NEWCHURCH-IN-TYR-ABBOT, otherwise LLANDULAS, a parish, in the union of LLANDOVERY, hundred of BUILTH, county of BRECKNOCK, SOUTH WALES, 9 miles (N. E.) from Llandovery; containing 141 inhabitants. The whole of this parish was bestowed by RhSra ab Grufydd, Prince of South Wales, upon the monastery of Ystrad Flur, or Strata-Florida, in the county of Cardigan, which he founded in the year 1164. In consequence of this grant the place was styled Tir yr Abad, or " the Abbot's land:" and its present name, to which that appellation forms an adjunct, appears to have been derived from the erection of a church here in the year 1716. The name Llandulas, by which it is also known, and which, according to some authorities, is a corruption of Ghin Dulas, under which it occurs in several public documents, seems to have originated in its situation on the bank of the little river Dulas, from which circumstance it was not unfrequently called Aber Dulas. The parish lies in a mountainous district, having the Eppynt hills on the east, at the western extremity of the county, on the confines of Carmarthenshire; and comprises a considerable tract of hilly country, of which the soil is chiefly a tnrbary, interspersed with small inclosures producing thin crops of barley and oats, and some small pastures of indifferent herbage: of the rateable annual value, the return amounts to £458. The views from the higher grounds, embracing the counties of Brecknock and carmarthen,re remarkable for their extent, if not for their picturesque beauty. The turnpike-road from Builth to Llandovery passes through the parish, within a short distance of the village. The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £1000 royal bounty, and with £200 in money, and £20 per annum by Sackville Gwynne, Esq., who charged his estates with the payment of that slim to the officiating minister; patron, Colonel Gwynne, of Glanbrfin, who is proprietor of the tithes; net income, £47. The minister and parishioners claim a right of exemption from episcopal jurisdiction and visitation, but have not strenuously maintained that privilege, as they prove wills and take out letters of administration at the Register Office at Brecknock. The church, a neat small edifice, was erected in 1716, at the sole expense of Sack- vine Gwynne, Esq., of Glkinbrfin. There is a Sunday school in the parish, where about 50 males mid females are gratuitously instructed by Calvinistic Methodists. A Roman road, which was a branch of the Via Helena, called by the Welsh Sara Helen, passed through the parish, ever the common termed Llwydlo VfiCh, and part of it may still be traced in some places. At a spot named Pyllau-Da-Probert, forming a portion of the tenement of Trelath, in the parish, is a well, the water of which is strongly impregnated with sulphur, and similar in its properties, to that of Lianwrtyd.