Hope you don't mind an unrelated query
50 Child ballads have been recorded in Ireland since the middle of the last century (lists available on request)
I am trying to continue that list (compiled by Tom Munnelly) with additions of those having connections with Ireland, though not necessarily having been found here.
For instance, the Queen Eleanor's Confession (Child 156) included in 'British Ballads from Maine' comes with the note "MRS. FEED W. MORSE of Islesford who has lived in this country for many years, distinctly remembers hearing this song sung in her childhood in Ireland by "Old Andy," the beggar who used to come to her grandfather's house, and she learned it from him just as it is given in Child A. She says that her grandfather, a Roman Catholic, was provoked                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       because the song says that two friars heard a confession, which made him call the song foolish, and remark, "That's what the Protestants of England used to do." Inasmuch as Mrs. Morse knew every word just as given in Child A, this text is here reproduced."
Jim Carroll