Source: John McFadden in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland¹

Audio: Paddy Killoran – The Enchanted Lady²

More commonly known as The Enchanted Lady nowadays, the title used on Paddy Killoran’s 1939 recording. Possibly a composition of McFadden’s³. O’Neill’s account of McFadden from Irish Minstrels and Musicians can be found here.

1. Francis O’Neill, O’Neill’s Music of Ireland: Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Melodies. Chicago, Lyon & Healy, 1903, #1480, p.274.
   Also appears in:
   Francis O’Neill, The Dance Music of Ireland (1001 Gems). Chicago, Lyon & Healy, 1907, #708, p.125.
2. Paddy Killoran, The Enchanted Lady, The Holy Land. Fiddle solo, unknown – piano. Decca 12201 (78 RPM), New York, 1939.
3. Not found in any earlier collections in the Bibliography here:
   Paul DeGrae, Sources of tunes in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland and Dance Music of Ireland, 2017 (rev.2021). https://www.irishtune.info/public/oneill-sources.htm (accessed 23/1/23)