Perhaps because both "The Ballynure Ballad" and "The next Market Day" ("A maid going to Comber...") are fairly short, McCormack recorded both together, I'd guess some time in the 1920s, and this practice, if not "tradition", I've heard followed by at least two other singers, one male, one female; who they were I can't recall. McCormack's recording of "Ballynure" ends with a remarkable example of his characteristic "swing of the octave" (as he termed it), where the singer carries the final note, with very rapid Portamento, up to the octave above, then suddenly descends again with an abrupt, almost Parlando, "sign-off". Not dissimilar to his mid-1930s recording, for an American wireless programme, of "The Star of the County Down", where the last three syllables are sung not on the same note (as is usual), but with the middle one sung Forte on the octave above, i.e., "I met in the Coun-TY Down". In a spoken introduction, the Count states that this is how he and Herbert Hughes heard it from the singer from whom they collected it.