DYLAS-LOWER (DULAS), a hamlet, in the parish of CADOXTON-juxta-NEATH, hundred of NEATH, county of GLAMORGAN, SOUTH WALES,
2.1 miles (N. E.) from Neath, containing 197 inhabitants. It is situated at the junction of the river Dylas with the
Neath, and is intersected by the turnpike road from Neath into Brecknockshire through the Vale of Neath. At the distance
of about one hundred yards from the road there is a very picturesque fall of the Dylas, over a ledge of rock which forms
its bed for a considerable distance: a huge mass of rock, as if separated by some violent convulsion, occupies the middle
of the channel, and, together with the two projections of the ledge, gives an additional effect to the scene. The scenery
of the neighbourhood is particularly interesting, and in proceeding up the vale its beauty improves at every opening. The
Neath canal here receives the Swansea and Neath junction canal, which is conveyed over the river by means of a handsome
aqueduct. The Aber-Dylas railway, extending from the limestone quarries at Cwm Dylas, communicates with the western branch
of this canal. This hamlet separately maintains its own poor: the average annual expenditure is £141. 3.