TREMAEN (TRE-MAEN), a parish, in the lower division of the hundred of TROEDYRAUR, union of CARDIGAN and county of
CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 4 miles (E. N. E.) from Cardigan; containing 264 inhabitants. This place is thought to derive its
name, signifying "the town of the stone," from the vast rude stone termed Llech yr Ast, and the adjacent cist-vaens,
situated near the village, though within the limits of Llangoedmore parish, and, together with a large tumulus on a farm
in this parish, designated Canllevarvaes, supposed to commemorate a decisive battle that occurred here between the Welsh
and the Flemings, soon after a body of the latter had effected a landing at a place called Mount, about three miles
distant, on the sea- shore. The parish is situated on the summit and declivities of a hill, called, from the stone above
noticed, Llech yr Ast, and comprises about nine hundred acres of cultivated arable and pasture land, with a tract of 30
acres of marshy ground; the soil is principally light, except in the lowest part. The river Arberth runs through the
parish, and, after turning four or five grist-mills, falls into the Teivy; and the turnpike-road from Cardigan to
Aberystwith intersects the parish, within a short distance of the church. In the neighbourhood are Tre Prior, anciently a
place of some note, but now a farm- house, and Trey Wttial Vawr, similarly converted. The living is a perpetual curacy,
endowed with £200 royal bounty, and £291. 4. 10. parliamentary grant; net income, £72; patron and impropriator, Philip
John Miles, Esq., whose tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £124: attached to the benefice is a small farm in
the parish of Llansawel, Carmarthenshire, the rent of which is included in the income. The church, dedicated to St.
Michael, was, with the exception of the chancel, rebuilt in the year 1810, and is now a plain edifice, composed of a nave
and chancel, 50 feet long, 22 wide, and 35 high; the height of the steeple is 45 feet. In the parish is a ford called
RhS,dwenwynvarch, supposed to have derived that name from the water having been poisoned, to destroy the army of an
invading enemy.