TRELECH-AR-BETTWS (TREF-LLECH-AR-BETTWS), a parish, in the higher division of the hundred of ELVET, union of CARMARTHEN and county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 8 miles (N. W. by W.) from Carmarthen; containing 1620 inhabitant This parish comprises a large tract of arable and pasture, inclosed, and a very extensive district of -uncultivated land, consisting chiefly of heath Ma tarbaries, from which latter the inhabitants Per cipally "obtain their fuel, and which also afford a supply to the neighbouring parishes. The surface is uneven and in some parts hilly. The petty-sessions for the hundred are held here every month. It formerly constituted' a prebend in the college of Llandewy-Brevi, rated in the king's books at £16, and in the gift of the Bishop of St. David's. The living is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books at £6.13. 4.; and endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £1200 parliamentary grant; net income, £143, with a glebe-house; patron, the Bishop; impropriators, Earl of Lisburne and Richard Price, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Teilo, and situated within two miles of the turnpike-road from Carmarthen to Cardigan, was rebuilt in 1884, and is a neat and commodious structure: Capel Bettws is a chapel of ease to it. There are two places of worship for Independents, one for Methodists, and one for Baptists. A school was founded. in 1804, by Mr. William Davies,. formerly of Plus-y-Park, in this parish, and afterwards citizen of London, who endowed it with. £4563. 15. 5., in the three per cent. consols., directing the dividends to be appropriated to the education, clothing, and apprenticing of children; it contains about 70 children, and the master's salary is £40 per annum: the income from the dividends amounts to £136. 18. 2. The house consists of a school-room. on the ground-floor, and two apartments above, one for the meeting of the trustees, and the other used as a store-room. Two or three children are apprenticed yearly with premiums of about £4, and are also supplied with clothes during 'their apprenticeship. The trustees are the minister, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, and every inhabitant possessed of a freehold of £50 per annum. There are also three day schools, in which about 110 children are educated at their parents'. expense; and five Sunday schools, containing. about 385 males and females, 'supported by subscription. - Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, of Blaendewi, in the parish, bequeathed £100 in money, of the interest of which sum she directed £1 per annum to be paid to the support of a meeting-house, and the remainder to be distributed among the poor; but this sum was lost by the insolvency ofa solicitor, at Carmarthen, to whom it hack been lent at interest. A rent-charge of 5n, by an unknown donor, is annually divided among 5 persons. In the parish is a remarkable barrow; called Crfigir-Deyrn or the "King!. Barrow," about sixty paces m circumference at the base, am& rising with a gradual slope to the height of six yards; err the summit is a cavity, in the centre of which is a large stone of elliptical shape, three yards. in:length, five feet broad in the widest part, and about ten or twelve inches in thickness. On searching underneath it was found to cover a cist- vaen, about four feet and a half in length, and three' feet broad, within and around 'whiCh were rude - fragments of brick, and some pieces of bone, which latter are supposed to have been brought there by foxes.