RULEN (RHULEN), a chapelry (parochial), in the union of Builth, hundred of COLWYN, county of RADNOR, SOUTH WALES, 7 miles (
E. by S.) from Builth; containing 129 inhabitants. Its surface is hilly, and its soil for the most part barren, the whole
consisting of about five hundred acres of inclosed, and three hundred of uninclosed land; it is skirted on the west by
the river Edwy. In civil matters it forms an independent place, but, ecclesiastically, is regarded as a chapelry
consolidated with the vicarage of Gliscomb, within the limits of which parish it was formerly included, the inhabitants
having certain seats appropriated to their use in the mother church, to the repairs of which they still contribute. In the
king's books it is described as a chapel to Glirscomb, of the certified value of £4. 13. 4. The tithes have been commuted
for a rent-charge of £82. 10., of which a sum of £49. 10. is payable to the Bishop of St. David's as appropriator, subject
to rates, averaging £7. 14., and £33 to the vioar, also subject to rates, that average £2. 4. per annum. The chapel,
dedicated to St. David, is a small plain structure, situated about three-quarters of a mile from the river Edwy. Ten
shillings per annum were left by some unknown benefactor, but the principal, £10, in money, was divided among the poor 40
years since.