At the foot of the Black Mountains are the derelict remains of an early 19th century Welsh Byre house. Caemarchog, Llanigon is referred to in the Brycheiniog transactions of 1974 as "A house and buildings, all early 19th century, with a byre attached and farm buildings grouped around to form a stone pitched courtyard."
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The Brycheiniog Transactions go on to describe Caemarchog as a well built house, now roofless and lacking its upper floor giving less an impression of poverty than its close neighbour Cockalofty. In the sixties when this survey was carried out, Cockalofty was in the same ruinous condition as Caemarchog, but has since been restored and blends in well with the surrounding countryside. Both these properties represented an attempt to gain a living at the edge of the useful farmland, on what is now referred to as marginal land.
The property has a long history and through a long list of deeds, sale transactions and wills, the name appears first in the ownership of a *Mr James Tickner* of Great Queens Street in the parish of St, Giles in the county of Middlesex in 1758. How it came into his possesion is not known. On his death in 1770 he left Caemarchog to his eldest son, who then had a tenant by the name of *Mr Samual Morgan*. In 1831 the Tickner family sold the property to a *Mr William Enoch*. Ten years later on the 24th of March 1841, it passed into the hands of *Mr Thomas Greenow*, and it has remained in the Greenow family to the present day.