DUNBOYNE 519 768. 10. Piers Butler, usually called Baron Dunbovne [I.], br. and h. Hew., 3 June I773,(*)at St. Anne's, Dublin, Maria, da. of George Macnamara, of Conge, co. Mayo. He d. 20 Aug. 1773, at his seat in co. Meath. His widow /«., in 1775, David Walsh. XI. 1773- Dec. 1785. II. Piers Edmund Creagh Butler, usually called Baron Dunboyne [1.], only s. and h. He d. unm., XII. 1785. 12. John Butler, usually called Baron Dunboyne [I.], uncle and h., being 3rd s. of Edmund Butler, called Baron Dunboyne, who d. 1732; b. about 1720; was nom., 16 Apr. 1763, by Pope Clement XIII as Bishop of Cork, being then, or after- wards, D.D. This See he resigned, 13 Dec. 1786, 12 months after he had sue. (subject to the attainder) to the peerage, demanding at the same time a dispensation to marr)^ This being refused by Pope Pius VII, he became a Protestant, his recantation being read at Clonmel, 19 Aug. 1787. He w., in 1787, at the age of nearly 70, Maria, da. of Theobald Butler, of Wilford, co. Tipperary, by his ist wife, Elizabeth, da. of Edward Lee, of Waterford. He d. s.p., 7 May i8oo,() aged about 80, having reverted to his former faith, devising the Dunboyne estate, for the purpose of the education of the Irish Roman Catholics, to Maynooth College. Will pr. 1800, in Prerog. Ct. [I.]. His widow m., in 1801, John Hubert Moore, of Shannon Grove, King's Co., Barrister-at-Law. She d. Aug. i860, aged 96, having survived her ist husband 60 years. XIII.
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1827. 13. James Butler, usually called, from 1800, and in 1827 confirmed as, Baron Dunboyne [I.], cousin and h. male, being only s. and h. of James Butler, of Cragna- gowra, CO. Clare (who d. 22 May 1784), by Bridget, da. of Bartholomew Sheehv, which last-named James was only s. and h. of Michael B. (who d. 15 Aug. 1776), 2nd s.() of Edward B. of Clare, co. Tipperary, s. and h. of James B., who was s. and h. of Edward Butler, both of Clare afsd., which Edward was a yr. s. of James, 2nd Baron Dunboyne [I.], by his 2nd wife, Margaret O'Brien. He was i^. 25 July 1780. Having proved his pedigree as h. to the grantee, he " was confirmed in that Peerage" {i.e. the BARONY OF DUNBOYNE [I.]) "by reversal of the outlawries which affected the title, in the Court of King's Bench in Dublin (*) Died, 10 Mar. 1770, "In Wardour Street, Soho, Lady Dunboyne, lady of Lord D. who is now in Ireland." {Ann. Reg.) Perhaps this was a first wife. C") The Barony was claimed shortly after his death as a Barony in fee; by his great-nephew and h. general, William O'Brien-Butler, grandson and h. of his sister, Catherine, by William O'Brien. (<=) James Butler, D.D., Archbishop of Cashel, eldest br. of this Michael, d. unm., 1774.
