St Brynach's Well

OS ref.

Well OS ref. SN 054280

The holy well lies just off the road between Maenclochog and Henry's Moat.  Two farms are called after the well and it is behind a barn which forms one side of a farmyard of the one furthest from the road.

The well is a living spring. Water comes out from under a stone built arch and collects in a rectangular well chamber below. There are records of a Mediaeval chapel in the field beyond the hedge and of a heap of stones which marked its location. One is supposed to have been incised with a roughly carved shape of a cross.  The name changed, probably during Norman times, to Bernard's Well and it is noted in this form on Ordnance maps.  Perhaps it was renamed after the first Norman Bishop of St Davids.