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from Saileog Ní Ceannabháin Compositions
This reel came about just before Halloween in 2009 when I was playing the fiddle, alone in my grandparents’ house in Aill na Brún, Iorras Aithneach, Connemara. It was a very windy and stormy night.
An Bhinn Bhuí is the name of the hill near the house in that townland. It roughly translates to “yellow summit”, which I think refers to the yellow gorse flowers that bloom on it abundantly each autumn.