Annotation:Mrs. Harwood

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 MRS. HARWOOD. Irish, Planxty (6/8 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). O'Sullivan was unable to trace the person for Carolan composed this piece, although notes there were people named Harwood in Ireland in the harper's time.  Source for notated version: John Lee's A Favourite Collection of the so much admired old Irish Tunes, the original and genuine compositions of Carolan, the celebrated Irish Bard (Dublin, 1780) [O'Sullivan].  Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 54, p. 53. O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 54, p. 131  Recorded sources:

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