LLANELIAN-YN-RHOS (LLAN-ELIAN) a parish, in the union of ABERCONWAY, UCHDULAS division of the hundred of ISDULAS, county
of DENBIGH, NORTH WALES, near the road from Liverpool to Holyhead, 6 miles (W. by S.) from Abergele; containing 604
inhabitants. The parish is situated in the midst of a very mountainous district, where agriculture affords the principal
employment: the rateable annual value is returned at £1882. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books
at £11. 1. 8.; patron, Bishop of St. Asaph. The tithes have been commuted for five rent-charges together amounting to
£543. 2. 5.: a sum of £327. 4. is payable to the rector, subject to rates, averaging £37. 18. 4., and he has also a glebe
of three acres, with a house, the whole valued at £15 annually; another sum of £160. 19. 6., subject to rates, averaging
£23. 13.9. is payable to the Bishop; £35. 12. 6., less £5. 2. 6. rates, belong to the vicar of Llandrillo-yn-Rhos; £17.
17. 9., less £1. 17. 9. rates, belong to the rector of LI,svaen: and the parish-clerk receives £1. 8. 8. The church is
dedicated to St. Hilary. About 20 children are instructed in a day school at the expense of their parents; and there are
two Sunday schools, appertaining to the dissenters, in which 130 persons are taught gratuitously. The interest of divers
small benefactions, amounting in the whole to about £150, and made for the benefit of the poor, is distributed among the
most deserving objects annually-on St. Thomas's-day; the principal, previous to 1827, was in private hands, but was then
laid out on mortgage at five per cent., at the recommendation of the vicar and churchwardens. Fynnon St. Eilian, a well
notorious as being resorted to for the practice of invoking vengeance upon the heads of such as have given grievous
offence, is situated near this place, but in the parish of LLANDRILLO, the article on which contains an account of it.