This is the BBC index information on the song.
If I'm not mistaken, there is a version from Michael Doherty of Donegal which comes with the story 'The Girl Too Smart for the Fiddler'
Jim Carroll
CASADH AN TSÚGAIN (Twisting the hayrope)
1.   Singer: Séamus Ennis                                                                3.05   13764.   
Dublin
20.9.49   (R.V.A.G.)
2.   Singer: Maureen O'Sullivan                                                        3.15   13771
Ballylicky, Co. Cork.
21.9.49 (R.V.A.G.)        
The first recording is a version learnt from Colm Keane, of Glinsk, Connemara. The second is a Munster version.
The rope in question was made by twisting strands of hay, and it was put to various uses by the country people: to bind haystacks, to thatch the roofs of cottages and to make rustic chairs.   The story is that a poet gains access to a house at night and makes love to a young girl there.   These attentions are unwelcome to the girl's mother and she decides to get rid of him by making a hayrope with him. She manoeuvers so that his back is to the open door. With the twisting of the rope the distance between them becomes greater, until at length he passes through the doorway into the darkness outside. She then slams the door in his face, whereupon he goes away and makes this sorrowful song.
See Edward Walsh: Irish Popular Songs, p. 39;   A.M. Freeman': collection from Ballyvourney, Co. Cork, in Journal of the Folk Song Society, 1920, pp. 159 et seq.
The tale is imaginatively told by W.B. Yeats in 'The Secret Rose'; and a play on the subject, in Irish, with the same title as the song, was written by Douglas Hyde and performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
D.J. 0'Sullivan(ed.): The Bunting Collection of Irish Folk Music and Songs, part i, p.65 (Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society). 1927 )