Thank you for taking the detailed task of laying out this song by its lyrics and its meaning. When I was bicycling through Ireland I stopped at the Letterkenny folk festival and did my best to learn "Teir Abhaile Rue" and these Gaelic words and phrases instantly connects to a folk and a past combination of beliefs and practices and awareness of life's essentials. An awarenss of even a few of these songs strips away a lot of the distracting overlay that more recent entertainment has introduced.