Annotation:Lakes of Kellarnie

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LAKES OF KELLARNIE. AKA - "Lakes of Killarney." Scottish, Irish; Jig. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. Gow indicates the tunes provenance is Irish. There are three Lakes of Killarney [1] in County Kerry; Lough Leane, the Upper Lake, and Muckross Lake.

The Lakes of Killarney. John Frederick Kensett, 1857



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1788; No. 166, p. 63. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 344. Crosby (The Irish Musical Repository), London, c. 1808. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 3rd ed., 1792; p. 31.

Recorded sources: The Kane Sisters - "Under the Diamond."




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