Pierce Butler (bef. 1652 - 1710)

Born before 1652 in Killoskehan Ireland

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Descendants

Died 1710 after age 58 in Glenbeigh, County Kerry, Ireland

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Biography

Church of Ireland Clergy

He was admitted Prebendary of Killanully, co. Cork, on 2 April 1672. He resigned the prebend in 1685.

On 6 April 1686 he became Rector of Clanbehy, Kilmore, Dromodecaher, and Kilmane-prior, in the diocecese of Ardfert and Aghadoe.

Pierce married Alice Langston

Children

1. James
2. Theobald of Priestown, co. Meath, married (1), Maria O'Hara, (2) Mary Whitwell, daughter of Sir Nathaniel Whitwell, Alderman of Dublin, at Finglas, co. Dublin, on 14 August 1722.

Research Notes

Brady gives his date of death as 1714. "He was buried at Glanbeagh, Ardfert and Aghadoe, in the year 1714." Pg 160.

Sources

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p27277.htm#i272767
• Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland by Henry Cotton, 1789-1879
• Vol 1 - The Province of Munster, Pg 265
• A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke, revised by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 1912, Family: Butler of Priestown
• Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, Vol 1 by William Maziere Brady, 1864, Pg 150