Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on March 9th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as Miss Brown's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Belles Of Clonallan, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
|: F2|D>D D2 D>FA>F | d>FA>F d>FA>F | E>E E2 E>GB>G | e>GB>G e>GB>G |
D>D D2 D>FA>F | d>FA>F d>FA>F | E>gf>g e>dc>e | d2 d2 d2 :|
|: e2 | f>d d2 f>da>d | f>dd>f a2 e>d | c>A A2 c>Ae>A | c>AA>c e>gf>e |
f>d d2 f>da>d | f>dd>f a2 A2 | B>ba>g f>ed>c | d2 d2 d2 :|
The Belles of Clonallan
Clonallan is a parish in Co. Down, Northern Ireland.
Click below for a hand-drawn map, which shows the boundaries of this parish.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/MAPS/ClonallanWarrenpointTownlands.htm
I believe that I have submitted the title correctly as "The Belles of Clonallan" (i.e. not "The Bells of Clonallan"). Clonallan does has a church with a tower, but as far as I know it does not contain any bells.
Presumably, the "Belles" in the title refers to some "Stars of the County Down" ...
# Posted on March 9th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian