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Anach Cuain

This wonderful air is from a ballad that tells the story of a wedding tragedy – where the wedding guests boarded a boat to the island in a lake where the wedding was happening. But sheep were also on the boat, and a sheep’s hoof went through the bottom of the boat, the overcrowded boat sank with all on board, and all drowned on a blissfully sunny day that should have been full of happiness…