Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Skull

Skull, par. and vil., co. Cork, on Skull Harbour, in Roaringwater Bay, 12 miles W. of Skibbereen - par., 37,922 ac., pop. 8090; vil., pop. 399; P.O., T.O., called Schull (or Scull). Market-day, Thursday. The copper mines in the neighbourhood have been abandoned.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cork IrlC
Place names: SCHULL     |     SCULL     |     SKULL
Place: Skull

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