placenamesSkerry
Lewis recorded textile work across households alongside a named mill and annual trading day.
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
- Skerry · English · main form
Place & story
Work and trade around the Braid
Knockboy had a substantial mill spinning linen yarn and flax in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Skerry parish. He described linen weaving as taking place in almost every house, suggesting how widely textile work reached into household life. A different gathering brought trade to Tullymore each 17 November: an annual fair for cattle, horses, pigs and small wares. These details concern Skerry’s parish landscape, distinct from the neighbouring Racavan bleach-greens described elsewhere in Lewis’s dictionary. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Antrim Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.94446, -6.20128 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 61265 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Skerry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Skerry: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.