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We're not disagreeing - just looking at things from a slightly different angle!
As Niamh says in your link;"Mickey McConnell took that poem, kept the story and wrote a song from it. He never uses even a line from the poem but he used that story to write a whole new song. But Sigerson Clifford's story continues, to say that a tinker comes on the farmer's land many years later and as he threatened, the farmer kills the tinker. When he has shot him dead he discovered that it was his son by the Red Headed Ann. He kills himself and the ghost of the tinkerman's daughter is seen walking along the road. That was so heavy it couldn't be put into the song but that's how the story really ends"

So Mickey's song is one (very good) sung adaptation of Clifford's poem. Tim Dennehy's is another, sticking word-for-word to the original poem. Of the two, I much prefer Tim's. That's all!

Regards

p.s I always admired the Lyrecrompane reference! Wonderful placename!