Source: William Forde in P.W. Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs.¹

“A Rowing song heard on the passage to Clare Island.”Note by Forde.

1. P.W. Joyce (ed.), Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, A Collection of 842 Irish Airs and Songs Hitherto Unpublished (Part III. The Forde Collection). Longmans, Green, And Co., London, New York, Bombay, And Calcutta. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Ltd. 1909, p249.