Butler (Bansha)
A branch of the Butler family who had connections with the Earls of Ormonde and the Barons Dunboyne lived at Bansha, county Tipperary, in the 18th century. Morgan O'Brien of Ballyphillip, county Limerick married Eleanor Butler, daughter of Captain Edward Butler of Bansha and took the additional name of Butler. Morgan and Eleanor's son was William O'Brien Butler of Bansha Co Tipperary who died in 1773. He married Catherine Butler who was heir to Bansha, county Tipperary and daughter of Edmund Butler, who claimed to be the 8th Lord Dunboyne. Their grandson William O'Brien Butler was alive in the mid 19th century. In July 1871 fee farm rents out of lands in the baronies of Middlethird (Grangebeg, Kilevalla, Corcancavanna and Bolea) and Eliogarty (Castletown), county Tipperary, the estate of Eliza O'Brien, Margaret O'Brien Butler and Johanna Latham, were advertised for sale. These lands were held on fee farm leases dated 1788 and 1796 from John Butler "commonly called Lord Dunboyne" to Nicholas Power and amounted to over a thousand acres.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Bansha Castle | Bansha West | Templeneiry | Tipperary | Bansha 146 | Clanwilliam | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R952 331
OS Sheet: 67 Discovery map: 66 |
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Archival sources
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Butler & Latham, 7 July 1871, Vol 103 (20), MRGS 39/048, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Copy of confirmation of arms being Butler quartering O'Brien O'Coonagh, and Butler of Old Abbey, to the descendants of Pierce O'Brien Butler of Dunboyne Castle, Co. Meath, son of William O'Brien Butler by Catherine, daughter and sole heir of Rt. Hon. Edmond, Baron Dunboyne, son of Murrogh O'Brien of Garrykettle, Co. Limerick, of the house of MacBrien O'Coonagh by Catherine, daughter and co-heir of Richard Butler of Bansagh, Co. Tipperary, Oct. 5, 1909. Genealogical Office: Ms.111a, p.20 ; National Library of Ireland
- Pedigrees, extracts and correspondence, arising from the claim of William O'Brien Butler to the peerage of Dunboyne in the 1860s. M. 830-1: 875-6 ; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 364 (Bansha)
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire''. London: Harrison, 1852: 336
- COSTELLO, Con. ''In quest of an heir: the life and times of John Butler, Catholic Bishop of Cork, Protestant Baron of Dunboyne''. Tower Books, 1978: All
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': DUNBOYNE, Lord. The Family of O’Brien Butler. VIII (1990-1993), 74-78