http://www.standingstones.com/dannyboy.html

That should give you all you need.

Don Meixner

Fred E. Weatherly's song "Danny Boy" is said to have been written in 1913.

Regards Mick Bracken

I agree

Gearoid

I think it was just called "Danny Boy".

Name unknown.

For the following beautiful air I have to express my very grateful acknowledgement to Miss J[ane], Ross of N.-T.-Limavady, in the county of Londerrry--a lady who has made a large collection of the popular unpublished melodies of that county, which she has very kindly placed at my disposal, and which has added very considerably to the stock of tunes which I had previously acquired from that still very Irish county. I say still very Irish; for though it has been planted for more than two centuries by English and Scottish settlers, the old Irish race still forms the great majority of its peasant inhabitants; and there are few, if any, counties in which, with less foreign admixture, the ancient melodies of the county have been so extensively preserved. The name of the tune unfortunately was not ascertained by Miss Ross, who sent it to me with the simple remark that it was "very old," in the correctness of which statement I have no hesitation in expressing my perfect concurrence.
[tune follows to end of page.] ..........................................

The tune, melody line only (without the base and ornaments), is given as an ABC, T012 in file T1.HTM on my website.