Annotation:Cottage in the Grove (1) (The)
X:1 T:Cottage in the Grove [1], The M:C L:1/8 R:Reel N:Goodman obtained the tune from the music manuscripts of 19th N:century bookseller John O'Daly, according to Hugh & Lisa Shields. S:Rev. James Goodman music manuscript collection (vol. 2, p. 150) N:Canon Goodman was a uilleann piper and cleric who collected primarily N:in County Cork from a variety of sources in the mid-19th century F:http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=153&z=543.4039%2C1573.6034%2C8255.365%2C2872.0851 F:at Trinity College Dublin / Irish Traditional Music Archive goodman.itma.ie Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amin ABAG AE E2|GABd egdg|eaab gedB|1 (3ABc BG AE E2:|2 AcBG A2A2|| a2 (3bag aeef|gedB ABGE|g2 (3agf gdBd|cABG AE E2| a2 (3bag aeef|gedB ABGE|GABd egdg|eaab gedB||
COTTAGE IN THE GROVE [1], THE. AKA and see "McGovern's Favourite," "Maurice Casey's Fancy," "Mike Flynn's," "Village in the Grove (The)," "Conneberry Reel (1)." Irish, Reel (whole time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. See also the similar-sounding "Coen's Memories" to which the title "Cottage in the Grove" is sometimes applied (referring to fiddler Tommy Coen). "Copied from a Munster MS. lent me by the late John O'Daly, the Irish publisher of Anglesea St., Dublin" (Joyce). O'Daly's manuscript is the same source for the tune entered into vol. 2 (p. 150)[1] of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist).
The reel was collected in the Slieve Gullion region of south County Armagh by the biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), a rector at Dromintee, who published a collection of over 100 tunes, mostly reels, in 1909 in The Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society (vol. II, No. 2). Donnellan was enthusiastic about P.W. Joyce's then recently published Old Irish Music and Songs (1909), but found Irish music rather rare in his area.
The old people of Dromintee will tell you of the number and the skill of musicians who used to come to [nearby] Forkhill fair. I was told there used to be as many as thirty playing at it. They display an extensive knowledge of the names of songs and dance tunes, but cannot sing them. The reel known as “The Black Haired Lass” No. 66 inf., seems to have been a great favourite with everyone. These facts point to a vanishing and disappearing musical culture.
Forkhill Fair, held on Michaelmas Day (Sept. 29th) was once the great horse and cattle fair, and festival of the area (St. Michael is the patron saint of horsemen).
