School: Skerries (St. Patrick's : Girls) (roll number 16333)
- Location:
- Skerries, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Caitlín Cadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0784, Page 189
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- My Home District.
My Home District is Holmpatrick, Skerries, and Skerries is my parish, it is situated in the barony of Balrothery East.
There are about six hundred families in skerries and the population is two- thousand and in the summer it is twice as much.
The names most common are grimes. Doyles, Derham, Duffs and Harford. These are most Danish names because we live in Fingal. The houses are small and most of them are stated and between some of the houses are old ruins.
Milverton, Ardla Baltrasna the Lough, Barnagera and Hacketstown are some of the Districts.
There are many old people in Skerries now, and they can only speak the English language. An old woman long ago died at a hundred. Her name was Mrs Delakoyde and she lived in the bonvent lane and the house she was living in is built into a big one now. The lands are(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Essie Fanning
- Gender
- Female
