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Thread #30701   Message #1163401
Posted By: Big Tim
16-Apr-04 - 03:15 PM
Thread Name: CarrickfergusMeaning:marble stones as black as ink
Subject: RE: Meaning: 'marble stones as black as ink
"Young Sick Lover" looks like it could be an interesting avenue to explore: can anyone supply the fulls lyrics?

Sean O' Se's version, which I mentioned 3 three years ago, is sung mustly in Irish and he sings of "Baile cuain" too. Surely this means "the homestead, or town, or townland, or possibly even castle, of Coon". Coon literally translates as "recess" which is not much help. Could Ballycuain have come down by oral transmission as Ballygran(d)? Bit of a stretch!

It's looking like the song may be closer to Kilkenny than to Antrim, so how does Carrickfergus fit into all of this?