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 A surname from Irish. A surname from Scottish Gaelic. A census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States. A former local government district of Cornwall, England, named after the fjord-like Carrick Roads estuary; it was abolished on 31 March 2009. 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. A locality in the Goulburn Mulwaree council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia. A locality in Meander Valley council area, northern Tasmania, Australia. 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 == Yola == === Etymology === Derived from Irish carraig. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkarɪk/ === Proper noun === Carrick 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