placenamesCrilly
Crithligh
Crilly in Aghaloo parish appears in nineteenth-century valuation records and a later agreement concerning minerals beneath its demesne lands.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Crithligh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Crilly · English · main form
Place & story
Land and a meeting house
The transcribed valuation for Crilly around 1860 records Vaughan Montgomery as both occupier and immediate lessor of several holdings. It also lists a Presbyterian meeting house on land held from Montgomery, with a graveyard separately returned. The entries show worship and farming sharing the townland landscape. [2]
A mining-rights agreement
A 1911 grant catalogued by Cavan County Archives concerns mineral rights beneath just over 203 acres at Crilly. Its parties were Arthur Thellusson Whyte-Venables and Vaughan Montgomery of Crilly House. It establishes rights, rather than evidence of actual mining. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Lower
- Civil parish
- Aghaloo
- Coordinates
- 54.40283, -6.93737 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414335 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Crilly. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aghaloo Parish Tithe Applotments and Griffith’s Valuation: Crilly, c.1860 · County Tyrone researchers, original valuation transcriptions
- Small Private Collections, P017/0171, p.84 · Cavan County Archives Service
- Ballymagrane Presbyterian Church, Crilly illustration: based on a Ballymagrane Presbyterian Church, Crilly by Kenneth Allen. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-27. How this page was prepared.