Monaghan Jig

Despite the county name, the Monaghan Jig's earliest known printing is Scottish: Nathaniel Gow included it in his Fifth Collection of Strathspeys, Reels &c. (Edinburgh, 1809), where he marked it "Irish" but credited the fourth part to a Perthshire amateur, Mr Sharpe of Hoddam. In a three-part form it passed into the major Irish collections of Joyce and O'Neill. The setting most players know today comes from the fiddler Michael Coleman, whose Columbia recording of October 1921 added a fourth part to those three. The jig also travels under the name "The Clay Pipe."