Note 5 — MOLLIE CHARANE [5]
George Borrow translation
This ballad is founded on a real character—a miser—who by various means acquired a considerable property, and was the first person who ever left “tocher,” that is fortune, to daughter in Man. His name was Mollie Charane, which words interpreted are “Praise the Lord.” He lived and possessed an estate on the curragh, a tract of boggy ground, formerly a forest, on the northern side of the island, between the mighty mountains of the Snefell range and the sea.