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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Monaghan => Topic started by: auchendennan on Sunday 07 February 10 19:40 GMT (UK)
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i am trying to find out about the reilly family who lived in magheracloone. my grandad was john reilly his brothers were barney and joe his sisters were rosie teresa and bridie. I think they had a farm near derrynascobe
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Welcome to Rootschat. Any idea of dates? as that will make a difference as to what information we can tell you or what advise we can give you.
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My father was John Reilly from Derrynascobe in Magheracloone. I have most of the information you are looking for
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Hi, Auchendennan. This is a bit of a bizarre coincidence. I've never investigated this type of website before and immediately I do I find a clear reference to my own family. I am the son of Teresa, your granddad's sister, and I see that I'm also cousin to your second correspondent. I shall reply to him/her as well and we can pool information.
Right, I'm a novice to this. Where do we go from here? I'm happy to send personal information to a family member but am less happy to just post it.
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Well, cousin. Good to see your posts. I need to get in touch with people back home and I've never found your aunt, my mother, Teresa's, address books. She was very meticulous about record-keeping. Can you help me out? If I post you my email address on this website?? A good idea?
Incidentally, Tullyboy needs to be reminded of his Great Aunt Mary-Ann.
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If I post you my email address on this website?? A good idea?
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I can confirm that the Reillys did indeed live some distance down the bog road and were next-door-neighbours to the Martins. We frequently went to stay in the ‘new’ house at Dernascoobe (one of a number of possible anglicised spellings) during the 60s and 70s on family holidays. The new house had been built to replace the still standing and used as an enormous chicken-coop house that my mother had been brought up in. The full tally of Reillys at that time were Ellen (my grandmother who died in 1961 or 2), her sons John (who had by then moved to Glasgow?), Barney, Joe (both of whom worked the land locally), and James (who was, briefly, a postman until he left the job under a bit of a cloud), and her daughters Kathleen (Reilly, married to John in Dundalk) Mary-Ann (Fox, married to John at Corcilloughe) Rose, Bridget (Dunne, married to Patrick in Leicester) and my mother, Teresa (Kennedy, married to John in Glasgow and later Liverpool). Rosie never married and eventually lived on her own in the actually new house built by the Gypsum company (God rot them).
The Martins, as I recall, had a well with a pump and as Dernascoobe’s only water supply was a hole in the bog (gorgeous water, mind you) or the pump down at the main road they would often be kind enough to allow us to draw water from their well.
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Hi thanks for the information. Is the old farmhouse still standing or has it been knocked down. I can tell you john reilly moved to bonhill in dumbartonshire not glasgow. Keep in touch.
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Thanks for that. Great pictures. I honestly don't know whether either of the houses at Dernascoobe is still standing. The Gypsum company wouldn't have any reason to go and knock them down but they weren't too steady on their pins, if you know what I mean.
Incidentally, tullyboy has corrected some of the inaccuracies in my original reply.
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Hello all - great to see family members connecting! I have a longshot question: it's looking like my Monaghan Reilly/Rileys were from Magheracloone, emigrated to Boston area in the 1860s and 70s. Does anyone have family memory of a Patrick Riley who married Catherine Raverty and had at least two children, Patrick and Margaret (both born sometime around 1845). According to what I believe are their birth records, their godparents were Hugh Reilly and Mary Power, Barny Raverty and Mary Winn. Does any of this ring any bells with anyone? It also looks like Patrick and Margaret may have had siblings John, James and Catherine. Thanks!
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Hi,
Sorry for the late reply. My family were the MARTINs of DERRYNASCOBE and were great friends of the REILLYs. I have a family photo from my aunt’s wedding which Rosie is in. The phot you have posted above, is it of John?
Thanks,
Shaun Martin
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My family were the MARTINs of DERRYNASCOBE....
Derrynascobe townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, in the Barony of Farney, in County Monaghan.
https://www.townlands.ie/monaghan/farney/magheracloone/enagh/derrynascobe/