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 (born 1585) 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 (born 1594) 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 Reynolds Jur 6o Apr 1643 Will: Aldrich Hen: Brereton John Sterne: Cavan William Reinolds Jur 6o Apr 1643 Intw Cert fact [Copy at MS 832, fols 59r-59v] 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. A deed dated 19 May 1736 by Owen Wynne includes the lands of Killsallagh. 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. Census In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are sixteen families listed in the townland, and in the 1911 census of Ireland, there are twelve families listed in the