Y Garn (Plynlimon)

Y Garn

View over Nant-y-moch Reservoir
Elevation 684 m (2,244 ft)
Parent peak Pen Pumlumon Fawr
Listing Hewitt, Nuttall
Location
Location Ceredigion,  Wales
Range Cambrian Mountains
Topo map OS Landranger 135
OS grid SN789869

Y Garn is a subsidiary summit of Pen Pumlumon Fawr and the fourth highest peak on the Plynlimon massif, a part of the Cambrian Mountains in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.

The summit is marked by a large shelter cairn, hollowed out from an ancient burial cairn. The views include Rhos Fawr, Drygarn Fawr, Pen y Garn to the south and Aran Fawddwy, Glasgwm, Tarrenhendre and Tarren y Gesail to the north. The Nant-y-moch Reservoir can also be seen to the north, with the smaller summits of Drosgol (550m) and Banc Llechwedd-mawr (560m).[1]

References

  1. ^ Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. ISBN 1-85284-304-7.

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