High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Carlisle Township is one of the eighteen townships of Lorain County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 7,339 people in the unincorporated parts of the township. Parts of two municipalities extend into Carlisle Township: the city of Elyria in the north, and the village of Grafton in the southeast. As well, the unincorporated community of Brentwood Lake lies in far eastern Carlisle Township. It is the only Carlisle Township statewide. Carlisle Township was established in 1822.