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KILLDROUGHALT FAIR. AKA - "Kildroughalt Fair." AKA and see "My Lodging is Uncertain," "O Aranmore Loved Aranmore." Irish, Air (whole time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fidle). AB. The tune was first published in Samuel Holden's Collection of Old Established Irish Slow and Quick Tunes, vol. 2 (Dublin, c. 1805), and appeared a few years later in uilleann pipe O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes, vol. 2 (London, c. 1808) under the title "My Lodging is Uncertain." Thomas Moore's (1779-1852) song "O Arranmore, Loved Arranmore," from his Irish Melodies (1808), was set to this air. Moore's song begins:

Oh! Arranmore, loved Arranmore,
How oft I dream of thee,
And of those days when, by thy shore,
I wander'd young and free.
Full many a path I've tried, since then,
Through pleasure's flowery maze,
But ne'er could find the bliss again
I felt in those sweet days.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 3), 1859; 249, p. 221. Surenne (The Songs of Ireland without Words), p. 12.

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-'''KILLDROUGHALT FAIR.''' AKA - "Kildroughalt Fair." AKA and see "[[My Lodging is uncertain]]," "[[O Aranmore Loved Aranmore]]." Irish, Air (whole time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fidle). AB. The tune was first published in Samuel Holden's '''Collection of Old Established Irish Slow and Quick Tunes, vol. 2''' (Dublin, c. 1805). Thomas Moore's (1779-1852) song "O Arranmore, Loved Arranmore," from his '''Irish Melodies''' (1808), was set to this air. Moore's song begins:
+'''KILLDROUGHALT FAIR.''' AKA - "Kildroughalt Fair." AKA and see "[[My Lodging is Uncertain]]," "[[O Aranmore Loved Aranmore]]." Irish, Air (whole time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fidle). AB. The tune was first published in Samuel Holden's '''Collection of Old Established Irish Slow and Quick Tunes, vol. 2''' (Dublin, c. 1805), and appeared a few years later in uilleann pipe O'Farrell's '''Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes, vol. 2''' (London, c. 1808) under the title "[[My Lodging is Uncertain]]." Thomas Moore's (1779-1852) song "O Arranmore, Loved Arranmore," from his '''Irish Melodies''' (1808), was set to this air. Moore's song begins:
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