Nell got this song from a recording of a great singer from Gougane Barra called Cáit Ní Mhuineacháin. The song takes the form of an Aisling (vision song) and was written by the great poet Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire (1774–1848). She was from Tuirín na nÉan, near Ballingeary in Co.Cork. Máire couldn’t read or write but was a prolific poet for her time, and her work still lives on to this day. The song is a love story where a man is trying to place who a beautiful woman is as he feels he has never seen such beauty. She eventually tells him who she is and that she’d be interested in making a match with him, to which he replies that he’s already spoken for.