thanks for that info, Jim
another website with some interesting info is
http://homepage.eircom.net/~ancaislean/carrick_people.html
both this website and the one previously mentioned say tht Crotty's lament was supposed to actually habe been composed in Irish by Crotty's widow. Rathgormack says that the Irish language original is lost whereas the other site says it is still sung in Irish in the region of the Cormeragh mountains. There is a fascinating, if sad, story about Mrs Crotty's life as a fugitive and her death leaping from Crotty's Rock to avoid capture, along with an English language version of a poem called STOL A'CROTTAIGH . Now I would like to find an original Irish language version of that poem and find out whether it was ever sung (or if it is singable)