Note 36 — Chapter IX · Place-name Stories

Theophilus Jones, in his Brecknockshire, ii. 502, describes Miarth or Myarth as a ‘very extensive’ camp, and proceeds as follows:—‘Another British camp of less extent is seen on a knoll on Pentir hill, westward of the Rhiangoỻ and the parish church of Cwmdu, above a wood called Coed y Gaer, and nearly opposite to the peak or summit called Cloch y Pibwr, or the piper’s call.’ This would probably be more accurately rendered the Piper’s Rock or Stone, with cloch treated as the Goidelic word for a stone rather than the Brythonic word for a bell: how many more clochs in our place-names are Goidelic? ↑