LLANGAN (LLAN-GANNA), a parish, in the union of BRIDGEND-AND-COWBRIDGE, hundred of OGMORE, county of GLAMORGAN, SOUTH
WALES, 3 miles (N. W. by W.) from Cowbridge; containing 238 inhabitants. The parish, which comprises by the last
admeasurement rather more than eleven hundred acres, is on the north separated by the river Ewenny from the parish of
Coychureh, and on the north-east by a rivulet, called the Qum, from that of St. Mary Hill: at the western end of it is
situated the village of Treos. Its surface is rather flat, and its northern boundary is subject to inundation; the soil
is fertile, and in some parts argillaceous, and intermingled with fragments of the limestone which forms the substratum;
the entire parish consists of rich arable and pasture land. The limestone is worked to a considerable extent, as also was
formerly the lead-ore found imbedded in it; but the latter is now neglected. The valuable mine of Tewgoed, now exhausted,
was on an east and west vein, called, from the colour of its contents, "the reit vein," which was joined obliquely from
the north-west by three others, called " blue veins:" at the junction of each of the latter with the former was a body of
rich steel-grained ore, but that of the blue veins was galena, or laminar potters' ore. The court leet of the manor is
held by the Earl of Clarendon and the Earl of Dunraven, alternately. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the
king's books at £12. 16. 0k., and in the alternate patronage of the Earl of Clarendon and the Earl of Dunraven; present
net income, £244: the glebe contains about 60 acres of good land, with a glebe-house; and the tithes have been commuted
for a rent-charge of £152. 10., subject to rates, averaging £26 per annum. The church, a small neat edifice, is dedicated
to St. Canna, the mother of St. Crallo; the latter founded Coychurch, and was nephew of St. Illtyd, the founder of
Lantwit-Major. In the churchyard is the stone head of a cross, sculptured, like those at Coychurch and Lantwit, within a
circle, and which, although it bears no legible inscription, is considered, from those upon the latter, to have been
erected in the fifth century, by Samson, pupil and successor of St. llltutus in the college of Lantwit, to the honour of
his patron and master. In front of the church is a fine cross, in the early style of English architecture, with an elegant
shaft rising from a pedestal which is ascended by four steps, and ornamented in the capital with finely sculptured
representations of the Nativity, Baptism, Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension, of our Saviour: this
cross escaped the destruction to which, during the usurpation of Cromwell, these relics of the religion of our ancestors
were commonly devoted, as monuments of superstition, by the parliamentarian commissioners, -both in the principality and
in England.  There is a place of worship for Presbyterians. About 90 children are taught in a day school, at the expense
of their parents; and 50 gratuitously in a Sunday school, by members of the Independent denomination. A sum of £3. 15., is
distributed at Whitsuntide among such poor as receive no parochial relief, and is the produce of the following charities;
namely, a bequest of £10 by Florence Rees, in 1781, and two others of £15 and £5 by Margaret Davide, and an unknown donor,
respectively, which sums were expended in repairs of the church, though the interest continues to be paid from the pans. h
rates; the moiety of the rent of a cottage and two pasture fields, in St. Mary Hill parish, yielding £4 per annum,
bequeathed by Edward Thomas, in 1778; and lastly the interest of XI 0, bequeathed by Lewis Thomas, in 1797: it appears
also that Mrs. Mary Powell gave £100, the proceeds of which are applied to the same purpose.