Llandough near Penarth, Glamorgan

Description
Llandough-near-Penarth, a parish in Glamorgan, on the river Ely, immediately above its influx to the mouth of the river Taff, 1 1/2 mile N of Penarth and 2 1/4 SSW of Cardiff. It has a post office, of the name of Llandough, under Cardiff; money order and telegraph office, Cogan Pill. Acreage, 708; population of the civil parish, 1165, of the ecclesiastical, 2944. A monastery was founded here in the 6th century by St Dochdwy. Cogan Pill House is the chief residence. The living is a rectory, with that of Leckwith and Cogan annexed, in the diocese of Llandaff; gross value, £185. The church was rebuilt in 1866. There is a Baptist chapel.