Skreen

Skreen lies west of Sligo near the shore of Ardnaglass harbour, in a landscape of farmland facing the Atlantic. Its Irish name, An Scrín, means the shrine, recalling an early religious site where a later medieval church stood. Ardnaglass Castle nearby belonged in turn to the O'Dowds and the MacSweeneys; after the Cromwellian conquest it passed to new owners. In 1819 a church was erected beside the older ruin, maintaining a place of worship on ground associated with the parish for many centuries.