I have become obsessed with Ragland Road. I got a CD of Irish music from the Goodwill (of all places), and that song was on it. I have listened to it over and over, drawn by its sadness and mystery. I know nothing of Kavanaugh except what I have read here, but I wonder if he didn't start with his own love affair and embellish it just to make it more interesting/ dramatic. . . sort of like spicing up your personal journal entries for posterity. LOL. Anyway, until I read these posts, I thought when they tripped along the ledge and saw passion's worth that they had disposed of their love child. How far fetched it that? After reading this thread, the song makes a lot more sense to me, but I sort of liked just trying to find my own interpretation by feeling blindly in the dark. It could mean anything that I wanted it to mean.