A slight geographical oddity -- Skreen is a village in Co Sligo, which is itself part of the region which formed the ancient kingdom of Connaught [or Connacht as the Irish prefer to call it]; so that the girl in the song is herself "a Connaught maid": does it not seem strange then that she should specify her rival as being such, with the implication that she is some sort of intrusive external interloper?

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