Hi Brian. Got the CD today, I have only played it once, too busy grandchildminding!

Cyril uses the same tune as Christy Moore, tho it's heavily atmospheric through use of Irish pipes. Sleeve notes say that he learned the song from his father. The lyrics are standard too, only a few minor variations.                                             

I doubt that a hundred priests were there, but the men's bodies were conveyed in four horse-drawn hearses "through Ballyvanna to the top of Ogonnolloe Hill, through the winding turns of Raheen to Scarriff's bridge where Father John Clancy was waiting". (Scarriff is the correct spelling).

I hope to add some more when the wee terror is safely returned to Edinburgh!