"The Sporting Pitchfork" is an Irish double jig in G Major or D Mixolydian. The parts are playted AB. It is often played in a medley with "The Rambling Pitchfork". I can't find any explanation of the term "sporting pitchfork" but if "rambling pitchfork" means an itinerant farmhand, perhaps "sporting pitchfork" refers to one who is athletic. The jig has been associated with uilleann pipe repertory. The tune was paired with “The Rambling Pitchfork” on the 1978 Paddy Glackin/Paddy Keenan album Doublin’. The medley was known as "The Pitchforks". It was printed in Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland vol. 3 (1976), Cranitch's Irish Fiddle Book (1996), Cranitch's Irish Session Tunes: Red Book (2000). It was recorded by Mick O'Brien on Kitty Lie Over (2003), Tommy Peoples on Recorded at Fiddler’s Hearth (2005), Alan & John Kelly on Fourmilehouse (2002), Ronan Browne and Peter O'Loughlin on The Legacy (2015) and Paddy Glackin and Paddy Keenan on Doublin’ (1978).