CARRIG RIVER is sung by the band MacMurrough (formerly known as Shades of MacMurrough) on "Carrig River" (1972) and on the various-artists album "A Feast of Irish Folk" (Polygram LP 2475605, 1977; reissued CD 5571812, 1998).

You can hear a sample from the latter album here.

I was able to transcribe this much:


...Where the hawthorn and the sweet briar they would your heart illume,
With the rippling of the waters when the crachans [? Cruachans? Cruachains?] were in bloom.

'Tis often that with vain regrets we think of things we've seen.
We have lived the past, but can't forget or mourn what might have been.
As we strayed along, the birds' sweet song was ringing in the sky
For the lonely church of Carrig where our Ninety-Eight men lie.

I do remember long ago....