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Thanks for the information on your Gt-Gt-Grandparents.  I notice on a newspaper website that Rooney is among the top ten surnames in Balrothery.  I will take a closer look at Rush and Lusk.

Tim

It would be in the top 10 names for north Fingal from Swords to Balbriggan.

Archer would be considered very much a Rush name too,  usually there was quite alot of inter marriage between Rush Lusk, Skerries, Loughshinny.

full army record on ancestry several pages long , good condition .
matthew corrigan born 1878 rathmines dad thomas 3 portobello sq
enlisted age 18y 4 mths 22 sept 1896
wife rose redmond marriage 6-10-1907 dub-south o-d 1907 v2 p 641
children
thomas patrick 21 10 09 aldershot
mary theresa 13 8 13 (couldnt read)

Is this the same Rose?

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Wood_Quay/Windsor_Terrace/1347856/

Also, the "smuggling".  Can you explain that here?

Timothy

A long history of smuggling in these parts as well as privateers. It's just far enough from the city in the 16th-19th to avoid the Navy and fresh produce was carted in daily to the city so contraband could be easily hid. If boats have the ability to travel to the Baltic they also have the means to smuggle in a little something extra without Revenue knowing.  There is an account about a smugglers ship trying to land at Loughshinny(between Rush and Skerries) and it turned into a pitch battle between 200 locals and the Revenue.  The Lord of Atoll papers also mention the smuggling trade between Fingal and the Isle of Man and Scotland.

Skerries has pretty good Historical society which might be able to help you out. They at least could provide you with information about the fishing and smuggling in the area. 

http://www.oldskerries.ie/historical.html

I know Skerries fishermen traded in Herrings up and down the West Coast of Ireland in and this area was pretty active with smuggling between Scotland and the Isle of Man.  The May family still lives in the town as far as I know. I see you already heard of the pub.

Good article on the extent of the fishing trade in Skerries.

http://www.oldskerries.ie/lochist/15fish.html