Annotation:Killavil Jig (1)
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KILLAVIL JIG [1]. AKA- "Killavel Jig," "Kilavel Jig" AKA and see "Around Killavil," "Planxty Gavin," "Port Shligigh" (Sligo Jig), "Trip to Killavil (The)." Irish, Jig. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Killavil is a parish in the south of County Sligo, the birthplace of the great 20th century Irish fiddler Michael Coleman.
Source for notated version: fiddler Jimmy Murphy (b. 1938, Meelick, near Swinford, County Sligo) [Flaherty]; flute player Seamus Tansey [Bulmer & Sharpley].
Printed sources: Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), 1976, vol. 3, No. 47. Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 44. O'Malley (Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1), 1976; No. 104, p. 52 (appears as "Planxty Gavin"). Vallely (Learn to Play the Fiddle with Armagh Pipers Club), 197?; No. 38, p. 35 (appears as "Kilavel Jig").
Recorded sources: Green Linnet SIF 3018 - "Molloy/Peoples/Brady" (1978. Follows "Scotsman Over the Border"). Shanachie 78015, James Keane - "With Friends Like These" (1998. Appears as "Trip to Killavil"). Patty Furlong -"Traditional Irish Music on Button Accordion" (1999).
See also listings at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Hear the tune played by Larry McDonagh and Ml. Joe McDonagh at the Comhaltas Archive [3]
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