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Etymology
carrick (“rock”) + a (“on”) + Foyle
Proper noun
Carrick-a-Foyle
- A Forth mountain on Wexford, which is 687 feet above the level of the sea.
- 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.”
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