and Philip O'Reilly, two of the first incendiaries were committed to prison at Kilkenny". O'Reilly was further denounced by Cromwell's Act of 1652 at the end of the rebellion. Following the collapse of the Irish confederacy, he formally surrendered to Cromwell at Cloughoughter Castle on 27 April 1653, being the last Irish garrison to do so. He secured favourable terms and was obliged to leave Ireland. He retired with his brigade into Spain and thence to the Netherlands, where he served in the Spanish army for about two years and died in 1655. He was buried in the Irish monastery of St. Dominick in the city of Louvain, Belgium. Family Philip O'Reilly married Rose O'Neill, the sister of Owen Roe O'Neill, the military leader of the Irish in Ulster during the Confederate Wars of the 1640s. His children by her were 1. Aodh Ruadh, his only legitimate son, who was killed by the Cromwellians; 2. Eibhlin, who married Colla Dubh Mac Mahon, and whose son was Most Reverend Hugh MacMahon, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh; 3. Maire, who married firstly Aodh Maguire and secondly Ruaidhri Og Maguire, the 5th Lord Enniskillen. Phillip also had an illegitimate son, Sean O'Reilly. Poem XXVIII in James Carney's 'Poems on the O'Reillys' is dedicated to Philip O'Reilly. John Colgan, the eminent Donegal hagiographer, dedicated his treatise on Duns Scotus, published at Antwerp in 1655, to Philip O'Reilly. References "Commentarius Rinuccinianus", Ed. by O'Ferrall & O'Connell, Vol V, pp 97, 205. "A Genealogical History of the O'Reillys", by Eoghan O'Raghallaigh, Section 3, pp. 27 & 78. "Poems on the O'Reillys", Ed. by James Carney 1950, pp. 139–146 & 232–233 "A Contemporary History of Affairs in Ireland 1641–1652", 3 vols, Ed. by John T. Gilbert 1880, pp. 45 et seq. Notes Politicians from County Cavan People of the Irish Confederate Wars 1655 deaths High Sheriffs of Cavan Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cavan constituencies Irish MPs 1639–1649