LLANEGRIN (LLAN-EGRYN), a parish, in the union of DOLGELLEY, hundred of TALY-BONT, county of MERIONETH, NORTH WALES, 4 miles (N.) from Towyn; containing 745 inhabitants. It is about eight miles in length and two in breadth, and corn-, prises about ten thousand acres, part of which is mountainous land, while some is so low as to be subject to occasional inundation: the amble land, by admeasurement comprehends 1365 acres, the pasture, 2531, and the woodland 200, consisting of oak, ash, and skier. The beautiful little river Dysyni, which has its source at the foot of the lofty Cader Idris, meanders through it, and between the parishes of Towyn and Llangelynin, and pours its waters into the spacious bay of Cardigan. The village is pleasantly situated near the northern bank of the Dysyni, which is navigable for vessels of ten or twelve tons' burthen from the sea to beyond Peniarth Weir, near which stands the ancient mansion of Peniarth. The higher grounds command extensive and varied prospects, embracing a fine view of the Vale of Dysyni and Cardigan bay, and of the lofty hills on this part of the coast. About three-fifths of the land are uninclosed and uncultivated: in this portion, considerable quantities of peat are dug for fuel; the remainder is comparatively fertile and in a good state of cultivation: the prevailing soil is a strong clay. Slate abounds in the parish, and is quarried to supply the immediate neighbourhood; but the quality is not sufficiently good to make it an object of general demand, nor is any of it exported. The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £400 royal bounty, which has been invested in the purchase of a tenement in Montgomeryshire, and £1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rev. Peter Tit-ley, the impropriator, who pays the curate an additional annual stipend of £10; net income, £72. The church, dedicated to St. Egryn, and situated about a quarter of a mile from the village, on an eminence commanding a fine and extensive prospect, is an ancient structure, in the early style of English architecture; the chancel is separated from the nave by an elaborately carved screen and rood-loft, which are said to have been brought hither from Cymmer abbey, near Dolgelley. Among the sepulchral monuments in the church are several to the memory of different members of the family of Owen, of Peniarth. There are places of worship for Independents and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists. The free school was established in 1659, under the will of Hugh Owen, Esq., of Talybont, who bequeathed £400 for its foundation and endowment the latter consisting of £20 per annum, was augmented by Griffith Owen, Esq., who, in 1668, left £400 to be invested in the purchase of land, of which the produce was to be appropriated to the salary of a writing-master, the catechising of poor children of the parish, and the apprenticing of boys from the school. The last bequest was laid out in the purchase of the tenements of Bryn, Nant-Cynog, and Nant-y-Pool, and the whole income arising from it is about £81, including £14. 5. yearly derived from £475, three per cent. consols., an accumulation of the rents during a suspension of the school. A substantial school-room appears to have been built on the original foundation, which was surrounded by 2f acres of land, but little or nothing was expended on repairs, nor has the endowment of Hugh Owen been paid since 1812, when the classical master resigned. The present master is allowed two-thirds of the income of the writing school, out of which he furnishes stationery for the children, about seventy of both sexes; and he is permitted to use the playground. Two boys on an average are apprenticed each year out of the funds, with premiums varying from £7 to £10; and a balance for this purpose has accumulated. The school is free to the lower division of the hundred of Talybont, containing the parishes of Llanegrin and Llangelynin, and part of Llanvihangel. There is also a grant of per annum, by Hugh Owen for distribution among the poor; and three Sunday schools are conducted gratuitously, in which about 260 persons are instructed by the dissenters. Talybont, in the parish, is supposed to have been anciently a mansion of the Princes of North Wales, and the residence of Llewelyn, who dated one of his charters from this place: on the farm belonging to this estate is a meadow named Waen Llewelyn, or Llewelyn's meadow; also a large artificial mound, on which a watch-tower is said to have formerly stood; and on the opposite bank of the river, in the parish of Towyn, is a similar station. On the Peniarth Mill farm, at the lower end of Cwm tch, or Oxen's glen, is a chalybeate spring; and there is also a spring called Fynnon y Vron, the water of which is in high repute for its efficacy in the cure of rheumatic complaints.