English: Fence at side of Field, Crug-Glas in distance & Carn Goch beyond The hill-fort of Carn Goch is top-ish right-ish. Surprisingly well developed shrubs & trees in stream gully to left running down to Crug Glas (FarmHouse) Carn Goch is a particularly striking example and one of the largest iron age hill forts in Wales found in the West of the national park. It is impressively located on a hilltop whose presence dominates the surrounding countryside (Seen from above in this view) This choice location at 700 feet above sea level (213m) offers the visitor today not just an opportunity to walk around the extensive explores the remains of the hill fort with its massive stone defences but to partake of the excellent panorama. The twenty-eight acres of land on which it stands was purchased by the national park authority in the 1980s. Carn Goch translates as the red cairn. the preference to a cairn almost certainly refers to a large prominent burial mound within the main enclosure. Some writers have speculated that the red may refer to the colour of the surrounding bracken in autumn and winter when bathed in the sunlight that this prominent hillside benefits from.