The transcription here is of Sonny Harne’s from the flute playing of Andy Snee of Seamair, Cill Cheallaigh in Fíf agus Fideog¹, where we are told that he learnt the tune from the lilting of his father who “reckoned that it was a big favourite of Sonny (Michael) Harne of Kilgarrif, a hearty flute player and dancer”.
The audio recording features a slightly different version entitled The Boys from Mayo.²

Alternative titles:
Appears in Breathnach CRÉ1:140 as Ríl Uí Mhuirgheasa (Morrison’s reel), and as The New Post Office in both Goodman (Vol.3 p141 copied from O’Daly MS; Shields:835 p.120) and The Stephen Grier Music Manuscript Collection (Co. Leitrim, c.1883).
Appears as The New Mailcoach in O’Neill MI:1302 (1903) and DMI:489 (1907).

1. Joe Byrne, Fíf agus Fideog – Fluters and Whistlers of East Mayo. Dreoilín, Achadh Mór, 1998.
2. Tom Morrison (Flute solo), John Reynolds (tambourine), Ed Geoghegan (piano), Columbia 33293-F. (1928)