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The Killavil Fancy

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on March 4th 2002 by Josh Kane.

This tune has been added to 109 tunebooks.

Also known as Eilish Brogan, The Farewell, Killaval, The Killavel Fancy, Killavil House, The Killavil, Ryan's Reel No. 1, The Ten Pound Float.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Killavil Fancy, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|: DGBG A2BA | GE~E2 cEGE | DGBG A2BA | GE{G}ED EFGA |
B2Bd A2BA | GE~E2 cEGE | DGBG A2BA | GE{G}ED E~E2D :|
|: GABd efge | dB~B2 dBAB | GABd efge | dBAG EG{A}GF |
GABd efge | dB~B2 d2ga | bgag egde | gedB AGEG :|

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The Killavil Fancy sheetmusic
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Nice

Lovely tune. This is a really nice setting, too.

Nice one, Josh.

# Posted on March 4th 2002 by Jeremy

Thank you kindly! Most of my family comes From Killavil in Co. Sligo, so it sort of has a sentimental value as well :-) .

# Posted on March 4th 2002 by Josh Kane

The Ten Pound Float

This has an alternate name in Bulmer & Sharpley's, The "Ten Pound Float" good tune

# Posted on March 5th 2002 by Brad Maloney

This is a particularly nice setting, but isn't it usually played as a single reel w/o repeats?

# Posted on May 30th 2005 by Dow

Composed by William Marshall.

# Posted on August 18th 2005 by frisbeeman2001

The Killavil Fancy: Single or Double?

This tune is played as a single reel in the session I regularly attend, but Mike Rafferty and Willie Kelly recorded it as a double. I wonder if it's commonly played as a double in some places.

By the way, this is not a composition of William Marshall. He wrote a slow tune called the Farewell March, but this is obviously a reel.

# Posted on March 6th 2006 by slainte

I've played it both ways at different sessions. Locally, we usually play it double--more opportunities for variations.

# Posted on March 6th 2006 by Miss Lonelyhearts

The Ten Pound Float

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1553

# Posted on March 6th 2006 by gian marco

Thanks Will. I thought it's rarely played as a single judging from Dow's comment above and what I regularly hear and play in the session here.

# Posted on March 7th 2006 by slainte

Just learnt this tune today from a banjo player down at the local session. I had recorded him about a fornight ago but decided I'd learn it today. He gave me the name "Killavil House".

# Posted on November 16th 2006 by 52Paddy

Nobody else calls it that way.

# Posted on November 17th 2006 by slainte

hhmm. I never heard the tune played anywhere since I recorded him so wouldn't know the popular name for it but I'll ask him where he got the name for it next time I see him. Maybe I heard him wrong.

# Posted on November 17th 2006 by 52Paddy

I believe "fancy" was simply confused with "house".

# Posted on November 18th 2006 by slainte

The Farewell Reel

This tune is recorded on Out of Ireland. I just read a quote from Mick Moloney in which he says he learned the tune from Tom Byrne, a flute player from Sligo, who used to play it himself at American wakes. It is played a a double, with a variation in the "a" part, when played slowly on this recording, which is how I play it...But, of course, I speed it up a bit...Unless I wish to play it as a sort of air. It's a wonderfully versatile tune.

# Posted on June 26th 2008 by c.smitty

The Ten Pound Float

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb1gfq1h5kw&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div

This is a lovely laid back version by John Weir, Clare Keville and Eithne Ni Dhonaile, it's the second tune

# Posted on November 15th 2009 by conscientious objector

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