Cordal Jig

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Theme code Index	6231 6266
Also known as	Port na Cordaile, Five Hundred a Year, Idle Road (The), If I Had in the Clear, Jackson's Bouner Bougher, Julia Clifford's Jig (2), Land of Potatoes, Morgan Rattler, Padraig O'Keeffe's Jig (2), Tom Billy's Jig (4), Wren's Nest (2)
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History	IRELAND(Munster)
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Brendan Breathnach
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 2
Tune and/or Page number	No. 50, p. 28
Year of publication/Date of MS	1976
Artist	Biography:Dé Danann
Title of recording	Anthem
Record label/Catalogue nr.	DARA 013
Year recorded	1985
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CORDAL JIG, THE (Port na Cordaile). AKA and see "Five Hundred a Year," "If I Had in the Clear," "Jackson's Bouner Bougher," "Julia Clifford's Jig (2)," "Land of Potatoes," "Morgan Rattler," "Padraig O'Keeffe's Jig (2)," "Tom Billy's Jig (4)," "Wren's Nest (2)." Irish, Double Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Cordal is a village in County Kerry, between Castleisland and Ballydesmond. Breathnach (1976) says it is sometimes incorrectly called "The Idle Road." The melody is a sleeker version of O'Neill's ten-part "Morgan Rattler," but the ancestor appears to be "Jackson's Bouner Bougher," attributed to the gentleman-piper Walker 'Piper' Jackson, printed in Dublin about 1774 in Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes. "The Cordal Jig" is Denis Murphy's title, given to Brendan Breathnach (see CRÉ II). See also the similar "Winnie Hayes'" and "Lame Crowley."

Sources for notated versions: fiddler Denis Murphy, 1966 (Gneeveguilla, County Kerry, Ireland) [Breathnach]; accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border) [Moylan].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 50, p. 28. Cranitch (Irish Fiddle Book), 1996; pg. 107. Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 333, p. 189.

Recorded sources: Compass Records 7 4407 2, Ciaran Tourish - "Down the Line" (2005. Learned from the playing of Dermot and Tara Diamond). DARA 013, Dé Danann - "Anthem" (1985). TRAD HCD 008, Tommy Peoples - "Traditional Irish Music Played on the Fiddle" (follows "King of the Pipers," played in the key of G Major). See also listing at: Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1].

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T:Cordal Jig, The
T:Morgan Rattler
R:Jig
D:De Dannan: Anthem
Z:id:he-jig-34
Z:transcribed by henrik.norbeck@mailbox.swipnet.se
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
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