title: Catherine Martin (piper)
text: # Catherine Martin (piper)
  
  Catherine "Kate" Martin (fl. 18th-century, born Lurgan, Co. Cavan) was an Irish harper. W. H. Grattan Flood described Catherine Martin as a native of Co. Meath. She especially performed airs by Edward Sterling, the parson of Lurgan. She attended the Harp Festivals at Granard in the 1780s and Belfast in 1792.
  
  