Butler (Bunnahow & Walterstown)
Both Hussey de Burgh and the Landowners state that William Butler of Bunmahon, owned an estate of over 1,300 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. Bunmahon may possibly be a mistake for Bunnahow, on the border of counties Galway and Clare. The Butlers of Bunnahow and Walterstown, county Clare, were a junior branch of the Butler family of Doone and Millbrook, county Clare. They married into a number of county Galway families, including the Butlers of Cregg Castle, Blakes of Kiltullagh and Frenchfort and the Blake Forsters of Ashfield. The Butler estate straddled the border between counties Galway and Clare. Their county Galway land was mainly in the parish of Beagh, barony of Kiltartan and their county Clare land was in the parish of Inchicronan, barony of Bunratty Upper where their residence Bunnahow was also located. They held their county Clare property from George Wyndham, later Lord Leconfield. In the 1870s William Butler of "Bunmahon" owned 1396 acres in county Galway and Nicholas Butler of Walterstown owned 847 acres in county Galway and 2194 acres in county Clare. Austin Butler also held over 300 acres in Beagh parish in the 1870s. http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/butlers/appendix10.htm
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bunnahow | Bunnahow | Inchicronan | Gort | Caher 149 | Bunratty Upper | Clare |
OSI Ref: R435 930
OS Sheet: 18 Discovery map: 52 |
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| Walterstown | Ballynagranagh | Inchicronan | Tulla | Toberbreeda 147 | Bunratty Upper | Clare |
OSI Ref:
OS Sheet: Discovery map: |
Archival sources
- Pedigree of Butler of Doonmulvihill, Millbrooke, Glenwilliam, Bunnahow, Walterstown, Ashfield, Co Clare, Mount Vernon, Co Galway, also Blake Butler & Butler Creagh, c 1680-1892. GO MS 177: 368-373; National Library of Ireland
- Pedigree of Butler of Boytonrath & Crallagh, Co Tipperary & of Doone & Bunnahow, Co Clare, c 1500-1814. GO MS 172: 173-176; National Library of Ireland
- Includes some notes Madam Columba Butler, OSB, re Butlers of Bunnahow, Nov 1953. MS 4577; National Library of Ireland
- Volume containing copies of deeds & other legal records re families and lands in county Clare, appears to belong to William Butler of Bunnahow c 1743-1786. GO MS 624; National Library of Ireland
- Photostats of pedigrees of the Butler and related families, compiled by Thomas Blake Butler. GO MS 521-522; National Library of Ireland
- Land Judges' Court rental, Butler, lands of Bunnahow, Cos Clare & Galway, 13 Dec 1895. Small Accessions Index 1/65 Rental 57; National Archives of Ireland
- Undated rental of lands mainly in the parish of Inchicronan, Co Clare, MS 3703(179-180); National Archives of Ireland
- Joyce, Mackie & Lougheed, auctioneers' collection, includes records relating to the Lattey family in India and at Cregg Castle and Bunnahow, 19th century. D.15854-15876, Co 3495-3502, M.1455-1464 ; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of names of proprietors and area and valuation of properties in counties in Ireland, held in fee or perpetuity or long leases at chief rents,'' 1876. (412) LXXX. 395: 151.
- HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. ''The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland''. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 65-66
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 107, 294
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Gort Union, 141 (Bunnahow), Tulla Union, 9 (Ballynagranagh)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 81 (Bunnahow)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 16 (Bunnahow)
Modern printed sources
- PINE, L.G. (ed). ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. 4th ed. London: Burke's Peerage, 1958.: 131-133
- ''North Munster Antiquarian Journal'': BLACKALL, Sir Henry William Butler. The Butlers of Co Clare. VII (1953), 153-167
- WEIR, Hugh W. L. ''Historical, Genealogical and Architectural notes on some Houses of Clare''. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1999. : 47, 272
- MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 192-195
- COFFEY, Thomas. ''The Parish of Inchicronan (Crusheen)''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 1993: 106-118