Kit O'Mahony

jig

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on February 17th 2005 by ragaman.

This tune has been added to 24 tunebooks.

Also known as Kit O'Mahoney's, Kit O'Mahony's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Crossroads by Joe Ryan, Eddie Clark
• Dancing On Silver by Tim Collins
• Foinn Seisiun 3 by Ennis/Dublin Session Group
• In Good Hands by Paddy Murphy
• Irish Traditional Concertina Styles by Various Artists
• Like Magic by Todd Denman And Bill Dennehy
• Music At The House by Brendan Bulger, Marty Fahey And Kathleen Gavin
• Piano + by Geraldine Cotter
• Raise The Rafters by Raise The Rafters
• The Mulcahy Family by The Mulcahy Family
• Tracin' by Gearóid Ó HAllmhuráin And Patrick Ourceau
• Traditional Irish Music Played On The Fiddle by Tommy Peoples
• Waiting For A Call by Tommy Peoples

X: 1
T: Kit O'Mahony
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
G/A/|~B3 ABA|GAG FGA|B/c/dB cAF|DGG G2A|
B2G AGF|DGE FGA|fed cAF|DGG G2:|
D|GBd deg|f2d cAF|GBd def|~g3 def|
g2e fed|edB cde|fed cAF|DGG G2:|
D|GBd cAc|BGG G (3Bcd|gdB cAE|FGA cAF|
GBd cAc|BGG G2g|fed cAF|1 DGG G2:|2 DGG G||
(3Bcd|~g3 dBG|fed cAF|GBd deg|~f3 def|
~g3 afd|bag afd|fed cAF|1 DGG G:|2 DGG G2||

I first heard this tune last summer, played by Connie Connell and Gerry Harrington at a session in Pepper's, Feakle, and was teased by its meanders. I heard it again at my local session a couple of months ago, played by a piper, Paul Brennan. He referred me to O'Neill's, so the version I have is learned from there. Not having any recordings of it, and not wanting to post a duplicate of a printed setting here, I put in a request for it around Christmas time, but nobody responded. I couldn't hold it in any longer, so here it is. I have played it a few times in sessions now (although I have not heard anyone else play it since Paul Brennan), and I think I am beginning to get beyond the stage of simply replicating the notes in the book. So the setting you see here has a little of me in it.

A search on it revealed that it has been recorded by Joe Ryan (I shall have to seek it out). It is criminal that it wasn't here already.

# Posted on February 17th 2005 by ragaman

Fix before the sheet music gets done ...

You might want to double-check the abc -- looks like you may have "b" where you meant "B". Check third strain, second measure, you have a triplet notated: "(3bcd" which I'm guessing you meant as "(3Bcd". Am I right?

# Posted on February 17th 2005 by FyfferGuy

Thanks, FyfferGuy. It looks like Jeremy has corrected it, as the sheet music's right.

# Posted on February 18th 2005 by ragaman

Kit O'Mahony was Francis O'Neill's mother. Joe Ryan and Eddie Clarke recorded this tune on their duet LP Crossroads. It's also in O'Neill's in a hornpipe setting, and was recorded in that style by Patrick Ourceau and Gearoid O hAllmhurain.

# Posted on March 22nd 2005 by Don Meade

Hornpipe Setting

Patrick taught me his hornpipe setting of this tune a few years back. I've listed it in the comments of the album 'Tracin', recorded with Gearóid Ó HAllmhuráin.

http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/209

It is aslo # 1593 in O'Neill's 1850.

Tim

# Posted on July 16th 2006 by tmcelrea

"Kit O'Mahoney's Hornpipe" ~ # Posted on July 16th 2006 by tmcelrea

Submitted on July 16th 2006 by tmcelrea (ceolachan).
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5970

# Posted on July 16th 2006 by ceolachan

Druid's Field?

I see that the hornpipe version sometimes goes by the name "Druid's Field." Does this jig version ever go by that title?

--Peter

# Posted on May 26th 2007 by muspc

Watch Tulla U-12 Ceili Band play this: http://www.custysmusic.com/mall/CustysTraditionalMusicShop/tulla12.html

# Posted on July 22nd 2007 by slainte

Kit O'Mahoney's - A Different Key

Another take on this great tune by Bronwyn Power from Clare who plays it in the in the key of "C" rather than "G". It's on the Comhaltas site over at http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_229_2_bronwyn_de_paor/

# Posted on October 25th 2007 by Bannerman