According to Wikipedia there is no evidence that the song is based on a real woman in the 17th century or any other time. The song is not recorded earlier than , when it was published in Boston, Massachusetts.
It was also published by Francis Brothers and Day in London in as a work written and composed by James Yorkston, of Edinburgh, with music arranged by Edmund Forman. The London edition states that it was reprinted by permission of Kohler and Son of Edinburgh, implying that the first edition was in Scotland, but no copies of it have been found. Everyone agrees that Molly Malone is one of the more famous people in the history of Dublin.
The statue of her on lower Grafton Street, erected in , depicts a woman in a 17th century dress that shows so much cleavage Madonna might be unwilling to wear it. How this young woman who allegedly sold fish by day, sold her body by night and died young of an undefined fever is a long and twisted tale indeed.
Malone does have some fans who claim she was never a prostitute. However, there are an unlimited number of Molly Malones born in Dublin who could be mistaken for her.
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