Lament of the Three Marys (Irish hymn)

[Matthew Heumann]

An old Irish Gaelic hymn known as "Caoineadh na dTrí Mhuire". An instrumental setting cannot do justice to the vocal A Capella versions such as the sean nos version by Iarla Ó Lionáird.

I do not yet have the "dots" transcribed".

 

[Peter Laban]

Joe Heaney was the first I heard singing it and he stills ticks all the boxes.

 

This one is fine too and it has Seán McKiernan doing the instrumental version between the verses (which is a bonus, to me anyway):