placenamesSkreen
An Scrín
Education and quarrying add to the wider parish’s history beyond its hilltop churchyard.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Scrín · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Scrín Adhamhnáin · Irish · main form · historical name
- Skreen · English · main form
Place & story
A school serving a small community
Skreen’s Church of Ireland school opened in 1855 and entered the national school system in 1877. The local-history case study on Ask About Ireland records seventy-four pupils in 1868, including one Catholic child. It closed in 1972. A former pupil’s recollection of the 1920s describes a plain room with long stools, maps, a singing chart and an attendance board, preserving details of its everyday teaching environment. [2]
The school building survives
The former school at Glebe later found a community use. The architectural inventory records a long single-storey building with gabled entrance porches, slate roofing and timber sash windows divided into eight panes in each sash. Extensions changed the north and rear elevations, but the older building’s outline remained clear. A wrought-iron pedestrian gate also survived beside the roadside boundary. [3]
Limestone carried beyond the parish
Ardnaglass quarry supplied some of the dressed stone used in a new chapel at Ballina, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He described limestone suitable for cutting and polishing. Ardnaglass also hosted fortnightly petty sessions and four annual cattle fairs. The quarry’s contribution to another town’s church records a practical connection between Skreen’s stone-working resources and construction farther along the coast. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Skreen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Story of two schools: Skreen Church of Ireland School · Ask About Ireland, local schools case study
- Skreen School, Glebe, NIAH32401907 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Skreen parish: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.