"Ballydesmond Polka (2), also known as "Donal DeBarra's Polka", "Jib Polka", "Keep Your Eye on the Linspin", "Maurice Manley's Polka" or "O'Keeffe's Polka" is an Irish polka in 2/4 time) and A Dorian. The parts are played AABB. This is a polka version of "Maurice Manley’s" (a slide). It comes from the Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border of Ireland. The "Ballydesmond Polkas" numbers 1, 2 and 3 are usually played as a group and are known collectively as "The Ballydesmond Polkas".
It was printed in Cotter's Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor (1989), Breathnach's CRÉ II (1976), Cranitch's Irish Fiddle Book (1988) and Irish Session Tunes: Red Book (2000), Jordan's Whistle and Sing (1975), Mallinson's 100 Irish Polkas (1997), Miller & Perron's 101 Polkas (1978) and Irish Traditional Fiddle Music (2nd Edition, 2006), Moylan's Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra (1994), Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986), Perlman's Melodic Clawhammer Banjo (1979) and Vallely's Play Tin Whistle with the Armach Pipers Club, vol. 2.
It was recorded by Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford on The Star Above the Garter (1973).