Annotation:Flowers of Cahirciveen

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FLOWERS OF CAHIRCIVEEN. AKA and see "Countryman's Reel," "Old Countryman's Reel." Irish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Cahirciveen [1] (spelled various ways, from the Irish Gaelic Cathair Saidhbhín) is a small town in County Kerry on the Iveragh Peninsula near Valentia Island.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 13. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 36.

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