Castle Kelly

Castle Kelly takes its name from Aghrane in County Galway, one of the strongholds the O'Kelly family held there, though the reel itself was first written down well to the north: it was entered, untitled, into the c. 1883 manuscripts of the Leitrim fiddler and piper Stephen Grier, and it reached print in P.W. Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909). Fiddler Paddy Glackin played a notably slow, spare setting of it during his time with the Bothy Band, later recording it on his own.