Thank you so much!!! Actually I figured it out as well, then found your very helpful post. I first heard the christy moore version, where the words are very different. Being from the u.s., I think I heard some of my own words and meanings rather than those that were intended by the author. For instance, I thought I heard heard on chiristy's version: All Ive got is the deed to the stagger, at the end of the curra line. SO......... for the past few months ive been thinking that a stagger was vernacular for a track of land, and that this is a ghost story about a ghost who tried to sell his deed to mattie. Since mattie wouldnt have anything to do with him, he got him on the way back, showing his true ghost self..."bright and strange and fine"
There are other spots as well.
Am I waaaay off or is this generally the crux of the bisquit???