3 miles north of Ballybunion? Blimey, I might even have been there!!! I wouldn't realise it though, not being familiar with the song... and the car I was travelling in contained 3 die-hard folkies with an Irish tradition.

We had a 'rule' that if you knew a song/tune about the place we were driving through/past, you sang the song or hummed the tune. I suspect that rule was suspended when we drove through Limmerick. The other female in the car couldn't remember 'Limmerick, you're a lady' and I just started off with 'There once was a fellow called Clyde, who fell in a cesspit and died', and carried on all the way through Limmerick.

If we went through Dooneen after Limmerick (we drove around a lot!), then I wouldn't have heard the song.

LTS