Killeavey is the Parish next to, or next to next to Mullaghbawn. Len sings that the noble lady lived in Finnae (The same place on the County Cavan border of Westmeath as presumably gave rise to the song The Flower of Finae.) I don't know what the connection is. The Jacksons referred to above had connection is Monaghan.

Nicholas Hughes, whose recording made for the BBC some time in the fifties, was Len's source for this song was local to Mullaghbawn and to my mind the best local performer recorded at that time - he had songs of high quality too. Sean O'Boyle reported of him however that he had confided that there was no tune to the Boyus of Mullaghbawn it was he said "just sung by brute force."

Len Graham himself lives in half of the old Police Barrack at Glendesha, Mullaghbawn. The building may be old enough to be implicated in the song.