Carrickfergus loreena mckennitt mac#

It is possible the English lyrics came from snatches picked up in interactions between the Cork men and the Antrim men. Antrim (where Carrickfergus is situated), and Co. With the Industrial Revolution, a linen-trade developed between Co. By contrast, the English lyrics are nostalgic. The Irish lyrics were about a man being cuckolded, a bawdy and humorous ditty. The song appears on a ballad sheet in Cork City in the mid nineteenth century in macaronic form.

Carrickfergus loreena mckennitt mac#

The origins of the song are unclear, but it has been traced to an Irish-language song, 'Do bhí bean uasal' ('There Was a Noblewoman'), which is attributed to the poet Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna, who died in 1745 in County Clare. ' Carrickfergus' is an Irish folk song, named after the town of Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The British peerage title of Baron Carrickfergus, which had become extinct in 1883, was bestowed upon Prince William on his wedding day on 29 April 2011. The town is the subject of the classic Irish folk song ' Carrickfergus', a 19th-century translation of an Irish-language song ( Do Bhí Bean Uasal) from Munster, which begins with the words, 'I wish I was in Carrickfergus.' It is also a townland of 65 acres, a civil parish and a barony. Carrickfergus was the administrative centre for Carrickfergus Borough Council, before this was amalgamated into the Mid and East Antrim District Council in 2015, and forms part of the Belfast Metropolitan Area. It is County Antrim's oldest town and one of the oldest settlements in Ireland as a whole. The town had a population of 27,903 at the 2011 Census and takes its name from Fergus Mór mac Eirc, the 6th-century king of Dál Riata.

It is located on the north shore of Belfast Lough, from Belfast. Carrickfergus, but known locally and colloquially as ' Carrick' (Ulster Scots), is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.