ISHMAEL'S-ST, a parish, in the hundred of RHOS, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 51 miles (W. by N.) from Milford,
containing 527 inhabitants. It is situated on the northern shore of Milford Haven, and is separated from the parish of
Herbrandston by Sandy haven. There are several respectable residences within its limits, though not entitled to notice as
seats of importance: the principal is the neat residence of Mr. Roch, which is supposed to have been originally a grange
belonging to Hubberston priory. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of St. David's, rated
in the king's books at £6. 12. 81., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the King, as Prince of Wales.
The tithes are divided into three equal portions, of which one is appropriated to the corporation of the borough of
Tewkesbury, another to the incumbent of that parish, and the third to the vicar of St. Ishmael's. The church is
romantically situated in a deep sequestered valley, watered by a small estuary which falls into Milford Haven, a short
distance below it. There are places of worship for Baptists and Independents. Immediately above the church is a tenement
called Monks, supposed to have been connected with the priory of Hubberston. In the village is a remarkable tumulus, but
nothing is known of its history, nor does it appear to have been opened. St. Ishmael's, it is said, was the final retreat
of Caradoc of Llancarvan, the celebrated historian of Wales, who here spent the latter years of his life in retirement and
seclusion, and, after his decease, was interred with great pomp in the cathedral church of St. David's. The average annual
expenditure for the maintenance of the poor amounts to £304. 8