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Butler (Cregg)
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The Butlers acquired lands at Cregg through marriage with the O'Shaughnessys. Francis Butler is recorded as the proprietor of lands in the parish of Beagh in the mid 1830s. James Butler of Glenwilliam and William Butler of Bunahow are also recorded as proprietors in the parish of Beagh in the 1830s. Capt. Butler of Ashfield, county Clare is recorded in the OS Name Books as leasing property from the Gregory estate in the 1830s. The Butlers also owned lands in the parish of Killursa, barony of Clare, county Galway, which they sold to Robert John Lattey in the early 1850s. Roger O'Dea of Slieveroe was agent to this property in the 1830s.
Part of the estate of Francis Davis Butler at Hampstead and Garrymore in the barony of Kilconnell was offered for sale in the Landed Estates court on three occasions in 1873 and 1874.
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Lattey
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A document in a Galway solicitors' collection records Arthur Pittar Lattey and Robert John Lattey, both of Calcutta, co partners in a jewellery and gold and silver smith business. Robert Lattey, a London lawyer, purchased the Butler of Cregg estate, in the Encumbered Estates court in 1849 and part of Lord Gort's estate in September 1854. Robert John Lattey, whose address is given as Creg Park island, county Galway, owned an estate of 3,469 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. It included lands in the parishes of Killursa and Kilcoona, barony of Clare, which he had purchased from Francis and Walter Butler of Cregg, near Gort, in 1851. Robert John Lattey was the eldest son of Joseph Senior Lattey of Dublin, who worked for the Revenue. R.J. Lattey lived in India for a time, returned to England where he lost money in the bank failures of the 1850s but was able to retain his Irish property. In 1906 Robert Thomas Lattey held an untenanted demesne of over 160 acres and the mansion house at Cregg. Over 1,700 acres of the Lattey estate in county Galway was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 27 Jan 1916. A detailed family history is given at http://lattey.com/
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Butler (Bunnahow & Walterstown)
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Both Hussey de Burgh and the Landowners state that William Butler of Bunmahon, owned an estate of over 1,300 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. Bunmahon may possibly be a mistake for Bunnahow, on the border of counties Galway and Clare. The Butlers of Bunnahow and Walterstown, county Clare, were a junior branch of the Butler family of Doone and Millbrook, county Clare. They married into a number of county Galway families, including the Butlers of Cregg Castle, Blakes of Kiltullagh and Frenchfort and the Blake Forsters of Ashfield. The Butler estate straddled the border between counties Galway and Clare. Their county Galway land was mainly in the parish of Beagh, barony of Kiltartan and their county Clare land was in the parish of Inchicronan, barony of Bunratty Upper where their residence Bunnahow was also located. They held their county Clare property from George Wyndham, later Lord Leconfield. In the 1870s William Butler of "Bunmahon" owned 1396 acres in county Galway and Nicholas Butler of Walterstown owned 847 acres in county Galway and 2194 acres in county Clare. Austin Butler also held over 300 acres in Beagh parish in the 1870s. http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/butlers/appendix10.htm
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