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|f_annotation=[[File:o'mealy.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Richard Lewis O'Mealy]]'''TEMPLECROSS.''' Irish, Hornpipe (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’B. "Templecross" hornpipe may have been composed by Belfast uilleann piper, pipe-maker and composer Richard Lewis O'Mealy (1873-1947), who was from Templecross. Fr. John Quinn points out the it "bears an uncanny resemblance to "[[Swanton Abbott Hornpipe]]" in the George H. Watson (of Swanton Abbott) MSS, 1850-1880, predating O'Mealy." Francis O'Neill has a brief sketch of the piper in his '''Irish Minstrels and Musicians''' (1913). | |f_annotation=[[File:o'mealy.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Richard Lewis O'Mealy]]'''TEMPLECROSS.''' Irish, Hornpipe (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’B. "Templecross" hornpipe may have been composed by Belfast uilleann piper, pipe-maker and composer Richard Lewis O'Mealy (1873-1947), who was from Templecross. Fr. John Quinn points out the it "bears an uncanny resemblance to "[[Swanton Abbott Hornpipe]]" in the George H. Watson (of Swanton Abbott) MSS, 1850-1880, predating O'Mealy." Francis O'Neill has a brief sketch and photograph of the piper in his '''Irish Minstrels and Musicians''' (1913). | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:25, 15 February 2022
X: 1 T: Templecross C: S: Treoir M: 4/4 L: 1/8 Q: 325 R: Hornpipe K: D A>F | FGAF D3 F | defd (3Bcd A>G | FAdf gfed |(3Bcd ef e2 AG | FGAF D2 (3AAA | defd (3Bcd A>G |FAdf gfed |1 dfec d2 :|2 d2 (3fgf d2 || (3ABc | d2 fd ec (3ABc | d2 fd ecAG | FADF gfed | (3Bcd ef e2 (3ABc | d2 fd ec (3ABc | d2 fd ecAG | FADF gfed | dfec d2 (3ABc | d2 fd ec (3ABc | d2 fd ecAG | FADF gfed | (3Bcd ef e2 A>G | FGAF D3 F | defd (3Bcd A>G | FAdf gfed | dfec d2 ||
Templecross is located eight miles from Mullingar and two miles north-east of Ballynacarrigy, County Westmeath. O'Mealy was born and raised at Templecross cottage (which was inhabited as late as the 1970's).
