Recorded during a residency with BathHouse Projects, Belfast. 
The lyrics depict a lovelorn individual asking whether his love is at the rock and enquiring if she is heart broken as he is. It is reported that this song was utilised in penal times with the rock serving as code for the mass rock and the valentine/love as code for religion. Sung in public as a way to ask is if it is safe to practise religion at the mass rock. The layers of coding add much depth to the song though fascinating is the enticing melancholy it conveys irrespective of whether the listener understands Irish or knows of the additional function served by its double meaning.

An raibh tú ar an gCarraig?

Interpretation of Robert Dwyer Joyce's ballad telling you of young man facing into the doom of circumstance and choice.

Daithí O'Reilly

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