LLANVYNYDD (LLAN-FYNYDD), a parish, in the union of LLANDILO-VAWR, lower division of the hundred of CATHINOG, county of
CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 6 miles (N. W.) trom Llandilo-Vawr; containing 1358 inhabitants. This parish, which is of very
considerable extent, containing 11,000 acres, is pleasantly situated near the source of the river Sannan; and the river
Cothy separates it on the north-west from the parishes of Brechva and Llanmihangel-Rhasycorn; the lands are for the
greater part inclosed and cultivated, and the soil is tolerably fertile. Fairs are held annually in the village on July
5th, August 13th, and November 19th. The place constitutes a prebend in the Collegiate Church of Brecknock, annexed to the
precentorship in that establishment, and rated in the king's books at £18. The living is a discharged vicarage, rated in
the king's books at £6. 13. 4., and endowed with £384. 14. 5. parliamentary grant; present net income, £121; patron,
Bishop of St. David's: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £365, of which £243. 6. 8., or two-thirds, are
payable to the prebendary, and £121. 13.4., or one-third, to the vicar. The church, dedicated to St. Egwad, is not
entitled to architectural notice. There are places of worship for Calvinistic Methodists and Baptists. A day school,
containing 20 children of both sexes, was endowed in 1738, by the Rev. D. Jones, with a farm and other parcels of land,
let for £39 per annum; twelve are educated, the rest being paid for by their parents, and two or more are annually
apprenticed with fees of £3 each; in addition to his salary, the master has a house adjoining the churchyard, erected by
the founder, and a garden. A portion of the charity is expended in 'Testaments and school-books, and £4 are paid to a
singing-master for the boys. There are also three Sunday schools, in one of which, supported by subscription, are forty
males and females, who attend the Established Church; the other two appertain to the dissenters, and afford gratuitous
instruction to 120. The poor participate in the rents and profits of a farm, and a few pieces of land, in Llanegwad
parish, bequeathed by Maud Watkins, in 1685; the proportion for Llanvynydd being 13 guineas, which sum, with two teals of
barley, principally the gift of David Harryab Evan, in 1658, is shared among about 120 persons, selected immediately
before Christmas. On an eminence of Coed henog, near the left bank of the Cothy, are the remains of an ancient fortress of
considerable extent and elliptical form; and there are several cairns and monumental stones scattered through the parish.