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Annotation:Horse in the Pound
X:1 T:Horse in the Pound M:6/8 L:1/8 N:Goodman includes the tune in his section “Jackson’s Airs” B:James Goodman music manuscript collection, vol. 4 (mid-19th century, p. 1) F: http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-four#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=4&z=-349.1933%2C403.0816%2C7751.005%2C2953.0092 F:at Trinity College Dublin / Irish Traditional Music Archive goodman.itma.ie Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Dmix dAG F2D|AFD EF/G/E|dAG F2D|GEC EF/G/E| dAG F2D|fg/a/f g2e|dcB A2A|GEC EF/G/E:| |:f2d dfe|afd ef/g/e|f2d dfd|gec ef/g/e| f2d dfd|Bc/d/B cBA|GAB c2A|GEC EF/G/E:|]
HORSE IN THE POUND. AKA and see "Carolan's Favorite Jig," "Humours of Dublin (2) (The)," "Mary O'Neill (1)," "Rutland Jig (The)." Irish, Jig. The tune appears under this title in the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork Anglican cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman (Book 4, p. 1). The tune also can be found in Stanford/Petrie (1905, No. 981) as "Carolan's Favorite Jig," and in Gow's Complete Repository Part 1 (36) as "Humors of Dublin (2) (The)." Breathnach finds the title "Rutland Jig (The)" in County Leitrim.
