This tune recorded in 1969 by Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford as Lisheen Slide, on an album named Star Above the Garter, which seems to have become confused with the name of the tune. It probably originates from West Kerry in Ireland and is related to Jackson's Frieze Coat.
This tune is generally associated with Coleraine in Northern Ireland and apparently also some of the prejudices between different groups on one side or the other of that particular divide. However, there is only one printed reference to the jig as being Irish, and its long association with New England contra dancing may indicate it originated there instead. The town of Coleraine in Massachusetts (also Colrain) was first settled by a colony from the north of Ireland, about the year 1736.
The tune was introduced under the name "Come, Haste to the Wedding" in the pantomime The Elopement staged in London in 1767. However, it also appeared under the title "The Small Pin Cushion" in cellist-composer James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 10 (London, 1760) and other publications that predate the pantomime. Oswalds may have been its composer, but its ultimate provenance remains unclear. The tune arrived in the New World soon afterwards, as evidenced by its inclusion in a 1778 notebook of a Boston fiddler who had been an officer in the Continental Army.