Carrick

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrick, from 51 m² to 329,521 m² (32.95 ha, 81.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrick in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrick in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• KD018-014 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Shown as a circular enclosure and named 'Glebe' (i.e. Parish Church land) on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map, and regarded locally as a church site. On the lower, moderately steep, SW-facing slope of the Hill of Allen (OD 670 feet) and c. 70m upslope, to the NW of a holy well (KD018-015----). A large, poorly preserved, roughly circular area (diam. c. 80m) is defined by a low, grassed-over collapsed stone spread (Wth 1.1m at E-6m at NE; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.4m) NE-E-S, and by a low, stone-faced scarp (H 1m) S-W, with no visible trace of an enclosing element elsewhere. The perimeter is completely overgrown with briar and thorn. The interior falls steeply from the N to a narrow, level terrace (Wth 10m) which runs inside the enclosing element S-W. A natural spring emerges from a low bedrock terrace in the E sector. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD018-015 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 101 (42)), 'there is a holy well called after St. Coleman which is visited by Pilgrims on St. Peter's day [June 29th]. Over it grow several old trees and bushes …'. Dowling (1935-45), says a pattern was held there annually, up to the 1880's, while Jackson (1979-80, 149) notes the tradition that the well had the power to cure warts. On the lower, moderately steep, SW-facing slope of the Hill of Allen (OD 670 feet) and c. 70m down slope, to the SE, of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (KD018-014----). The area is now completely overgrown with whitethorn and briar and the well was not located. It is not recorded on the latest ed. (1910) of the OS 6-inch map which suggests that it may no longer have been visible at ground level then. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD018-021001 Mound
  Description

  Prominently sited on top of what's left of the forested Hill of Allen (OD 676 feet). The mound lies only 8m to the E of a sheer cliff-edge formed by the extensive Roadstone quarry which has removed a significant portion of the Hill to the S, W and N. According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 97 (32)), 'there are however no traces of forts nor any other monuments, excepting one small mound called Suidhe Finn, or Finn's Chair, which occupied the highest point of the hill.' This is a low, grass-covered, flat-topped, sub-circular mound (base diams. c. 43m E-W; c. 39m N-S; upper surface diams. 33.6m E-W; 30.3m N-S; H 1.4-1.8m along N and E; 2.2-c.2.5m along S and W). A 2m high post-and-wire fence has been erected around the edge of the top of the mound to prevent access to the quarry and, outside the fence, the sloping edges of the mound have been planted with palm trees. The surrounding ground to the NE, E and S is densely overgrown with whin and briar, and some of this overgrowth is establishing itself on the mound. Portion of the northern edge of the mound's slope has been scarped (H 0.8m), probably when the palm trees were planted, and reveals a mound composition of fawn-coloured, boulder clay-like material. The 19 century Aylmer Tower (KD018-021003----) stands on the mound, just southwest of centre and according to O'Grady (1903-5, 454-5), '… a cist-vein (KD018-021002----) is said to have been unearthed by the workmen employed in digging the foundations'. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD018-021002 Cist
  Description

  Prominently sited on top of what's left of the forested Hill of Allen (OD 676 feet). According to O'Grady (1903-5, 454-5), 'On the summit stands a tower (KD018-021003-) in the centre of a raised mound (KD018-021001-), where a cist-vein is said to have been unearthed by the workmen employed in digging the foundations. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD018-021003 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  Prominently sited on top of what's left of the forested Hill of Allen (OD 676 feet). The mound (KD018-021001-) upon which the tower stands lies only 8m to the east of a sheer cliff-edge formed by the extensive quarry which has removed a significant portion of the Hill to the south, west and north of the monuments. The tower was constructed by Sir Gerald George Aylmer, of Donadea Castle, Co. Kildare, between 1859 and 1863. It is built of limestone, quarried and cut at Edenderry, and brought from there to Robertstown by canal, and carted to the hill by Sir Gerald’s tenants. He promised that their names would be cut as “an everlasting memorial” on the steps of the Tower. There are eighty-three steps, and on each one name is inscribed, making a list in stone of the ancestors of many families still living in the Allen district. An inscription at the top of the stairs reads, “In thankful remembrance of God’s mercies, many and great - Built by Sir Gerald George Alymer, Baronet, A.D. 1860”. According to Killanin and Duignan (1967, 320) the tower 'is said to occupy the site of an ancient tumulus' (KD018-021001-). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 22 March 2014

• KD018-021004 Inscribed stone
  Description

  Described by Rynne (SMR file, 1962) as 'a large, flattish boulder (limestone?)' apparently found on the Hill of Allen in 1961, and moved to outside the doorway of Ballyteague Castle (KD013-020----). Rynne's sketch shows an apparently compass-drawn palmette-style design. An inspection in 1999 failed to locate this stone. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 22 March 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrick.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Carrick, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrick.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Carrick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Carrick

Area

1,430,677 m² (143.07 ha, 353.53 acres)

Civil parish

Rathernan, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Rathernan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

683 people lived in 221 households in the Rathernan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnacrow, Christianstown, Dunbyrne, Pluckerstown, Punchersgrange, Wheelam

Placenames

Carrick on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.