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County Kildare
Ireland
Civil Parishes
Carrick
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
See Edenderry Civil Registration District BMD refs (vital records)
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CARRICK, a parish, in the barony of CARBERY, county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 9 miles (N.) from Edenderry (Co. Offaly/king’s) ; containing 604 inhabitants.
This parish is situated on the road from Edenderry to Kinnegad, and on the banks of the river Boyne ; the land is in a good state of cultivation, and the system of husbandry greatly improved ; there is a considerable tract of bog. There are some excellent limestone quarries, and at Ballindolan is a, quarry of black flag-stone.
The seats are Rattan, that of the Revd Palmer ; Ballindolan, of Humphrey Barr Esq. ; and Grange Castle, of ??? Tyrrell, Esq.
A fair is held at Russet Wood on the 28th of August.
It is a vicarage in the diocese of Kildare, and is part of the union of Carbery ; the rectory is impropriety in the Marquess of Downshire. The tithes amount to £149. 16s. 1½d.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Cadamstown. (also called Balyna or Johnstown in R.C. divisions)
A male and female parochial school at Rahan in which are 30 boys and 30 girls, is supported by the vicar, aided by subscriptions.
There are some remains of the old castle of Carrig, the residence of the Bermingham family, and of the old church, their burial-place; and also the ruins of Kinnefad, another residence of that family.
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