library service. Retrieved 18 September 2020.]
3. [https://www.stmaryskidwelly.org.uk/index.php?id=4 Parish site. Retrieved 18 September 2020.]
4. [https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofWales/St-Teilo/ History of Wales site. Retrieved 18 September 2020.]
5. [https://mynydd-y-garreg.rfc.wales/find-us Team page. Retrieved 18 September 2020.]
6. "This is the Website for Carmarthen Branch CAMRA".
7. [https://whatpub.com/pubs/CAT/203/prince-of-wales-mynydd-y-garreg Pub entry. Retrieved 18 September 2020.]
8. [https://biography.wales/article/s2-BEYN-TOM-1886?&query=Tom%20Beynon&searchType=nameSearch&lang=en&sort=sort_name&order=asc&rows=12&page=1 Welsh Biography. Retrieved 18 September 2020.]
9. (26 July 2003). "Street name honours Gravell".
10. (15 August 2009). "Scarlets stadium tribute to Ray".
11. "MAGIC Map Application". [[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
12. "Site of Special Scientific Interest, Carmarthenshire, Smarts Quarry". Natural Resources Wales.