Friday 21 November 2025
Tune of the Day: The Drogheda Weavers
Traditional Irish jig
This lively jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. In his 1913 book Irish Minstrels and Musicians, O'Neill remarks that there was a special dance performed to this tune.
Drogheda is a Gaelic word for “bridge by a ford”, and is the name of a port town in County Louth, about 30 miles north of Dublin by the River Boyne.