St Dogmaels St Dogmaels is a thriving community with a popular local producers market every Tuesday morning beside the ruined Abbey of St Mary. Here there is also a highly recommended café and informative visitor centre as well as the neighbouring Church of St Thomas with it’s ancient latin and ogham Sagranus stone. Extract from The Teifi Valley Trail Guide (due to be published in 2026): “The Abbey of St Mary at St Dogmaels was founded in 1120 by the Norman, Robert Fitz Martin, Lord of Cemais. It was a daughter house of the Abbey of Tiron in France. In turn, this Abbey had daughter priories at Pill and Caldey Island. These priories had nearby good sources of fine-grained red sandstones which could be cut easily in any direction, useful for an Abbey needing elegant doorways and windows when the local stone was poor quality slate and blocky sandstone. Next to the Abbey, the medieval parish church of St Thomas, rebuilt in 1848-52, houses three 5th-9thC carved stones including the Sagranus stone at the back of the church. This has bilingual Latin and ancient Irish Ogham inscription, in which letters are represented by notches along an edge. Historic links with Ireland are seen in the prevalence of Ogham stones in West Wales.” Post Office – 1 High St, St Dogmaels, SA43 3ED Pub – White Hart Community Inn – Finch St, St Dogmaels, SA43 3EA Pub – Ferry Inn – Poppit Road, St Dogmaels, SA43 3LF Mor Ffein Fish & Chips, St Dogmaels, SA43 3ED Premier Siop y Pentref – High St, St Dogmaels, SA43 3EF Toilet (by car park) Teifi Waterside Hotel – Poppit, SA43 3LR Other accommodation in and around St Dogmaels
