Herbert Hughes set the poem to a tune he collected:

Subject: Lyr Add: MY LAGAN LOVE
From: John Moulden - PM
Date: 16 Sep 99 - 07:44 AM


...... The song was first published in "Songs of Uladh" <> [Herbert Hughes and
Joseph Campbell] published in Belfast by William Mullan and sons and in Dublin by MH Gill, 1904.

Hughes' preface says: "I made this collection while on holiday in North Dun-na-nGall in August of last year."
My Lagan Love is on page 32. The note says, "I got this from Proinseas mac Suibhne who played it for me on the fidil. He had it from his father
Seaghan mac Suibhne, who learned it from a sapper working on the Ordnance Survey in Tearmann about fifty years ago. It was sung to a ballad called
the "Belfast Maid," now forgotten in Cill-mac-nEnain." [This pretension in spelling etc is typical of the Gaelic Revival flavour of this book - it is also
embellished with "Celtic knots" and fanciful derivations of half uncial script.]