Three days later he was buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard of Tamlaght Finlagan Parish Church.
[6] None of his songs was transcribed or recorded in his lifetime, but three were published by Sam Henry in the Northern Constitution in the 1920s.
[7] These and several other songs survived in the repertoires of later local singers, such as John Fleming and Eddie Butcher,[6] and were recorded on tape between 1954 and 1975 by Hugh Shields.
These recordings are now held by the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum[8] and in the Hugh Shields Collection at the Irish Traditional Music Archive.
"[10] Local tradition now identifies Jimmy as the musician whose performance in Limavady of the Londonderry Air, the melody of Danny Boy, was heard and transcribed by Jane Ross in 1851.