I believe it safe to say that many tunes are named because of where they were played by the person who transcribed them. Lou Killen once told me 'tween sets at a concert that The Boys From Bluehill was really a hornpipe called The Boys From (Of) North Tyne. Gordon Bok called it Lou's Handy as I may be misremembering.

I would further think that atributing location, name and age to a good many tunes transcribed before any real field recordings were done will be dificult indeed. I would imagine it would require a bunch of learned fiddle folks sitting around a bunch of very old music texts and playing a piece and then saying "Wazzat?".

Don