I could perhaps have added something more to my earlier post to explain that Jimmy Crowley contributed a short article on the songs of Cork City to Fintan Vallely's Companion to Irish Traditional Music. He quoted the lines which our Guest has posted as an extract from the song 'The Gaol of Sunday's Well' - a song about the old Cork City Gaol which is now a heritage centre, God bless us all!

There is a very good website for Jimmy Crowley, but I can't see any easy way there to contact the man himself directly or even indirectly. There must be somebody around here who could pass on the request to Jimmy.

Jim Dixon may well be right about the correct spelling of 'Jezebel'; but I think that 'Jezabelle' spelling carries the particular flavour of a Cork accent. Jim is a far, far braver man than I to challenge a Cork man or woman in a question of orthography, or of any matter at all!

Matthew