Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Carlingford. You may be able to find further references to Carlingford in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Carlingford	market and seaport town and parish	Bartholomew
CARLINGFORD	a seaport, market and post-town, and a parish (formerly a parliamentary borough)	Lewis:Ireland

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Carlingford.

Place	Type of entry	Source
BALLINAMAGHERY	a hamlet	Lewis:Ireland
BELLAGAN	a village	Lewis:Ireland
RATHCOR	a village	Lewis:Ireland
WHITESTOWN	a village	Lewis:Ireland

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Carlingford within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Arthur Young	21st to 31st July 1776: Down, Armagh and Antrim	3

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer