Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for The Road from Ballinakill by Mike and Mary Rafferty

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Artist NameMike and Mary Rafferty
Album TitleThe Road from Ballinakill
MusiciansMike Rafferty (flute, whistle, lilting), Mary Rafferty (accordion, flute, whistle, concertina), with Willie Kelly (fiddle), Dónal Clancy (guitar), Gerry Conroy (whistle), Kathleen Glynn (vocals), Michael Rafferty (vocals), Gabriel Donohue (guitar, piano, bodhrán).
Source and
other information		Larraga MMR112000, 2001. Recorded 2000 in Larraga, Ballinakill, Co. Galway and in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey.

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Every Irish tune on this album was identified by carefully comparing this recorded performance with all other tunes in the Irish Traditional Music Tune Index—by comparing musically, disregarding tune titles. The track and tune numbers below, furthermore, correspond to what you actually hear on this album. This page is thus more reliable than the original album notes, track titles listed by iTunes/Media Player, or other Web sites, all of which usually suffer from errors.

TrackTuneTune ID#RhythmTitles used for this tune (and other notes)
11 Tune Info
3050		 JigD Father Fielding's Favorite / Father Fielding's Favourite / Ella Rosenberg / I'll Tell My Mammy / Katie's Donkey
2 Tune Info
3051		 JigD Tony Smith's
21 Tune Info
3052		 Reel Peeler Boland's (compare Tailor's Thimble #2507)
2 Tune Info
1813		 Reel Sporting Nell / Sporting Nellie / Gorman's / Gorman's Reel / Johnny Gorman's / Geary's Reel (also in A) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Gorman's #962)
31 Tune Info
3053		 JigD Shaskeen, The / The Humours of Milltown / Paddy McMahons Jig [Paddy McMahon's Jig]
2 Tune Info
221		 JigD Brendan Tonra's / Brendan Tonra's Jig / Tonra's Jig / Tonra's / Tonroe's / Toneroe's No. 1 / Tone Rowe's / Tone Rowe's Jig / Tone Rowes / Tony Rowe's / Joe O'Dowd's Jig (2nd in set The Rose in the Heather on ESL 1) (composed by Brendan Tonra, ca. 1957, but misattributed to Joe O'Dowd in book TS)
41 Tune Info
3055		 Song Banks of the Lee, The / Banks of the Lee
51 Tune Info
788		 JigD Cailleach an Airgid / Cailleach an Airgead / The Hag with the Money / Is Í Do Mhamó Í / Sí Do Mhaimeo Í / Sí do Mhamó í / Si do Mhaimeo Í / The Wealthy Widow / She's Your Granny / I Was Born for Sport / My Brother Tom (also in Major, also as song, included here)
2 Tune Info
1526		 JigD Paddy Taylor's / Paddy Taylor's Jig / [The Banks of the Shannon] (2nd in set Paddy Taylor's Jigs on SC)
61 Tune Info
3056		 Reel Moving in Decency / Ag Bogadh linn go Measúil / All Around Gortin (2nd in set The Teetotaler on TCB 4)
2 Tune Info
1614		 Reel Pride of Rathmore, The / Considine's Grove / Considine's Groves / Considines Groves / The Gneevgullia Reel / Paddy Cronin's / The Game of Love / Miss Brady (also with a 3rd part taken from Game of Love #440, also as song-air) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Paddy Cronin's #1497)
71 Tune Info
2163		 Reel Daisy Field, The / Father Kelly's (1st in set Paddy Kelly's Reels on JB 3) (also singled, also only 2nd part doubled, also Major) (composed by Paddy Kelly)
2 Tune Info
1033		 Reel Killavel Fancy, The / Kilavel Fancy / The Killavil Fancy / Éilís Ní Bhrógáin / Eilís Ní Bhrógáin / Éilís Ní Brógáin [Elizabeth Brogan] / The Ten-Pound Float / The Ten Pound Float / Mayes' Cross (2nd in set Ryan's on FG 1; untitled following The Turnpike Gate on ESL 1; 2nd in set The Killavil Fancy on TCB 4) (also doubled)
81 Tune Info
2127		 Reel Ambrose Moloney's / Ambrose Maloney's / The Tailor's Fancy / McCabe's (compare Her Long Dark Hair Flowing down Her Back #825 and compare 1st part with 1st part of New Policeman #1277)
2 Tune Info
3058		 Reel Marcas O'Murchus [Marcas Ó Murchú's]
91 Tune Info
878		 Reel I Have No Money / Táim Gan Airgead / Níl Aon Airgead Agam / Miss Hamilton / Miss Hamilton's (mislabeled on CTL 3 as Tear the Calico) (also doubled, also in C or G)
2 Tune Info
1834		 Reel Steeplechase, The / Carragaline / The Milestone (3rd in set Reels from the 1920's on FG 3)
101 Tune Info
3059		 Song Horses and Plough (composed by Michael Hogan)
111 Tune Info
3060		 Hpipe Weird One, The
2 Tune Info
3061		 Hpipe Dingle Bay
121 Tune Info
2716		 Reel Bonnie Ann / Bonnie Anne / Bonny Ann / The Longford Reel / Seán Keane's Reel (compare 1st part with 1st part of Moveen Reel #4580)
2 Tune Info
3062		 Reel Thrush in the Storm, The / An Smólach sa Stoirm / Coming to Mind (later claimed by Mike Rafferty as his own composition)
131 Tune Info
1310		 Reel Miss McLeod / Miss Mc Leod / Miss McLeod's / Miss MacLeod's / Miss McLeod's Reel / Miss McCleod's Reel / Miss McCloud's Reel / Miss McCloud's / Mrs. McLeod / Mrs. MacLeod's Reel / Mrs. McCloud's Reel / Mrs McLeod's Reel / Mrs McLeod's / Misses McLoud's Reel / Miss Macleod of Raasay / Mrs McLeod of Rasay / Ríl Iníon Mhic Leod / Iníon Mhic Leóid / Ríl Mhic Leoid / McLeod's Reel / Macleod's Reel / The Other McCleods / Hop High Ladies / Hop Light Ladies / Hop Up Ladies / The Enterprising Boxer / Did You Ever See the Devil, Uncle Joe? / May Day (2nd in set Jig Selection on MR 2; 1st in set Miss McClouds Reels on ESL 1, which in turn is mislabeled there as The Belburry Hills) (also in A or D or F, also with parts reversed in American music) (compare #2693)
2 Tune Info
703		 Reel Garrett Barry's / Garrett Barry's Reel / Garrett Barrys / Mister McLeod's / Mr. McLeod's / Denis Murphy's Miss McLeod's
141 Tune Info
3064		 JigD Dominic's Farewell to Cashel / McAuliffe's / Martin Mulvihill's Jig (compare 1st part with 1st part of The Legacy #1115) (composed by Josie McDermott)
2 Tune Info
1527		 JigD Fasten the Leg on Her / Paddy Taylor's / Paddy Taylors (compare 1st part with 1st part of Fasten the Leggin #614)
151 Tune Info
145		 Reel Biddy from Muckross / Biddy from Mucross / Bideach Mhucrois / The Man from Dublin
2 Tune Info
3066		 Reel Martin Wynne's No. 3 / Martin Wynne's #3 / Martin Wynnes #3 / Wynne's No. 3 / Martin Wynns No.3 / Martin Wynne's / Willie Coleman's / Up and Away (1st in set Midsummer's Night on Drv 5) (composed by Martin Wynne)
161 Tune Info
3067		 Air Barrell Ó Rabartaig Air
2 Tune Info
4273		 JigD Rakes of Kildare, The / The Galbally Farmer / Thank God We're Surrounded by Water / The Haymakers Jig (2nd in set Raiteachas Mo Tairngreacht on ADB) (also in F) (compare A Dorian setting of Rakes of Kildare #1638)
171 Tune Info
3068		 Reel Fox on the Prowl, The / Josie McDermott's Reel
2 Tune Info
3069		 Reel Liffey Banks, The / Liffy Banks / Bruacha na Life / The Colleen Bawn (1st in set Dinny O'Brien's Reels on KCB 3) (also 2nd part doubled)
181 Tune Info
257		 Hpipe Byrne's Hornpipe / Cornphíopa Uí Bhroin / Bryant's Favourite / O'Briens / Tommy Hill's Favorite / Kimmel's (1st in set Tommy Hills' Favourite on MC) (also in G or A)
191 Tune Info
2657		 Reel Paddy Fahy's (composed by Paddy Fahy)
2 Tune Info
3070		 Reel Bag of Hay, The (composed by Tim Tully and Gerry Conroy)
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