LLANROTHALL, a parish in the lower division
of the hundred of WORMELOW, county of HEREFORD,
5 miles (N. N. W.) from Monmouth, containing 118
inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford, rated in the
king's books at £3. 15. 5., and in the patronage of
Joseph Price, Esq. A college was founded here early in
the sixth century, by St.Dubricius, Archbishop of Caerleon,
and King of Ergin, of which some assert that it contained
one hundred students, while others state the
number at one thousand. Extensive foundations of
buildings may be traced on an eminence rising from
the western bank of the Wye.