Malcolm, I agree, the note in the book I have should have included the connection with Colm O Lochlainn. The note you quoted from him in Irish Street Ballads is much more helpful than the one from my book which, essentially, says nothing at all and is useless (except, perhaps, for the 1913 date). All the notes in the books I referred to (4 volumes) are brief and generally unhelpful, more's the pity.

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