1. The farm of Ffynnoncyll was farmed by the Bowen family from the 1830s to the 1880s. One of the outbuildings has a plaque dated 1851 marking its re-building and the names of the tenant John Bowen, the owner Morgan Jones Esq., and the mason, T Llewellin.

Information from BJK Bowen, 2021.

2. Ffynnon Cyll (Ffynon meaning well and cyll deriving from collen, meaning hazel) is located approximately 2km south of Whitland, Carmarthenshire. According to Dyfed Archaeological Trust: ‘there are references to a manor house here in the 17th century. The present building is a substantial stone-built dwelling which has been extended and modernised.’

The first edition of the six-inch ordnance survey map, published in 1891, shows the house along with five other buildings in a square formation, presumably around a farmyard. That layout does not seem to have been preserved. On modern ordnance survey maps there appear to be two large rectangular buildings to the northwest of the farmhouse, and woodland surrounding it to the south and west. The well mentioned in the farm’s name is recorded on modern ordnance survey maps, approximately sixty metres southeast of the farm complex.

Sources: modern and historic Ordnance Survey maps; Dyfed Archaeological Trust Historic Environment Record, Primary Reference Number 21586

M. Ryder, RCAHMW, 1st October 2021

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