Millers Maggot

In older usage a "maggot" meant a whim or a plaything — a slight, catchy tune — from the Italian maggioletta. The jig surfaces earliest in print in O'Farrell's National Music (1804), though O'Farrell, an Irish piper then living in London, gathered English and Scottish material alongside Irish and named no source for it. It sits comfortably as a single jig or slide. In the twentieth century it became associated with the Clare concertina and fiddle player John Kelly, of Rehy on Loop Head.