Above is a scan
from O'Neill's
Music of Ireland
(1850 tunes including 75 apparently by O'Carolan ). A
setting similar to what is given above was recorded on
guitar by John
Allan Cameron.
Although possible, this
tune is unlikely to have been composed Carolan
as ONeill was the
first to attribute the melody to him. First published in
John Clarks 1773 collection, as Isle of Sky(The
Prince's Welcome to the) it appeared many more times
in 18th century Scottish books. The first Irish
publication was OFarrells Collection (c.1806)
where it was called a Scotch hornpipe and titlesd simply,
Isle of Sky
Today
in Cape Breton it
is often called Prince Charles Welcome to the Isle of
Skye, and played using the multi-part key D setting
found in the Skye
Collection.
That setting was recorded on 78 disc by Cape Breton
fiddler Bill
Lamey.
Bill Lamey's 78s are
freely posted on archive.org