The Ploughman's Whistle of the King's County
| TYPE | 1 or 2 |
| TOPIC | Rural Life |
| TUNE STRUCTURE | 12 bars |
| VERSE STRUCTURE | not given |
| TIME SIGNATURE | 24 |
| KEY SIGNATURE | ♯ |
| TONAL CENTRE | E |
| INCIPIT | GF♯EFEDBBC♯'DEF♯ |
| GENRE | Worksong |
| TEXT SOURCE | George Petrie, The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland (Dublin: M. H. Gill, 1855), pp.26-30 |
| TUNE SOURCE | as above |
| NOTATED INCIPIT | |
| Petrie discusses Bunting's arrangement of this piece in detail stating that it is erroneously set in triple, rather than common time. Petrie took the tune from a ploughman working on the estate of Thomas Enright Mooney. | |
