The Silver Spear

A core session reel in D. Brendan Breathnach's Irish translation of the title suggests it may name a mountain rather than a weapon, and piper Willie Clancy called it "The White Mountain." "The New Mown Meadows" is a related tune.

Sliabh Luachra fiddlers Pádraig O'Keeffe, Julia Clifford and Denis Murphy played it on the album Kerry Fiddles, and Kevin Burke and Sean Keane both recorded it in the 1970s and 1980s. The name may have drifted onto another reel too: one guess about "The Silver Spire" is that its title is a garbled "Silver Spear."