Christmas Rhymers

[drumalief]

My mother has been telling me that as a child in the late '20s '30s, a group of local men (no women) would visit their cottage and say rhymes together with the odd song. They collected money for the church/charity.

I put this topic on here as she was from Drumalief near Limavady and it might have been a custom local to the area. I'd be interested to know of the content of the rhymes.

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
   In the late 1940s/early 1950s there were standard carol singers, males and females, travelling around the countryside in cars and stopping to sing carols at country cottages and houses in the Limavady area. Some of the bigger houses would regularly provide sustenance.

Regards