Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 2940 (Last Rose of Summer)

Type
Song
Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Last Rose of Summer, The / The Groves of Blarney (composed by Thomas Moore)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here is the sole recording of this song – considering only the indexed recordings.

Year
Recorded
Track
#Tune
[Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~19956#1[RT] Reeltime. Reeltime. Máirin Fahy (fiddle, vocals), Éilís Egan (accordion), Chris Kelly (guitar), Benny Hayes (piano, keyboards, ukelele, vocals).View album details

Bibliography

Here are transcriptions of this song – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order.

As tune #42 in volume 1 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1927