placenamesKinsaley
Cionn Sáile
Lewis’s 1837 account describes a limestone quarry beneath Feltrim Hill and the gardens of Abbeville.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cionn Sáile · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kinsaley · English · main form
Place & story
Quarrying and gardening in the parish
Samuel Lewis reported fossils being found frequently in a limestone quarry beneath Feltrim Hill when he described Kinsaley in 1837. He also noted a holy well nearby, without naming a saint or recording a particular devotional story. Elsewhere in the parish, Abbeville’s gardens contained a greenhouse more than four hundred feet long. Lewis named H. and J. Batchelor as the house’s occupants at that time. The quarry and greenhouse belong to his nineteenth-century description; it does not establish the present condition of either or identify the kinds of fossils recovered. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kinsaley. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kinsealy, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.