The bodhran appeared often with jingles in earlier incarnations and was called a tambourine before bodhrán became more fashionable. One of the makers in North Kerry (sorry the name escapes me for now) used to put them on. The ITMA image gallery of percussion instruments may show you a few, Thady Casey among them. There are recordings of him playing it, The Shaskeen with Willie Clancy and Aggie Whyte is one I can thinnk of. There are also a few videos on youtube from Doolin, Packie Russell and others, a tambourine/bodhrán played as far as I remember. At some point players started taping down the jingles and eventually they disappeared altogether.
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