Lisdoonvarna in County Clare is a former spa town where Victorians went for the healing mineral waters. It is located inland from the Cliffs of Moher. This tune is also known as All the Way to Galway, which exists both as a jig identical to this one and the closely related reel of the same name.
This tune was named after the Sligo-born Irish-American fiddler James "The Professor" Morrison (1891–1947). He obtained it as The Stick Across the Hob from Tom Carmody, who stated that his father Maurice had written it.