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Berry (Wardenstown)
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Richard Berry of Wardenstown, county Westmeath, married Alice daughter of Thomas Smyth of Drumcree, county Westmeath, and had a daughter Mary, his heir. In 1726, Mary Berry married Humphrey Butler, who in 1756 was created 1st Earl of Lanesborough. Their son Brinsley became the 2nd Earl. The 2nd Earl married Jane daughter of Robert Rochfort, !st Earl of Belvedere and one of their daughters married George Marlay. Wardenstown was later in the possession of the Vandeleur family.
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Butler (Lanesborough)
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Stephen Butler of Belturbet, county Cavan, died in 1662. His grandson Theophilus Butler represented county Cavan in Parliament and was raised to the peerage as Baron of Newtown-Butler in 1715. He was succeeded in 1723 by his brother Brinsley Butler, 2nd Baron, created Viscount Lanesborough in 1728. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (1857) the 5th Earl of Lanesborough held an estate in the county Cavan parishes of Castleterra, Drumlane, Annagh, Urney and Annaghgelliff, which amounted to 7,946 acres in 1878 in addition to the 6,606 acres he owned in county Fermanagh. In the mid-1850s the grandson of the 1st Viscount’s fourth son, Captain Humphrey Butler of the Royal Navy, held lands in the parishes of Annagh and Drumlane, county Cavan. Humphrey Butler is also recorded as one of the principal lessors in the parish of Kilnamanagh, barony of Frenchpark, county Roscommon, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. At the same time Captain Humphrey Butler was among the principal lessors in the parish of Abbeylara, barony of Granard, Ccounty Longford. In the 1870s the representatives of Humphrey Butler, with an address at Shedfield Lodge, Farnham, England, owned over 600 acres in county Roscommon and 795 acres in county Fermanagh. In 1877 the trustees of Humphrey Butler's marriage to Eliza Margaret Tewart were offering over 600 acres for sale in the barony of Frenchpark. The Irish Times reported that the bidding was considered insufficient and the sale adjourned. In 1878, Miss Butler of England owned 971 acres in county Cavan and 432 acres in county Longford.
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