BLAEN-PENAL, a chapelry, in the parish of MANDEWY-BREVI, lower division of the hundred of PENARTH, county of CARDIGAN,
SOUTH WALES, 10 miles (N. by E.) from Lampeter, containing 543 inhabitants. It is situated at the extremity of the
beautiful vale of Aeron, which river rises from a mountain near the village, in which and the surrounding district are
several pleasing and ornamental residences. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cardigan, and diocese
of St. David's, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Perpetual Curate
of Llandewy -Brevi. The chapel is dedicated to St. David. There is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists. This
chapeiry separately supports its own poor: the average annual expenditure is 482. 4.