From an earlier message,

"one song (the name eludes me at present) Martin Carthy sings,he pronounces the town of Ballymoney as 'Bally-moanie'
I will find the name of the song and add it later."

I'm not aware of Martin Carthy singing this, but Nic Jones certainly sings Ballymoney as 'Bally-moanie' in "Courting is a Pleasure", which is on Penguin Eggs. Nic learned the words from a book and didn't know how the name was pronounced, so he just sang it as it seemed best to fit the tune. When people subsequently asked him about the pronunciation of it (as of course they did) he would always say he learnt it off a tape of some old Irish singer, he couldn't remember the name...Nic always did enjoy winding people up.

Maggie