• Kerr's A Minor version
• Sutherland's 6-part version
• Patrick O'Farrell's 5-part version
• The Foxhunter's
• O'Farrell's D version
• The Leitrim Greg's Pipes
• Kernan's D version
• The Bucks of Oranmore
• Craig's Pipes (G)

The Bucks of Oranmore

“The Bucks of Oranmore” would seem to have developed from Kernan's D version of “Greg’s Pipes”, sometimes with the loss of some of the parts, sometimes with an extra variant part added, and always with the second of the long f♯’’ notes changed to e’’, resulting in the loss of the whine. The Reilly family manuscripts contain a three part setting of “The Bucks of Oranmore” in the C,^KAB format, making it closest to the Kernan original, as contained in Smyth. Pádraig O’Keeffe also has the same three parts but in the order C,^KBA.

A setting of “The Bucks of Oranmore” from the Reilly MSS for comparison with Kernan’s D setting

Reilly MSS, Irish Traditional Music Archive, Dublin: RY2.056

Parts

C,^KAB

Francis Roche, Collection of Irish Airs, Marches and Dance Tunes, Volume 1, (Dublin and Cork, 1911), 59

Parts

CA

Eithne and J. B. Vallely, Learn to Play the Uillean Pipes, (Armagh, no date given), 27-28

Parts

CC'A'AB

David Lyth, Bowing Styles in Irish Fiddle Playing, Volume 2, (Dublin, no date given), 27

Parts

C,^KBA