Merthyr Cynog
Merthyr Cynog, Brecon
OS Grid Ref.: SN984374
Lat/Lng: 52.0256785372,-3.48221440154
Place-name attested in the twelfth century.
The church was the centre of Cynog's cult in Breconshire. Two churches standing near to each other were both still in existence into the seventeenth century.More information
David N. Parsons, Martyrs and Memorials: Merthyr Place-names and the Church in Early Wales (Aberystwyth: University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2013), 68–70
Richard Morgan & R.F. Peter Powell, A Study of Breconshire Place-Names (Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1999), 117
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