Mynydd Isa

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Mynydd Isa [IPA: mənɪð ɪsɒ:] is a village in Flintshire, in north-east Wales. It lies between the county town of Mold, and Buckley. Mynydd Isa was originally a small hamlet on the north side of the Mold to Buckley road just downhill from the now demolished Calvanistic Chapel. It does not appear on OS maps until after the 1840's.

The name is Welsh, and translates literally into English as 'Lower Mountain' (although this name is never used).

Names of other old hamlets in the area included Pant y Fownog, a hamlet on the same road nearer Buckley (centred on the Griffin Inn) and although the name was used well into the 1900's on picture postcards of the area and by the local co-op shop next to the Griffin Inn - it has long since become disused.

Bryn-y-Baal, an old hamlet now much enlarged since the 1970's and now contiguous with Mynydd Isa. Bryn-y-Baal takes its name from the a Middle English word 'bale' (rhymes with 'Carl') meaning small hill. Later it was then written in a welsh form as 'bâl' with a 'tor bach' (little roof or circumflex in English)over the 'â'. This has the effect in Welsh of lengthening the 'a' rather than the usual short 'a' (as in cat) in Welsh. This form appears on early Ordnance Survey maps. Eventually it was written in the Anglised form 'Baal' - still correctly pronounced to rhyme with 'Carl' and not 'bale'(as in hay) or bail (as in 'get out of jail') !! For full details of the origins see 'Flintshire Place Names' by Hwyl Wyn Owen ISBN 9780708312421 published in 1995.

The local community council is Cynghor Cymnedol Argoed / Argoed Community Council - Argoed being the name of the ancient township which had covered the area since the Middle Ages.


Located in the village is a high school known as Argoed High School and a primary school (Mynydd Isa Junior School, or Ysgol y Bryn) in Bryn-y-Baal . The local infant school (Wat's Dyke Infants) is in Mynydd Isa,

The pubs in the two villages consist of The Griffin on Mold Road, and The Mercia on Mercia Drive.


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