skerry A skerry is a small rocky island, or islet, usually too small for human habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low sea stack. A skerry may have vegetative life such as moss and small, hardy grasses. They ar ...

is a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation. Skerry, skerries, or The Skerries may also refer to:

Geography

Northern Ireland

* Skerries, County Armagh, a townland in County Armagh * Skerry, County Antrim, a parish in County Antrim *

The Skerries, Northern Ireland The Skerries are a small group of rocky islands ( skerries) just off Portrush, County Antrim, on the north coast of Northern Ireland. Winkle Isle is the local name for the large Skerry island, the small Skerry being known as Castle Isle. The isla ...

Republic of Ireland

* Skerries, Dublin, a seaside town in Fingal, County Dublin ** Skerries railway station * Skerries, County Kildare, a townland in County Kildare

Russia

* Minina Skerries *The area surrounding

Taymyr Island Taymyr Island () is a large island in the coast of the Kara Sea. Its length is and its average width about . This island is located west of the Taymyr Gulf in an area of skerries right off the western coast of the Taymyr Peninsula. The narrow str ...

* Sumsky Skerries

Scotland

Sule Skerry Sule Skerry is a remote skerry in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland. Geography Sule Skerry lies west of the Orkney Mainland at . Sule Skerry's sole neighbour, Sule Stack, lies to the southwest; the remote islands of Rona a ...

* Skerryvore *A number of locations in the Orkney Islands **

Auskerry Auskerry ( sco, Soond; non, Austrsker, east skerry) is a small island in eastern Orkney, Scotland. It lies in the North Sea south of Stronsay and has a lighthouse, completed in 1866. Description Auskerry is a small, flat, red sandstone islet, ...

** Pentland Skerries *A number of locations in the Shetland Islands **

Out Skerries The Out Skerries are an archipelago of islets, some inhabited, in Shetland, Scotland, and are the easternmost part of Shetland. Locally, they are usually called Da Skerries or just Skerries. Geography The Out Skerries lie about northeast of ...

**Gaut Skerries, in the

Ramna Stacks The Ramna Stacks are a group of skerries in the Shetland islands. They are north of the northern tip of Mainland, and along with nearby Gruney they are a special protection area on account of their birdlife. From north to south they consist o ...

Ve Skerries The Ve Skerries or Vee Skerries ( non, Vestan sker, West Skerries) are a group of low skerries (rocky islands) north west of Papa Stour, on the west coast of Shetland, Scotland. They define the southwest perimeter of St Magnus Bay. Skerries ...

South Georgia

* Skrap Skerries

United States

* Skerry, New York

Wales

The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey The Skerries (Welsh (language), Welsh: ''Ynysoedd y Moelrhoniaid'') () coming from the Old Norse word are a group of sparsely vegetated rocky islets (skerry, skerries), with a total area of about lying offshore from Carmel Head at the north ...

Australia

* The Skerries (Victoria)

Literature and music

*Skerry, a fictional mammal in Neal Stephenson's novel ''

Cryptonomicon ''Cryptonomicon'' is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson, set in two different time periods. One group of characters are World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code an ...

'' *"Skerries", isolated parts of ''The Dreaming'' (comics) in ''The Sandman'' *""From the Outermost Skerries", fourth symphony in C minor, Op. 39, by

Hugo Alfvén Hugo Emil Alfvén (; 1 May 18728 May 1960) was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter. Career Violinist Alfvén was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and studied at the Royal College of Music (Kungliga Musikhögskolan) from 1887 ...

Other uses

* Battle of Skerries, a 1316 battle in Skerries, County Kildare *

Skerries RFC Skerries RFC is an Irish rugby team based in Skerries, Dublin in the province of Leinster. They play in Division 2C of the All-Ireland League. The club was founded and became a member of the Leinster Branch of the IRFU in 1926. They played thei ...

, a rugby team based in Skerries, Dublin *

Skerry cruiser thumb Skerry cruisers (or Square metre yachts) are yachts, usually wooden, which are constructed according to the Square metre rule. Originating from Sweden, they were historically most popular in the Baltic Sea, though some classes also saw popu ...

, aka square metre yachts, a type of sailing vessel * ''

Storm Over the Skerries ''Storm Over the Skerries'' (Swedish: ''Storm över skären'') is a 1938 Swedish drama film directed by Ivar Johansson and starring Sten Lindgren, Karin Ekelund and Björn Berglund.Qvist & Von Bagh p.93 It was shot at the Sundbyberg Studios of ...

'', a 1938 Swedish film directed by Ivar Johansson {{disambiguation, geo