:"Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin believe this tune may have been learned in County Clare from Scottish sappers in the 1830s who were sent to the region as part of the British survey of the country."
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It discusses the author's childhood in north east Scotland, when he used to visit Lochnagar in Highland Aberdeenshire.
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In the third and fourth stanzas, Byron mentions his Jacobite ancestors who haunt the area and who were "Ill starr'd, though brave, did no visions foreboding/Tell you that fate had forsaken your cause?/Ah! were you destined to die at Culloden" Byron himself says
Robert Gair | Gair rhydd | Şəlvə, Lachin | Lachin | Joanne Gair | Anthony H. Gair |