Ann Mulqueen - Comeragh's Rugged Hills (Recorded for 'Stop, Look and Listen' by Michael Fortune)

This is a very apt song for the Greenway as it is a song dealing with emigration. In fact it was on this very railway line that thousands of Irish men and women made their way to Rosslare Harbour to catch the boat to Wales and England. Like so many of our emigration songs this local song laments the leaving of family, neighbours and the landscape. .............................. Stop, Look and Listen is a project by Michael Fortune which explores the local traditional songs associated with places along the new Waterford Greenway. Users of the new Greenway which connects Waterford City to Dungarvan will be greeted along the route with signs which will encourage them to take out their smart phones and ‘Stop, Look and Listen’ to specific traditional songs from this part of County Waterford. The project was commissioned by The Heritage Office of Waterford City and County Council.