Easily my favorite recordings of The Star of the County Down are those by John McCormack. I have at least two on CD, (I didn't really check the LPs) one from 1936 on Pearl 9338, and from 1939 on Living Era 5119. In a recording career that started in 1904, I cannot imagine that he did not record it at some earlier time as well. If you are interested, Paul, I know that I got the Pearl at Webster Records, though it was several years ago.

The words that he sings are somewhat different than those in the DataBase.

Your mentioning the Bruce Molsky and Jim Nelson songs sent me scurrying for those recordings to listen to again as well!