Annotation:Pretty Girls of Abbeyfeale (The)

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PRETTY GIRLS OF ABBEYFEALE, THE. Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Abbeyfeale [1] is a town in County Limerick on the Kerry border. It was named after a Cistercian abbey founded here in the twelfth century by Brian O'Brian. Only a few ruins are still extent as the old abbey was incorporated into the present Catholic Church.

Source for notated version: "From memory, as I learned it from my father: a good setting is given in Chappell; but I believe it is Irish. (Joyce).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 55, p. 30.

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