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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.
 

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.