No, Jean, I wasn't referring to your second verse at all; I have only heard the Jerry Hicks/Dermot Barry recording ; I referred to his "2nd verse in Irish"
(though your lyrics are in the DT, Jean - I'm afraid I don't think your verse fits all that well with the others)

I recently heard Tomás Ó Canainn singing "Rachad-sa 's mo Cheaití" live. Although the song goes to a different air, I did notice verses similar both to the first verse of Kitty and to the verse I referred to on Aug 27 2000 (my whiskers unkempt and unshaven). But another version I've heard [see transcription below] has only the first verse in common and is otherwise quite different from With Kitty I'd Go for a Ramble. Perhaps "With Kitty... " is a fragment divorced from the longer song, or these could be "floating verses" that are found in several songs.

Sometime Mudcatter Ciarili sent me these verses and notes from Finola Ó Siochrú, who has recorded Raghad-sa is mo Cheaití as she learned it from Máiréad Bean Mhic Dhonnchadh .
[raghad is an alternative spelling for rachad]
It is clear in the verses below that the narrator in this version has already married Katy.

"A song from the Blasket Islands [off the coast of Kerry].
In this version, it seems the singer fears his wife will abandon him, whereas according to local knowledge, it is about a woman who has drowned.
Either way, the singer longs to be walking with her in the mountains. "

RACHAD-SA 'S MO CHEAITÍ

Ó raghad-sa is mo Cheaití
bhálcaireacht amach ar na sléibhte cuain
Nó ar oileáinín mhara liom féinig
mar a dtéann na héin chun suain
Ansúd a bhíodh nead ag an bhfiach dubh,
's an fiolar ag éamh cois cuain
Agus mise á agairt chun Dé
suas solas an lae bhreith uaim

Ó 's a Cheaití, nach náireach mar scéal é,
má imíonn tú in aon chor uaim
Mar gur gheallais don sagart ná déanfá
mé a mhalairt go raghainn san uaigh
Do cuireadh bocht dealbh sa tsaol mé,
is mo charaid i bhfad uaim
Ó is a Dhia, go mbeirir chugat féin mé
má imíonn mo chéad shearc uaim

Agus ciach ar an sagart a phós mé,
nár fhág sé mé i dtreo na mban
Nó ag rinnce le cailíní óga,
ag ithe 's ag ól 'na measc
'S é an ní do shuaigh 's do bhreoidh mé,
mé a cheangal go hóg le réic
Nár fhág mise ag cnuchairt na móna,
ná ag seoladh na mbó thar lear

'S tá sioc agus sneachta ar na sléibhte,
is mise liom féin dá siúl
Ag féachaint chá bhfeicfinn mo spéirbhean,
a bhí bacalach, péarlach, fionn
Ba ghile ar a com í ná Venus,
is ba bhinne a béal ná an fhliúit
Ó is dá bhfaighinnse mo chumann ina haonar,
do phógfainnse a béal go dlúth