Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 3866 (Meentogues Lad)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Slide32AABBA Mixolydian
Transcription of first 2 bars of Meentogues Lad
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of the transcription in the book CRE 2 (details in the Bibliography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Meentogues Lad, The / Mick Duggan's Slide (1st in set Denis Murphy Slides on ESL 1) (also in Major, also in G)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here is the sole recording of this tune considering only the indexed recordings.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~19981.6#1[ESL 1] various. An Evening in Sliabh Luachra. Volume One. A Collection of Traditional Music and Song from the Sliabh Luachra Area. View album details

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune under any title whatsoever – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are very similar to this tune as played on the recording listed above.

As tune #89 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
As tune #24 in [JOL] Terry Moylan. Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra. Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border. [available]
On page 62 of [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1970
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