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I am a fiddle player and I was doing some research on a song called "The Humours of Ballyloughlin" (awesome song btw) which is a 4 part double-jig.  My teacher and I thought maybe Ballyloughlin might have been in Northern Ireland because the song has a Scottish lilt to it.  I was surprised to see it was so close to Dublin, but Dublin was heavily "planted" by Scots like Northern Ireland was, if I remember my Irish history (I am American; most Americans have trouble remember our own short history!) 

Anyway, I thought that you folks from Ballyloughlin might want to know there is a fiddle tune named after it.  It is a great rollicking tune.  I like to think that a tune like this could have only come from happy people.  Here is a great clip (old; from the 1970's) from Youtube of the tune played on guitar: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzE439U5iMI&feature=related

And another of Eileen Ivers on fiddle in her great eclectic Celtic-world fusion style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xOHQCRPDoM