Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 657 (Follow Me Up to Carlow)

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):
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)
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
~197310#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).View album details

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. [available]
As tune #65 in [D&M] Arthur Warren Darley and Patrick Joseph McCall. The Darley and McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music. [available]
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
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