Ennis recorded the tune as The Fairy Boy on The Pure Drop (1972) and it later appeared on at least one compilation as An Leanbh Sidhe. Ennis wrote:

"This is the tune of the song in Gaelic of a mother whose boy-child was taken by the fairies in accordance with the fairy changeling mythological tradition. I have heard a free translation sung, the first verse of which commences: 'A woman come when the stars were paling...' and ends 'wherefore steal my fairy boy?' It was one of my father's favourite airs."

Ennis had in fact recorded the English language set I mentioned earlier (Mrs Angela Mulkere, late of Co. Clare, living in London, March 1956) while he was working as a collector for the BBC, and presumably that is what he is referring to in his note. He seems not to have known of Lover's connection, however, or the fact that it was already more than a century old when he heard it; so his assertion that it is a translation -though it is not particularly unlikely- is really only anecdotal until supported by other evidence. It is a pity that he didn't mention where his father learnt the tune, and whether he also knew a Gaelic text for it; though we should remember that that gentleman was not yet born when Lover published.