Annotation:Tomgraney Castle

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X:1 T:Tomgraney Castle M:C| L:1/8 R:Hornpipe S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 949 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Ador cB|A2 AB AGEG|AGAB cBcd|efga gedc|B2G2G2 cB| A2 AB AGEG|AGAB cBcd|(3efg fa gede|c2A2A2:| |:eg|a2 ab ageg|agab a2 ge|dega gedc|B2G2G2 cB| A2 AB AGEG|AGAB cBcd|(3efg fa gede|c2A2A2:|

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Tuamgraney Castle. Photo:Jim Dempsey/Deb Snelson

TOMGRANEY CASTLE (Caislean Tuaim-Greine). AKA - "Tuamgraney Castle." AKA and see “Loch Leven Castle,” “Tuamgraney Castle,” "[[Humors of Tu [1] amgraney]]." Irish, Hornpipe (cut time). A Dorian (O'Neill): E Minor (Flaherty). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Tomgraney, or Tuamgraney, is in east Clare. Tuamgraney Castle was built c1500 by the O'Grady family adjacent to St Cronan's church in order to protect the church. The O'Gradys were Ireland's leading ecclesiastical family in the fourteenth century starting with John O'Grady, Archibishop of Cashel in 1332, and his son John O'Grady, Archbishop of Tuam in 1368, followed by his son of the same name who was Bishop of Elphin in 1405. In Tuamgraney, the coarb in the monastery was always an O'Grady until ousted by the Brady'

The tune is nearly identical to most versions of the Scottish reel “Loch Leven Castle," although the notation for that tune in Köhler's Violin Repository is more distanced. The hornpipe appears as a reel entitled "Hurry Home the Harvest" in the c. 1909 music manuscript collection of south Armagh curate, musician and collector biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan. "Tomgraney Castle" is structurally related to "Sailor on the Rope." See also notes for “Annotation:Loch Leven Castle” and “annotation:Tuamgraney Castle.”

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