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AT CLOONE CHURCH GATE THE FIGHT BEGAN. Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Dorian (although tonality seems to gravitate to D minor in some spots). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Cloone in County Leitrim, near Mohill. This tune has much in common with Grainne Waile" (Joyce).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 639, p. 324.

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