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Thread #30701   Message #395684
Posted By: Big Tim
11-Feb-01 - 01:23 PM
Thread Name: CarrickfergusMeaning:marble stones as black as ink
Subject: Meaning: 'marble stones as black as ink
This line from "Carrickfergus" has mystified me for decades. Anyone know what it means. Recently I heard a version of the song by Sean O Se which places it in Castlecomer (Co Kilkenny. As this was a coalmining town might it have something to do with this. And where is Ballygrand or Ballygran?