A MidnightPlygainat Llanymawddwy Church

In 1969 the present writer described the Christmas carol-singing tradition in the Tanad Valley in mid-Wales, on the eastern side of the central Welsh uplands and approximately west of Shrewsbury. That article drew upon a variety of research sources — written, printed, and oral — which between them spanned several centuries. One luxury not then available, however, was a detailed eye-witness account of a local carol-service (or Plygain) from before the twentieth century.Such an account has now come to light. Although its provenance is not the Tanad Valley specifically, it refers to a plygain held only some ten miles westwards, at the tiny mountain village of Llanymawddwy in the former county of Merioneth, near the source of the River Dyfi (Dovey

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• The Christmas Carol-Singing Tradition in the Tanad Valley

  D Roy Saer•Folk Life•1969

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