Skibereen

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  • Skibereen: a town in County Cork, the most southerly town in Ireland.
  • "Skibereen": an Irish=American folk song, first published in 1880, which has a as a refrain:
    The rents and taxes were to pay and I could not them redeem
    And that's the cruel reason why I left old Skibbereen