Carolan’s Cup jig

Well, here I am posting again. It must be a blue moon.
Anyway, I’ve been looking for some history on this jig, and can’t seem to find any. If it’s Carolan’s, there’s bound to be something known (or is there?). Anyone else know it? Did Carolan write it, or is it misattributed to him?
Tim

Oh, by the way, this is where I got the ABC version of it, because I am slighty lazy.
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/gettune?F=TXT&X=92&U=http://gradcenter.marlboro.edu/~mahoney/abc/abc/net6.abc&N=/OCarolansJig.txt

I’d much rather hear the version you actually play, Tim.

There is a double jig named O`Carolan`s Fancy in the Sean McGuire/Josephine keegan collection``Irish Tunes by the Hundred``.Celtic Music 1975 but it appears to be unrelated to your tune.

This is same as the way I play it, minus the rolls. I can’t remember if I first picked it up off that site in the first place or from somewhere else…

This looks like a version of Carolan’s Cup.

I have had the rather heavily ornamented version from Roche’s Irish tunes, so good to recognise it as one of O’Carolan’s-having searched using ABC

Nice connection, why not add the Roche take on it here for comparison?

Setting from Vinnie Kilduff’s book, 50 Irish Tin Whistle Solos, published in 1989. I’ve never come across the tune anywhere else:

X: 1
T: O’Carolan’s Jig
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K:Gmajor
GA|~B2A GBd|AGE DBA|GFE DB,D|Eed ecA|
~B2A GBd|~A2 G FGA|GFE DB,D|E3 E :|
F|{GA}G2F {GA}G2B|BdB BdB|~A2G ABc|e!slide!fe ede|
dBA GBd|AGE DBA|GFE DB,D|E3 E2:|

* may not be by Carolan…
B: “Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper, Volume One”, by Donal O’Sullivan
page 268, tune #185

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