There’s actually a dispute whether Monmouthshire is actually part of Wales, geographically it is, however the people of Monmouthshire quite often refer to themselves as a separate Principality.
This is in some extent bourn out by the establishing of the Court of Great Session in 1543, a distinct Welsh system of courts based upon four three-county circuits: Anglesey, Caernarfon and Merionnydd; Flint, Denbigh and Montgomery; Cardigan, Carmarthen and Pembroke; Radnor, Brecon and Glamorgan. As Monmouthshire was not included in the system, the notion arose that it had ceased to be part of Wales.
However this idea was to bear little substance and became meaningless after 1830 when the Court of Great Session was abolished. Nevertheless, some of the rare examples of specific Welsh legislation passed between 1536 and 1900 assumed that Monmouthshire was not part of Wales. For example, the act closing public houses on Sunday in Wales did not initially apply to Monmouthshire. Even in the 20th century, it was usual to refer to the thirteen counties as Wales and Monmouthshire.
In became the County of Gwent in 1974 Gwent, Gwent was abolished in 1996, and the new units of local government, which replaced it, paid scant attention to any presumed boundaries between Wales and the old Monmouthshire.
I doubt very much if you will find Welch of much use in Tintern, Welsh is spoken a lot more in the Northern area of the Principality, towards Snowdonia and Anglesey.
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