Knocknagow jig

I have the recordings of both Joe Burke and Brendan McGlinchey playing these but they both just called them knocknagow as if it was one tune.In Music from Ireland Volume 4 Bulmer and Sharpley seem to seperate them as nos 1 and 2 and credit Tommy Peoples as their source.I dont ever remember Peoples recording them.

The tune comes in 4 parts in O’Neill’s (Oak Publications 1976)

I also have this tune as a reel…anybody have any experience with this version?

Never heard this other than as a 4-part tune, cos. Can’t see how it would work as a reel. Where does that come from, dulcie22 ?

The Reel courtesy of Fiddler’s Companion:
X:1
T:Knocknagow
M:C|
L:1/8
R:reel
Z:transcribed by Tracy Kingsley
Z:From the magazine Treoir (which issue?) who reports:
Z:Recorded in London in 1931 by the Ballinakill Ceili Band,
Z:together with The Fowling Piece (aka The Templehouse Reel)
K:Ador
AB|cE E2 cded|cE E2 G2 AB|cE E2 cded|cABG A2 AB|
cE E2 cded|cE E2 G2 AB|c2 cB cded|cABG A2 :|
Bd|eaag efed|cdef g2 fg|eaag efed|cABG A2 Bd|
|eaag efed|(3Bcd ef g2 fg|afge fded|cABG A2 :|

That’s “Scotch Mary”: https://thesession.org/tunes/96 It’s not related to the jig at all.

First tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV2M4IAX6K8

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Does anyone know if Knocknagow (Cnoc na Gabha in Irish?) still exists as a place? Just curious.

How’s this as a reel…

X: 1
T: Knocknagow
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Ador
EAAB ~c3G|EG~G2 EGDG|EAAB ~c3A|~d3B ecAG|
EAAB ~c3G|EGGF GABG|Aaag egdB|1 cAAG A3G:|2 cAAG A2 (3Bcd||
|:eaag ~a3g|edef ~g2fg|eaag abag|edef gdBd|
eaag ~a3g|edef ~g3d|eaag egdB|1 cAAG A2 (3Bcd:|2 cAAG AB^cd||
K:A
|:(3efe ce dcBd|cBAF ~E2CE|A3B cABc|~d2cd BcdB|
edce ~d2Bd|cBAF ~E2CE|ABce afed|1 cABG ABcd:|2 cABe ABce||
|:~a3f ~=g2fg|ea~a2 ecAc|defa eAcA|~d2cd BcdB|
eAce fBdg|baga eAcA|defg afed|1 cABe ABce:|2 cABG A3=G||

Any of you backers have some chord suggestions for this one?

@trebor--
ABCNotation and JC’s tunefinder often pick up versions with chords. Here’s a chorded version of Knocknagow (the jig, not the reel): http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=oflahertyretreat.org/documents/musicdocs/100moretunes/0047

O’Neill’s has slightly different notes - especially in the second measure which goes from E to G to F# which is not how we hear it today.

This version appears in P.W. Joyce’s Old Irish Music and Songs (1909), vol. 1, p. 8-9, No. 11, as “Billy from Bruff”. Joyce writes that the tune comes “From Jack Sheedy : a very old man : 1849. Bruff in Co. Limerick.”

Correction : from P.W. Joyce’s Old Irish Music and Songs (1909), vol. 1, p. 21, No. 37. Sorry !

From Yogan’s “Le Bal de L’Ankou” album https://youtu.be/b3-AwHI9UXk?t=1m9s

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Ala Joe Burke.