Annotation:Turloch McDonagh's Lamentation
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TURLOCH McDONAGH'S LAMENTATION. AKA - "Turlough Óg MacDonough." AKA and see "Councellor McDonough." Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air was composed by blind harper wikipedia:Turlough_O'Carolan (1670-1738) on the death of Counsellor Terence MacDonough, from Creevagh, County Sligo, in 1713. MacDonough (referred to in Irish as Toirdhealbheach Og or Toirdhealbheadh Caech) was the only Catholic advocate to be admitted to the Irish bar after the conditions of the Treaty of Limerick in 1691.
