School: Scoil Mhuire (B.)
- Location:
- Skull, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Raghallaigh
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- Here I lay me down to sleep,
To God I give my soul to keep.
There are four corners on my bed,
There are four angels over my head.-
Saint Matthew, Mark, Saint Luke and John,
God bless the bed that I lay on,
And if evil come to me,
Sweet Jesus comfort me,
If I die before I wake,
To God I give my soul to take.
- Some years ago , there lived in Sough Schull a man named John Burke, who was locally known as "Jack Tricks."
One fair morning he was in Schull, and he got drunk. He was causing a great disturbance to the public, when a sergeant with foxy hair arrested him. This sergeant was known as(continues on next page)
