St Dogmaels Abbey
St Dogmael's Abbey is an abbey in St Dogmaels in Pembrokeshire, Wales, close to Cardigan and Poppit Sands.
It was founded about 1115 for a prior and twelve monks of the Tironensian Order. The founders were Robert fitz Martin and his wife, Maud Peverel (sister of William Peverel the younger, d.1149). The buildings are now mostly ruins, though extensive walls and arches remain and are Grade I listed.
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Coordinates: 52°04′50″N 4°40′51″W / 52.08052°N 4.68078°W / 52.08052; -4.68078
St Dogmaels
Coordinates: 52°05′N 4°41′W / 52.08°N 4.68°W / 52.08; -4.68
St Dogmaels (Welsh: Llandudoch) is a village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the estuary of the River Teifi, a mile downstream from the town of Cardigan in neighbouring Ceredigion. A little to the west of the village, further along the estuary, lies Poppit Sands beach.
Name
The English and Welsh names seem to bear no similarity, but it has been suggested that possibly both names refer to the same saint or founder, with ‘mael’ (prince) and ‘tud’ (land or people of) being added to Dog/doch as in Dog mael and Tud doch.
History
The village contains the remains of a 12th-century Tironian abbey, which was in its day one of the richer monastic institutions in Wales. Adjacent to the abbey ruins lies the Anglican St. Thomas parish church, which appears successively to have occupied at least three sites close to or within the abbey buildings The present building is a respectable minor Victorian edifice and contains the Ogam Sagranus stone. St. Dogmael's was once a marcher borough. George Owen of Henllys, in 1603, described it as one of five Pembrokeshire boroughs overseen by a portreeve.
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