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Name of Place: Llan-Aml-Llech; County: Brecon; Number of Miles from: Brecon – 4; Crickhowel – 10; Merthyr Tyd – 15; Dist. Lond. -163; Population: 149.

Llan-Aml-Llech. Upon an eminence, between the village of Llan-aml-llech and Llangasty-tal-y-llyn is the monument called St. Iltut's hermitage. It was a cistfaen, or stone chest, resembling that which stood at Cerrig-y-Druidion in Denbighshire, and the saint is said to have used it as his penitential couch. Here are some antique characters, believed to be the workmanship of the recluse. A pillar-stone formerly stood close to the cistfaen. The name Llan-aml-llech may be translated “the church on many flat stones.”

Source: England and Wales Delineated by Thomas Dugdale assisted by William Burnett; published by Tallis & Co., Green Arbour Court, Old Bailey, 1835.