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LOUGHS OF CAVAN, THE. Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Lough Sheelan and other lakes are located in County Cavan. The composition was claimed by Joe Reavy as a composition of his County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddle player and composer father Ed Reavy (1898-1988), although it was recorded in 1927 as "Achonry Lasses."

Ed Reavy (2nd from left)



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Reavy (The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy), No. 49, p. 51.

Recorded sources:




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