Built in 1927
this is all that remains of an auto dealership

Tipperary Street, Shamrock, OK
by 1975 all old buildings had been vacated and serve now as reminders of what was

Shamrock jail
unused for many years

Shamrock, Oklahoma is located five miles south of Drumright, Oklahoma. The first postmaster, J. M. Thomas, for his hometown in southern Illinois, named the town. The town's post office was established July 9, 1910. 

In 1913 Shamrock was a country hamlet with two general stores, a restaurant, and population of 35 people. As the Cushing Oil Field was developing two years later, the town site shifted to the southern edge of the field and became a boom town with a population in excess of ten thousand persons. Dropright, Gasright, Alright, Downright, Damright and Justright were oil-field camps that quickly sprung up in the vicinity.

When the new location was surveyed and platted, Shamrock took on an Irish character. Main street was named Tipperary Road; others were Cork, Dublin, Ireland, St. Patrick and Killarney. The first newspaper was the Shamrock Brogue, buildings were painted green and an important acquisition by the town was a Blarney stone. A later rival of the Brogue was the Blarney.

Shamrock's boom days were rowdy. Like such boom towns, Shamrock had it's gambling halls, saloons, brothels and tough individuals. Noted oil-field entertainer, Ruby Darby, performed in one pool hall. It is said that she would get on top of a pool table so everyone could see her dance. 

The "big excitement" in Shamrock was probably in 1932 when Charles A. "Pretty Boy" Floyd robbed the bank.

Shamrock began declining in the mid-1920s. Oil-field workers moved on to new boomtowns. Stores, poll halls, hotels, and various shops began to close. Nearby oil-field camps were often deserted and houses were moved to new locations. Business buildings soon began to decay and were vandalized. By 1930 the population of Shamrock had decreased to about 700 persons.

John W. Morris, Ghost Towns of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965)
A Ghost of A Chance, Wee bit of magic left in Shamrock (The Sunday Oklahoman, Oklahoma NOW), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 18 March 2001, p. 1, column2.