The Reel Of Mullinavat reel

Transcripition: Gian Marco Pietrasanta (craniota)
Source: Dan Healy & Ciaran O’Raghallaigh: "The Wyndy Turn"

I wrote two times the "a" part becouse the variations in the first two bars of the second "a".

X: 1
T: Reel of Mullinavat, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amix
|:ef| (3gfe fd edBA | GBAF GFED | GE E2 G3A | Be e2 (3Bcd ef |
(3gfe fd edBA | GBAF GFED | GE E2 G3A | Bgfg e3 :||
|:f| gdBd g3b | afde fa a2 | gB B2 g3B | afdf e3f |
gdBd g3b | afde fa a2 | (3bag af gfed | Bgfg e3 :||

The reel appears in Peter Cooper’s "The complete Irish fiddler". It caught my attention because my grandparents are buried there. My grandfather Pat Wallace had a good reputation as a fiddler around the area and hailed from nearby Ballyquin. I don’t know if he ever played this reel. I have had a go at it but have never seemed to commit it to memory.

This is how Andy McGann played this one.
I’ve never heard two people play this tune the same - so I just decided to stick to this setting. That c natural in the second go around of the a part is what sold me.
X: 1
T: The Reel of Mullinavat
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emin
ef|gfed BAGF|GBAG ~E3F|GEB,E GABd|eB{d}BA B2ef|
gfed edBc|BAGF ~E2EF|G2GF GABA |(3Bcd ed e2 :||
ef|geBe gabg |afdf afdf |geBe ga(3bag |afdf gee2|
geBe gabg |afde fga>z |bg (3agf gfed |Bgfd e2 ||

I’ve been struggling with this tune for a long time, partly because it’s been recorded and played in many different ways, and partly because the first two bars of it is very similar to those of Connemara Stockings: https://thesession.org/tunes/614

Wow, what a mixed bag of keys, Amix, Edor, Am….I never know what to tell the guitarist. Trying to be good about that when playing sets. I am not that inventive I think I would play em/g/d?

portland collection volume 2 page 140, has another tasty
version WITH chords in em.

Played by Brendan McGlinchey :
https://youtu.be/mnxZgvg524A

play video

Not only top-class fiddle playing in this clip, but excellent piano accompaniment - though unfortunately the player isn’t credited here. Underlines the point made very often in these pages that, to do it well, a backing musician needs to really know the tunes.

The accompanist was Deirdre McSherry from Co. Tipperary. She does indeed "know the tunes", being one of the few players of Boehm-system flute I’ve come across who really makes it work.
Thank you for that comment, Bazza. I really should have given her credit in the caption, and that omission has been duly corrected.