Annotation:Jackson's Jig (1)
Tune properties and standard notation
JACKSON'S JIG [1]. Irish, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Composed probably "by a gentleman piper and fiddler called "Piper" Jackson (whose first name was either "Walter" or "Walker"), who lived in either Co. Limerick or Co. Monaghan, in the mid-18th century. It is also claimed that he wrote the well-known 'Irish Washerwoman', as well as a great many other tunes, mainly jigs."
Source for notated version: Co. Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples [Boys of the Lough].
Printed sources: Boys of the Lough, 1977; p. 19.
Recorded sources: Green Linnet SIF-3041, Matt Molloy - "Stony Steps" (1989). Green Linnet SIF-104, Matt Molloy - "The Celts RIse Again" (1990). Transatlantic TRA 311, Boys of the Lough - "Lochaber No More."