Carrick, Lackan
townland in Ballinalack, County Westmeath, Ireland
Carrick is a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located about 13 kilometres (8 mi) north–west of Mullingar. The name Carrick also applies to 33 other townlands in Ireland.
Carrick is one of 10 townlands of the civil parish of Lackan in the barony of Corkaree in the Province of Leinster. The townland covers 303 acres (1.23 km2). The neighbouring townlands are:
Grange to the north, Lackan to the east, Leny to the south and Ballinalack and Cullenhugh to the west.
In the 1911 census of Ireland there were 3 houses and 18 inhabitants in the townland.
“Carrick, Lackan” enters the record as townland in Ballinalack, County Westmeath, Ireland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Carrick, Lackan and townland can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22083898. Authority coordinates are 53.625, -7.450. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1911.
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