LLANGIRRIG, or LLANGWRIG, a village and a parish in Newtown district, Montgomery. The village stands in the vale of the Wye, 2¼ miles from the boundary with Radnor, 5 SW of Llanidloes r. station, and 8½ SE of the summit of Plinlimmon; is surrounded by charming scenery, and much visited by tourists; and has a postoffice under Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire. The parish contains also the villages of Carncoed and Glanynant, and the townships of Cefnhafodan, Glynhafren-Uchcoed, Glynbrochan, Llanyfyny, and Glyngyn-with-Llanywared. Acres, 50,000. Rated property, £4,1 78. Pop. in 1851,1,802; in 1861,1,641. Houses, 285. The property is much subdivided. Much of the surface is upland. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £310. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is dedicated to St. Curig, and is ancient and tolerable.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))