sorry, I forgot to give this warning paragraph from the website I mentioned above
"This lament was supposedly written by the wife of William Crotty, the celebrated Waterford highwayman. The song would appear to be a crude translation of an earlier song which would have been sung in Irish. Up to the beginning of this century it was widely sung in Irish (as Gaelige) in the Comeragh area. Unfortunately that version has been lost to time."

I suppose that was the 20th century, but it seems strange that the Irish verses would be lost if the song was widely sung 100 years ago. (How does the writer know the song was widely sung in Irish at that time? Dermot Power's info again??) We won't give up on the query yet.