Annotation:Lady Carbury
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LADY CARBURY. AKA and see "Mason's Apron (The)," "Mason Laddie (The)," "Miss Carbery's Reel," "Carton's Reel," "Gallagher's," "Wake Up Susan (1)." Irish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune appears as "Miss Carbery's Reel" in ship's fiddler William Litten's music manuscript collection, compiled 1800-1802 on a voyage to China with the East India Fleet.
Source for notated version: c. 1889 from "Mr. M. Flanagan of the Hibernian Military School, Phoenix Park, Dublin, a good player of the Union pipes. Mr. Flanagan picked them up in North Kildare" (Joyce).
Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 357, pp. 164-165.
Recorded sources: RTÉ RTE-CD-199, Seamus Ennis - "The Return from Fingal" (1997. Originally recorded 1948).