Presumably the transcription above is of one of the later editions lacking the final three verses. The Bodleian has five editions in all : [A new song, called] Hibernia's lovely Jane.

The earliest seems to be the Carse sheet (Glasgow, c.1825): there may have been earlier prints, but I doubt if it's much older than that. Sam Henry stated confidently "The song dates from the time of the Peninsular Wars [1808-1814]" and it may well do; or from a little later. The tune in Joyce (and in Henry; see below) seems to be an adaptation of the tune Burns used for 'Of a' the airts the wind can blaw', which was William Marshall's 'Miss Admiral Gordon's Strathspey,' written around 1775. Marshall in turn seems to have based his tune on an earlier one which has been found associated with, among other songs, 'The Lowlands of Holland'.

Number 4385 in the Roud Folk Song Index, which lists few examples from tradition: one from Ontario, one from Maine, one from Co. Antrim (the last printed in Huntington and Herrmann, Sam Henry's Songs of the People (University of Georgia Press, 1990, 428 (text and tune) and 447 (notes).

Note that, though there are two references in Roud to Henry, both are actually to the same (single) song.