The Temple In The Glen reel

I learnt this off Garry Shannon’s album, “Loozin’ Air”, and always kind of assumed it would be on this site, until I realised just now that it wasn’t.

I’m afraid there’s not much else I can say about this tune - I don’t know who wrote it (or if it’s known who, even), and I’ve never heard it played in a session, or anywhere else in fact, apart from Garry’s album.

This reel is attributed to Patsy Moloney, Brimingham flute player. Here’s Marcus Hernon’s version:

T: Karen Tweed’s
K: Gmaj
|:DG~G2 DGAF|G2Bd efga|bg~g2 gedB|ABBA BAGE|
DG~G2 DGAF|G2Bd efga|bg~g2 gedB|1 ABBA G3E:|2 ABBA GBdB||
G2Bd eB~B2|GABG AGED|G2Bd eg~g2|agbg aged|
G2Bd eB~B2|gBfB egdB|G2Bd gdBG|1 FGAF G3A:|2 FGAF GFEF||

Nice tune! 🙂

It turned out that this reel was indeed composed by Birmingham-based flute player Patsy Moloney. It appears on his recent solo album. The title of the tune may refer to Templeglantine, West Limerick, where Patsy originally comes from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templeglantine

It was transcribed from Patsy Moloney’s flute playing.

Great tune by my old pal Patsy which I’ve heard a few times being played by the man himself in the Spotted Dog, Birmingham.