A hare started is right. There is no truth in this assertion. The song is in Sam Henry's papers - collected 1945 - before the IRA campaign so confidently (and wrongly) mentioned by Trish, started. Nor is this said locally. Local knowledge says the song was composed by a local man called Graham and set to the tune by James Molloy of Creggan, Termonmaguirk. (Information from the notes to "Songs from the Sperrins' a selection of field recordings by Peter Smith and Francis Clarke - published December 2009 - on which project I acted as consultant.) Although these notes give no date, I stand by my suggestion - above - of a date sometime in the thirties. If this hunting song has a allegorical meaning - what about the Granemore Hare and all the other similar ones - The Hare of Kilgrain?