Carrick West, (), is a

townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic origi ...

in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Templeport Templeport () is a civil parish in the barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland. The chief towns in the parish are Bawnboy and Ballymagauran. The large Roman Catholic parish of Templeport containing 42,172 statute acres was split up in the 18t ...

County Cavan County Cavan ( ; gle, Contae an Chabháin) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is part of the Border Region. It is named after the town of Cavan and is base ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. It is named Carrick West or Carrick Hassard to distinguish it from

Carrick East Carrick East () is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Templeport and barony of Tullyhaw. It is named Carrick East or Carrick Fisher to distinguish it from Carrick West or C ...

or Carrick Fisher townland which is in

parish. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of

Glangevlin Glangevlin () is a village in the northwest of County Cavan, Ireland. It is in the townlands of Gub (Glangevlin) and Tullytiernan, at the junction of the R200 and R207 regional roads. It is surrounded by the Cuilcagh Mountains and borders the c ...

and barony of Tullyhaw. L1016, Carrick West (geograph 3586010)

Geography

Carrick West is bounded on the north by

Garvalt Lower Garvalt Lower, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic, ‘Garbhalt Íochtar’, meaning ''The Lower Rough Gorge'', is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Glangevlin and barony of ...

townland, on the east by

Curraghglass Curraghglass, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic, ‘Currach Glas’ meaning ''The Green Moor'', is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Glangevlin and barony of Tullyhaw. Geo ...

townland, on the west by Carnmaclean and Tullynacleigh townlands and on the south by Altshallan townland. Its chief geographical features are Tully Lough, mountain streams, waterfalls, forestry plantations, gravel pits and spring wells. The townland is traversed by the local L1016 road, minor public roads and rural lanes. The townland covers 158 statute acres.

History

In earlier times the townland was probably uninhabited as it consists mainly of bog and poor clay soils. It was not seized by the English during the Plantation of Ulster in 1610 or in the Cromwellian Settlement of the 1660s so some dispossessed Irish families moved there and began to clear and farm the land. A deed by Thomas Enery dated 29 Jan 1735 includes the lands of ''Carrick in Glan''. The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the townland name as ''Carrick''. The Tithe Applotment Books for 1826 list eleven tithepayers in the townland. The Ordnance Survey Name Books for 1836 give the following description of the townland- ''There is a small lake and an ancient fort on its west side.'' The Carrick West Valuation Office Field books are available for August 1839.

Griffith's Valuation Griffith's Valuation was a boundary and land valuation survey of Ireland completed in 1868. Griffith's background Richard John Griffith started to value land in Scotland, where he spent two years in 1806-1807 valuing terrain through the examinati ...

of 1857 lists eight landholders in the townland. In the 19th century the landlord of Carrick West was the Alex Hassard Estate. In 1875 it was sold to James Bracken.

Census

In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are eight families listed in the townland. In the 1911 census of Ireland, there are ten families listed in the townland.http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cavan/Dunmakeever/Carrick__West/ ''Census of Ireland 1911''

Antiquities

# A medieval earthen ringfort. Described in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Site No. 301) as- ''Raised sub-rectangular area (int. dims. 24.8mNW-SE; 21m NE-SE) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks with intermediate wide, deep waterlogged fosse. Corresponding breaks in banks at NW with accompanying causeway represents original entrance''. # Carrick National School. In the late nineteenth century, the parish priest of Glangevlin, Father Thomas Corr, replaced the old schools in Glangevlin by building new ones, including one in Carrick West. The school was closed in 1933 and was replaced by a new school in Curraghvah townland, which is still running.

References

External links

The IreAtlas Townland Data Base
{{County Cavan Townlands of County Cavan