Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on May 25th 2007 by JACKB.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Also known as Ceo NaGcNoc.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Ceo Na GCnoc
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
g|: eA A2 efge | dG G2 (3BAG Bd | eA A2 efge | dBGA BAAg |
eA A2 efge | dG G2 DGBd | eA A2 efge | dBGA BABd :|
|:ea a2 agag | eaag e2 dg | ea a2 agaf | gedB BAAg |
ea a2 agag | eaaf g3a | agbg abge | dBgd BA A2 :|
Ceo Na gCnoc
I first heard this tune being played by Tommy Keane, I believe it is a Seamus Ennis tune.
# Posted on May 25th 2007 by JACKB
It means Foggy Rock if my Irish is correct.
# Posted on May 26th 2007 by PaddyCmusic
Are you sure, Paddy? I've never learned Irish, but "Cnoc" means "hill" in English, I believe.
# Posted on May 26th 2007 by slainte
By the way, Mike Rafferty recorded a different tune as "Ceo na gCnoc." He probably got the wrong name from someone else.
# Posted on May 26th 2007 by slainte
Cnoc!? Cnoc!?
cnoc = hill, mountain
# Posted on May 26th 2007 by ceolachan
ceo = fog, mist, haze
# Posted on May 26th 2007 by ceolachan
carraig = rock
# Posted on May 26th 2007 by ceolachan
So, "sliabh" is a bit higher and bigger than "cnoc."
I just remember why I know the meaning of "cnoc." I saw Finbarr Dwyer's composition "Hill 60" listed in Irish on Marcas O'Murchu's recording.
# Posted on May 26th 2007 by slainte
you hide your cards up there, and ladies their snot rags....
# Posted on May 26th 2007 by ceolachan
You should know there aren't any real mountains in Eire. 'Sliabh' is just a more serious word for a more difficult climb, a bigger hill...
# Posted on May 26th 2007 by ceolachan
Yes sorry, cloc is rock I think. I remember the expression:
Tá an ghrian ag scoilteadh (sp?) na gcloc
Spelling might be wrong but it means "The sun is splitting the stones".
So Cnoc is hill and sliabh is mountain.
# Posted on May 26th 2007 by PaddyCmusic
You need your eyes tested Paddy, what mountains?
Yup! ~ 'cloch' is stone...
# Posted on May 26th 2007 by ceolachan
The composer might have been on holiday in Switzerland
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by Dow
Ceo na Cnoc : fogof the hill
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by saxwhistle
Fog-Off in other words?
# Posted on May 27th 2007 by ceolachan
That other Ceo na gCnoc
Slainte wrote: "By the way, Mike Rafferty recorded a different tune as "Ceo na gCnoc." He probably got the wrong name from someone ..."
I'd thought that reel was closer to 'the Gosson who bate his father' myself, but was overruled.. Before settling on a title however, he was calling that one 'Mary Got Married in the Snow' ..
Lesl
# Posted on May 28th 2007 by LH
Hi, Lesl. I've just posted the other one: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7270
# Posted on May 28th 2007 by slainte