The Maid Of Feakle reel

Seamus Meehan, Paul O’Shaughnessy, and Mark Kelly used this for the wheelbarrow figure of the Clare Plain set on the NPU tape Round the House.

This tune is painted on the outside wall of Pepper’s pub in Feakle.

So old pages (say, from 1999) eventually go the way of the woolly mammoth? I posted this way back when, but it’s gone, so here it is again. This is how I play it years after learning it from Under the Moon, so I’m not sure how precisely it matches Martin’s setting on that cd (though probably closer than I’d like to get caught in public 🙂 ).

X: 1
T: Maid of Feakle
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
D: Martin Hayes, Under the Moon
K: G
^c|d2 BG ABGE|DGAB B-cBA|{^c}d2 BG ABGE|DGBG A3 ^c|
d2 BG ABGE|DGAB B-cBA|GABd eg{a}ge|dBGB A3 A||
Bd d/d/B c2 cA|BddB ABGA|BddB c2 c^c|dBGB ABGA|
BddB c2 cA|BddB ABGA|Bd d/d/d edBd|eaag abge||

It’s falls better on the fiddle in D or A.

Love this tune . This setting is nearest to what I hear played with one or two minor differences except for the brilliant Martin Hayes slow version.

transcribe from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2zGnBPLHVU&ab_channel=MartinHayes

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