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Carrick East (from Irish: Carraig meaning 'A Rock’) is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Templeport and barony of Tullyhaw. It is named Carrick East to distinguish it from Carrick West townland which is in Glangevlin parish.
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Map of Carrick East, Corville, Co. Cavan, Ireland
Geography
Carrick East is bounded on the north by Brackley, Templeport townland, on the west by Killyneary townland, on the south by Bawnboy townland and on the east by Gortnavreeghan townland. Its chief geographical features are Slieve Rushen mountain on whose western slope it lies, mountain streams and forestry plantations.
Carrick East is traversed by minor roads and rural lanes.
The townland covers 127 statute acres.
History
The 1609 Baronial Map depicts the townland as Carricar.
The 1665 Down Survey map depicts the townland as Carrick.
William Petty's 1685 map depicts it as Carik.
In the Plantation of Ulster by grant dated 26 June 1615, King James VI and I granted, inter alia, one poll in Camera to Sir George Graeme and Sir Richard Graeme to form part of the Manor of Greame. An Inquisition held at Belturbet on 12 June 1661 found that George Greames was seized of one poll in Carrig and he died 9 October 1624. By his will dated 1 May 1615 he left his lands to his son and heir William Greames then 30 years old (born 1594) and unmarried.
After the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 the Graham lands in Carrick East were distributed as follows-
The 1662 Hearth Money Rolls show three Hearth Tax payers in Carricke- Richard Morry, William Morry and John Cooper.
A grant dated 3 November 1666 was made by King Charles II of England to Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet which included, inter alia, the lands of Carrick. By grant dated 11 September 1670 from King Charles II of England to said Sir Tristram Beresford, the said lands of Carrick were included in the creation of a new Manor of Beresford.
Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists five landholders in the townland.
In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are three families listed in the townland, and in the 1911 census of Ireland, there is only one family listed in the townland.
Antiquities
There do not seem to be any structures of historical interest in the townland.