Annotation:Sailing into Walpole's Marsh
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SAILING INTO WALPOLE'S MARSH. AKA and see "Finnerty's." Irish, Reel (4/4 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB. The title apparently refers to poaching for wild ducks on a landowner's marsh in the West of Ireland, or to poachers who fished by night in Lord Walpole's waters [1]. Paul de Grae [2] notes that fiddler Paddy O'Sullivan (West Commons, Ardfert, Co. Kerry) claimed he and friends named the reel after a local landmark while playing on a boat, enjoying the acoustics. The marsh is along Barrow Harbour a few miles northwest of Tralee. O’Sullivan said the tune came from Dingle (Daingean U ́ı Chuis). Abetya et al [3] note that the reel was picked up from O'Sullivan by Nicky McAuliffe (Brosna Ceili Band) and Brian Keane who played it in the 1972 All-Ireland, which they won. From there it was picked up by others.
"Jerry McMahon's" is a reel that has a cognate first strain, and there are similarities in the beginning of "Walpole's Marsh" to “Castle Kelly.”
- ↑ notes on Green Linnet SIF 1004, Eddie Clarke, Seán Corcoran, Maeve Donnelly, Mairead Ni Dhomhnaill – "Sailing into Walpole's Marsh" (1977)
- ↑ IRTRAD-L, June 9, 1998
- ↑ Abeyta, MacUileagóid, Guerin, de Grae, Dalton, Drawing from the Well: A Selection of Music from the North Kerry Tradition, 2010. p. 22.