Edward Butler, 2d Viscount Galmoye

A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire

By John Burke

Published by H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832

Item notes: 4th ed.:v.1(1832)

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Aug 1, 2007

SIR EDWARD BUTLER, knt. who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland, 16th May, 1044), as VISCOUNT OF GALMOYE, in the county of Kilkenny. His lordship m. Anne, daughter of Edmund, second Viscount Mountgarret, by whom he had two sons, viz.

1. PIERS, of Barrowmount, colonel of dragoons in the royal army, who fell at the battle of Worcester in 1650, leaving by Margaret, daughter of the first Lord Netterville,

EDWARD, who s. his grandfather.

Richard, d. in 1678, without male issue.

Edmund, of Killoshulau, in the county of Kilkenny, ancestor of the present family.

Frances, m. to Hervey Morree, grandfather of the first Viscount Mountmorres.

Eleanor m. to William Grace

2. Thomas, whose only child, Anne m. William Cook