Carrick-a-Dee

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Etymology

carrick (“rock”) +‎ a (“on”) +‎ Dee

Proper noun

Carrick-a-Dee

1. A Forth mountain on Wexford, which is 776 feet above the level of the sea.
   • OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, line 26-29.

     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.

   • OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, line 31-32.

     When Carrick-a-Dee wears a hat, [a cloud].

     Let Forth and Bargy beware of that.

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