Carrick

See also: carrick

English

Alternative forms

• Karrick

Etymology

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

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 local government district of Cornwall, England, named after the fiord-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 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