Neal in 1726 (in Dublin).
roper duple minor longways dance.
Adapted by Fogg, Jackson and Andres in 1990

8   1st corners cast over Left SH into each other place and 
8   left hand turn and back to place, 
8   2nd corners cast over Right SH into each other place and 
8   right turn  back to place, 
8   Fall back with NBRs and come back
8   Once two hands spiral down as twos cast up
8   Star right half turn single left
8   Two changes of R & L starting with partner

Recording: haymakers-highland_lilt-065_bn8bc-01.mp3.zip
highlandlilt-haymakers-dhpedh15.mp3.zip
reconstruction from
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDmFyAt3XFE

Farmers knew well the advantage of dry weather for baling the hay on which their live- stock and livelihood depended. “Making hay” was already proverbial for seiz- ing the moment by at least the 1540s, but was also associated with the musical and amorous pastimes of the country, as this poem from Wit’s Recreation Or A New Academy of Compliments (c. 1713) suggests:

• The Sporting Haymakers
• In the merry month of June,
• In the prime time of the year,
• Down in yonder meadow
• There runs a river clear,
• And many a little fish
• Doth in the river play,
• And many a lad, and many a lass
• Were abroad a making of hay.
• In came the scythe men,
• To mow the meadow down,
• With budget and with bottle
• Of ale that was so brown;
• All labouring men of courage bold
• Came there their skill to try,
• Let's whet and blow, and stoutly mow,
• For the grass cuts very dry.
• There's nimble Tib and Tom,
• With pitchfork and with rake,
• There's Molly, Nell, and Susan,
• Came there their Hay to make;
• Sweet jug, jug, jug, jug sweet,
• The Nightingale doth sing,
• From the morning till the evening,
• as they were hay making.
• But when bright Phoebus,
• the Sun, was going down,
• A merry disposed piper
• approaching from the town,
• Pull’d out his pipe and tabor,
• disposed for to play,
• Which made them all lay down their rakes,
• and leave off making hay.
• So joining in a dance,
• we jig it on the green;
• Though tired with our labour,
• no weariness is seen;
• All tripping like to fairies
• our dance we do pursue,
• With leading up and casting off,
• “till morning is in view.
• Then each lad he takes his lass,
• the morning being come,
• And lie down in their haycocks
• “till the rising of the sun;
• There sporting all the time,
• Each lad arise and take his lass,
• and away to hay-making,

(Wit’s Recreation Or a New Academy of Compli- ments 121.22)