PENCARREG (PEN-CAREG), a parish, in the union of LAMPETER, higher division of the hundred of CATHINOG, county of
CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES,' 4 miles (S. W.) from Lampeter; containing 1187 inhabitants. It forms a pleasing and well wooded
tract on the Tei, and is intersected by the road from Lampeter to Carmarthen; a lofty mountain, called Pencarreg, extends
across it on the south. The village is situated upon the left bank of the river; a fair is held in it on October 1 lth.
The living is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books at £4, and endowed with £200 royal bounty, and £1200
parliamentary grant; patron Pryse Pryse, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £330, of which one-
third belongs to the vicar, and two-thirds to the impropriators, Edmund H. Stacey, Esq., and Rev. B. Williams. The
church, dedimW to St. Patrick, is a small structure of no architectural pretensions. There are places of worship fir
Presbyterians and Baptists. In the winter and spring there are generally two day schools, containing about 60 children;
and in the summer and autumn the .parishioners assemble on Sundays to give instruction in reading, Ike., to such as
require it. Within the limits of the parish is an ancient British fortification, of which no particulars have been
recorded.