Thanks. (I'm weerover's brother.) I got some of the Barrett/Lynott story elsewhere but it was surprisingly hard to find. Samuel Ferguson wrote the poem 'The Vengeance of the Welshmen of Tirawley' in the 19th century. David McWilliams wrote his version of the same story, 'Blind Men's Steping Stones', around 1972 but both versions had one survivor, Emon Lynott. McWillaims' wording was ambiguous but he was happy to make Emon (if he really existed) the hero because he was actually a MacWilliams. McWillliams had a penchant for obscure references. His best known song, 'Days of Pearly Spencer', is supposedly about a homeless man but there are other opinions and I could find nothing about Pearly Spencer either.
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