KENARTH (CENARTH), a parish, in the higher division of the hundred of ELVET, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, comprising
the market and post town of Newcastle-Emlyn, from which the church is distant 21 miles (W.N.W.) and containing 1935
inhabitants. This parish is beautifully situated on the river Teivy, over which the turnpike road from Carmarthen to
Cardigan is here carried by a stone bridge: it is of considerable extent, and is almost wholly enclosed and in a good
state of cultivation. The surrounding scenery is beautifully diversified, and in many parts highly picturesque, the views
embracing the narrow but fertile vale of Teivy, and the adjoining country, abounding with a variety of interesting
features. Near the church is the celebrated salmon leap on the Teivy, where that river pours its waters over several
continuous rocky shelves, upwards of twenty feet in extent, forming a pleasing and picturesque cascade: from the
difficulty of passing this leap, the fish, in their ascent up the stream to deposite their spawn, are frequently much
injured. In the neighbourhood are some handsome seats, of which the principal within the parish is Gelly Dewyll, belonging
to W. O. Brigstocke, Esq., of Blaenpant. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Carmarthen, and
diocese of St. David's, rated in the king's books at £4. 6. 8., endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Bishop of St. David's. The church, dedicated to St. Llawddog, is a small neat
edifice, situated on a gentle eminence just above the falls of the Teivy previously noticed, but without any architectural
details of importance. The Independents and Calvinistic Methodists have each a place of worship, in addition to the
meeting-houses for dissenters noticed in the account of Newcastle-Emlyn. The average annual expenditure for the support of
the poor is £332. 9.