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School: Achadh Dúin, An Sciobairín (roll number 16149)

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    Long ago where Skibbereen now stands there was a hamlet where very dishonest people lived, and while the industrious men of honest people were away from home working the good women of the house would make a bastable cake. The name of such cake is even now called the "billieen". The youths of the hamlet would snatch the opportunity to slip into the house and steal the billeen out of the bastable 'to scub' means to whip or snap or steal.
    A raid was organised, the hamlet was burned and the bad people hunted and the place got the name Skub-bileen meaning "the place where bread was stolen". Time has altered the spelling.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    2. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Swanton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ardraly, Co. Cork