Cynwyl Gaeo

Cynwyl Gaeo
Community
St Cynwyl's parish church
Cynwyl Gaeo is located in Carmarthenshire
Cynwyl Gaeo
Cynwyl Gaeo
Location within Carmarthenshire
Principal area
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
PoliceDyfed-Powys
FireMid and West Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
List of places
UK
Wales
Carmarthenshire

52°03′18″N 3°57′25″W / 52.05500°N 3.95694°W / 52.05500; -3.95694


Map of the community

Cynwyl Gaeo is a parish and community located in rural Carmarthenshire, Wales, near the boundary with Ceredigion, in the upper Cothi valley about halfway between Lampeter and Llandovery. The population of the village[which?] at the United Kingdom Census 2011 was 940.[1] It includes the villages of Caio (Caeo), Crug-y-bar, Cwrtycadno, Ffarmers and Pumsaint.

Historically it was part of the commote of Caeo, which in turn was part of Y Cantref Mawr ("The Great Hundred"), a division of Ystrad Tywi.

It is the location of the Dolaucothi Gold Mines, part of Dolaucothi Estate, whose owner, John Johnes, was murdered by his butler in 1876. The mansion house was demolished in 1952.

The parish church of St Cynwyl in the village of Caeo is a Grade II* listed building.[2]

  1. ^ "Community population 2011". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Parish Church of St Cynwyl, Caeo, Cynwyl Gaeo". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 21 December 2013.