To Desi;
You're undoubtedly quite correct. I was merely pointing out that I had seen a version of "Do bh/i bean uasal" that differed in small ways from those mentioned. It's from vol.14, no. 174, of the March, 1905 edition of the Gaelic Journal, pp.750, 751. However, I think most of these songs are derivative of each other. For example, "The Bonny Bunch of Roses" is quite different in theme from "An Binns/in Luachra", but contains echoes, "those feathered songsters their liquid notes did sweetly tune", "'S na h-/eanlaithe ar an gcrann a's iad ag siuinse/ail". I don't think there would have been a previous Irish language version of it either.