Llangynog is a community located in Carmarthenshire, West Wales. Geography The county is bounded to the north by Ceredigion, to the east by Powys, Neath Port Talbot and Swansea, to the south by the West Wales (Gorllewin Cymru is the western area of Wales bordered by South Wales to the east and Mid Wales to the north
Llangynog is a parish, in the higher division of the hundred of Derllys, union and county of Carmarthen, South Wales. A parish is a Local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in episcopal or presbyterian churches A county is a Land area of Regional Government within a larger State. Llangynog is 6 miles south-west from Carmarthen; containing 800 inhabitants. The community comprises about 5429 acres of good land, chiefly arable, and has been greatly improved since the year 1806. The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U In Geography, arable land (from Latin arare, to Plough) is an agricultural term meaning land that can be used for The greater part of it being now in a good state of cultivation. The surrounding scenery, with few exceptions, is tame and uninteresting, though some of the distant views are picturesque and beautiful. The soil is poor, rocky, and barren, and the chief produce is oats and barley, with a little wheat. Oats redirects here It may mean either the common cereal oat discussed here or any cultivated or wild species of the Genus Avena. Barley ( Hordeum vulgare) is an annual Cereal Grain, which serves as a major animal Feed crop, with smaller amounts used for Wheat ( Triticum spp is a worldwide cultivated grass from the Levant area of the Middle East. The manor of Penryn, which is co-extensive with the parish, contains an ancient family mansion called Cwm, situated in a well-wooded, romantic spot. A mansion is a large dwelling House. The word itself derives (through Old French) from the Latin word mansus (the perfect passive participle The parish church, dedicated to St. A parish church, in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a Parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches Cynog, is a very plain edifice, consisting of two aisles. There are places of worship for Baptists and Independents. Baptist is a term describing individuals belonging to a Baptist church or a Baptist denomination. Here is a parochial school, on the common in the manor of Penryn, said to have been founded by Judge Vaughan, of Derllys. There is also a Sunday school, in which fifty males and females are taught gratuitously by the dissenters. " Sunday school " is the generic name for many different types of Religious education pursued on Sundays by various denominations "
[From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1844). ]
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