Mynydd-y-Garreg

Mynydd-y-Garreg is in the Kidwelly community and shares a Mayor and an elected council, Kidwelly Town Council.

By road, the village lies 1 km from the A484, which connects Llanelli and Carmarthen. By rail Kidwelly railway station lies 4 km away by road. This provides a two-hourly daytime service on Mondays to Saturdays.

A bus service operates that connects to bus routes running through Kidwelly, which link passengers to Llanelli, Carmarthen, Swansea and other places.

The village has a Welsh-medium primary school, Ysgol Mynydd-y-Garreg School.[1]

The county mobile library service visits the village every Wednesday between 11.30 and 12.30.[2]

The Bro Cydweli LMA group parish of the Church in Wales provides a bilingual afternoon service on the first and third Sundays of the month at St Teilo's Church, Mynyddygarreg.[3] Saint Teilo was a 6th-century British monk and early Welsh saint from Pembrokeshire.[4]

The village has a local rugby union team called Mynydd-y-Garreg RFC. It offers training facilities and a playing field with a clubhouse.[5]

The public house in the village, the Prince of Wales, had been recognised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide. However, the pub closed in 2017.[6][7]

• The Presbyterian minister, author and noted historian Tom Beynon (1886–1961), was born and grew up in Mynydd-y-Garreg.[8]
• The village was home to the Welsh national rugby union legend Ray Gravell (1951–2007). A road there was named after him,[9] and after his death a sculpture erected in his honour at the Llanelli Scarlets' stadium Parc y Scarlets, where it stands on a plinth of stone quarried from the village.[10]

Smarts Quarry, half a mile to the east of the village, is a 2.6 ha Site of Special Scientific Interest notable for its quartzite fossil remains.[11][12]

• Photographs of Mynydd-y-Garreg and surrounding area from the www.geograph.org.uk site