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 'Then ochone I'm going to Skellig: O Moreen, what will I do? 'Tis the woeful road to travel; And how lonesome I'll be without you!'

Here is a verse from another:—

Poor Andy Callaghan with doleful nose Came up and told his tale of many woes:— Some lucky thief from him his sweetheart stole, Which left a weight of grief upon his soul: With flowing tears he sat upon the grass, And roared sonorous like a braying ass.


 * Skelly; to aim askew and miss the mark; to squint. (Patterson: all over Ulster.)


 * Skelp; a blow, to give a blow or blows; a piece cut off:—'Tom gave Pat a skelp': 'I cut off a skelp of the board with a hatchet.' To run fast:—'There's Joe skelping off to school.'


 * Skib; a flat basket:—'We found the people collected round a skibb of potatoes.' ('Wild Sports of the West.')


 * Skidder, skiddher; broken thick milk, stale and sour. (Munster.)


 * Skillaun. The piece cut out of a potato to be used as seed, containing one germinating eye, from which the young stalk grows. Several skillauns will be cut from one potato; and the irregular part left is a skilloge (Cork and Kerry), or a creelacaun (Limerick). Irish sciollán, same sound and meaning.


 * Skit; to laugh and giggle in a silly way:—'I'll be