Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 8th 2007 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.
Also known as The Boys Of Trillick, Kathleen O'Shea's, New York.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Ben Hill
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
(3DEF|GFGA BGBc|dgge dB (3GAB|cedc BGAB|cBAG FDEF|
GFGA BGBc|dgge dB (3GAB|cedc BAGF|A2G2 G2:|
dc|BG (3Bcd gfed|cBcd c2cB|A^GAd fedc|BABc B2D2|
GFGA BGBc|dgge dB (3GAB|cedc BAGF|A2G2 G2:|
Ben Hill (hornpipe)
This is an East Galway tune learned from the playing of Iniscealtra Ceili Band: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/ceilihouse/rams/7august.ram (starts around 51:30; Found at Ceili House Archive 2004: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/ceilihouse/1015163.html)
According to Andrew Kuntz's Fiddler's Companion, it was discovered as a nameless tune by Ballinakill fiddler Aggie White, and she named it after a hill near her house. http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/BELL_BH.htm#BEN_HILL_[2]
Fr. Kelly composed a reel of the same name: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6899
# Posted on March 8th 2007 by slainte
Silly question, but is it named after a person or a hill?
# Posted on March 11th 2007 by CreadurMawnOrganig
That question was even sillier than I thought - I've just seen the answer in your comment, Slainte.
# Posted on March 11th 2007 by CreadurMawnOrganig
When I say Irish hornpipes are sh1t, I mean tunes like this.
# Posted on May 8th 2007 by Dr. Dow
Other titles
This tune is included in Josephine Keegan's 'A Drop in the Ocean' tunebook under the title "New York Hornpipe", and is titled "Kathleen O'Shea's" by Séamus Connolly in his "Forget Me Not' tune collection, in which he gives the story about the naming for Ben Hill. A fine hornpipe by any name.
# Posted on April 24th 2010 by rwwt