RAGLAND, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of RAGLAND, county of MONMOUTH, 7 miles (S. W. by W.) from Monmouth, containing 633 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, annexed to Llandenny, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Llandaff, rated in the king's books at £4. 6. 3., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Duke of Beaufort. The church is dedicated to St. Cadocus. There is a place of worship for Baptists. Ragland Castle, said to have been mostly built by one of the Lords Herbert, is one of the finest remains of the kind in this part of the kingdom. It was gallantly defended for three months by the Earl of Worcester, against General Fairfax, after the entire reduction of Wales, and until the king's imprisonment at Holmby, when he surrendered, upon conditions honourable to the garrison. Charles I. was entertained here by the earl with great magnificence for three weeks, in 1645.