MARGARET STUART'S REEL. AKA and see "Lady Margaret Stewart." Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Donegal. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. A Donegal variant of the pipe and fiddle tune "Lady Margaret Stewart's Reel," first published in Second Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels (1788). A version can be found in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of biography:John Roose (Manchester, England) under the title "Lady Margaret Howard's Strathspey." See also the related "Sweeney's Buttermilk."
Additional notes Source for notated version : - fiddler Danny O'Donnell (County Donegal) [Feldman & O'Doherty].
Printed sources : - Feldman & O'Doherty (The Northern Fiddler), 1978; p. 188.
