Annotation:Connacht Heifers

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X: 1 T:Connaught Heifers, The R:reel H:Also played with doubled parts. D:Arty McGlynn: McGlynn's Fancy D:Paddy Moloney & Sean Potts: Tin Whistles Z:id:hn-reel-134 Z:http://www.norbeck.nu/abc/i/hnr1.abc M:C| K:D ~F3G A2BG|A2BG AGFD|~F3G AGGF|1 DG~G2 =cAAG:|2 DG~G2 =cAAg|| |:fdec d2cA|~A2BG ABde|1 fdec d2cA|BG~G2 AGFD:|2 ~f3g edcA|BG~G2 AGFD||

CONNACHT HEIFERS (Budógaí Chonnacht). AKA - "Connaught Heifers." AKA and see "Silvermines (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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