LLYSDINAM (LLYS-DINAN), a township, in the parish of LLANAVANVAWR, union and hundred of BUILTH, county of
BRECKNOCK, SOUTH WALES, 51 miles (N. W.) from Beath; containing 252 inhabitants. This township, the name of which
signifies Dinam Palace, or Court, was anciently the residence of several of the reguli, descendants of Brychan, Prince of
Brycheiniag, and appears to have been a place of considerable importance also with respect to its trade. In several of the
old surveys of the manor of Builth, and in various early presentments, the weavers of " Inam," by which name this place
was then designated, are noticed as a corporate body, and seem to have been assessed, and to have paid their ,chief-rents
to the lord, separately from the inhabitants of the other parts of the manor. .A tenement in this part of the parish still
retains the name of " Pen-Ilks," er the palace summit, and gave to its proprietors the same designation. LlSsdirtant is
said to have once eon' stituted a distinct parish, and to have become annexed to Llaeavan-Vawr only:on the decay of its
own church; and it still, in civil matters, exercises parochial privileges, appointing its own officers, maintaining its
own poor, and repairing its own highways. Since -the dilapidation of its church it kas paid a contribution of one-sixth of
the _assessments towards the repair of that of Llanavan-Vawr, and one-third towards the church of Llanvihangel-BOnPabstin,
to which the inhdbitants usually resort: the latter payment was probably a voluntary contribution in its origin, though it
has been established by prescription and rendered compulsory. The -rateable annual value of the township's returned at
£884;and the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge .of £130, of which £86. 13. 4. are payable to the Chapter of St.
David's, and £43. 6. 8. to the vicar of Llanavan-Vawr.