Annotation:New Miss McLeod (The)

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NEW MISS McLEOD, THE (Ríl Nua Iníon Mhic Leoid). AKA and see "Captain Kelly's Reel (3)." Irish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Unrelated to the reel usually played as "Miss McLeod's Reel (1)." Researcher Conor Ward finds the same tune in the c. 1885 music manuscript collection of fiddler Francis Reynolds of Gaigue, Ballinamuck, County Longford, under the title "Captain Kelly's Reel (3)," albeit with the parts reversed from Stephen Grier's "New Miss McLeod."

Source for notated version: fiddler and uilleann piper biography:Stephen Grier (Farnaght, County Leitrim) who wrote down his tunes in the 1880's [Breathnach & Small].

Printed sources: Breathnach & Small (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 115, p. 59.

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