Annotation:Road to Kilmallock

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X:1 % T:Road to Kilmallock M:C L:1/8 R:Reel S:Joyce – Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G BA|G>ABc d2 fa|gfed B2 cB|A>Bcd e2 fg|agfe d2 B>A| Bdef gbaf|gedB A2 Bd|g2 dB [df][ce][Bd][GB]|A4 G2z|| d|g2 ga gfed|egdc B3B|A2 AB ABcd|egfd e3d| gabg efge|dedB A2 Bd|g2 dB [df][ce][Bd][GB]|~A4 G2||



ROAD TO KILMALLOCK. Irish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Learned by artist and collector P.W. Joyce as a child in Co. Limerick, c. 1840. There exists famous ruins of an ancient Dominican frairy at Killmallock (see note for “annotation:Ruins of Killmallock” for more).

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Printed sources : - Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 74, p. 40.

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