CAREGRINA, or CREGRINA (CRUGYNAU), a parish, in the hundred of COLWYN, county of RADNOR, SOUTH WALES, 61. miles (E.) from
Builth, containing 119 inhabitants. This place is situated upon the banks of the river Edw, or Edwy, which falls into the
Wye at Aberedw. The living is a discharged rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Llanbadarn y garreg annexed, in the
archdeaconry of Brecknock, and diocese of St. David's, rated in the king's books at £9. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the
Bishop of St. David's. The church, dedicated to St. David, is a small structure of mean appearance, consisting of a nave
and a chancel, neither of which is ceiled; it has no tower, but there is one bell hanging under a small shed. This parish
participates in the bequest of the Rev. Rees Powell, of Boughrood, who left certain property for charitable purposes,
among which is the apprenticing of one child from it; and the Rev. Thomas Williams gave ten shillings per annum for the
relief of decayed housekeepers. A little above the church there is an artificial elevation, surrounded by a moat, called
Pennard's Mount, probably a corruption of the Welsh word Penarth, which is descriptive of its situation at the head, or in
front, of a hill: though nothing authentic has been recorded of it, it was, most likely, at some remote period, occupied
by a fortress, as it appears well situated for defending the pass of the river and the descent from the hills, being just
above a bend of the river, communicating with an ancient castle in the parish of Glascomb, from which it was easy to
apprise Colwyn castle, the head of the lordship, of any approach. The average annual expenditure for the support of the
poor is 108. 3.