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Highway To Kilkenny slip jig

Also known as The High Road To Kilkenny, The Highway To Kilkenny, The Humours Of Kilkenny.

There are 19 recordings of this tune.

This tune has been recorded together with

Highway To Kilkenny appears in 2 other tune collections.

Highway To Kilkenny has been added to 8 tune sets.

Highway To Kilkenny has been added to 88 tunebooks.

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Four settings

1
X: 1
T: Highway To Kilkenny
R: slip jig
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
G2 g gag dBG|A2B c2d ecA|G2g gag dBG|1 e/f/ge faf gdB:|2 A/B/cA BGE E2 B||
e2f g2e fdB|e2f g2a bge|1 gbg faf e/f/ge|
dBG A/B/cA BGE:|2 gbg faf dBG|A/B/cA BGE E2 F||
2
X: 2
T: Highway To Kilkenny
R: slip jig
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
||F|:AAA dfd cec|AAA dfd fga|AAA dfd ece|GBB gfe dBG:|
|:aga f/g/af g2e|aga f/g/af ecA|aga f/g/af g2d|GBB gfe dBG:|
|:B||AFA dfe de2|AFA dfe fa2|AFA dfe deA|BGB gfe dc:|
|:e||a2g f/g/af g2e|a2g f/g/af abg|a2g f/g/af g2e|BGB gfe dc:|
3
X: 3
T: Highway To Kilkenny
R: slip jig
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
|:G2 g gag dBG|A2B c2d ecA|G2g gag dBG|e/f/ge faf gdB:|
|:e2f g2e fdB|e2f g2a bge|g3 faf edB|dBG A3 BGE:|
# Added by JACKB .
4
X: 4
T: Highway To Kilkenny
R: slip jig
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
G2g gfg dBG|A2B c2d ecA|G2g gfg dBG|A/B/cA BGE E2B|
G2g gfg dBG|A2B c2d e2f|g2g gfg dBG|A/B/cA BGE E2B|
|:e2f g2e fdB|e2f g2a bge|faf gbe dBG|A/B/cA BGE E2B:|

Five comments

“Highway to Kilkenny”

Ah, dear Kilkenny, I’d love to be on my way there right now… This lovely little slip jig is related to some others, but my brain isn’t working well right now. Also, it just seemed sad that this has been here without some comment, so now it has my fried musings… What are the relatives? 😏

“The Rakes of Kilkenny”

Can’t say that I’ve ever been to Kilkenny, but came across this relative:

X: 1
T: Rakes of Kilkenny, The
C: Trad.
S: The Fiddler’s Tune-Book; Slip Jigs & Waltzes; p.14, No.63.
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
Q: 300
K: Dmaj
|| F |: AAA dfd cec | AAA dfd fga | AAA dfd ece | GBB gfe dBG :|
|: aga f/g/af g2e | aga f/g/af ecA | aga f/g/af g2d | GBB gfe dBG :|

And with a few of my musings:

X: 1
T: Rakes of Kilkenny, The
C: Trad.
S: The Fiddler’s Tune-Book; Slip Jigs & Waltzes; p.14, No.63.
N: Addn’l Arr. by M.Robert Kelahan, 28Jun09.
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
Q: 300
K: Dmaj
|: B || AFA dfe de2 | AFA dfe fa2 | AFA dfe deA | BGB gfe dc :|
|: e || a2g f/g/af g2e | a2g f/g/af abg | a2g f/g/af g2e | BGB gfe dc :|

A version very similar to X: 1 appears in The Petrie Collection of Irish Music, part II, ed. Charles Villiers Stanford (1905), p. 139, no. 549 as “The high road to Kilkenny”.

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Re: Highway To Kilkenny

Sorry for being trifling and possibly pedantic here, but I tried playing it a few times and something was wrong. I don,t know anything about music, but I do know when it doesn,t sound right. Take the first setting of the tune, in the end of the second part, right after it displays the number “2”. The next 3 note triplet should be an F sharp, going up to an A, and then another F sharp, then the next triplet should be a long G dropping to an E, then exactly as shown on the transcript 🙂 Otherwise a brilliant tune, my favourite being James Kelly, Paddy o,Brien, and Daithi Sproule,s version.