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Sheet Music for "The Connaught Heifers"The Connaught Heifersreel1212Discography: Arty McGlynn: McGlynn's FancyPaddy Moloney & Sean Potts: Tin WhistlesTranscription: id:hn-reel-134 History: Also played with doubled parts.


CONNACHT HEIFERS (Budógaí Chonnacht). AKA - "Connaught Heifers." AKA and see "Silver Mines (2) (The)." Irish, Reel. D Mixolydian/G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Connaught was one of the five old provinces of Ireland (along with Ulster, Leinster, Meath, and Munster), named for the ancient tribe who lived there, the Connachta. The alternate title, "The Silver Mines" ("Silvermines (2) (The)") is found in Petrie's Complete Collection (1905); albeit a "faulty version", opines Breathnach.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - pipers Seán Potts (Ireland) [Breathnach]; piper Willie Clancy (1918-1973, Miltown Malbay, west Clare) [Mitchell].

Printed sources : - Breathnach (CRÉ I), 1963; No. 89, p. 39. Mitchell (Willie Clancy), 1993; No. 62, p. 65.

Recorded sources: -Claddagh 4CC 39, "The Pipering of Willie Clancy vol. 2" (1983). Drumlin Records BMNCD2, Brian McNamara – "Fort of the Jewels" (2004).


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