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Martin ‘Junior’ Crehan (1908-1998) told a story of how he first heard this set dance played by a fiddler from his own locality of Coore in west Co. Clare. When Junior approached the fiddler and asked him to play the tune again, the fiddler refused, and when Junior met the fellow again at a house dance, he again asked him to play the tune, and the fiddler couldn’t remember it. At this point, Junior was desperate for the tune, so he decided to wait outside the absent-minded fiddler’s home in the hope that he would play it. So finally, after hours of waiting, the fiddler did play the tune. “And”, said Junior, as he stroked his own fiddle, “That’s how I got it”.
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