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CALLAGHAN'S (HORNPIPE) (Cornphíopa Uí Cheallacháin). AKA - "O'Callaghan's Hornpipe." Irish, Hornpipe. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Miller & Perron): AA'BB' (most versions). Named for the uncle of influential County Kerry fiddler and teacher Pádraig O'Keeffe, Cal O'Callaghan. Paul Deloughery, in his book Sliabh Luachra on Parade, maintains it was composed by O'Keefe.

Source for notated version: accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luarchra region), recorded in recital at Na Píobairí Uilleann, February, 1981 [Moylan]; fiddler Denis Murphy, 1966 (Co. Kerry, Ireland) [Breathnach]; fiddler Seán Keane (Dublin), with the Chieftains [Miller & Perron].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 308, p. 157. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), vol. 1, 1974; No. 73. Ceol, vol. 2, No. 4. Cranitch (Irish Fiddle Book), 1996; p. 109. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, vol. 1), 1977; No. 14 (appears as untitled hornpipe). Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 120. Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 61, p. 35. Vallely (Play Tin Whistle with the Armagh Pipers Club, vol. 2), 19.

Recorded sources: Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Éireann CL13, "Tommy Peoples" (1976). Globestyle Irish CDORBD 085, Padraig O'Keeffe - "The Rushy Mountain" (1994. Reissue of Topic recordings). Shanachie 79022, "Chieftains #2." Topic 12T309, Padraig O'Keefe, Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford - "Kerry Fiddles" (1977. Originally recorded in 1952).

See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]