The Blarney Pilgrim

Blarney, in County Cork, is home to Blarney Castle and the stone said to give the gift of fine speech to anyone who kisses it, hanging backwards out of the castle wall. Stanford's edition of the Petrie collection prints the melody as "The Parish Girl," with a note that Daniel McHourigan set it around 1800.

Francis O'Neill printed it in 1903 and 1907 from Chicago fiddler Edward Cronin, who was born in Tipperary in 1838. It became very popular in the 1970s. Its centre wavers between D and G, so accompanists back it in different ways. Gaelic Storm played it in the steerage dance scene of the film Titanic.