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Butler (Bansha)
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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.
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