School: Skryne (roll number 1210)
- Location:
- An Scrín, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Brian Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 320
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"The next comes the Cannibal Madden
Who stole the poor widow's "colcannon" (potatoes)
and again
"I sold him trees stood in the breeze.
This forty years and more.
But by my soul the lousy stole
My brambles too galore"
This refers to a man who took more than his bargain of timber from the poet's lands
There was one man in the district who could memorize most of the Rhymes of Pat Corbett and from whom I heard the above pieces. Since his death there is no one left who remembers this local poet's writings
