Ancestry of Butlers of County Wexford Ireland: Butlers of Co. Wexford- Ch. 8: Pierce Butler of Kayer (c.1600-1653) Pt.5

Pierce Butler and The Cromwellian Confiscations of 1652-1656

Between Pierce Butler of Kayer, James Butler of Bealaboro, and Lords Mountgarrett and Galmoye, the Butlers held a sizeable proportion of the County of Wexford in 1640, between the River Slaney and the River Barrow on the border of county Carlow, all of which was confiscated by Cromwell in 1653 (over 18,000 acres in all), as they were ‘Irish Papists’ and were involved in the rebellious activities of 1641-9.

It would appear from the previous depositions that Pierce Butler may have died sometime around 1652, before the inquisitions about the Rebellion, and before the resultant transplantations took place. Lord Dunboyne has the year of his death as 1652. It is unknown whether Pierce was subject to the articles signed at Kilkenny 12^th May 1652, following the surrender of the Leinster army, in which the Commissioners of Parliament called upon the Irish to lay down their arms on or before the 30^th June following; and to enforce it, put a price on the heads of various commanders eg. £300 on Lord Mountgarrett’s, and like sums on the head of every commander and Colonel standing out after that day (all named), to be paid to any of their soldiers bringing in their heads.[1] Pierce Butler, a Colonel and Commander-in-Chief of the Wexford rebel forces, may have been listed in the document: The Act for the Settling of Ireland- 12 August 1652. Scobell’s “Acts and Ordinances”- A (82) pp237-239, and p313- if he was not listed he must have been deceased by then. Most of these rebel commanders fled to safety on the Continent, and only returned to Ireland after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660.

The following records also need to be checked- an example of an inquisition record, is given for Philip Hore, whose sister married Pierce’s son Edward Butler:

“The carriage of many Wexford proprietors during the war begun in 1641 was the subject of inquisition after the Restoration; this is given in the well-known Volume of the Irish Record Commission for Leinster. It may be noted here that by an inquisition taken at Enniscorthy on June 2, 1663:

“Philip Hore late of Ballyshellane in the County of Wexford, gentleman, was possest of all the estate that Phillip Hore his father had in the said county and received the issues and profits thereof- The said Philip the younger was in actual rebellion, and had a foote company under his command; and at the beginning of the rebellion was of the age of 16 years and capable to carry arms.” [2]

All dispossessed Catholic landholders were supposed to be transplanted to Connaught, or face execution- as the famous phrase of the time said “To Hell or to Connaught”. They would be granted a small parcel of land in proportion to their previous holdings, and could take few possessions or stock with them - many of these also fled to the Continent.

According to the petition by the younger children of Pierce Butler, Edward lived in France for the duration of the rebellion, and returned shortly after the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. The younger children probably did the same. After the demise of Cromwell, and the restoration of Charles II in 1660, some returned to their lands as tenants of the new landholder.

In August 1652 the English Parliament passed an act whereby the gentry of the three provinces of Ulster, Leinster and Munster were to transplant themselves and their families “across the Shannon” into Connaught and Clare by 1^st May 1654. Any of those Catholics ordered to transplant, found in the three provinces after that date might be killed by whoever discovered them. Nor were they permitted to live within four miles of the sea or of any town or within two miles of the Shannon. The small farmers, ploughmen and labourers etc. were not to be disturbed as the new settlers would need them.

The Irish soldiers who had fought against the Parliament were allowed to enlist in foreign service and 34,000 emigrated and entered the service of France, Spain, Austria and Venice. This vast exodus went on from 1652 to 1654.

Simington explains the appointment of the Commissioners for the Surveying of Lands 1654 [3]:

The said Commissioners by virtue of the authority and trust committed unto them in and by one Act of Parliament, entitled,

“An Act for the speedy and effectuall Satisfaction of the Adventurers for Lands in Ireland, and of the Arreares due to the Souldiery there, and of other publique Debts,” do hereby authorize and appoint Henry Waddington, James Shane, Henry Greenoway, and Sebastian Brigham, Esqrs., or any three or more of them, to hold and keep one or more courts of survey, for inquiring and finding out of all and every the honors, baronies, castles, manors, messuages, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, reversions, remainders, possessions, and other hereditaments whatsoever, which at any time since are forfeited to the Commonwealth by virtue of an Act of Parliament, entituled, “An Act for the speedy and effectual Reducing of the Rebels in his Majestie’s Kingdome of Ireland to their due Obedience to his Majestie and the Crown of England,” or by any other Act or Acts of Parliament, and likewise to inquire of and find out all such honors, baronies, castles, manors, lands, tenements, rents and hereditaments, belonging unto the Crown in the year 1630 or at any time since; etc

Dated at Dublin, the 2^nd June, 1654.

Prendergast explains: “Commissioners, commonly called the Athlone Commissioners, or Court of Claims and Qualifications of the Irish, were appointed on 28 December 1654. Their business was twofold: first, to discriminate the guilt of every proprietor- that is to say, his “qualification” and second, to ascertain the size and value of the lands he lately held on the English side of the Shannon, and the nature of his estate- that is to say his “claim”, based on the Civil Survey of 1641.

In the Act of Settling Ireland, passed 12 August 1652, there were eight different qualifications. By the first six, death or banishment and forfeiture were declared against all the chief nobility (some of them Protestant Royalists, as the Earl of Ormond and others), and all the gentlemen of Ireland who had held commissions of Colonels, or any higher rank in the army, led by Ormond as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for King Charles II., in 1649 and 1650, against Cromwell and the Parliamentary forces in Ireland.” [4]

If Pierce Butler of Kayer was still alive at that time, he would have come under this qualification, in his role as Colonel-in-Chief of the Wexford forces. However, as his sons were given Decrees for tranplantation, it would appear Pierce was no longer living, and his sons, being underage at the time of the Catholic Rebellion, would not have been found accountable for their father’s actions. However, being Papists, and their father’s ‘heir and spare’, Edward and James, would still qualify for transplantation.

Prendergast continues: “Swordsmen under that rank fell under the seventh qualification, and forfeited two-thirds, and were to transplant. Noblemen and gentlemen of Ireland, being Catholics, who had born no part in the war, but remained quiet, fell under the 8^th qualification, as not having manifested a constant good affection by some outward acts in favour of the Parliament and against the King, and were to transplant for their religion. They forfeited one-third; Protestants in like condition forfeited one-fifth. By the Act of Settling Ireland, all within these qualifications were to receive their proportions of land in Connaught. It now became the duty of the Loughrea Commissioners to set out lands to the transplanted in quantity according to the Athlone Decrees. The assignments thus made were called Final Settlements.” [5]

However, they miscalculated the available lands and the government was informed there would not be sufficient to satisfy the decrees given to the transplanted, which compounded the problems faced by the Commissioners and the transplantees.

Many suffered terribly during the period of transplantation. Prendergast explains:

“Many transplanted families had to build sheds to lie under. Many persons of good quality; yea and many of them Peers and Lords of the realm,” says French, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ferns, “were lodged in smoky cabins, and, as might well be said, buried there, and starved to death with their wives and children.” [6]

“Some went mad; as Christopher Eustace of County Kildare, restored to his estate at the King’s Restoration, as “mad Eustace”, for though he recovered his estate, he never recovered his wits; others killed themselves, like Molly Hore, wife of Philip Hore of Killsallaghan Castle, seven miles north of Dublin, who, on getting the summons to transplant to Connaught, went down to her stable and hanged herself.” [7]

(NB. Molly’s daughter, Marie Hore, married Pierce Butler’s son Edward Butler. )

Many Irish who had parted with considerable estates and convenient habitations, were thereby reduced to little better than a starving condition.

An example given by Prendergast [8] was Pierce Butler, Viscount Ikerrin. “He dwelt in Lismalin Park on the border of Tipperary and Kilkenny. Like the rest of his house (with the exception of the Earl of Ormond, who being a king’s ward, had been brought up a Protestant), he was a Roman Catholic; and having, with the rest of his countrymen of that persuasion, taken the king’s side against the Parliament, and then been Lieutenant-General of the Leinster army, under Lord Mountgarrett, he was included in the Decree of Confiscation pronounced by the Parliament of England 12 August 1650. After the surrender of the Leinster Irish to the Parliament forces under the articles signed at Kilkenny 12 May 1650, he returned to the neighbourhood of Lismalin Park, and was there employed as tenant at will to the state, farming those lands that were so soon to pass to the conquerors, when the order of 14^th October 1653 was proclaimed, directing the Irish nation to transplant themselves to Connaught before the 1^st May following. On 25^th January 1654, he proceeded to Clonmel, and presented to the Commissioners of Revenue there the particulars of his family and establishment, their names, ages, and descriptions, the extent of his stock and tillage, and the names of those of his tenants and friends who were disposed to go down with him into captivity in Connaught. By an abstract of this certificate it appears that between his family and tenants he had seventeen persons to accompany him. He had already tilled and cropped sixteen acres of winter corn; he had four cows, five garrans (cart horses), twenty four sheep and two swine, which he was to leave behind him in charge of Lady Ikerrin, while he was to go forward into Connaught to build a hut to shelter her and his daughters, who were to follow in autumn with the cows, sheep, swine, and household furniture. Lord Ikerrin, having fallen sick, as the 1^st of May, the time for transplanting approached, got licence on account of his distemper to repair to Bath in England for six months, necessary, according to his physician’s advice for the recovery of his health; and Lady Ikerrin was dispensed with from transplantation for two months and her servants till the harvest was gathered. On his return to Ireland some judgement may be formed of his poverty by an order of the Council 27 November 1654, by which the Sergeant of Arms attending the Council was to pay the Lord Ikerrin £20 in consideration of his necessitous condition; after which the said Lord Ikerrin was to acquiesce in the late order of this board for prosecuting his claim at Athlone, and not to expect any more money by order of this Council. Lord Ikerrin, however, still evaded transplantation; for in 1656 he went over to London, and in London found means to approach the Lord Protector (Cromwell), who finding him in an extreme poor and miserable condition, without means to subsist in London, or to return back to Ireland, bestowed on him some relief, and wrote to the Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland to allow him some proportion of his estate without transplanting him, or to provide some relief out of the revenue for him and his family; “That the Lord Viscount Ikerrin hath been of later times serviceable to suppress the Tories; and we being very sensible of the extreme poor and miserable condition in which his lordship now is, even to the want of sustenance to support his life; we could not but commiserate his sad and distressed condition by helping him to a little reliefe…..for indeed,” adds the Lord Protector, “he is a miserable object of pity; and we desire that care be taken of him, and that he be not suffered to perish for want of subsistence.” How this nobleman fared after Cromwell’s interference does not appear, but Lismalin had passed irrevocably to the soldiery. No further payments appear made to Lord Ikerrin, and he probably soon sank under his misfortunes, for at the Restoration his grandson claimed the estate before the Commissioner of Claims.”

Prendergast describes the state of Ireland after the transplantation [9]:

“Ireland now lay void as a wilderness. Five-sixths of her people had perished. Women and children were found daily perishing in ditches, starved. The bodies of many wandering orphans, whose fathers had embarked for Spain, and whose mothers had died of famine, were preyed upon by wolves. “Upon serious consideration had of the great multitudes of poore swarming in all parts of this nacion, occasioned by the devastation of the country, and by the habits of licentiousness and idleness which the generality of the people have acquired in the time of this rebellion; insomuch that frequently some are found feeding on carrion and weeds- some starved in the highways, and many times poor children who lost their parents, or have been deserted by them, are found exposed to, and some of them fed upon, by ravening wolves and other beasts and birds of prey”

(“Printed Declaration of the Council, 12^th May 1653.” [ Acts and Ordinances of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England: (84) p138)

In Ireland, from too rapidly exterminating the people, the wolves multiplied in the great scopes of land lying waste and deserted in all parts of the country, and increased till they became so serious a public nuisance, by destroying the sheep and cattle of the English, that various measures had to be taken against them.[10]

By the years 1652 and 1653, the plague and famine had swept away whole counties, that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature. Man, beast and bird were all dead, or had quit those desolate places. If two or three cabins were met with, there were found there none but aged men, with women and children; and they, in the words of the prophet, “become as a bottle in the smoke; their skins black like an oven, because of the terrible famine.” They were seen to pluck stinking carrion out of a ditch, black and rotten; and were said to have even taken corpses out of the grave to eat. From too rapidly exterminating the people, the wolves multiplied in the great scopes of land lying waste and deserted in all parts of the country.”

Catholic priests were exiled on pain of death. “Nicholas French, Bishop of Ferns, fled from the massacre of Wexford, and escaped to the mountains, and passed more than five months there, with other refugees, among the wandering creaghts, often sleeping on the bare ground in the open air, in frost. Once, when the wood was surrounded, he burst through the closing lines of soldiers and escaped by the swiftness and stoutness of his horse. Another lay hid an entire year in the family burial vault. Jesuits as peasants or beggars visited the towns, and now in one house, now in another, said mass. The few survivors of the Franciscans and Capuchins lived as shepherds, herdsmen, and ploughmen. The government, on 6^th January 1652-53, by Declaration, introduced the sanguinary English Statute, 27^th Elizabeth (AD 1585), and declared all Roman Catholic Priests to be guilty of high treason, and their relievers felons. They gave them twenty days to reach ports. Under this measure more than one thousand priests were sent into exile.” [11]

Colonel Walter Butler MP for Wexford in 1689, lived at Munfin and in his private chapel he kept a relic reputed to be a portion of the True Cross brought from Rome for the use of the Ferns Cathedral by Bishop French. [12]

This was the state of existence that the surviving gentry had to deal with, including the family members of Pierce Butler of Kayer.

Pierce Butler’s sons Edward, James and Walter would fair differently under Cromwell’s “Transplantation”, which is discussed in the section on the “Munphin” branch of Wexford Butlers.

After the Restoration of the Crown in 1660, many dispossessed landowners returned as tenants of the new owners of their previously held properties. A Court to resolve claims for restoration of estates was established. Some were lucky enough to have their estates restored to them, particularly if they became Protestants and were highly regarded, or as Butlers, were favoured by their relative, the influential Duke of Ormonde, who had gone into exile in France with Charles II and was one of Charles’s favoured courtiers. However, most claims were disallowed, fearing an uprising by the soldiers who had been allocated the confiscated estates.

Lists of Dispossessed Landowners of Ireland in 1664- given to Duke of Ormonde:

An article in the “Irish Genealogist”:

“The Dispossessed Landowners of Ireland 1664- Lists given to the Duke of Ormonde to select his nominees for restoration” [13]- states:

“The names that occur in these lists are those of the heads of families who lost their lands through the Cromwellian Settlement and were not, for the most part, compensated with grants in Connaught or Clare, nor restored by the Court of Claims which functioned in 1663 (an exception was Sir Thomas Esmonde who was allotted lands in Connaught). Some described as ‘past’ means that the individual has passed the Court of Claims for Restoration. A very small number of the ex-landowners on these lists were eventually restored to some of their former lands as nominees, and it fell to Ormonde, as Lord Lieutenant, to make the recommendations. For this purpose he needed not only the names of the persons concerned but some briefing also on their conduct during the period of war of 1641-52 in Ireland, and more especially the early part of it, which was now referred to officially as ‘the late horrid Rebellion.’ The inclusion of a name on these lists suggests that the person was living in 1664.

(NB. However, Pierce Butler of Clough/Kayer/Moneyhore was deceased by that date.)

The figures on the right are not explained- possibly acreages to which they were recommended to be restored immediately. They do indicate the relative importance of these former landowners among themselves.”

“Qualifications of Lists furnished to Ormond whence to select Nominees”:

A- Those who eminently suffered by the Nuncio & his party for their good affections to His Majesty’s Service.

B- Those who by their early repentance redeemed their former failings by submitting to the cessation in 1643, to the peace in 1646, to the cessation with the Earle of Inshiquyn, and upon all other occasions manifested their good affections to his Majestys service.

C- Those who constantly upon all occasions opposed the Nuncio & his party, laboured to induce the people to returne to their former obedience to his Majestie’s Government & signally endeavoured to assert the peace of 1646.

D- Those who from the beginning lived inoffensively

E- Those named in H.M. Declaration & Act of Settlement as specially meritting on suffering.

G- Those who continued with H.M. abroad or served under his ensigns beyond the seas.

H- Those who submitted & constantly adhered to the peace of 1648.

I- Those who since the cessation of 1643 lived quietly & inoffensively at home.

K- Those who were killed in H.M. service.

L- Those who were of known good affections to H.M.’s service & dyed before the cessation in 1643.

Names of nominees:

Co Kilkenny;

ABCEGH

Edmond Lord Viscount Mountgarret. His father Richard Lord Visc. Mountgarrett BCH- no number given

BCH

Sir Walter Butler of Poolestown 500

Sir Richard Butler Knt 300

Co Wexford:

BCH

Sir Thomas Esmonde Bart A & Lawrence his sonne and heire assignee to the Lord Esmonde D infant 252

Dudley Colcough of Moynart his sonne past 600

Pierse Butler of Moneyhore 600

William Browne of Mullrankin G 600

BHI

Thomas fitzHenry & Nicholas his grandchild & heyre of Kilkevan 300

etc

New Ross

BCH

Nicholas FitzHarris 100

According to the article, inclusion on this list appeared to indicate that Pierse Butler ‘of Moneyhore’ may have been still alive in 1664, and, as we have ascertained, Pierce Butler ‘of Kayer’ had died by 1652/3. A possible explanation for this is that Pierce of Kayer, deceased, was nominated by his son Edward of Moneyhore, as having been unjustly deprived of his inherited lands and that Pierce had been loyal to the King. [14] The rebels had asserted their support of the King, but were fighting against the unjust rule of the English Parliament under Cromwell. Notably, Lord Mountgarrett was similarly restored. By this time, 3^rd Viscount Mountgarrett, who had played such a prominent role in the latter stages of the Catholic Confederation rebellion, was deceased. His son Edmund, who had played a role as Governor of Wexford at the time of Cromwell’s invasion, had succeeded as the 4^th Viscount (his younger brother Edward having been executed.) It would appear that they were favoured by their relative, Lord Ormonde, in his selection of nominees. Michael O Siochru in his book “Confederate Ireland” [15] suggests that, on the restoration of Charles II, “vested interests, none more powerful than the marquis of Ormond himself, restricted the extent of the catholic recovery. The ensuing political process essentially degenerated into a sordid scramble for land, with Ormond’s old confederate allies in the peace faction emerging as the main catholic beneficiaries.”

Although Pierce Butler of Moneyhore was nominated, his lands in Wexford were not restored.

Land Confiscation of Pierce Butler of Kayer/Clough/Moneyhore:

The following document is in the Carte Papers, Bodleian Library Oxford University- Carte Papers Catalogue Ref. MSS.Carte 1-279- File: Correspondence of the First Duke of Ormonde, with some miscellaneous papers, chiefly relating to the public affairs of Ireland-

ref-MS.Carte 33, fol(s).395-date 11 May 1664:

Item: Sir Thomas Barrington to Ormond: written from Dublin- Has set out to view, in satisfaction of the writer’s arrears (of military pay), and as purchaser, 2,500 acres of land in the county of Wexford, late the property of Pierce Butler of Mount-Hore. The lands are barren and cannot be let for above twelve pence per acre a year; so that, deducting quit rent, the profit will be but seven pence per acre. Prays for a long lease thereof from his Grace…. Edward Butler, son of Pierce, aforesaid, “gives out in ordinary discourse” that the Duke hath no right or title to that estate; & that he, Butler, is to be restored thereto, by name, in the Act that is to pass….”

The above document states that Edward Butler was the son of Pierce Butler of Mount-Hore/Moneyhore, which confirms that Pierce of Moneyhore and Pierce of Kayer/Clough are one and the same.

The Kayer/Clough lands were allocated to Cromwellian soldier Captain Robert Thornhill:

1659:- "Captain Robert Thornhill, who was granted in satisfaction of his military services, among other large slices of land, the beautiful demesne of Kayer, now Wilton, complains to the Board of the number of wolves that are roaming about this district, and proposes an "invencion" for their destruction. The Board recommend him to the Justices of Peace for the County to confer with him and put his invention into practice.

Dublin October 29 1659" [16]

"Lands in the county Wexford granted to Robert Thornville, Esq. (sic) 1666-

Under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation the following lands were confirmed to Mr Thornville (sic) viz.

In Kayer, Edermine and Clonmore, 1,398 acres profitable and 98 acres unprofitable; Ballylane 916 acres, Ballybrittas (part) 249 acres profitable and 18 unprofitable; part of Clanrock and Ballymackissy 84 acres; Ballynenany more 138 acres; Aske 381 acres; Ballyloghan 43 acres; Fortchester 225 acres 2e 0p; Gurteens (part) 177 ac 2r 0p; Doyle's Park in Gorey, 7ac 2r 0p; Mullannagrogh (part) 62 acres, all in the county of Wexford" [17]

Link back to Introduction
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-co-wexford-ch1-richard-1stviscount-mountgarrett.html

Links to all chapters on Pierce Butler of Kayer (c.1600-1652) on this blog:

Pierce Butler of Kayer Part I- early life and marriage
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-4-pierce-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer Part II- role in the Catholic Confederation Rebellion

http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-5-pierce-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer Part III- Depositions against Pierce Butler after the Catholic Confederation Rebellion
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-6-pierce-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer Part IV- Land ownership by the Butlers of Co Wexford in the 1641 Civil Survey
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-7-pierce-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer Part V- Pierce and the Cromwellian confiscations
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-8-pierce-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer Part VI- sons of Pierce Butler of Kayer
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-9-sons-of-pierce-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer's youngest son Walter Butler of Munphin
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-10-walter-butler-of-munphin-pt1.html

Links to all of the chapters in this blog:

Pierce Butler of Kayer Co. Wexford (the elder) c.1540-1599
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch2-pierce-butler.html
Edward Butler of Kayer Co. Wexford, 1577-1628
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-3-edward-butler.html
Pierce Butler of Kayer and Moneyhore (the younger), c.1600-1652, Part I
http://butlerancestryireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/butlers-of-co-wexford-ch-4-pierce-butler.html

[1] John P. Prendergast, The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, Mellifont Press Ltd, Dublin, 1922, 3^rd Ed, (1^st Ed 1865), p328

[2] R. C Simington, The Civil Survey of 1654-1656, op.cit, Intro p. xxx

[3] R.C.Simington, The Civil Survey of 1654-1656, (Vol IX, County of Wexford), op.cit, p. xxxiii

[4] John P. Prendergast, The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, op.cit, p155-6

[5] Ibid, p158

[6] Ibid, p154-155; Prendergast’s reference: “The Unkinde Deserter of Loyall Men and true Friends. A.D. 1676” by the Most Rev. Nicholas French, Bishop of Ferns, p192, 2 vols, 12 mo. Duffy. Dublin 1846

[7] Ibid, p185; NB. Herbert and Phillip Hore, the author and editor of the ‘History of Co Wexford’ are descendants of Phillip Hore of Killsallaghan

[8] Ibid, pp179-181; NB. Pierce 1^st Viscount Ikerrin of Lismalin d.c.1661, married to Ellen Butler, dau. of Walter Butler 11^th Earl of Ormond (d.1668); their son James d.1638; James’s son Piers 2^nd Visc. Ikerrin b.1637 of Dance, County Clare (after the transplantation), and had issue James 3^rd Visc. Ikerrin 1658-1688 who married the dau. of Daniel Redman of Ballylinch. She was co-heiress and inherited Ballylinch Castle/Mt Juliet at Thomastown, co. Kilkenny, which passed to their eldest son.

[9] Ibid, p307 (Prendergast)

[10] Ibid, p309

[11] Ibid, p315-316

[12] Hilary Murphy, Families of Co. Wexford, The Printshop Wexford, 1986, p26

[13] The “Irish Genealogist”, Vol 4, issue 4, pp275-302- 1971, article, The Dispossessed Landowners of Ireland 1664, copied from the Prendergast MSS Vol iv at the Kings Inns Library Dublin (Originals in Carte MSS Vol 44 1660-70 in the Bodlein Library, Oxford), The Irish Genealogist Research Society.

[14] Calendar of State Papers Relating to Ireland, volume 22 (1625-1670)- P. ¾ Endd. S.P. Ireland, 346, 57, Petition by Katherine fitzHenry alias Butler, and by James, John and Walter Butler, sons of Pierce Butler

[15] Micheál O’Siochrú, Confederate Ireland 1642-1649, Four Courts Press1999, p 249

[16] P. Hore, History…, Vol 6, p517

[17] George Griffiths, The Wexford Chronicles, printed 1877., the Month of January, the 24^th January.

Monday, 5 November 2012

Butlers of Co. Wexford- Ch. 8: Pierce Butler of Kayer (c.1600-1653) Pt.5