Music of Ireland
"The Foggy Dew" as the name of an Irish traditional song first appears in Edward Bunting's "The Ancient Music of Ireland" (1840), where the tune is different from that mostly sung today (also different from the lament and the rebel song below). Bunting's source for the tune was a "J. Mc Knight, Belfast, 1839", but the same melody already appears in "O'Farrell's Collection of National Irish Music for the Union Pipes" (London, 1804), where it is called "Corraga Bawn".