Annotation:Lough Sheeling (2)
X:1 T:Lough Sheeling [2] M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Air Q:”Slow” B:Smollet Holden - Collection of favourite Irish Airs (London, c. 1841; p. 9) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Emin B^d|e2 ef ge|d2B2 (3GAB|c2c2 BA|B4 B^d| e2 ef ge|d2B2 eG|A3G E^D|E4 BA| G2 GABG|{B}A2G2 GA/B/|c2c2 BA|B4 B^d| e2 ef ge|d2B2 GA/B/|A3G E^D|E4||
LOUGH SHEELING [2] (Loc Saileann). AKA and see "Adieu My Loved Harp," "Come rest in this bosom," "Bridget O'Malley." Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Holden): AB (Clinton, Haverty, O'Neill). This air is an old harp melody used by Thomas Moore for his song "Come Rest in this Bosom." Francis O'Neill, writing in Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby (1910, p. 132), remarks that the air is a variant of "O Aranmore Loved Aranmore," and P.W. Joyce prints a variant as the air of the song "Molly Bawn (1)."
Hardiman links the song with "Bridget O'Malley," which he attributes to O'Carolan, but the association is not yet substantiated.
