placenamesSkreen
An Scrín
Lewis’s Wexford parish account records a change in the use of a religious building site.
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
- Skreen · English · main form
Place & story
The earlier chapel’s site
In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded a Catholic chapel at Skryne village, within Wexford’s Skreen parish, and a curate’s residence built on the site of the old chapel. His wording distinguishes the earlier chapel site from the chapel then serving the community, without giving construction dates for either building. A dispensary assisted the poor, and about sixty children attended a private school. Some parish inhabitants also worked in the herring fishery at Curracloe, which Lewis explicitly placed in the neighbouring parish of Saint Margaret rather than within Skreen itself. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Coordinates
- 52.40687, -6.41699
- Mapped area
- 5.43 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2609 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Skreen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Skreen (Wexford), 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.