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Corbet is a small village and townland (of 618 acres) in County Down, Northern Ireland, 5km east of Banbridge. It is situated in the civil parish of Magherally and the historic barony of Iveagh Lower, Lower Half. It lies within the Banbridge District. It had a population of 107 people (39 households) in the 2011 Census. (2001 Census: 95 people)
Corbet is a surname, and may refer to
- Brady Corbet, American actor
- Charles-Louis Corbet, French sculptor
- Christian Cardell Corbet, Canadian painter and sculptor
- Denys Corbet, Guernsey poet
- Jean-Charles Corbet, French Chief executive officer and Aviator
- Freda Corbet, British politician
- Miles Corbet, English MP and Regicide
- René Corbet, an ice hockey player
- Richard Corbet, English poet
- William Corbet, Irish soldier
Usage examples of "corbet".
After all, Sir Gerent Corbet had been a knight, and only think on the years of terror his tenure had wrought in Trecombe.
Perhaps he felt that Corbet should know these things about our family, our blameless, unmysterious past, but there his reasoning fell apart.
Somewhere along the way, Amelia Corbet had to learn that her hardheadedness was a costly vice.
Many's the time we went down there when our names had been marked, a crowd of us, Harry Peard and little Jack Mountain and Bob Dyas and Maurice Moriarty, the Frenchman, and Tom O'Grady and Mick Lacy that I told you of this morning and Joey Corbet and poor little good-hearted Johnny Keevers of the Tantiles.
He wanted to take Qadar by the throat and make him feel what Corbet and Swift had felt before they died.