Blind Jimmy McCurry was supposedly the fiddler from whom the tune was collected.

"Tradition has it that the McCurrys came from Islay in Scotland. Jimmy's father, John, used to visit Ballycastle regularly from his home in Portnahaven, which had close links with Ireland. On one of his trips he met a girl whom he later married. The family settled in Ballycastle but later moved to Myroe, where blind Jimmy was born in 1830."

Therefore a Scottish connection is not so unlikely