Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Corbelled pig-sty at Maen-offeriaid
Crymych, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 9 November 1992
- Locality
- Eglwyswen
- Town
- Crymych
- Community
- Crymych
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.98013, -4.70216
- Cadw reference
- 13071
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the S side of the house at Maen-offeriaid some 1.7km SE of Pontyglasier.
History
Corbelled pig-sty of uncertain date, probably C19, though of a masonry type of construction dating back to prehistory.
Exterior
Small corbelled pig-sty, square-plan with low tapered-sided entry and stone slab lintel, the roof roughly domed outside, built of corbelled flat stones within. Added stones on right side. Outside the front is a tiny enclosure defined by seven small standing stones.
Reason for designation
Included as an extremely rare surviving example of this type of structure in the region.
Nearby in the register
- Corn Drying Kiln 130m E of Mirianog-GanolCorn Drying Kilnunder 1 mi
- Carn Alw HillfortHillfortunder 1 mi
- Bethabara Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Vestry to Bethabara Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.