The following is a stanza from "The Western Cottage Maid." The only version I've found (Bodleian) is a different song. Anyone know where a complete version of this might be found or is Barry just confused?
Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 25 edited by David Masson, Sir George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris
THE CURRENT STREET BALLADS OF IRE LAND BY WILLIAM BARRY.
The minstrel seldom very much despairs or threatens to die when deceived, or when the object of his affection is inaccessible. Here is a stanza from "The Western Cottage Maid," a. popular Munster lyric, in which the reader will perceive how completely naturalized the celebrities of heatheness are in the productions to which I am referring and kills her on the spot. The moral of the tragic story is contained in the opening verse:—
" Come, all ye wild fowlers that follow the gun, Beware of late shooting at the setting of the sun. It is on a misfortune that happened of late, On Molly Bawn Gowrie, an her fortune was great."