"O'Carolan's Receipt" (for drinking), also known as "Carlione", "Carlionne", "Doctor John Stafford" ("An Dochtuir Sean Stafford"), "Planxty Stafford" and "Stafford's Receipt for Whiskey" is an Irish Planxty composed by Turlough O'Carolan (1670–1738) at the house of his life-long friend, Dr. John Stafford of Portabello, near Elphin, County Roscommon, who attended to O'Carolan during his last illness and who helped bear the harper's coffin at his funeral. 'Carolan had a fondness for alcoholic spirits; so much so that for his health he had been advised to abstain from drinking and he endeavored to do this for some six weeks. During this time, however, he became increasingly morose and his harp lay neglected. It was then that his friend Dr. John Stafford prescribed a liberal dose of whiskey with repeated applications and the two of them sat up until his spirits were sufficiently exhilarated and his mind had resumed its former tone. Another O'Carolan story relates that the harper expired with a tumbler of whiskey in his hand, though by the end he had no strength left to drink it. "It was a pity", said O'Carolan, "that two such friends should part, at least without kissing". It as printed in O'Farrell's Collection of National Irish Music for the Union Pipes (1804), Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland (1840), Haverty's One Hundred Irish Airs, vol. 3 (1859), O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903), O'Neill's Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913), Williamson's English, Welsh, Scotch and Irish Fiddle Tunes (1976) and Ossian Publications' The Complete Works of O’Carolan (1984). It has been recorded by The Chieftains, Derek Bell, Robin Williamson and others.