Wednesday 13 August 2025
Tune of the Day: The Maids of Ballinacarty
Traditional Irish jig
This jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. Fiddler John Carey, a native of Limerick, is given as the source for the tune. In his later book Irish Folk Music, O'Neill states that the tune was previously “unpublished and new to us”.
Ballinascarty, also known as Ballinascarthy, is a village in County Cork, in the south-west of Ireland.