BRYNCROES (BRAN-CROES), a parish partly in the hundred of GAFLOGION, but chiefly in the hundred of COMMITMAEN, Lleyn
division of the county of CARNARVON, NORTH WALES, 11 miles (W. by S.) from Pwllheli, containing 910 inhabitants. The
village is pleasantly situated on the river Sochan: the parish,' which is entirely agricultural, contains about three
thousand acres of land, the whole of which is enclosed. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Bangor, endowed with a rent-charge of £7 private benefaction, 4600 royal bounty, and £1000 parliamentary grant, and in
the patronage of C. G. Wynne, Esq. The church is a small edifice in good repair, and is appropriately fitted up for the
accommodation of the parishioners. A tenement in this parish was left some years ago, the rental of which, now about £7,
is appropriated towards the support of a master for teaching poor children to read Welsh: there is no school-room, and
the children, now twenty in number, are taught in the church. The rent of another tenement, amounting to £9 per annum, is
paid to a schoolmaster, who keeps a school here, every fourth year, in turn with Aberdaron, Rhiw, and Llanvaelrh9s. An
ancient chapel, called Ty Vair, or " St. Mary's Chapel," formerly stood near the church; in the vicinity of which also
are Fynnon Vair, " St. Mary's Well," and Cae Vair, " St. Mary's Field." A kistvaen, or stone coffin, in which was an urn
containing burnt bones and ashes, was discovered, some years ago, on the grounds of T$ Mawr, in this parish; and near a
house called Monacht9 there was formerly a cromlech. The average annual expenditure for the support ofsthe poor is £362.
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