Farewell To Cailroe

reel

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on June 13th 2005 by Kenny.

This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.

Also known as Farewell To Kilroe.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Celtic Fiddle by Sean Maguire
• Festival Of Traditional Irish Music by Various Artists
• Irish Traditional Accordion Session With Four Champions by Joe Burke, Kevin Loughlin, Finbarr Dwyer And John Whelan
• Irish Traditional Music by Jim McKillop
• Jamie Smith by Jamie Smith
• Live From The National Concert Hall Dublin by Sean Maguire
• Pure Traditional Irish Accordion Music by Finbarr Dwyer
• Standing Room Only by Eliot Grasso

X: 1
T: Farewell To Cailroe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amaj
A2 EC DCDE | CA,CE ABcd | e2 ^df eAcA | BGAF GEFD |
EFGE AGEc | d2 ce d2 cd | efed BA A2 | BEGB A4 :|
A2 ec dcdB | cABG AGED | B,CDB, EDEF | GEBG AGEG |
A2 EA CAEA | FdBA GEFG | A2 ec dcdB | GABG A4 :|

Farewell To Cailroe

Not a tune that I've heard played that often - Sean Maguire, certainly, and I think maybe Billy McComiskey, with or without Brendan Mulvihill. Not a flute or whistle tune at all, because of the range and the G#s, however, I bought an A whistle from John Sindt a while back, and it works on that. I think it may have been composed by Finbar Dwyer.

# Posted on June 13th 2005 by Kenny

Nice one Kenny!

Always loved Sean Playing this one and I have heard Tom Ginley play it on a silver flute.Dead right about the composer also.

# Posted on June 13th 2005 by cos

Yeah, good box tune

First heard this one from Damien Mullane, the great young London box player. Also to be heard on Eliot Grasso's CD, Standing Room Only

# Posted on June 15th 2005 by Conán McDonnell

Great tune but doesn't the melody have a bit of a hornpipe feel to it or is it just me?

# Posted on January 14th 2006 by Donough

I'm learning this tune at the moment. I've spent time over the last few years learning some of Finbarr's more obscure tunes. I think this should become part of my repertoire since it is slightly more common than some of his other compositions.

I'm learning it in C and D though.

# Posted on September 23rd 2009 by 52Paddy