Reilly of Drumbadreevagh

Hi Jim

Irish civil records started in 1864 and I see 3 Catherine Reilly's born in 1887 in Fermanagh with the most likely one apearing to be in Ballyshannon registration district. A selection of Mothers names are give on Find My Past so I cannot be sure, Roots Ireland a subscription site may be a better bet. http://www.rootsireland.ie/

The house number in the census is not relevant as it is just an assigned number at the time and not like they lived in No. 7.

A Catherine Reilly got married in 1903 in Fermanagh (2 of them). The place you are looking for appears to be in Fermanagh but at the time may have been in the registration of Ballyshannon, now in the Republic, you appear to be right on the border. In the early 1860s Griffiths Valuation done a land survey and there are 11 at least Reillys in Inishmacaint. This comes with a little map which outlines the plot, but which Reilly is yours is a guess unless you know the first name of the person at the time, there are Johns but would he have been old enough. See http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/ I only entered Reilly and Fermanagh as when I used Inishmacaint from the drop down menus I got no hits.

Irish Catholic registers are online here http://registers.nli.ie/ The Church of Ireland have started putting there registers online too in actually printed format.

If you visit https://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/General-Register-Office.aspx you can obtain a shortened version of certificates for €4 about £3 this will give mothers name etc and you can obtain any births, marriages or deaths you require providing you have dates,download form from site and send in, certificates must be paid for and you cannnot do this online but they will email them to you if you wish.

The Irish maps are here http://www.osi.ie/ and there must be similar for Northern Ireland, I understand Griffiths Valuatins maps can be overlaid on newer maps and eventually to Google Street View but such things are beyond me.

Emigration to Scotland from Donegal in particular was very large at this point, where do you think Glasgow Celtic came from!!!!! The part you are searching for is on the border of Fermanagh and Donegal. The crossing from the east course of Ireland to Scotland is very short, about 15 miles at nearest points and there was a good train service then.

Come back if you have more queries.

Good Luck

Pat

Thank you for your input it looks most helpfull I will be going through it all tonight

Jim

Jim,

I've only just seen your posting to this website, so not sure if you will receive this.   Catherine Reilly is my great grandmother.  She married Pat Rogers in 1909.   Her mother was Bridget Keown and her father was Michael Reilly.   It would be interesting to know your connection as I have very little information on Catherine's siblings.

It is possible to identify the plot from Griffiiths Valuation - www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation   Contact me on frankmonea4@gmail.com if you want me to send you information on the precise location.

Regards

Frank McHugh, Fermanagh