BLAENAU, a hamlet, in the parish of LLANNON, hundred of CARNAWLLON, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 11 miles (S. E. by
E.) from Carmarthen. The population is returned with the parish. It is situated near the source of the Gwili stream, at
the head of which coal abounds, and contiguous to the southern declivity of the Mynydd-Mawr mountain, over which the road
from Llanelly to Llandilo-Vawr passes, after proceeding through this place. An old rail-road is carried along its western
division from the above mountain to the sea-coast.