B42460-O'Reilly

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Name of the family:

O'Reilly

Blason:

Vert two lions ramp. combatant or, supporting a dexter hand couped at the wrist erect and apaumee bloody ppr.

Info about the family:

Princes of East Breifne, a territory comprising a portion of the present cos. of Cavan and Lei trim, descended from Raghallaigh, Prince of Breifne, who s. his father a.d. 981; Sir John O'Reilly, Prince of Breifne, entered into certain articles of agreement with Sir John Perrott, Lord Deputy of Ireland, under which he surrendered the principality of Breifne to Queen Elizabeth, and got a re-grant of the Bame to hold in capite of the Crown, his direct descendant and representative, Edmund O'Reilly, Knt., of St. Louis, and Lieut.-Col. in Dillon's Regiment, was resident in Paris at the beginning of the French Revolution; Fun. Ent. Ulster's Office, 1636, of Mulmobk Mac Huoh Conolagh O'Reilly, of Camett, co. Cavan, chief of his name, son of Hugh Conolagh O'Reilly, and grandson of Mulmobe Mac Shane Mac C ah ill O'Reilly

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761

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