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Butler (Ballycarron)
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The Butlers were resident in the parish of Relickmurry and Athassel, barony of Clanwilliam, county Tipperary, for many generations. Pierce Butler of Ballycarron and Kilmoyler married Catherine Bowen of Ballyadams, Queen's County (Laois) and had three sons and a daughter, Helen, who married a Creagh of Cong, county Mayo. Their son, Stephen Creagh Butler, inherited the Butler of Ballycarron estate in county Tipperary from his uncle. This family were Catholic descendants of the Lords Dunboyne. In the early 19th century Thomas Butler of Ballycarron married Margaret, daughter of Standish Barry of Leamlara, county Cork. The Ballycarron and Ballyslatteen properties were both located in the parish of Reclickmurry and Athassel and the Butler estate amounted to 2,335 acres in the 1870s. Lieutenant-General Sir William Francis Butler (1838-1910), a distinguished soldier and writer, was a member of this family. His parents were Richard and Ellen Butler of Ballyslatteen.
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Macnemara/McNamara (Cong)
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From 1722, George Macnemara held the Abbey lands in the parish of Cong, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo and associated land from the Tasburgh family. George Macnemara was involved in litigation over the ownership of the Abbey lands in the 1730s. By the 1770s at least 500 acres, including the Abbey and the lands of Cornamona and Clogher, county Galway, formerly held by George Macnemara (died 1760), were being leased by his brother-in-law, Stephen Creagh Butler, to his son, Bartholomew Macnemara. The Irish Tourist Association file records that Bishop Pococke described the Abbey House in 1770 as the most delightfully situated residence he had seen in the course of his travels. In 1786, Wilson refers to "the beautiful seat" of George McNamara. The Abbey lands were acquired by Sir Richard O'Donel of Newport in the 1780s and sold to Joseph Lambert of Brookhill, parish of Crossboyne, barony of Clanmorris, in 1852.
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