Thanks Matthew- if you can find anything in McGahern's work, a pointer would be great- have read several of his books but not recently. There was an excellent RTE radio 1 programme about Arigna a few months ago, to which Vincent Woods contributed- think it was in July- the whole hour was devoted to it- 'Sunday Miscellany' which is at 9.05 every Sunday morning

As you say little 'traditional' material in the 'Scars on the Mountain' although that's not to criticise it, just not quite what we are after... it probably doesn't exist