EGLWYS-CUMMIN (EGLWYS-CYMMYN), a parish, in the lower division of the hundred of DERLLYS, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH
WALES, 4 miles (w. by N.) from Langhorne, on the road to Narberth, containing 373 inhabitants. This parish, which is of
considerable antiquity, derives some degree of celebrity, from an allusion made to it by Sir John Pryce, in his history of
the Welsh wars, as the place in which a peace was once concluded; and a memorial of this event is preserved in the name of
" Peace Park," given to the spot on which the negotiations were transacted. The parish is of great extent, and a
considerable portion of it is at present uncultivated: it is intersected by two streams, which, after pursuing a
subterraneous course for a considerable distance, discharge t'heir waters into the bay of Carmarthen. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Carmarthen, and diocese of St. David's, rated in the king's books at £8, and in the
patronage of the King, as Prince of Wales. The church, dedicated to St. Margaret, contains a monument to the memory of Sir
John Perrot, who was the first sheriff of the county of Pembroke; and on the chalice of the communion plate is inscribed,
in old letters, Poculum Ecclesie de Eglos Skymine, with the date 1574: the word Skymine, signifying "bleak," is supposed
to allude to the situation of the church on a lofty unsheltered eminence. Zacharias Thomas, in 1682, bequeathed to the
poor not receiving parochial relief a rent-charge of £1. 6. 8. There are some vestiges of an ancient military earthwork in
a field, which, from that circumstance, has obtained the appellation of "Castell Park." The average annual expenditure for
the support of the poor amounts to £105. 11.