Adams-Reilly
The Adams family were descended from William Adams of Howthstown, Co Meath, who married Maria, only daughter and heir of Thomas Reilly of Roebuck, in the parish of Kilbride, county Cavan, who died 1786. Their son Anthony Adams Reilly of Roebuck had a son William Adams Reilly of Belmont, county Westmeath. William of Belmont had a son Anthony Myles William, a well known Irish mountaineer and surveyor of the Alps. Anthony Adams Reilly of Belmont, Mullingar, owned 189 acres in county Westmeath in the 1870s. His estate passed to his sisters, Mary Anne, wife of Falkiner John Minchin of Annagh, co Tipperary and Frances Caroline who married the Reverend James Thomas Bennet in 1861. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation in the 1850s, the county Cavan estate of this family was in the hands of Joseph Lynch who is recorded as holding land in the parish of Kilbride from the representatives of William O’Reilly Adams and the Earl of Westmeath.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roebuck | Roebuck | Kilbride | Oldcastle | Kilbride | Clanmahon | Cavan |
OSI Ref: N498832
OS Sheet: 42 Discovery map: 34 |
Archival sources
- Detailed abstracts of wills of Adams of Howthstown and Aclare in Co. Meath, 1729 - 1775. GO Ms. 139, pp. 250-1; National Library of Ireland
- Copy of grant of quartering of Reilly to the Reverend William Reilly Minchin, eldest son of Falkiner John Minchin of Annagh, Co Tipperaray by Mary Anne, sister and co heir of Anthony Adams Reilly and elder daughter of William Adams Reilly of Belmont, Co Westmeath, only son of Anthony Adams Reilly of Roebuck, Co Cavan, eldest son of William Adams of Howthstown, Co Meath by Maria, only daughter and heir of Thomas Reilly of Roebuck, 26 Aug 1909. GO MS 111a: 16.; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Oldcastle Union, 78 (Roebuck)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mullingar Union, 211 (Curristown)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 412 (Bellmount)