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HARBOUR OF BALLYSHONE, THE (Cuan Bhaile Seóin). Irish, Slow Air (6/8 time). D Dorian/C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB.

Source for notated version: "Copied by (Irish collector) Forde from a MS. lent to him by Patrick Carey a piper of the Co. Cork; who I believe, is the same as Patrick Carew often mentioned in (Petrie's) Ancient Music of Ireland" (Joyce).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 452, p. 254.

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