The Boys Of Coomanore jig

I came across this tune in Dervish and Claire Mann’s albums and found the sheet music at JC’s ABC tune finder.
Really great jig. The first half of the tune sounds quite similar to that of “the Rolling Wave.”
Enjoy!

Great, rolling jig! I like Dervish’s setting, which is a little different--lots of tweaked notes that lead the melody from one bar to the next so you never want it to stop. Something along the lines of:

M: 6/8
K: D
|:FGE FDD|cde dAG|~F3 FDD|FGE FAG|
|FGE FDD|cde dAG|FGE FAG|1 EDC DAG:|
|2 EDC D2 B|
|:ABc dcd|fed ecA|ABc ~d3|fag fed|
|ABc deg|fed edc|AGF EAG|1 FDD D2 B:|
|2 FDD D3|

I’ve been thinking this jig sounds like a composite of these two tunes:

The Rolling Waves: https://thesession.org/tunes/88 (1st part)
The Hag with the Money: https://thesession.org/tunes/351 (2nd part)

You will also find some resemblance between this tune and Allistrum’s March: https://thesession.org/tunes/2136

Here’s another setting from the playing of Cathal Hayden and Mairtin O’Connor.

X: 1
T: Boys of Coomanore
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: D
F2 E FDD|cde dAG|FGE FDD|EFG EFG|
FGE FDD|cde dAG| FGA GEC| EDC D2 E|
F2 E FDD|cde dAG|FGE FDD|EFG EFG|
FGE FDD|cde dAG| FGA GEA| DED D2 B||
ABc dcd|fed cBA|ABc dcd|eag edd|
ABc d2 e|fed edc|ABA EFG|1 EFD D2 B:|EFD D2 E||

Also on Sligo flute player and singer Colm O’Donnell’s solo recording “Farewell to Evening Dances.” The first of Paddy Cronin’s jigs.

I was trying to learn the Dervish version (from the album “At the End of the Day”) and none of the versions posted here seemed to match. Here is my transcription of how they play it:

X:1
T:Boys Of Coomanore, The
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:F2{G}E FDD|cde dAG|~F3 FDD|EAG EAG|
|F2{G}E FDD|cde dAG|~F3 EAG|1 EDC DAG:|2 EDC D2 B|
|:ABc dcd|fed edc|ABc ~d3|eag edc|
|ABc dfg|fed edc|AGF EAG|1 FDD D2 B:|2 FDD D3|

On a Dervish CD the Jig is called The Boys Of Coomanore, which actually is a place in Ireland.
The name Boys Of Coonamore is just a misprint on the crossroad CD I recon.