LLANVIHANGEL-KILVARGEN (LLANFIHANGEL-CIL-FARGEN), a parish, in the union of LLANDILO-VAWR, lower division of the hundred
of CATHINOG, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from Llandilo-Vawr; containing 61 inhabitants.
This place is situated about 14 mile to the north of the road leading from Gloucester to Carmarthen, and is bounded on the
north, east, and south, by the parish of Llangathen, and on the west by that of Llanvynydd: it is one of the smallest
parishes in the county, comprising only 514 acres, of which about 185 are arable, 312 pasture, and the rest woodland, and
containing but a few respectable farm-houses, with some cottages for labourers. The surface is hilly, and the scenery
characterised rather by pleasing rural simplicity, than by any strong features of picturesque or romantic beauty;
Kilddery hill skirts the parish on the west, and a brook of the same name, with another called Rhyd-y-wrach, runs through
it. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £1. 6. 8., and endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £600 royal bounty; patron, Earl Cawdor: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £32; and there is a
glebe of la. 2r. 22p., valued at £1. 7. 6. per annum: the net income of the benefice is £116. The church, dedicated to
St. Michael, is a small plain edifice, rebuilt about the year 1822, at the sole expense of the Rev. Thomas Beynon, a
former rector; it is pewed, and contains a sufficient number of sittings, all appropriated.