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The title of the melody probably refers to Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Drogheda who as involved in the siege of that same town in 1642. He was killed in clashes with Owen Roe O'Neill in 1643. The title may also be a corruption of the Irish word draiocht, meaning magic (see note for "Drocketty's March").

A "Droghedy's March" from county Wexford is described by Patrick Kennedy in 1812 in his book On the Banks of the Boro:

The tune called Droghedy's March was occasionally danced to among the hornpipes, by a performer furnished with a short cudgel in each hand, which he brandished and clashed in harmony with the tune. But we had the good fortune to see it performed in a complete fashion on the borders of the barony of Bargy, in the old manor-house of Coolcul, whose young men, joined by the stout servants and labourers on the farms, were well able, in country parlance, to clear a fair. Amongst these the present chronicler was initiated into the mysteries of mumming, and was taught to bear his part in that relic of the Pyrrhic or Druidic dance, "Droghedy's March."

...more at: Droghedy March - full Score(s) and Annotations

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 {{SheetMusic
-|f_track=Ask My Father Pat Wards Jig.mp3
+|f_track=Mummers March.mp3
-|f_pdf=Pat Ward's Jig.pdf
+|f_pdf=Dreghedy March.pdf
-|f_artwork=Ward.jpg
+|f_artwork=Irishmummers.jpg
-|f_tune_name=Pat Ward's Jig
+|f_tune_name=Droghedy March
-|f_track_title=Pat Ward's Jig
+|f_track_title=Droghedy March
 |f_section=abc
-|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/oisinmcauley Oisín McAuley]
+|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/maggiesansone Maggie Sansone]
-|f_notes= Pat Ward (1847-1928)
+|f_notes= Irish Mummers.
-|f_caption=His first lesson in writhing music...was not unattended with difficulties. Having neither pen nor ink, he was told by his teacher, "a dark man," to burn a furze stick and write with its calcined end. This expedient served fairly well. From that day to his he says that whenever he takes a pen in his hand to write music his mind reverts to "The Flogging Reel", which was the first tune set down in the manner mentioned.
+|f_caption=Then the Mummer's play commences,{{break}}
-|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/oisinmcauley/ask-my-father-pat-wards-jig Soundcloud]
+When St. George so bold advances,{{break}}
+Tells of "draggins, elves, and jyants" {{break}}
+He has killed, and hurls defiance;
+|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/maggiesansone/mummers-march Soundcloud]
 |f_pix=420
 |f_picpix=200
-|f_article=[[Pat Ward's Jig| '''Pat Ward's Jig''']]
+|f_article=[[Droghedy March| '''Droghedy March''']]
-There is a brief biographical sketch and a photograph of Ward in Francis O'Neill's '''Irish Minstrels and Musicians''' (1913, pp. 317-319), giving his date of birth as 1847 in the Parish of Drumconrath, County Meath, remarking that he "had attained considerable command of the fiddle before commencing the practice of the Union pipes."
+The title of the melody probably refers to Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Drogheda who as involved in the siege of that same town in 1642. He was killed in clashes with Owen Roe O'Neill in 1643. The title may also be a corruption of the Irish word ''draiocht'', meaning magic (see note for "[[Drocketty's March]]").
+<br>
-<blockquote>
+<br>
-''His first lesson in writhing music...was not unattended with difficulties. Having neither pen nor ink, he was told by''
+A "Droghedy's March" from county Wexford is described by Patrick Kennedy in 1812 in his book '''On the Banks of the Boro''':
-''his teacher, "a dark man," to burn a furze stick and write with its calcined end. This expedient served fairly well.''
+[[File:irishmummers.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Irish Mummers]]
-''From that day to his he says that whenever he takes a pen in his hand to write music his mind reverts to''
-"[[Flogging Reel (The)]]", ''which was the first tune set down in the manner mentioned.'' <br>
-''In his repertory are many tunes seemingly peculiar to the County Louth. He had played at several Feis Ceoil and Oirachtas''
-''for the last ten years and has been awarded several prizes. At the Oireachtas in 1907 he won second prize, the first''
-''going to George McCarthy, and in 1911 he again captured second honors. Taking into consideration that Ward is not a''
-''professional piper, but a plowman since early manhood, his execution on the double changer is indeed remarkable.'' [p. 319].
-</blockquote>
-Seamus Ennis, in liner notes to his album "The Pure Drop," remarks:
 <blockquote>
-''As a child, I remember Pat Ward. He was a native of Drogheda, an old man with a crescent shaped beard. He played a double'' ''changer--two reeds, two bores and two stop holes for each finger, as compared to the usual single piece. I would compare his'' ''tone with that of a very mellow concertina, to the best of my recollection, for I was but a child when he was tragically killed'' ''by a motor-bus near his house. My father learned this tune from him and as he had no name for it we referred to it as above at'' ''all times.  Notice that the accepted performing rhythm of the single jig is nearly identical with that of a hornpipe--a''
+''The tune called Droghedy's March was occasionally danced to among the''
-'' 'common' tune simulated by the four threes of 12/8.''
+''hornpipes, by a performer furnished with a short cudgel in each hand, which''
+''he brandished and clashed in harmony with the tune. But we had the good fortune''
+''to see it performed in a complete fashion on the borders of the barony of Bargy,''
+''in the old manor-house of Coolcul, whose young men, joined by the stout''
+''servants and labourers on the farms, were well able, in country parlance, to''
+''clear a fair. Amongst these the present chronicler was initiated into the''
+''mysteries of mumming, and was taught to bear his part in that relic of the''
+''Pyrrhic or Druidic dance, "Droghedy's March."
 </blockquote>
 }}