| origin | The air was collected in the 19th century by Jane Ross in Litnavady County Derry and published in the Petrie Collection. Rory Dall O'Cathain, chief harpist to Hugh O'Neill, is credited with composing the air. Of all the words which have been set to this air, those of Fred F. Weatherly, an Englishman, are the best known and most often sung. |