See the earlier thread The Foggy Dew

Subject: RE: The Foggy Dew
From: Martin Ryan
Date: 12-Nov-97 - 04:22 AM
Shop: The Foggy Dew

....snip.... The air "belonged to an old love song, recorded in 1913 by John McCormack". I'm not sure what that last refers to - although the air is certainly used (with slight differences) for "The Banks of the Moorlough Shore" - which is a beautiful love song!

Subject: RE: The Foggy Dew
From: Big Tim
Date: 29-Mar-02 - 02:11 PM
Shop: Mary Ann , The Foggy Dew

The tune is traditional, almost certainly taken by Fr O'Neill from the very popular "Moorlough Shore". The origins of this song and the location of "Moorlough" or "moor lough" are uncertain but generally taken to be Moorlough Bay on the north Antrim coast, not a million miles from Portglenone where Fr O'Neill was born and raised. There was a very scholarly thread on "Moorlough Shore", last year I think.