Annotation:Cailtlín Ní Uallacháin

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CAILTLÍN NÍ UALLACHÁIN (Kitty/Katty Nowlan). Irish, Air (3/4 time) D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Stanford/Petrie): AABB (O'Sullivan/Bunting). Petrie's Music of Ireland (1892, p. 8) contains two variants of this tune along with six verses and notes.

Source for notated version: the Irish collector Edward Bunting noted the tune from the harper Charles Byrne (Co. Leitrim) in 1806; "From P. Coneely," the Galway piper [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 97, p. 141. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 481, p. 121.

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