- Style
- Celtic
- Tradition
- Irish
- Form
- Hornpipe
- Key
- D
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
90bpm
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Chord chart
History
East of Boyle, in County Roscommon, lie flat limestone grasslands known for their cattle pasture. They were once the table lands of the MacDermots, princes of Moylurg.
The hornpipe was recorded four times in New York in the 1920s. Leitrim piper Michael Gallagher and the duet of P. J. Conlon and Tom Morrison both recorded it in 1924, and fiddlers Frank Quinn and James Morrison each recorded it for Columbia in 1929. Gallagher paired it with "The Leitrim Fancy" and called the pair "Moran's Hornpipe," after the musician he learned it from.