Coracle Museum - Cenarth, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
N 52° 02.712 W 004° 31.492
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The National Coracle Centre at Cenarth is a Museum featuring the history of coracles & the techniques and tools for building them. With displays of Coracles from all around the World. Located in the grounds of a Water Mill at Cenarth Falls, Wales.
Waymark Code: WMQ55D
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/22/2015
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The Coracle is a small skin covered, flat bottom boat, in the shape of a half walnut shell, just big enough to seat 1 person, but light enough to be easily carried on your back with a strap over your shoulder. There are many versions thro-out the World. The modern Welsh Coracles are made from a split willow frame & canvas, painted with Tar.
The National Coracle Centre at Cenarth is said to be the only Coracle Museum in the World.
"Coracles (from the Welsh "cwrwgl") have a history dating back thousands of years. The coracle was originally covered with animal skins and in some countries they are still made this way. In Wales they are now skinned with calico which is waterproofed using a bitumastic paint. For those interested in researching the subject there are two excellent resources. The National Coracle Centre is to be found at Cenarth Falls, Newcastle Emlyn, Dyfed. Martin Fowler has a display which illustrates the history and diversity of the craft. He tells me that 12 people have licences to fish the River Teifi for salmon and sea trout using the coracle. The Centre can supply the woven, Teifi-style coracle and instruct in its use." Text Source; (
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From The Carmarthenshire Tourist Web Site;
"On display are coracles from the British Isles and from around the world, including coracles from North America, India, Tibet and Iraq. The museum is set in the grounds of a 17th Century Flour Mill beside the beautiful Cenarth falls famed for its Salmon Leaps and 200 year old Bridge over the Teifi River.
The Museum, apart from its fine collection of coracles covers the history of coracles and the techniques and tools for building them. Also a section on the implements and methods used for the equally ancient art of poaching.
The shop carries a range of books, CDs , Learning packs etc, along with scale models of coracles. There are also photographic and local artists' work for sale and samples of rural crafts." Text Source; (
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia;
"The coracle is a small, lightweight boat of the sort traditionally used in Wales but also in parts of Western and South West England, Ireland (particularly the River Boyne), and Scotland (particularly the River Spey); the word is also used of similar boats found in India, Vietnam, Iraq and Tibet. The word "coracle" comes from the Welsh cwrwgl, cognate with Irish and Scottish Gaelic currach. : Text Source: (
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