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WOODS OF KILMURRAY, THE (Coillte Cill-Muire). Irish, Air (6/8 time, "rather slow"). G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. O’Neill says the tune is: “a restoration of an ancient air partly forgotten, which my mother sang (in Bantry, west Cork).”

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Printed sources : - O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 22, p. 4. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 3), 1927; No 67, p. 19.

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