Rosemary Lane jig

Both Kathleen Collins and Josie Keegan have recorded nice fiddle versions of this jig.It`s my first attempt at ABC notation so I hope it isn`t faulty.Cos.

Shouldn’t many of the upper case b notes be lower case?

FEF DFA|dce dcB|AdB AFD|EFD EAG|
FEF DFA|dce dcB|Ade faf|gec d3 :|
|:aba fed|gfg ecA|fed Bcd|edB ABc|
ded AFA|Bed cBA|faf gec|Adc d3 :|

have updated ABC.

thank you for posting this - great tune

named after?
One of the oldest street in Belfast is thus named…

There are still problems with the original submission - for example the 6th bar of the B-part ~
| Bed cbA | ~ needing to change to ~ | Bed cBA | ~
Bill Reeder’s gives it so above…

Here’s the composer’s own transcription, taken from his publication:

B: "Walton’s Irish Dance Music: Including Original Tunes by J.M. Crofts A.D.C.M., Part One"
Dublin - no dates given but the paper has aged to a dark tan…

Page 3, the second tune of three: "Rosemary Lane"

X: 2
T: Rosemary Lane
C: Joseph M. Crofts
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|: A/B/ |\
FEF DFA | dce dcB | AdB AFD | EFD EAG |
FEF DFA | dce dcB | Ade faf | gec d2 :|
|: f/g/ |\
aba fed | gag ecA | fed Bcd | edB ABc |
ded AFA | Bed cBA | faf gec | Adc d2 :|

"The Dancing Tailor"
Submitted on November 30th 2011 by Jerry O’Donnell.
https://thesession.org/tunes/11611

"O’Carolan’s Fancy"
Submitted on March 3rd 2010 by ceolachan.
https://thesession.org/tunes/10316

I have always known this jig as ‘McCann’s Jig’ having found it in McNulty’s tune book well over 40 years ago. Could McNulty’s be wrong I wonder?
It’s a super tune and I have it in a set with ‘anRos sa bhFroach’ & ‘The Tar Road to Sligo’ which is a cracking tune to finish off a set with.

McNulty’s came after the page colour to the Joseph Crofts collections… :-D

# Added by ceolachan - October 27th, 2013
https://thesession.org/tunes/13119

Learnt from https://thesession.org/recordings/170, where it follows The High Part of the Road. We picked this set up and often played these two together.

Taken from ‘A Fine Selection of Over 200 Irish Traditional Tunes for Sessions’, compiled by David Speers with a Forward by Matt Cranitch. A slight variation of this lovely tune.