On Friday, December 29, 1995 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Allan MacDonald wrote:

Can anyone tell me what "Spootiskerry" means?
It's the title of a song by Ian Burns. Is there any history to the
song that might be of interest to an audience.
Also does anyone know the history of Morrison's Jig, a traditional
Irish jig?
Thanks

Spootiskerry refers to the area of rocks just at the water level, sometimes exposed, sometimes underwater. The 'spoot' is the spurts of water coming up from the waves, or perhaps from the shellfish living there.

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https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Spootiskerry
from the most comprehensive source of information that I'm aware of:

The Traditional Tune Archive
"The Semantic Index of North American, British and Irish traditional instrumental music with annotations"
https://tunearch.org/wiki/TTA
(formerly known as The Fiddler's Companion)
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/
(not all information has been migrated yet)

The Session may have useful information too
https://thesession.org

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