O'Rorke, O'Rourke, Rourke, Rorke, Uí Ruairc of Galway.

[dathai]

It is indeed very strange that two people of both same names should marry i was wondering why there was such a big gap in the births from 1865 to 1876
http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634583#page/25/mode/1up

[dathai]

wonder was the wife in the 1865 marriage meant to be Mary Geraghty
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/supp_births/2341991x.pdf

[hallmark]

".... Castlekelly being about fifteen kilometres away, sounds good, though the date was wrong, his daughter registered to the RIC pensions dept to stop his pension, and it states on that he died on 17 May 1922..."

the Date I posted wasn't a Death Date, it was date when Will was GRANTED!!

[finglaspete]

Daithí
Yes definitely Geraghty, it is an easy one to get caught on, I have seen it before. That kind of shines through in a lot of Irish names, so many variations.
Pete

[finglaspete]

"the Date I posted wasn't a Death Date, it was date when Will was GRANTED!!"

Hallmark
Yes I kind of guessed that, though the date is about two years prior to the date stated for his death on his pension record, and for the facts(which you mentioned earlier) were that he was a policeman in Bagenalstown, though at some point after he retired, he was drawing his pension in Roscommon, though after he died in Ballymore, Kildare. How long he was in Roscommon, I can find out if it clears up anything for you, though the town in Roscommon is not stated on the Documents.
Thanks to Daithí and yourself, I have moved forward, in a slightly different direction than what I came here for, but a movement anyway.
And my sincere thanks to Daithí and yourself 
Pete

[hallmark]

How do you know he died in Ballymore, Kildare??

[dathai]

Based on Mary Teresa O'Rorke's birth 1888 this could be a good bet for her husband Gerald
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Westmeath/Fore_West/Lakill_or_Moortown/1776967/

to note on marriage cert it say's his father is also Gerald which is often interchangeable with Garrett

edited to add   as he does in 1911 Gerald
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Westmeath/Fore_West/Lakill_and_Moortown/879766/

[SheIreland]

Hi

[SheIreland]

If there’s a way to pm me do.  I am related to Mary Teresa and can fill in some of your blanks.  Not many mind.  I don’t know where Thomas was raised other than it was down a long lane on land with a lake on the Galway Roscommon border.