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Skreen () is a small village and
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in
County Sligo County Sligo ( , gle, Contae Shligigh) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the Border Region and is part of the province of Connacht. Sligo is the administrative capital and largest town in the county. Sligo County Council is the local ...
, Ireland.


History

St Adomnán, the first biographer of St Columba (Colmcille) and one of his successors at
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, first served as abbot at Skreen Abbey, which allegedly acquired its name from the relics of Adomnán. The abbey was possessed by
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raiders in the ninth century, who pillaged and razed it. Besides his Columba biography, Adomnán is known for the ga, Cáin Adomnáin the "Law of the Innocents", protecting women, children, and other non-combatants from being casualties of war. The name Adamnan is, according to '' Cormac's Glossary'', an Irish diminutive of Adam. It is generally pronounced in three syllables, but its proper Irish pronunciation is ''Awnaun'', the "d" and the "m" being both aspirated. In the life of St Farannan, published by Colgan, we are informed that Tibraide, lord of Tir Fhiachrach, bestowed on St Columba a place called ga, Cnoc-na-maoile; but that it was subsequently called ga, Scrín-Adhamhnain from a shrine that saint erected there. From this shrine the parish of Skreen in County Sligo derived its name. There, he is called Awnaun, and his well, Toberawnaun (which gives name to a townland), lies a little south of the old church.P. W. Joyce, ''Irish Names of Places'', p. 156. The Abbey, of which there is no remaining trace, was located at the site of the present Skreen
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church, next to which are an old graveyard and the extensive remains of the medieval church. Within the ruin is the gravesite of Reverend Gabriel Stokes, a 19th-century parson of the Church of Ireland parish and father of mathematician
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. In the graveyard may be found many fine 18th-19th-century limestone box tombs, the most celebrated of which is the 1824 Alexander Black tomb, carved by "Old Frank" Diamond. His descendants are still, after seven generations, in the stonecutting business on the Coast Road. Also in the parish are the considerable ruins of Ardnaglass Castle, originally a possession of the O'Dowds, then the MacSweeneys, and after the Cromwellian conquest the Joneses and the Blacks. It is just off the Coast Road on Protestant lane. It is now owned by Gerry Clarke. There are two churches in Skreen, one
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and the other
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. The Spiritual Life Institute, a Catholic order consisting of "apostolic hermits", also has a retreat centre in Skreen.


People

* Thady Connellan (Tadhg Ó Coinnialláinn) Poet (1780-1854) * Sir George Gabriel Stokes Mathematician and physicist (1819–1903). * John Whitley Stokes, Archdeacon of Armagh, elder brother of the previous (1801-1883). * William Tirry (1609-1654),
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See also

* List of towns and villages in Ireland


References

Towns and villages in County Sligo {{Sligo-geo-stub