Capel Cirig

Capel Cirig, Pembrokeshire

OS Grid Ref.: SN062393 approx
Lat/Lng: 52.0181864092,-4.82574270124

Place-name first attested in the late sixteenth century, located close to Newport in Pembrokeshire. The name is suggestive of a lost chapel.

The place-name is further linked to Curig as a fair in Newport ffair girig drefdraeth was held here in the late sixteenth century.

Saints linked to this site

More information

B.G. Charles, The Place-names of Pembrokeshire (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1992), 167

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