Colonel John Reilly

"Colonel John Reilly: son of Myles: omitted the prefix O' ; raised at his own expense for the service of King James II., a regiment called "Reilly's Dragoons," at the head of which he fought at Derry, Belturbet, the Boyne, Aughrim, and Limerick, but saved his property from confiscation by being included in the Articles of the Treaty of Limerick. He married Margaret, dau. of Owen O'Reilly, Esq., by whom he had five sons and two daus., some of whom d. without issue. He died on the 17th Feb., 1717, and was buried in the old churchyard of Kill, parish of Crossarlough, county Cavan, where, in 1836, his tomb was in good preservation." from Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation by John O'Hart