The Maid Of Feakle

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on May 28th 2004 by kjlowe.

This tune has been added to 34 tunebooks.

Also known as The Maids Of Feakle.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Few Tunes by John Skelton
• Flowers Of The Burren by Barefield Ceili Band
• Haven't Yet Lost My Ears by Finvarra's Wren
• Over The Moor To Maggie by Inis
• Round The House: Music For The Sets Volume 1 by Various Artists
• Shame The Devil by Turlach Boylan
• Tracin' by Gearóid Ó HAllmhuráin And Patrick Ourceau
• Under The Moon by Martin Hayes

X: 1
T: Maid Of Feakle, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:Bc | ~d2BG AGEG | DGBG cGBc | dcBG AGEG | DGBG A2Bc |
(3ddc BG AGEG | DGBG cGBA | GA(3Bcd egge | dBAB G2 :|
|: cA | B2dB c2dc | BddB AGEG | BddB cBce | dBGB A2GA |
BddB cBcA | BddB AGEG | Bd~d2 edBd | egfa g2 :|

Nice dance tune

Seamus Meehan, Paul O'Shaughnessy, and Mark Kelly used this for the wheelbarrow figure of the Clare Plain set on the NPU tape Round the House.

# Posted on May 28th 2004 by kjlowe

This tune is painted on the outside wall of Pepper's pub in Feakle.

# Posted on May 28th 2004 by OrganicPeatCreature

Martin Hayes Version

So old pages (say, from 1999) eventually go the way of the woolly mammoth? I posted this way back when, but it's gone, so here it is again. This is how I play it years after learning it from Under the Moon, so I'm not sure how precisely it matches Martin's setting on that cd (though probably closer than I'd like to get caught in public ).

X: 1
T: Maid of Feakle
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
D: Martin Hayes, Under the Moon
K: G
^c|d2 BG ABGE|DGAB B-cBA|{^c}d2 BG ABGE|DGBG A3 ^c|
d2 BG ABGE|DGAB B-cBA|GABd eg{a}ge|dBGB A3 A||
Bd d/d/B c2 cA|BddB ABGA|BddB c2 c^c|dBGB ABGA|
BddB c2 cA|BddB ABGA|Bd d/d/d edBd|eaag abge||

# Posted on October 26th 2006 by Miss Lonelyhearts

With all due respect...

It's falls better on the fiddle in D or A.

# Posted on August 31st 2009 by Shlomo Killoran