The White Hart Free house - pub in Cenarth, Carmarthenshire Wales, with old Coracle suspended on the wall.
The coracle is a small, rounded, lightweight boat of the sort traditionally used in Wales, on the river Teifi at Cenarth, and also in parts of the West Country and in Ireland, on the River Boyne, and in Scotland, on the River Spey. The word is also used of similar boats found in India, Vietnam, Iraq and Tibet. The word "coracle" is an English spelling of the original Welsh cwrwgl, cognate with Irish and Scottish Gaelic currach, and is recorded in English text as early as the sixteenth century. Other historical English spellings include corougle, corracle, curricle and coricle. The Welsh Rivers Teifi and Tywi are the most common places to find coracles in Wales. On the Teifi they are most frequently seen between Cenarth, and Cilgerran and the village of Llechryd. In 1974, a Welsh coracle piloted by Bernard Thomas (~1923–2014) of Llechryd crossed the English Channel to France in 13 1⁄2 hours. The journey was undertaken to demonstrate how the Bull Boats of the Mandan Indians of North Dakota could have been copied from coracles introduced by Prince Madog in the 12th century.
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Location: White Hart Free house, Cenarth, Carmarthenshire Wales, UK
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