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The Butler earls of Ormond operated one of medieval Ireland’s dominant dynasties, centred on Kilkenny and Tipperary. From James Butler, 1st Earl (created 1328) through the “Noble Earl”…
The Butlers of Scatorish and Maiden Hall, County Kilkenny, descend from a branch of the Viscount Dunboyne’s descendants who settled at Priestown, County Meath, returning to County Kilkenny…
Gilbert Butler was our mother’s father. He lived at Scatorish, Bennettsbridge, County Kilkenny, and farmed at nearby Annamult, Drumherin and Burnchurch. He was president of the President of…
Brendan Bracken, one of Winston Churchill’s closest friends, was the son of a prominent Irish nationalist. He ran away from school as a child and reinvented himself as…
A genealogy from the line of Morugh MacFinn, son of Finn macMael Morda O’Faelain, who reigned as King of Leinster from 965 to 972. The Uí Fáeláin branch…
For more stories, see County Kildare or County Carlow or County Waterford The first section of the Carlow bypass, or N9, to be built to a motorway…