Kilsallagh is bounded on the north by Killycrin townland, on the west by Muinaghan and Port, Templeport townlands, on the south by Cor, Templeport townland and on the east by Keenagh, Templeport, Munlough North and Killywaum townlands. Its chief geographical features are two streams, some spring wells and dug wells. The Ordnance Survey Namebooks for 1836 state- The soil is of a light yellow clay, intermixed with boulders of freestone. Kilsallagh is traversed by the regional N87 road, minor roads and rural lanes. The crossroads named Father Terence's Cross was named after the nearby residence of the localRoman Catholic curate at the time, Terence Magauran, who was curate of Templeport parish from 1849 to 1877 and later parish priest from 1877 to 1896. The townland covers 169 statute acres.
History
Until after the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 the modern townland of Killywaum formed a sub-division of Kilsallagh. The 1609 Baronial Map depicts the townland as Kilsallagh. The 1652 Commonwealth Survey lists the townland as Kilsallagh. An 1809 map of the ecclesiastical lands in Templeport depicts it as Kilsoldagh, with a sub-division on the north-east entitled Gortinawaghey. On 19 January 1586 Queen Elizabeth I of England granted a pardon to Ferriell M'Manus M'Thomas Magawran of Killsollaghe for fighting against the Queen's forces. The said Farrell McGovern was the grandson of Tomás mac Maghnus Mág Samhradháin who was chief of the McGovern Clan from 1512 to 1532. In the Plantation of Ulster by grant dated 26 June 1615, King James VI and I granted, inter alia, two polls in Kilsallagh to Sir George Graeme and Sir Richard Graeme to form part of the Manor of Greame. An Inquisition held at Cavan Town on 31 October 1627 found that Sir Richard Greames of Corrasmongan died on 7 November 1625 seized of, inter alia, one poll in Kilsallagh. His son and heir Thomas Greames was aged 40 and married. Further that George Greames was also seized of one poll in Kilsallagh 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 and unmarried. Father Shane McBrian, the Roman Catholic curate of Templeport, lived in the townland in the 1640s and took part in the Irish Rebellion of 1641, according to the following deposition of William Reynolds of Lissanover- folio 260r William Reinoldes of Lisnaore in the parrish of Templeport in the County of Cavan gent sworne & examined deposeth and sajth That about the begining of the presente Rebellion this deponent was deprived robbed or otherwise dispoiled & Lost by the Rebells: his meanes goodes & chattells concisting of horses mares beasts Cattle Corne hay howsholdstuff implements of husbandry apparell bookes provition silver spoones swyne & the benefite of his howse and six Poles of Land: due debts & other thinges of the value of three hundreth Sixtie fowre Powndes nine shillings sterling. And further sajth That the Rebells that soe robbed & dispojled him of his personall estate are theis that follow vizt Gillernew Mc Gawren & Hugh mc Manus oge mc Gawren both of the Parrish and County of Cavan aforesaid Turlaghe o Rely Brian Groome mc Gowren Daniell mc Gawren & Charles mc Gawren all of the place aforesaid gent: with divers other Rebells whose names he cannott expresse to the number of 30 or thereabouts And further sajth that theis 4 parties next after named Phillipp mc Hugh mc Shane o Rely of Ballinecargie in the County of Cavan Esquire now a Colonell of Rebells Capt Myles o Rely his brother Edmund Mc Mulmore o Rely of or nere Ballirely gent & Myles his sonn whoe when the Rebellion began was high sherriff of the said County of Cavan Phillip mc Mulmore o Rely of Ballytrusse Esquire John ô Rely his sonne & heire Sergeant Maio William Reynolds Jur 6o Apr 1643 Will: Aldrich Hen: Brereton John Sterne: Cavan William Reinolds Jur 6o Apr 1643 Intw Cert fact After the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652, the Graham family's lands in Kilsallagh were confiscated and distributed as follows- The 1652 Commonwealth Survey lists the proprietor as Mr Thomas Worsopp and the tenant as William Lawther, both of whom appear as proprietor and tenant for several other Templeport townlands in the same survey. The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the townland name as Kilsallagh. The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list twenty six tithepayers in the townland. In 1833 one person in Kilsallagh was registered as a keeper of weapons- James Delacy. The Kilsallagh Valuation Office Field books are available for November 1839. Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists seventeen landholders in the townland. The landlord of Kilsallagh in the 1850s was the Reverend Sir James King.
