TREGIR (TRE-GIR), a hamlet, in that part of the parish of LLANDILO-VAWR which is in the upper division of the hundred of
ISCENNEN, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 1 mile (S. E.) from Llandilo- Vawr; containing 308 inhabitants. The river
Towy runs on the northern side of this hamlet, where it receives the small tributary streams called the Cennen and Cib;
the road from Llandilo-Vawr to Swansea passes through it; and it is also crossed by a Roman road, the Via Julia. The
ancient residencb of the Hughes family, once a fortified place, Fives its name to the hamlet. Here is a day school, in
which. about 25 children are instructed at the expense of their parents; and in a Sunday school about 40 males and females
are gratuitously taught by Wesleyan Methodists. The union workhouse of Llandilo-Vawr, a handsome structure, in the
Elizabethan style, with a front of cut stone, is in the hamlet.