Road to Lisdoonvarna

Lisdoonvarna is a town in the Burren of County Clare, inland from the Cliffs of Moher. It was a Victorian spa where visitors came to take the mineral waters, and it is now better known for its yearly matchmaking festival.

The tune is played both as a slide and as a reel. The Chieftains recorded it on Chieftains 3, and Philippe Varlet thinks the reel picked up the "Road" name from that album, where an untitled reel came just before the slide. Grey Larsen and Malcolm Dalglish spread it in the United States by pairing it with "O'Keeffe's Slide." Its second part is close to the Scottish strathspey "Ciorsdan Mhor."