I finally got around to reading Jed's liner notes this evening. I was surprised to learn that "Down by the Glenside" isn't a traditional song, but was written by Peadar Kearney who also wrote Amhrán na bhFiann, the Irish national anthem.

"Down by the Glenside" is in the Richard Dyer-Bennet Folk Song Book as "Bold Fenian Men". He calls it an Irish street ballad and writes about how he learned it from other people's singing without knowing anything about the song. I guess I had assumed from his description that it was a trad song.

Related trivia – "Down by the Glenside" was performed in the John Ford western Rio Grande by Ken Curtis, who later played Festus Hagen on Gunsmoke for many years.
- Phil