I don't know why I got it into my head that the question was about pre (American) civil war songs, when John clearly wrote "pre revolutionary war". Oh well.

The Kirriemuir issue depends on whether or not you consider The Kirriemuir Wedding (first appeared in print in 1817, but Thomas Crawford, Society and the Lyric, Edinburgh, 1979, 21-2) thinks it "probably ... late eighteenth century) to be an early form of The Ball of Kirriemuir. I don't know enough to tell, but it's about an orgy right enough, and Kirriemuir wasn't that big a place. Still wouldn't pre-date the Revolution, but, as I said, I was labouring under a mis-apprehension as to which war we were talking about.