I know the song from Tomas O Canainn's singing of it on the Na Fili album.

Iorras is the Irish name which is Anglicised as Erris, which is in County Mayo up Belmullet way, so assume the song is from the Gaeltacht on that coast. There may be other places called Iorras/Erris, but that's the one I know of.

I couldn't spot an island called Inis Dun Ramha, but the name would mean the Isle of the Thick Fort or something like that.


Lhiats,

Bobby Bob