Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID#657 (Follow Me Up to Carlow)
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Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Follow Me Up to Carlow / Follow Me Down to Carlow / Lean go Ceatharlach síos má / Feagh MacHugh's War March (also as march included here, as reel #656, and as slide #3233) (compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Sweets of May #1867)
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). |
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| ~1973 | 10#1 | [Plx 1] Planxty. Planxty. Liam O'Flynn (pipes, whistle), Andy Irvine (vocals, mandola, mandolin, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica), Donal Lunny (vocals, bouzouki, guitar, bodhrán), Christy Moore (vocals, guitar, harmonica, bodhrán). |
Bibliography
Here are transcriptions of this song – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order.
| As tune #988 in [1001] Francis O'Neill and James O'Neill. The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems. |
| As tune #65 in [D&M] Arthur Warren Darley and Patrick Joseph McCall. The Darley and McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music. |
| As tune #84 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2. |
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): 1907