Source: John McFadden in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland¹

Possibly a composition of McFadden’s². O’Neill’s account of McFadden from Irish Minstrels and Musicians can be found here.

1. Francis O’Neill, O’Neill’s Music of Ireland: Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Melodies. Chicago, Lyon & Healy, 1903, #1704, p.317.
2. Not found in any earlier collections in the Bibliography here:
   Paul DeGrae, Sources of tunes in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland and Dance Music of Ireland, 2017 (rev.2021). https://www.irishtune.info/public/oneill-sources.htm (accessed 23/1/23)