placenamesKilsally
Coill Sailí
Correspondence preserved in the Chief Secretary’s papers connects Kilsally with a contested story of recruitment promises and prison petitions.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Coill Sailí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilsally · English · main form
Place & story
Promises and petitions, 1830–31
National Archives catalogue descriptions identify Francis Devlin of Kilsally in correspondence from 1830 concerning payments obtained by promising places in the police. The papers include a Dungannon printer’s affidavit about a false royal proclamation used in the scheme. In March 1831, Devlin petitioned from Omagh Gaol for legal assistance. He accused Chief Constable David Duff of taking his pocketbook and £6 10s, money he said he needed for an attorney. The surviving file also records Devlin writing a petition for another prisoner, Felix Malon. These descriptions preserve competing allegations rather than a finding about every complaint. [2] [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Upper
- Civil parish
- Ballyclog
- Coordinates
- 54.61529, -6.62222 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414267 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilsally. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- CSO/RP/OR/1830/251: correspondence concerning Francis Devlin, 13 October–12 November 1830 · National Archives of Ireland, Chief Secretary’s Office Registered Papers catalogue
- CSO/RP/1831/672: memorial and letters of Francis Devlin, March 1831 · National Archives of Ireland, Chief Secretary’s Office Registered Papers catalogue
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-25. How this page was prepared.