"As I went down through Newry town "
That's - The Keach in the Creel, or The Ride in the Basket, (Child 281).
It's a Scots Ballad; the version that mentions Newry Town was recorded from Michael Gallagher of Fermanagh (Paddy Tunney's uncle)in 1953.
It's known in here in Clare as 'Cuchie Cuchie Coo, Go Way'
The other song that mentions 'Newry Town', 'The Newry Highwayman' is probably of English origin; the English versions bedin "In Newlyn Town I was bred and born".
- all very confusing!!
Jim Carroll