Carrick

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrick, from 26 m² to 208,863 m² (20.89 ha, 51.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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.

• 5 Dec 2025Conditional

  Retention of shed / garage, vehicular entrance as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560602

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrick.

Recorded monuments

• WM016-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This site was surveyed and described in 1971 when it recorded that this site consisted of a ' circular uneven enclosure (int. diam. 33.8m NW-SE; 31.8m NE-SW) with a general slope from NW-SE, bounded by a well defined earth and stone bank. There is no definite trace of masonry. No visible trace of a fosse. The bank is much defaced in several places by small disturbance gaps. The original entrance way is not recognisable. A modern NW-SE stone wall extends just outside the back from W to S. The interior has traces of ENE-WSW cultivation ridges. Sited on a slight W slope of a prominent hill of good pasture. Good views to the W and N. A large stone protrudes in the interior'(SMR file). See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 November 2009

• WM016-024 Mass-rock
  Description

  Children's burial ground (WM016-025----) located immediately to NW. This site was surveyed and described in 1980 as following; 'According to the landowner the 'cross' was a large limestone boulder on which mass was said in Penal Times. The adjoining enclosure (WM016-024001-), now destroyed, was a children's burial ground (WM016-025----) although no burials have taken place there since the turn of the century. A few large boulders now lie along the nearby field fence. These boulders appear to have no archaeological significance. It is called 'The Cross of Carrick' on the OS Fair Plan' (SMR file). In 1837 the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books recorded the following details abut the cross; ‘It is situated nearly in the centre of the relic na pastha [WM016-025----]. This cross was in former days where a R.C. Alter [sic] stood, the track of which at present is scarcely to be observed’ (OSNB) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 November 2009

• WM016-025 Children's burial ground
  Description

  The children's burial ground marked on the OS 6-inch map as 'Relicnapastia' was located in the sub-triangular shaped field located immediately NW of Carrick Cross which was used as a mass rock (WM016-024----) during penal times. In 1837 the Ordnance Survey recorded that the Relicnapastia was 'a small field of triangular form field' (OSNB). Small D-shaped or sub-triangular shaped field (approx. dims. 57m E-W x 49m N-S) depicted on OS 6-inch map marked the site of a children's burial ground known as 'Relicnapastia' located immediately NW of Carrick Cross which was used as a mass rock (WM016-024----) during penal times. This burial ground was surveyed and described in 1980 when it recorded that this site was 'Not marked as an antiquity by the OS. It was sited on a slight natural rise. The adjoining enclosure now destroyed was a burial ground although no burials have taken place here since the turn of the century' (SMR file). Described in 1979 as 'The site is a slight natural rise on the top of a high prominent hill of good pasture. Excellent views in all directions. There is no visible trace of an antiquity at the site of the cross [Carrick Cross] that was used as a mass rock (WM016-024----) during penal times'. No surface remains visible of levelled burial ground and no evidence of any grave markers in area where burial ground was located. Faint cropmark of levelled enclosure visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 11 September 2018

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

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

Name

Carrick

Area

699,623 m² (69.96 ha, 172.88 acres)

Civil parish

Noughaval, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Doonis, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Bawn, Brackagh, Cannorstown (chapman), Kippin, Maghera

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. 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.