KINNAHALLA // Matt McGinn // Official Video

This video features footage taken from the 80's when the BBC visited Kitty Matthew's Cottage in Hilltown around Christmas time, and the party that went along with it.

The song Kinnahalla is taken from the album 'Time Well Spent' by Irish songwriter Matt McGinn

TIME WELL SPENT on SPOTIFY

TIME WELL SPENT on BANDCAMP

UPCOMING CONCERTS
Matt McGinn & Damien McGeehan

Tory Bush Cottages, Hilltown/Kilcoo - 20th March '22

Whelan's Upstairs, Dublin - 6th April '22

Black Box Belfast - 10th April '22

LINK TO THE ORIGINAL VIDEO OF KITTY MATTHEW'S KITCHEN

[c]

Matt, this is a beautiful song that I can really relate to for obvious reasons, but what makes it more poignant for me is the old footage of my Granda dancing, I'd never seen that before! Also when I saw the mirror footage at the start it seemed familiar but I didn't realise it was the same stuff I filmed ages ago with you! Thanks for the credit man and glad you found a place for it somewhere!

[davidjohn]

Matt this is a beautiful song but I was just wondering about the name kinnahalla. As a young boy of about 9 I remember going down to Kinnahalla Youth Hostel near Spelga Dam with our school. This was probably early 1960s and enjoying it and about 8 or 9 yrs later going back to it with friend and again venturing for walks in the Mournes. Is it possible that this house in the song was a time before the dam was built and that house was submerged in the water of the dam when it was built. I would be curious to know the origins of the name Kinnahalla as the name has a very happy time for me as a boy growing up in East Belfast and then came the troubles in the 70s and then all heartache