The Road To Cashel reel

Not to be confused with the similar but nevertheless different “Cabin Hunter” https://thesession.org/tunes/1183. This one’s a Charlie Lennon composition. I’ve transcribed it direct from a session recording.

This tune was misnamed “The Cabin Hunter” on Kevin Burke’s recording “Up Close,” though he did credit Charlie as the composer. Kevin’s version is the one most people play even though it’s differs a bit from Charlie’s original idea. It turns out this was among Charlie’s first compositions done in the 1970s. The Road to Cashel is where he rode his bike with his fiddle under his arm to the céilí dances of his youth.

Here’s the ABCs for Kevin Burke’s setting:

X:1
T:Road To Cashel, The
S:Kevin Burke ‘Up Close’
Z:Jack Gilder
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:reel
K:Edor
FEED E3B|FE~E2 F2AB|FEED E2BA|1 FDD2 B/c/dAB:|2 FDD2 B/c/dAd||!
BA B/c/d egfe|d2ab afed|B/c/d ge ~f3e|dBAF FEE2|!
BA B/c/d egfe|d2ab afed|bf~f2 afef|bfaf edBA|!

Some people claim that the 2 tunes are the same and that Lennon is claiming a trad tune as his own composition, but I think that’s grossly unfair. Really they’re no more similar to each other than, say, “The Flowers Of Red Hill” and “The Merry Harriers”. I think that the A-parts are very similar, but the B-parts are completely different. I think “The Road To Cashel” is the nicer tune, with its more imaginative B-part that moves more and covers a wider range. The B-part of “The Cabin Hunter” is very like “The Pigeon On The Gate”. At least K.B. credited Lennon with its composition I suppose.

And then there’s those two we were talking about the other day, Nervous Man and Bill McEvoy’s No1.

T:Road to Sashel, The
M:4/4
L:1/8
S:Grey Larsen & Andre Marchand - The Orange Tree
R:reel
Z:gian marco pietrasanta
K:EDor
|FEED ~E3B|FE~E2 dFAB|FEED E2BA|FDDA B/c/d Ac|
BEED ~E3B|FE~E2 dFAB|FEED E2BA|FDDA B/c/d Ac|
~B2d e2fe|dfab afed|Bdge ~f3e|dBAF BE~E2|
~B2d e2fe|dfab afef|bf~f2 afef|bfaf edBA||

Watch and listen to young London box player Damien Mullane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDxv3rI2ENI

play video

X:1
Danu’s take on this great tune

X:1
T:Road To Cashel, The
S:Danu - All Things Considered
Z:DJF
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:Edor
FEED ~E3G | FE~E2 FABA | FEED ~E3 G | FDDc dABA :|!
~B3d ef{a}fe|df~f2 afed|Bdge ~f3e|dBAF {G}FE{F}ED|!
~B3d ef{a}fe|df ~f2 aefa|bf~f2 aefa|bfaf edBA|!

This is just the first tune I added so I hope I did it all right!

Just realised that there’s no other reel by this name.
Maybe I got it wrong?
Does anyone know a tune like this by a different name?

https://thesession.org/tunes/3270

Sarah - The sheet music isn’t displaying properly (only the A-part shows up). I think you need to remove the space between the A- and B-parts.

I agree with Slainte - it looks like a version of The Road to Cashel.

Thanks!