O'Reillys of Kilbeg, Co. Meath

The earliest I've so far managed to trace this particular family is to Charles Reilly of Robertstown, who lived at Robertstown Castle and operated a tannery on the grounds.  According to the local oral histories recorded in the National Folklore Collection, he also had four brothers, but their names were not mentioned.  Charles had a son, James, whose family group I was able to put together from the deed records in the Registry of Deeds Office.

• James Reilly of Kilbeg

1.  Charles Reilly of Kilbeg b. abt. 1792 d. 1870 Kilbeg, Co. Meath
2.  Dr. Laurence O'Reilly of Ratoath b. abt. 1796 d. 1878 at 11 Goldsmith Street, Dublin
3.  Rev. Bernard O'Reilly of Sarlat, France b. abt. 1803 
4.  James O'Reilly of Clooney and of Mount Albion, Dundrum b. abt. 1806 d. 1872
5.  Margaret Reilly
6.  Bridget O'Reilly d. 1879 at 11 Goldsmith Street, Dublin
7.  Frances O'Reilly m. Michael Grehan 1835, Castletown-Kilpatrick, Co. Meath

Charles Reilly of Kilbeg died in 1870, leaving behind three children whose names I have discovered so far: Fanny, Farrell, and John.  

Farrell O'Reilly, born abt. 1839, inherited the lands and house at Kilbeg upon his father's death in 1870.  He married Catherine Forde in 1879 in Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare, and from this marriage came four children: Charles Farrell, John Valentine, James William, and Mary Kate.  Farrell O'Reilly was a good friend of a Dublin physician by the name of Dr. Henry Gogarty, whose son, the poet Oliver St. John Gogarty, would reminisce about Farrell in a poem published in November 1945 in The Bell, a Dublin literary magazine founded and edited by the writer Seán O'Faoláin, and again in May 1946 in the American literary journal Poetry.  Farrell died in 1908 at Kilbeg, and as far as I am aware descendants of his eldest son Charles Farrell O'Reilly continue to live at Kilbeg to this day.

Additional reading:
Gogarty, Oliver St. John. "Farrell O'Reilly." Poetry, May 1946, pp. 70-72.

Related posts:
Irish Deed Memorials, 1844: O'Reilly to O'Reilly
Robertstown Tannery