Dance: Kilkenny Castle

32-bar Strathspey
3 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4

Devised by:
Bill Forbes
Formations:
Reel of three - with corners (REEL;CRNRS;DOUBLE;R3;)
Rights and Lefts - diagonal (R&L;DIAG;)
Note: Due to limitations in the underlying data, the relative order of formations in this list may be different from the order of formations in the actual dance.
Steps:
Strathspey travel
Published in:
Craigievar Book 2 [1] *
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [94]
Recommended Music:
Kilkenny Castle (Frank Reid)
Recordings (3): Show tunes
Craigievar Dances (Nicol McLaren & The Glencraig Scottish Dance Band), track 4 [pace 60.5]
Something Else (Frank Reid and his Band), track 6
A Birl Roond Forfar (The Deirdre Adamson Quartet), track 6 [pace 60.8]

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Crib

1-81C+2C set | 1C cross RH ; cast off (2C up) to between 3C NHJ | turn 3C easy hand, to finish (2,1x,3), 1C facing in and up, 3C facing out
9-162C+1C+3C Mirror Reels3 on the sides (all give hands), (2,1x,3)
17-241C Petronella Turn while corners change place RH | All set in threes across ; 1C Petronella Turn, while corners cross RH | All set (3x,1,2x)
25-32Diagonal R&L (1C+1cnrs change places RH | 1C change places LH with mid-person on sides ; 1C+2cnrs repeat)
Crib needs checked · Source: Eric T. Ferguson ·

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