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Brereton (Rathurles)
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This branch of the Brereton family was originally established in county Offaly. Thomas Brereton was living at Clonanchy, county Tipperary, by the mid 18th century and his descendants were resident at Rathurles, near Nenagh, county Tipperary, from the late 18th century. In 1817 Thomas Brereton of Rathurles married Maria Sadleir of Castletown, county Tipperary. At the time of Griffith's Valuation members of the Brereton family held land in the parishes of Dorrha, Finnoe, Knigh and Terryglass, barony of Lower Ormond. On 2 December 1870s an annuity and premises in the town of Nenagh belonging to members of the Brereton family plus the lands of Brookwatson and Wellington were advertised for sale. In the 1870s landowners in county Tipperary included the representatives of John Brereton of Parsonstown, King's County (Offaly), who owned 689 acres, Simpson H. Brereton of Clongowna, Rathcabbin, who owned 522 acres and Thomas Sadleir Brereton of Birr Barracks, Parsonstown, who owned 672 acres.
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