Skerry (disambiguation)
Appearance
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A skerry is a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation.
Skerry, skerries, or The Skerries may also refer to:
Geography
[edit]Northern Ireland
[edit]- Skerries, County Armagh, a townland in County Armagh
- Skerry, County Antrim, a parish in County Antrim
- The Skerries, Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland
[edit]- Skerries, Dublin, a seaside town in Fingal, County Dublin
- Skerries, County Kildare, a townland in County Kildare
Russia
[edit]- Minina Skerries
- The area surrounding Taymyr Island
- Sumsky Skerries
Scotland
[edit]- Sule Skerry
- Skerryvore
- A number of locations in the Orkney Islands
- A number of locations in the Shetland Islands
- Out Skerries
- Gaut Skerries, in the Ramna Stacks
- Ve Skerries
South Georgia
[edit]United States
[edit]Wales
[edit]Australia
[edit]Literature and music
[edit]- Skerry, a fictional mammal in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon
- "Skerries", isolated parts of The Dreaming (comics) in The Sandman
- ""From the Outermost Skerries", fourth symphony in C minor, Op. 39, by Hugo Alfvén
Other uses
[edit]- Battle of Skerries, a 1316 battle in Skerries, County Kildare
- Skerries RFC, a rugby team based in Skerries, Dublin
- Skerry cruiser, aka square metre yachts, a type of sailing vessel
- Storm Over the Skerries, a 1938 Swedish film directed by Ivar Johansson