Skerries

Skerries

Skerries is the plural of skerry.

Skerries may refer to a number of geographical locations:
*Skerries, Dublin, a seaside town in Ireland
*The Skerries (Anglesey) in Wales
*The Skerries (Northern Ireland)
*In Scotland:
**Sule Skerry
**Skerryvore
**In the Orkney Islands:
***Auskerry
***Bow Skerries
***Hoe Skerries
***Lunga Skerries
***Oyster Skerries
***The Pentland Skerries
***Skaill Skerries
***Skea Skerries
***Skerries of Clestrain
***Skerries of Coubister
***Skerries of Lakequoy
***Wyre Skerries
**In the Shetland Islands where there are numerous examples including:
***Aswick Skerries
***Baa Skerries
***Linga Skerries
***Longa Skerries
***Out Skerries
***Red Skerries
***Sandrift Skerries
***Swarta Skerries
***Ve Skerries

*In Russia:
**Minina Skerries
**The area surrounding Taymyr Island
**The Sumsky Skerries.

*In South Georgia
** East Skerry
** Skrap Skerries


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