Annotation:Groves of Blarney (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
GROVES OF BLARNEY, THE (Coillte Blarnaig). AKA and see "Last Rose of Summer (The)," "Sad and Luckless Was the Season." Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill): ABCDEF (Roche). O'Neill says this song is a parody of "Castle Hyde."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 507, p. 89. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 1), 1912; No. 42, p. 21.
Recorded sources: