Skerries
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- Type: Town with 10,700 residents
- Description: town in Leinster, Ireland
- Also known as: “Skerries, County Dublin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skerries railway station and Red Island Martello Tower.
Skerries railway station
Railway station
Photo: jai, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skerries railway station serves Skerries in County Dublin, Ireland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Loughshinny and Balrothery.
Loughshinny
Village
Photo: Colm O hAonghusa, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loughshinny is a small coastal village in northern County Dublin, Ireland, between Skerries and Rush. Loughshinny's more famous landmarks are the Martello Tower on the nearby headland of Drumanagh and some unusual rock formations visible on some of the many coastal walks in the area. Loughshinny is situated 4 km south of Skerries.
Balrothery
Village
Photo: Offdaw, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Balrothery is a village and civil parish located in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland. The town has historically been called Baile Ruairí in Irish. The 2022 census population for Balrothery was 2,282. Balrothery is situated 5 km west of Skerries.
Balbriggan
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Balbriggan is a seaside town at the north end of County Dublin, 32 km north of Dublin city centre. It was a small fishing village until 1780 then grew rapidly as a textile town, processing cotton and linen.
Skerries
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Fingal, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.58064° or 53° 34′ 50″ northLongitude
-6.10669° or 6° 6′ 24″ westPopulation
10,700United Nations Location Code
IE SKEOpen location code
9C5MHVJV+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 52231061OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2961461Wikidata ID
Q2268677
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Skerries” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سكيريز”
- Azerbaijani: “Skerris”
- Basque: “Skerries”
- Bulgarian: “Скерийс”
- Chinese: “斯凱里斯”
- Chinese: “都柏林群礁”
- Danish: “Skerries”
- Dutch: “Skerries”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سكيريز”
- Finnish: “Skerries”
- French: “Skerries”
- German: “Skerries”
- Indonesian: “Na Sceiri”
- Indonesian: “Na Sceirí”
- Indonesian: “Skerries”
- Irish: “Na Sceirí”
- Italian: “Skerries”
- Japanese: “スケリーズ”
- Lithuanian: “Skerisas”
- Polish: “Skerries”
- Russian: “Скерриес”
- Russian: “Скеррис”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Na Sceirí”
- Slovak: “Skerries”
- Spanish: “Skerries”
- Swedish: “Skerries”
- Ukrainian: “Голмпатрик”
- Ukrainian: “Скерріс”
- Urdu: “سکیریز، ڈبلن”
- Urdu: “سکیریز”
- “Skerries”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Skerries”. Photo: Joyous!, CC BY-SA 3.0.