Carrick

See also: carrick

English

Alternative forms

• Karrick

Etymology

Anglicised version of Irish carraig, Scottish Gaelic carraig or Cornish karrek, all meaning rock. Doublet of Craig.

Proper noun

Carrick

1. A surname from Irish.
2. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
3. A census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
4. A former local government district of Cornwall, England, named after the fjord-like Carrick Roads estuary; it was abolished on 31 March 2009.
5. A rocky coastal district now in in South Ayrshire, Scotland and part of the Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Scottish Parliament constituency and the eponymous UK Parliament constituency.
   • 1791, Robert Burns, “Tam o'Shanter”‎^[1]Edinburgh Magazine:

     (describing a siren seen in a group of otherwise decrepit old witches dancing) There was ae winsome wench and waulie / That night enlisted in the core, / Lang after ken'd on Carrick shore; / (For mony a beast to dead she shot, / And perish'd mony a bonie boat, ...)

     There was one beautiful and vivacious young woman / That night enlisted in the corps [of dancers] / Long remembered on the shore of Carrick / (For she had caused many large animals to slip down [the cliffs] to their deaths, / And fatally lured many good boats [onto the rocks], ...)

6. A locality in the Goulburn Mulwaree council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
7. A locality in Meander Valley council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
8. A Scottish earldom bestowed on the heir apparent to the reigning monarchs first of Scotland (since Robert the Bruce in 1292) and later of the United Kingdom.

Derived terms

• Carrick bend
• Carrick-on-Shannon
• Carrick-on-Suir

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Etymology

Derived from Irish carraig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarɪk/

Proper noun

Carrick

1. rock

   Synonym: ruck

   • OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, line 26.

     “The principal of these are named Carrick-a-Shinna, Carrick-a-Dee, and Carrick-a-Foyle, and are respectively 556, 776, and 687 feet above the level of the sea.”

Derived terms

• Carrick-a-Shinna
• Carrick-a-Dee
• Carrick-a-Foyle

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 2