Carrick-a-Foyle

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Etymology

carrick (“rock”) +‎ a (“on”) +‎ Foyle

Proper noun

Carrick-a-Foyle

  1. A Forth mountain on Wexford, which is 687 feet above the level of the sea.
    • OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, line 26.
      “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.”

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
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