TALACHDDD (TAL-ACHDDO), a parish, in the hundred of PENCELLY, union of BEAMARIS and county of BEAUMARIS, SOUTH WALES, 3
miles (N. u.) from tBrechnock, on the toad to Hay; sontaising 196 inhabitants. This pariah, which comprises about one
thonsamd, five ibunglated:and fifty pares of Utak derives its name from its situation At the head of a email rivulet
celled the Achddii, from the black colour of its water; and is separated from the adjacent parish of Liandevalley by the
river Dulea, which, at the little village of Vella-Vick, is crossed by a neat bridge, The soil is various, and in some
parts extremely fertile, and the surrounding scenery is plea* ingly diversified; the rateable annual value is re-tagged at
4944. Copper- ore has been found in the pariah, end, a few years since,* mine was opened on a farm belonging to Samuel
Church, Esq.: the vein extends to the depth of sixty yards, and the ore, which is aupposad to be very nob, in porta lies
within o foot of the surface, but no program has yet bee* made in workiog the mine. An descending the hill from Breoknoelt
to this place, the village and oburoh have a beautifully picturesque appearance, being pleasantly eittcit on rising
ground, and form an interesting feature in the superb view which is oh, mined from the hill: in front is .0 large contmo
overlooking a fertile and rich toilet of country, bounded .14 assellinig hills, which are cultivated to the very minunit4
beneath is a pleasingly wooded dingle, through which the river Doles:takes its course; an .the left the fine prapge of the
Dleek Mountain if seen extending for several miles, and on the right is the more magnificent simin of the .Breaknoukeitire
The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at ŁE4.	and in the patron of Mrs. Anna Griffith; present
net income, X1413: atteebed is a good ersonege-house, with a garden of about belt an acre, awl forty-seven acres of glebe
land. The church, dedicated .to St. Mary, is a small ancient building with a low tower; part of the .seed-left is
remaining, and has been recently emicerted into a gallery. The register contains en. tries of marriages celebrated, during
the protectorate of Cromwell, before the bailiff ef 33recknock; and, dating the samperiod, the births, autinot the bap.
.dams, are registered. There is .a place,ef worship for Anabaptists.