Skreen

Given Tara's cultural significance and national monument status, it is not surprising that the Irish government met resistance when it announced plans for a 60 km road running straight through the Gabhra Valley between Tara and the nearby Hill of Skreen.

Road to Ruin 2007

The Skreen side of the projected motorway is part and parcel of this complex.

Tara Threatened 2004

The controversial route of the M3 highway would cross an archaeologically sensitive and historically important landscape, passing between the hills of Tara and Skreen northwest of Dublin.

Tara Threatened 2004

Those three Officers are to make, altogether, three solempn Curtesies, at three several times, between the Skreen and the upper Table; beginning with the first, at the end of the Bencher's table; the second at the midst; and the third at the other end; and then, standing by, the Server performeth his Office.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Mayo, in 703, and then went to Skreen, in Hy Fiachrach, and that after his departure the monks prevailed on St. Gerald to resume the abbacy.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

In accordance with the ordinance of Paparo, Rochfort's synod enjoined that rural deans should be placed in the five sees of Trim, Kells, Slane, Skreen and Dunshaughlin, each of whom should supervise the churches in his own deanery.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh of Clairvaux Bernard 1899

In 846 Meloughlin met their forces at Skreen, where they were defeated; they also suffered a reverse at Kildare.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

Navan, Skreen, Santry, Clontarf, and Castleknock -- for even these places, almost within sight of Dublin, were included in de Lacy's original grant.

A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846

Navan, Skreen, Santry, Clontarf, and Castleknock -- for even these places, almost within sight of Dublin, were included in de Lacy's original grant.

A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846

I have had the oportunity to discourse one that lives in the house with Skreen about your bill of Excha he tells me Skreen absolutely denies the drawing of it altho by comparing the hands the [y] seem to be as like as two Ps:

Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, March 25, 1724 1724