Mention of Delia Murphy reminds me that Donagh MacDonagh included 'The Moonshiner' in his little collection Ballads with Music (Dublin: Parkside Press, nd, but presumed early 1940s). Whether he got it from her or she from him I don't know, but the lyric is the same (bar some spelling variations) as the set recorded by Galvin; I would think that he got it from MacDonagh's book or perhaps from Delia Murphy's recording. She had lived in the USA, and it isn't impossible that she got the song, or part of it, there.

Dollars, anyway, not shillings (which appears to be a Clancy innovation). Unfortunately, MacDonagh gave no indication at all of what his source might have been; he picked stuff up all over the place, and according to his son was not averse to presenting his own work as if it were traditional. The songs in this book were provided with tunes by Arthur Darley, who apparently set melodies from his father's collection to the texts MacDonagh got, most of which came without music. Again, no details are given.