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Skye

(Isle of) means the isle of gaps or indentations (Celtic, skyb, a gap). Hence also the Skibbereen of Cork, which is Skyb-bohreen, the byway gap, a pass in a mountain to the sea.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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